Changelog¶
Python next¶
Release date: XXXX-XX-XX
Windows¶
gh-126497: Fixes venv failure due to missing redirector executables in experimental free-threaded installs.
gh-126074: Removed unnecessary DLLs from Windows embeddable package
gh-125315: Avoid crashing in
platform
due to slow WMI calls on some Windows machines.gh-126084: Fix venvwlauncher to launch pythonw instead of python so no extra console window is created.
gh-125842: Fix a
SystemError
whensys.exit()
is called with0xffffffff
on Windows.gh-125550: Enable the Inicializador Python para Windows to detect Python 3.14 installs from the Windows Store.
gh-124448: Updated bundled Tcl/Tk to 8.6.15.
Tests¶
Security¶
gh-125140: Remove the current directory from
sys.path
when using PyREPL.
Library¶
gh-126654: Fix crash when non-dict was passed to several functions in
_interpreters
module.gh-126595: Fix a crash when instantiating
itertools.count
with an initial count ofsys.maxsize
on debug builds. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-120423: Fix issue where
urllib.request.pathname2url()
mishandled Windows paths with embedded forward slashes.gh-126565: Improve performances of
zipfile.Path.open()
for non-reading modes.gh-126505: Fix bugs in compiling case-insensitive
regular expressions
with character classes containing non-BMP characters: upper-case non-BMP character did was ignored and the ASCII flag was ignored when matching a character range whose upper bound is beyond the BMP region.gh-117378: Fixed the
multiprocessing
"forkserver"
start method forkserver process to correctly inherit the parent’ssys.path
during the importing ofmultiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload()
modules in the same manner assys.path
is configured in workers before executing work items.This bug caused some forkserver module preloading to silently fail to preload. This manifested as a performance degration in child processes when the
sys.path
was required due to additional repeated work in every worker.It could also have a side effect of
""
remaining insys.path
during forkserver preload imports instead of the absolute path fromos.getcwd()
at multiprocessing import time used in the workersys.path
.The
sys.path
differences between phases in the child process could potentially have caused preload to import incorrect things from the wrong location. We are unaware of that actually having happened in practice.gh-125679: The
multiprocessing.Lock
andmultiprocessing.RLock
repr
values no longer say “unknown” on macOS.gh-126489: The Python implementation of
pickle
no longer callspickle.Pickler.persistent_id()
for the result ofpersistent_id()
.gh-126313: Fix an issue in
curses.napms()
whencurses.initscr()
has not yet been called. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-126303: Fix pickling and copying of
os.sched_param
objects.gh-126138: Fix a use-after-free crash on
asyncio.Task
objects whose underlying coroutine yields an object that implements an evil__getattribute__()
. Patch by Nico Posada.gh-126220: Fix crash in
cProfile.Profile
and_lsprof.Profiler
when their callbacks were directly called with 0 arguments.gh-126212: Fix issue where
urllib.request.pathname2url()
andurl2pathname()
removed slashes from Windows DOS drive paths and URLs.gh-126223: Raise a
UnicodeEncodeError
instead of aSystemError
upon calling_interpreters.create()
with an invalid Unicode character.gh-126205: Fix issue where
urllib.request.pathname2url()
generated URLs beginning with four slashes (rather than two) when given a Windows UNC path.gh-126105: Fix a crash in
ast
when theast.AST._fields
attribute is deleted.gh-126106: Fixes a possible
NULL
pointer dereference inssl
.gh-126080: Fix a use-after-free crash on
asyncio.Task
objects for which the underlying event loop implements an evil__getattribute__()
. Reported by Nico-Posada. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-126083: Fixed a reference leak in
asyncio.Task
objects when reinitializing the same object with a non-None
context. Patch by Nico Posada.gh-125984: Fix use-after-free crashes on
asyncio.Future
objects for which the underlying event loop implements an evil__getattribute__()
. Reported by Nico-Posada. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-125969: Fix an out-of-bounds crash when an evil
asyncio.loop.call_soon()
mutates the length of the internal callbacks list. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-125966: Fix a use-after-free crash in
asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback()
. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-125789: Fix possible crash when mutating list of callbacks returned by
asyncio.Future._callbacks
. It now always returns a new copy in C implementation_asyncio
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-125884: Fixed the bug for
pdb
where it can’t set breakpoints on functions with certain annotations.gh-125355: Fix several bugs in
argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_intermixed_args()
.The parser no longer changes temporarily during parsing.
Default values are not processed twice.
Required mutually exclusive groups containing positional arguments are now supported.
The missing arguments report now includes the names of all required optional and positional arguments.
Unknown options can be intermixed with positional arguments in parse_known_intermixed_args().
gh-125710: [Enum] fix hashable<->nonhashable comparisons for member values
gh-125631: Restore ability to set
persistent_id
andpersistent_load
attributes of instances of thePickler
andUnpickler
classes in thepickle
module.gh-125378: Fixed the bug in
pdb
where after a multi-line command, an empty line repeats the first line of the multi-line command, instead of the full command.gh-125682: Reject non-ASCII digits in the Python implementation of
json.loads()
conforming to the JSON specification.gh-125660: Reject invalid unicode escapes for Python implementation of
json.loads()
.gh-125259: Fix the notes removal logic for errors thrown in enum initialization.
gh-125590: Allow
FrameLocalsProxy
to delete and pop if the key is not a fast variable.gh-125519: Improve traceback if
importlib.reload()
is called with an object that is not a module. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-125451: Fix deadlock when
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
shuts down concurrently with an error when feeding a job to a worker process.gh-125422: Fixed the bug where
pdb
andbdb
can step into the bottom caller frame.gh-100141: Fixed the bug where
pdb
will be stuck in an infinite loop when debugging an empty file.gh-125115: Fixed a bug in
pdb
where arguments starting with-
can’t be passed to the debugged script.gh-53203: Fix
time.strptime()
for%c
,%x
and%X
formats in many locales that use non-ASCII digits, like Persian, Burmese, Odia and Shan.gh-125398: Fix the conversion of the
VIRTUAL_ENV
path in the activate script invenv
when running in Git Bash for Windows.gh-125316: Fix using
functools.partial()
asenum.Enum
member. A FutureWarning with suggestion to useenum.member()
is now emitted when thepartial
instance is used as an enum member.gh-125245: Fix race condition when importing
collections.abc
, which could incorrectly return an empty module.gh-125243: Fix data race when creating
zoneinfo.ZoneInfo
objects in the free threading build.gh-125254: Fix a bug where ArgumentError includes the incorrect ambiguous option in
argparse
.gh-125235: Keep
tkinter
TCL paths in venv pointing to base installation on Windows.gh-61011: Fix inheritance of nested mutually exclusive groups from parent parser in
argparse.ArgumentParser
. Previously, all nested mutually exclusive groups lost their connection to the group containing them and were displayed as belonging directly to the parser.gh-52551: Fix encoding issues in
time.strftime()
, thestrftime()
method of thedatetime
classesdatetime
,date
andtime
and formatting of these classes. Characters not encodable in the current locale are now acceptable in the format string. Surrogate pairs and sequence of surrogatescape-encoded bytes are no longer recombinated. Embedded null character no longer terminates the format string.gh-125118: Don’t copy arbitrary values to _Bool in the
struct
module.gh-125069: Fix an issue where providing a
pathlib.PurePath
object as an initializer argument to a secondPurePath
object with a differentparser
resulted in arguments to the former object’s initializer being joined by the latter object’s parser.gh-125096: If the
PYTHON_BASIC_REPL
environment variable is set, thesite
module no longer imports the_pyrepl
module. Moreover, thesite
module now respects-E
and-I
command line options: ignorePYTHON_BASIC_REPL
in this case. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-124969: Fix
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.ALT_DIGITS)
on platforms with glibc. Now it returns a string consisting of up to 100 semicolon-separated symbols (an empty string in most locales) on all Posix platforms. Previously it only returned the first symbol or an empty string.gh-124960: Fix support for the
barry_as_FLUFL
future flag in the new REPL.gh-124958: Fix refcycles in exceptions raised from
asyncio.TaskGroup
and the python implementation ofasyncio.Future
gh-53203: Fix
time.strptime()
for%c
and%x
formats in many locales: Arabic, Bislama, Breton, Bodo, Kashubian, Chuvash, Estonian, French, Irish, Ge’ez, Gurajati, Manx Gaelic, Hebrew, Hindi, Chhattisgarhi, Haitian Kreyol, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Marathi, Malay, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Tok Pisin, Yoruba, Yue Chinese, Yau/Nungon and Chinese.gh-124917: Allow calling
os.path.exists()
andos.path.lexists()
with keyword arguments on Windows. Fixes a regression in 3.13.0.gh-124653: Fix detection of the minimal Queue API needed by the
logging
module. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-124858: Fix reference cycles left in tracebacks in
asyncio.open_connection()
when used withhappy_eyeballs_delay
gh-124390: Fixed
AssertionError
when usingasyncio.staggered.staggered_race()
withasyncio.eager_task_factory
.gh-124651: Properly quote template strings in
venv
activation scripts.gh-116850: Fix
argparse
for namespaces with not directly writable dict (e.g. classes).gh-58573: Fix conflicts between abbreviated long options in the parent parser and subparsers in
argparse
.gh-124594: All
asyncio
REPL prompts run in the samecontext
. Contributed by Bartosz Sławecki.gh-61181: Fix support of choices with string value in
argparse
. Substrings of the specified string no longer considered valid values.gh-80259: Fix
argparse
support of positional arguments withnargs='?'
,default=argparse.SUPPRESS
and specifiedtype
.gh-120378: Fix a crash related to an integer overflow in
curses.resizeterm()
andcurses.resize_term()
.gh-123884: Fixed bug in itertools.tee() handling of other tee inputs (a tee in a tee). The output now has the promised n independent new iterators. Formerly, the first iterator was identical (not independent) to the input iterator. This would sometimes give surprising results.
gh-58956: Fixed a bug in
pdb
where sometimes the breakpoint won’t trigger if it was set on a function which is already in the call stack.gh-124345:
argparse
vim supports abbreviated single-dash long options separated by=
from its value.gh-104860: Fix disallowing abbreviation of single-dash long options in
argparse
withallow_abbrev=False
.gh-63143: Fix parsing mutually exclusive arguments in
argparse
. Arguments with the value identical to the default value (e.g. booleans, small integers, empty or 1-character strings) are no longer considered “not present”.gh-72795: Positional arguments with nargs equal to
'*'
orargparse.REMAINDER
are no longer required. This allows to use positional argument withnargs='*'
and withoutdefault
in mutually exclusive group and improves error message about required arguments.gh-59317: Fix parsing positional argument with nargs equal to
'?'
or'*'
if it is preceded by an option and another positional argument.gh-53780:
argparse
now ignores the first"--"
(double dash) between an option and command.gh-124217: Add RFC 9637 reserved IPv6 block
3fff::/20
inipaddress
module.gh-81691: Fix handling of multiple
"--"
(double dashes) inargparse
. Only the first one has now been removed, all subsequent ones are now taken literally.gh-123978: Remove broken
time.thread_time()
andtime.thread_time_ns()
on NetBSD.gh-122765: Fix unbalanced quote errors occurring when activate.csh in
venv
was sourced with a custom prompt containing unpaired quotes or newlines.gh-123370: Fix the canvas not clearing after running turtledemo clock.
gh-116810: Resolve a memory leak introduced in CPython 3.10’s
ssl
when thessl.SSLSocket.session
property was accessed. Speeds up read and write access to said property by no longer unnecessarily cloning session objects via serialization.gh-120754: Update unbounded
read
calls inzipfile
to specify an explicitsize
putting a limit on how much data they may read. This also updates handling around ZIP max comment size to match the standard instead of reading comments that are one byte too long.gh-70764: Fixed an issue where
inspect.getclosurevars()
would incorrectly classify an attribute name as a global variable when the name exists both as an attribute name and a global variable.bpo-46128: Strip
unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
stack frames from reported stacktraces.bpo-14074: Fix
argparse
metavar processing to allow positional arguments to have a tuple metavar.
IDLE¶
gh-122392: Increase currently inadequate vertical spacing for the IDLE browsers (path, module, and stack) on high-resolution monitors.
Documentation¶
gh-125277: Require Sphinx 7.2.6 or later to build the Python documentation. Patch by Adam Turner.
gh-124872: Added definitions for context, current context, and context management protocol, updated related definitions to be consistent, and expanded the documentation for
contextvars.Context
.gh-125018: The
importlib.metadata
documentation now includes semantic cross-reference targets for the significant documented APIs. This means intersphinx references likeimportlib.metadata.version()
will now work as expected.gh-70870: Clarified the dual usage of the term “free variable” (both the formal meaning of any reference to names defined outside the local scope, and the narrower pragmatic meaning of nonlocal variables named in
co_freevars
).gh-121277: Writers of CPython’s documentation can now use
next
as the version for theversionchanged
,versionadded
,deprecated
directives.gh-60712: Include the
object
type in the lists of documented types. Change by Furkan Onder and Martin Panter.bpo-34008: The
Py_Main()
documentation moved from the “Very High Level API” section to the “Initialization and Finalization” section.Also make it explicit that we expect
Py_Main
to typically be called instead ofPy_Initialize
rather than after it (sincePy_Main
makes its own call toPy_Initialize
). Document that calling both is supported but is version dependent on which settings will be applied correctly.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-126688: Fix a crash when calling
os.fork()
on some operating systems, including SerenityOS.gh-126139: Provide better error location when attempting to use a future statement with an unknown future feature.
gh-126018: Fix a crash in
sys.audit()
when passing a non-string as first argument and Python was compiled in debug mode.gh-125942: On Android, the
errors
setting ofsys.stdout
was changed fromsurrogateescape
tobackslashreplace
.gh-125859: Fix a crash in the free threading build when
gc.get_objects()
orgc.get_referrers()
is called during an in-progress garbage collection.gh-125593: Use color to highlight error locations in traceback from exception group
gh-125444: Fix illegal instruction for older Arm architectures. Patch by Diego Russo, testing by Ross Burton.
gh-124375: Fix a crash in the free threading build when the GC runs concurrently with a new thread starting.
gh-125221: Fix possible race condition when calling
__reduce_ex__()
for the first time in the free threading build.gh-125038: Fix crash when iterating over a generator expression after direct changes on
gi_frame.f_locals
. Patch by Mikhail Efimov.gh-123378: Fix a crash in the
__str__()
method ofUnicodeError
objects when theUnicodeError.start
andUnicodeError.end
values are invalid or out-of-range. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-116510: Fix a crash caused by immortal interned strings being shared between sub-interpreters that use basic single-phase init. In that case, the string can be used by an interpreter that outlives the interpreter that created and interned it. For interpreters that share obmalloc state, also share the interned dict with the main interpreter.
gh-122878: Use the
pager
binary, if available (e.g. on Debian and derivatives), to display REPLhelp()
.gh-124188: Fix reading and decoding a line from the source file witn non-UTF-8 encoding for syntax errors raised in the compiler.
gh-123930: Improve the error message when a script shadowing a module from the standard library causes
ImportError
to be raised during a “from” import. Similarly, improve the error message when a script shadowing a third party module attempts to “from” import an attribute from that third party module while still initialising.gh-118950: Fix bug where SSLProtocol.connection_lost wasn’t getting called when OSError was thrown on writing to socket.
gh-113570: Fixed a bug in
reprlib.repr
where it incorrectly called the repr method on shadowed Python built-in types.
C API¶
gh-125608: Fix a bug where dictionary watchers (e.g.,
PyDict_Watch()
) on an object’s attribute dictionary (__dict__
) were not triggered when the object’s attributes were modified.bpo-34008: Added
Py_IsInitialized
to the list of APIs that are safe to call before the interpreter is initialized, and updated the embedding tests to cover it.
Build¶
gh-123877: Set
wasm32-wasip1
as the WASI target. The oldwasm32-wasi
target is deprecated so it can be used for an eventual WASI 1.0.gh-89640: Hard-code float word ordering as little endian on WASM.
gh-125940: The Android build now supports 16 KB page sizes.
gh-89640: Improve detection of float word ordering on Linux when link-time optimizations are enabled.
gh-125269: Fix detection of whether
-latomic
is needed when cross-compiling CPython using the configure script.gh-121634: Allow for specifying the target compile triple for WASI.
gh-122578: Use WASI SDK 24 for testing.
gh-115382: Fix cross compile failures when the host and target SOABIs match.
Python 3.13.0 final¶
Release date: 2024-10-07
Core and Builtins¶
gh-125008: Fix
tokenize.untokenize()
producing invalid syntax for double braces preceded by certain escape characters.gh-124871: Fix compiler bug (in some versions of 3.13) where an assertion fails during reachability analysis.
Python 3.13.0 release candidate 3¶
Release date: 2024-10-01
macOS¶
gh-123797: Check for runtime availability of
ptsname_r
function on macos.
Windows¶
Tests¶
gh-124378: Updated
test_ttk
to pass with Tcl/Tk 8.6.15.
Library¶
gh-124538: Fixed crash when using
gc.get_referents()
on a capsule object.gh-124498: Fix
typing.TypeAliasType
not to be generic, whentype_params
is an empty tuple.gh-123017: Due to unreliable results on some devices,
time.strftime()
no longer accepts negative years on Android.gh-123014:
os.pidfd_open()
andsignal.pidfd_send_signal()
are now unavailable when building against Android API levels older than 31, since the underlying system calls may cause a crash.gh-124248: Fixed potential crash when using
struct
to process zero-width ‘Pascal string’ fields (0p
).gh-87041: Fix a bug in
argparse
where lengthy subparser argument help is incorrectly indented.gh-124212: Fix invalid variable in
venv
handling of failed symlink on Windowsgh-124171: Add workaround for broken
fmod()
implementations on Windows, that loose zero sign (e.g.fmod(-10, 1)
returns0.0
). Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.gh-123934: Fix
unittest.mock.MagicMock
reseting magic methods return values after.reset_mock(return_value=True)
was called.gh-123968: Fix the command-line interface for the
random
module to select floats between 0 and N, not 1 and N.gh-123892: Add
"_wmi"
tosys.stdlib_module_names
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-123339: Fix
inspect.getsource()
for classes incollections.abc
anddecimal
(for pure Python implementation) modules.inspect.getcomments()
now raises OSError instead of IndexError if the__firstlineno__
value for a class is out of bound.gh-121735: When working with zip archives, importlib.resources now properly honors module-adjacent references (e.g.
files(pkg.mod)
and not justfiles(pkg)
).gh-122145: Fix an issue when reporting tracebacks corresponding to Python code emitting an empty AST body. Patch by Nikita Sobolev and Bénédikt Tran.
gh-119004: Fix a crash in OrderedDict.__eq__ when operands are mutated during the check. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
bpo-44864: Do not translate user-provided strings in
argparse.ArgumentParser
.
IDLE¶
Documentation¶
Core and Builtins¶
gh-124567: Revert the incremental GC (in 3.13), since it’s not clear the benefits outweigh the costs at this point.
gh-124642: Fixed scalability issue in free-threaded builds for lock-free reads from dictionaries in multi-threaded scenarios
gh-116510: Fix a bug that can cause a crash when sub-interpreters use “basic” single-phase extension modules. Shared objects could refer to PyGC_Head nodes that had been freed as part of interpreter cleanup.
gh-124547: When deallocating an object with inline values whose
__dict__
is still live: if memory allocation for the inline values fails, clear the dictionary. Prevents an interpreter crash.gh-124513: Fix a crash in FrameLocalsProxy constructor: check the number of arguments. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-124442: Fix nondeterminism in compilation by sorting the value of
__static_attributes__
. Patch by kp2pml30.gh-123856: Fix PyREPL failure when a keyboard interrupt is triggered after using a history search
gh-65961: Document the deprecation of setting and using
__package__
and__cached__
.gh-124027: Support
<page up>
,<page down>
, and<delete>
keys in the Python REPL when$TERM
is set tovt100
.gh-77894: Fix possible crash in the garbage collector when it tries to break a reference loop containing a
memoryview
object. Now amemoryview
object can only be cleared if there are no buffers that refer it.gh-123339: Setting the
__module__
attribute for a class now removes the__firstlineno__
item from the type’s dict, so they will no longer be inconsistent.
C API¶
Build¶
gh-124487: Windows builds now use Windows 8.1 as their API baseline (installation already required Windows 8.1).
gh-124043: Building using
--with-trace-refs
is (temporarily) disallowed when the GIL is disabled.
Python 3.13.0 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2024-09-06
macOS¶
gh-123418: Updated macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 3.0.15.
Windows¶
gh-123418: Updated Windows build to use OpenSSL 3.0.15.
gh-122573: The Windows build of CPython now requires 3.10 or newer.
gh-100256:
mimetypes
no longer fails when it encounters an inaccessible registry key.gh-79846: Makes
ssl.create_default_context()
ignore invalid certificates in the Windows certificate store
Tools/Demos¶
gh-123418: Update GitHub CI workflows to use OpenSSL 3.0.15 and multissltests to use 3.0.15, 3.1.7, and 3.2.3.
Tests¶
Security¶
Library¶
gh-123657: Fix crash and memory leak in
decimal.getcontext()
. It crashed when using a thread-local context by--with-decimal-contextvar=no
.gh-123448: Fixed memory leak of
typing.NoDefault
by moving it to the static types array.gh-123409: Fix
ipaddress.IPv6Address.reverse_pointer
output according to RFC 3596, §2.5. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-123270: Applied a more surgical fix for malformed payloads in
zipfile.Path
causing infinite loops (gh-122905) without breaking contents using legitimate characters.gh-123228: Fix return type for
_pyrepl.readline._ReadlineWrapper.get_line_buffer()
to bestr()
. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.gh-123240: Raise audit events for the
input()
in the new REPL.gh-123243: Fix memory leak in
_decimal
.gh-122546: Consistently use same file name for different exceptions in the new repl. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.
gh-123213:
xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.extend()
andElement
assignment no longer hide the internal exception if an erronous generator is passed. Patch by Bar Harel.gh-85110: Preserve relative path in URL without netloc in
urllib.parse.urlunsplit()
andurllib.parse.urlunparse()
.gh-123067: Fix quadratic complexity in parsing
"
-quoted cookie values with backslashes byhttp.cookies
.gh-122981: Fix
inspect.getsource()
for generated classes with Python base classes (e.g. enums).gh-122903:
zipfile.Path.glob
now correctly matches directories instead of silently omitting them.gh-122905:
zipfile.Path
objects now sanitize names from the zipfile.gh-122695: Fixed double-free when using
gc.get_referents()
with a freedasyncio.Future
iterator.gh-116263:
logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler
no longer rolls over empty log files.gh-105376: Restore the deprecated
logging
warn()
method. It was removed in Python 3.13 alpha 1. Keep the deprecatedwarn()
method in Python 3.13. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-122744: Bump the version of pip bundled in ensurepip to version 24.2.
gh-118814: Fix the
typing.TypeVar
constructor when name is passed by keyword.gh-122478: Remove internal frames from tracebacks shown in
code.InteractiveInterpreter
with non-defaultsys.excepthook()
. Save correct tracebacks insys.last_traceback
and update__traceback__
attribute ofsys.last_value
andsys.last_exc
.gh-116622: On Android, the
FICLONE
andFICLONERANGE
constants are no longer exposed byfcntl
, as these ioctls are blocked by SELinux.gh-82378: Make sure that the new REPL interprets
sys.tracebacklimit
in the same way that the classic REPL did.gh-122334: Fix crash when importing
ssl
after the main interpreter restarts.gh-87320: In
code.InteractiveInterpreter
, handle exceptions caused by calling a non-defaultsys.excepthook()
. Before, the exception bubbled up to the caller, ending the REPL.gh-121650:
email
headers with embedded newlines are now quoted on output. Thegenerator
will now refuse to serialize (write) headers that are unsafely folded or delimited; seeverify_generated_headers
. (Contributed by Bas Bloemsaat and Petr Viktorin in gh-121650.)gh-121723: Make
logging.config.dictConfig()
accept any object implementing the Queue public API. See the queue configuration section for details. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-122081: Fix a crash in the
decimal.IEEEContext()
optional function available via theEXTRA_FUNCTIONALITY
configuration flag.gh-121804: Correctly show error locations, when
SyntaxError
raised in new repl. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.gh-121151: Fix wrapping of long usage text of arguments inside a mutually exclusive group in
argparse
.gh-108172:
webbrowser
honors OS preferred browser on Linux when its desktop entry name contains the text of a known browser name.gh-109109: You can now get the raw TLS certificate chains from TLS connections via
ssl.SSLSocket.get_verified_chain()
andssl.SSLSocket.get_unverified_chain()
methods.Contributed by Mateusz Nowak.
IDLE¶
gh-120083: Add explicit black IDLE Hovertip foreground color needed for recent macOS. Fixes Sonoma showing unreadable white on pale yellow. Patch by John Riggles.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-120221: asyncio REPL is now again properly recognizing KeyboardInterrupts. Display of exceptions raised in secondary threads is fixed.
gh-119310: Allow the new interactive shell to read history files written with the editline library that use unicode-escaped entries. Patch by aorcajo and Łukasz Langa.
gh-123572: Fix key mappings for various F-keys in Windows for the new REPL. Patch by devdanzin
gh-119034: Change
<page up>
and<page down>
keys of the Python REPL to history search forward/backward. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-123545: Fix a double decref in rare cases on experimental JIT builds.
gh-123484: Fix
_Py_DebugOffsets
for long objects to be relative to the start of the object rather than the start of a subobject.gh-123344: Add AST optimizations for type parameter defaults.
gh-123321: Prevent Parser/myreadline race condition from segfaulting on multi-threaded use. Patch by Bar Harel and Amit Wienner.
gh-123177: Fix a bug causing stray prompts to appear in the middle of wrapped lines in the new REPL.
gh-122982: Extend the deprecation period for bool inversion (
~
) by two years.gh-123275: Support
-X gil=1
andPYTHON_GIL=1
on non-free-threaded builds.gh-123177: Deactivate line wrap in the Apple Terminal via a ANSI escape code. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-123229: Fix valgrind warning by initializing the f-string buffers to 0 in the tokenizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-122298: Restore printout of GC stats when
gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_STATS)
is called. This featue was accidentally removed when implementing incremental GC.gh-121804: Correctly show error locations when a
SyntaxError
is raised in the basic REPL. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.gh-123142: Fix too-wide source location in exception tracebacks coming from broken iterables in comprehensions.
gh-123048: Fix a bug where pattern matching code could emit a
JUMP_FORWARD
with no source location.gh-123123: Fix displaying
SyntaxError
exceptions covering multiple lines. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-123083: Fix a potential use-after-free in
STORE_ATTR_WITH_HINT
.gh-123022: Fix crash in free-threaded build when calling
Py_Initialize()
from a non-main thread.gh-122888: Fix crash on certain calls to
str()
with positional arguments of the wrong type. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-116622: Fix Android stdout and stderr messages being truncated or lost.
gh-122527: Fix a crash that occurred when a
PyStructSequence
was deallocated after its type’s dictionary was cleared by the GC. The type’stp_basicsize
now accounts for non-sequence fields that aren’t included in thePy_SIZE
of the sequence.gh-122445: Add only fields which are modified via self.* to
__static_attributes__
.gh-98442: Fix too wide source locations of the cleanup instructions of a with statement.
gh-93691: Fix source locations of instructions generated for with statements.
gh-120097:
FrameLocalsProxy
now subclassescollections.abc.Mapping
and can be matched as a mapping inmatch
statements
C API¶
gh-122728: Fix
PyEval_GetLocals()
to avoidSystemError
(“bad argument to internal function”). Patch by Victor Stinner.
Build¶
gh-123418: Updated Android build to use OpenSSL 3.0.15.
gh-123297: Propagate the value of
LDFLAGS
toLDCXXSHARED
insysconfig
. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-116622: Rename build variable
MODULE_LDFLAGS
back toLIBPYTHON
, as it’s used by package build systems (e.g. Meson).gh-118943: Fix an issue where the experimental JIT could be built several times by the
make regen-all
target, leading to possible race conditions on heavily parallelized builds.gh-118943: Fix a possible race condition affecting parallel builds configured with
--enable-experimental-jit
, in whichFileNotFoundError
could be caused by another process already movingjit_stencils.h.new
tojit_stencils.h
.
Python 3.13.0 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2024-07-31
Tests¶
gh-59022: Add tests for
pkgutil.extend_path()
. Patch by Andreas Stocker.gh-99242:
os.getloadavg()
may throwOSError
when running regression tests under certain conditions (e.g. chroot). This error is now caught and ignored, since reporting load average is optional.
Security¶
gh-122133: Authenticate the socket connection for the
socket.socketpair()
fallback on platforms whereAF_UNIX
is not available like Windows.Patch by Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> and Seth Larson <seth@python.org>. Reported by Ellie <el@horse64.org>
gh-121957: Fixed missing audit events around interactive use of Python, now also properly firing for
python -i
, as well as forpython -m asyncio
. The events in question arecpython.run_stdin
andcpython.run_startup
.
Library¶
gh-122400: Handle
ValueError
s raised byos.stat()
infilecmp.dircmp
andfilecmp.cmpfiles()
. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-122332: Fixed segfault with
asyncio.Task.get_coro()
when using an eager task factory.gh-105733:
ctypes.ARRAY()
is now soft deprecated: it no longer emits deprecation warnings and is not scheduled for removal.gh-122087: Restore
inspect.ismethoddescriptor()
andinspect.isroutine()
returningFalse
forfunctools.partial
objects.gh-122170: Handle
ValueError
s raised byos.stat()
inlinecache
. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-82951: Serializing objects with complex
__qualname__
(such as unbound methods and nested classes) by name no longer involves serializing parent objects by value in pickle protocols < 4.gh-113785:
csv
now correctly parses numeric fields (when used withcsv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC
orcsv.QUOTE_STRINGS
) which start with an escape character.gh-122088:
@warnings.deprecated
now copies the coroutine status of functions and methods so thatinspect.iscoroutinefunction()
returns the correct result.gh-120930: Fixed a bug introduced by gh-92081 that added an incorrect extra blank to encoded words occurring in wrapped headers.
gh-121474: Fix missing sanity check for
parties
arg inthreading.Barrier
constructor. Patch by Clinton Christian (pygeek).gh-120289: Fixed the use-after-free issue in
cProfile
by disallowingdisable()
andclear()
in external timers.
IDLE¶
gh-122482: Change About IDLE to direct users to discuss.python.org instead of the now unused idle-dev email and mailing list.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-116090: Fix an issue in JIT builds that prevented some
for
loops from correctly firingRAISE
monitoring events.gh-122208: Dictionary watchers now only deliver the PyDict_EVENT_ADDED event when the insertion is in a known good state to succeed.
gh-122300: Preserve AST nodes for f-string with single-element format specifiers. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-120906:
frame.f_locals
now supports arbitrary hashable objects as keys.gh-122029: Emit
c_call
events insys.setprofile()
when aPyMethodObject
pointing to aPyCFunction
is called.gh-122026: Fix a bug that caused the tokenizer to not correctly identify mismatched parentheses inside f-strings in some situations. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-118934: Make
PyEval_GetLocals
return borrowed reference
C API¶
gh-116622: Make
PyObject_Print
work around a bug in Android and OpenBSD which prevented it from throwing an exception when trying to write to a read-only stream.gh-121489: Export private
_PyBytes_Join()
again.
Build¶
gh-120522: Added a
--with-app-store-compliance
option to patch out known issues with macOS/iOS App Store review processes.
Python 3.13.0 beta 4¶
Release date: 2024-07-18
Tests¶
gh-121084: Fix test_typing random leaks. Clear typing ABC caches when running tests for refleaks (
-R
option): call_abc_caches_clear()
on typing abstract classes and their subclasses. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-121160: Add a test for
readline.set_history_length()
. Note that this test may fail on readline libraries.gh-121200: Fix
test_expanduser_pwd2()
oftest_posixpath
. Callgetpwnam()
to getpw_dir
, since it can be different thangetpwall()
pw_dir
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-121188: When creating the JUnit XML file, regrtest now escapes characters which are invalid in XML, such as the chr(27) control character used in ANSI escape sequences. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Library¶
gh-57141: The shallow argument to
filecmp.dircmp
(new in Python 3.13) is now keyword-only.gh-121245: Simplify handling of the history file in
site.register_readline()
helper. TheCAN_USE_PYREPL
variable now will be initialized, when imported. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.gh-121332: Fix constructor of
ast
nodes with custom_attributes
. Previously, passing custom attributes would raise aDeprecationWarning
. Passing arguments to the constructor that are not in_fields
or_attributes
remains deprecated. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-121279: Avoid
NameError
for thewarnings
module when accessing the depracated atributes of theimportlib.abc
module.gh-121245: Fix a bug in the handling of the command history of the new REPL that caused the history file to be wiped at REPL exit.
gh-87744: Fix waitpid race while calling
send_signal()
in asyncio. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-121018: Fixed other issues where
argparse.ArgumentParser
did not honorexit_on_error=False
.gh-120678: Fix regression in the new REPL that meant that globals from files passed using the
-i
argument would not be included in the REPL’s global namespace. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-120782: Fix wrong references of the
datetime
types after reloading the module.gh-120713:
datetime.datetime.strftime()
now 0-pads years with less than four digits for the format specifiers%Y
and%G
on Linux. Patch by Ben Hsinggh-117983: Defer the
threading
import inimportlib.util
until lazy loading is used.gh-119189: When using the
**
operator orpow()
withFraction
as the base and an exponent that is not rational, a float, or a complex, the fraction is no longer converted to a float.gh-118714: Allow
restart
in post-mortem debugging ofpdb
. Removed restart message when the user quits pdb from post-mortem mode.gh-105623: Fix performance degradation in
logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler
. Patch by Craig Robson.
IDLE¶
gh-78889: Stop Shell freezes by blocking user access to non-method sys.stdout.shell attributes, which are all private.
Documentation¶
gh-121749: Fix documentation for
PyModule_AddObjectRef()
.gh-120012: Clarify the behaviours of
multiprocessing.Queue.empty()
andmultiprocessing.SimpleQueue.empty()
on closed queues. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-121860: Fix crash when rematerializing a managed dictionary after it was deleted.
gh-121814: Fixed the SegFault when
PyEval_SetTrace()
is used with no Python frame on stack.gh-121295: Fix PyREPL console getting into a blocked state after interrupting a long paste
gh-121794: Fix bug in free-threaded Python where a resurrected object could lead to a negative ref count assertion failure.
gh-121657: Improve the
SyntaxError
message if the user tries to useyield from
outside a function.gh-121609: Fix pasting of characters containing unicode character joiners in the new REPL. Patch by Marta Gomez Macias
gh-117482: Unexpected slot wrappers are no longer created for builtin static types in subinterpreters.
gh-121499: Fix a bug affecting how multi-line history was being rendered in the new REPL after interacting with the new screen cache. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-121497: Fix a bug that was preventing the REPL to correctly respect the history when an input hook was set. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-121012: Tier 2 execution now ensures that list iterators remain exhausted, once they become exhausted.
gh-121439: Allow tuples of length 20 in the freelist to be reused.
gh-121368: Fix race condition in
_PyType_Lookup
in the free-threaded build due to a missing memory fence. This could lead to_PyType_Lookup
returning incorrect results on arm64.gh-121130: Fix f-strings with debug expressions in format specifiers. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-121115:
PyLong_AsNativeBytes()
no longer uses__index__()
methods by default. ThePy_ASNATIVEBYTES_ALLOW_INDEX
flag has been added to allow it.
C API¶
gh-89364: Export the
PySignal_SetWakeupFd()
function. Previously, the function was documented but it couldn’t be used in 3rd party code. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-113993:
PyUnicode_InternInPlace()
no longer prevents its argument from being garbage collected.Several functions that take
char *
are now documented as possibly preventing string objects from being garbage collected; refer to their documentation for details:PyUnicode_InternFromString()
,PyDict_SetItemString()
,PyObject_SetAttrString()
,PyObject_DelAttrString()
,PyUnicode_InternFromString()
, andPyModule_Add*
convenience functions.gh-113601: Removed debug build assertions related to interning strings, which were falsely triggered by stable ABI extensions.
gh-112136: Restore the private
_PyArg_Parser
structure and the private_PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywordsFast()
function, previously removed in Python 3.13 alpha 1. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Build¶
gh-120371: Support WASI SDK 22 by explicitly skipping functions that are just stubs in wasi-libc.
gh-121731: Fix mimalloc compile error on GNU/Hurd
gh-121487: Fix deprecation warning for ATOMIC_VAR_INIT in mimalloc.
gh-121467: Fix a Makefile bug that prevented mimalloc header files from being installed.
gh-121103: On POSIX systems, excluding macOS framework installs, the lib directory for the free-threaded build now includes a “t” suffix to avoid conflicts with a co-located default build installation.
gh-120831: The default minimum iOS version was increased to 13.0.
gh-113565: Improve
curses
andcurses.panel
dependency checks in configure.
Python 3.13.0 beta 3¶
Release date: 2024-06-27
Core and Builtins¶
gh-120838:
Py_Finalize()
andPy_FinalizeEx()
now always run with the main interpreter active.gh-113433: Subinterpreters now get cleaned up automatically during runtime finalization.
gh-119462: Make sure that invariants of type versioning are maintained: * Superclasses always have their version number assigned before subclasses * The version tag is always zero if the tag is not valid. * The version tag is always non-zero if the tag is valid.
gh-120437: Fix
_CHECK_STACK_SPACE
optimization problems introduced in gh-118322.gh-120722: Correctly set the bytecode position on return instructions within lambdas. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
gh-120367: Fix bug where compiler creates a redundant jump during pseudo-op replacement. Can only happen with a synthetic AST that has a try on the same line as the instruction following the exception handler.
gh-113993: Strings interned with
sys.intern()
are again garbage-collected when no longer used, as per the documentation. Strings interned with the C functionPyUnicode_InternInPlace()
are still immortal. Internals of the string interning mechanism have been changed. This may affect performance and identities ofstr
objects.gh-120384: Fix an array out of bounds crash in
list_ass_subscript
, which could be invoked via some specificly tailored input: including concurrent modification of a list object, where one thread assigns a slice and another clears it.gh-120367: Fix crash in compiler on code with redundant NOPs and JUMPs which show up after exception handlers are moved to the end of the code.
gh-120380: Fix Python implementation of
pickle.Pickler
forbytes
andbytearray
objects when using protocol version 5. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-120400: Support Linux perf profiler to see Python calls on RISC-V architecture.
gh-120221: Deliver real signals on Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z in the new REPL. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-120346: Respect
PYTHON_BASIC_REPL
when running in interative inspect mode (python -i
). Patch by Pablo Galindogh-93691: Fix source locations of instructions generated for the iterator of a for statement.
gh-120198: Fix a crash when multiple threads read and write to the same
__class__
of an object concurrently.gh-120298: Fix use-after free in
list_richcompare_impl
which can be invoked via some specificly tailored evil input.gh-119666: Fix a compiler crash in the case where two comprehensions in class scope both reference
__class__
.gh-120225: Fix crash in compiler on empty block at end of exception handler.
gh-119933: Improve
SyntaxError
messages for invalid expressions in a type parameters bound, a type parameter constraint tuple or a default type parameter. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.bpo-24766: Fix handling of
doc
argument to subclasses ofproperty
.
Library¶
gh-121027: Add a future warning in
functools.partial.__get__()
. In future Python versionsfunctools.partial
will be a method descriptor.gh-121025: Improve the
__repr__()
offunctools.partialmethod
. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-121018: Fixed an issue where
argparse.ArgumentParser.parses_args()
did not honorexit_on_error=False
when given unrecognized arguments. Patch by Ben Hsing.gh-119614: Fix truncation of strings with embedded null characters in some internal operations in
tkinter
.gh-120910: When reading installed files from an egg, use
relative_to(walk_up=True)
to honor files installed outside of the installation root.gh-120888: Upgrade pip wheel bundled with ensurepip (pip 24.1.1)
gh-101830: Accessing the
tkinter
object’s string representation no longer converts the underlying Tcl object to a string on Windows.gh-120811: Fix possible memory leak in
contextvars.Context.run()
.gh-120769: Make empty line in
pdb
repeats the last command even when the command is fromcmdqueue
.gh-120732: Fix
name
passing tounittest.mock.Mock
object when usingunittest.mock.create_autospec()
.gh-120683: Fix an error in
logging.LogRecord
, when the integer part of the timestamp is rounded up, while the millisecond calculation truncates, causing the log timestamp to be wrong by up to 999 ms (affected roughly 1 in 8 million timestamps).gh-120633: Move scrollbar and remove tear-off menus in turtledemo.
gh-120541: Improve the prompt in the “less” pager when
help()
is called with non-string argument.gh-120495: Fix incorrect exception handling in Tab Nanny. Patch by Wulian233.
gh-120381: Correct
inspect.ismethoddescriptor()
to check also for the lack of__delete__()
. Patch by Jan Kaliszewski.gh-90425: The OS byte in gzip headers is now always set to 255 when using
gzip.compress()
.gh-120343: Fix column offset reporting for tokens that come after multiline f-strings in the
tokenize
module.gh-119600: Fix
unittest.mock.patch()
to not read attributes of the target whennew_callable
is set. Patch by Robert Collins.gh-114053: Fix edge-case bug where
typing.get_type_hints()
would produce incorrect results if type parameters in a class scope were overridden by assignments in a class scope andfrom __future__ import annotations
semantics were enabled. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-114053: Fix erroneous
NameError
when callinginspect.get_annotations()
witheval_str=True`
on a class that made use of PEP 695 type parameters in a module that hadfrom __future__ import annotations
at the top of the file. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-120268: Prohibit passing
None
to pure-Pythondatetime.date.fromtimestamp()
to achieve consistency with C-extension implementation.gh-120244: Fix memory leak in
re.sub()
when the replacement string contains backreferences.gh-120211: Fix
tkinter.ttk
with Tcl/Tk 9.0.gh-71587: Fix crash in C version of
datetime.datetime.strptime()
when called again on the restarted interpreter.gh-120161:
datetime
no longer crashes in certain complex reference cycle situations.gh-119698: Fix
symtable.Class.get_methods()
and document its behaviour. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-120121: Add
concurrent.futures.InvalidStateError
to module’s__all__
.gh-119933: Add the
symtable.SymbolTableType
enumeration to represent the possible outputs of thesymtable.SymbolTable.get_type
method. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.gh-120108: Fix calling
copy.deepcopy()
onast
trees that have been modified to have references to parent nodes. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-65454:
unittest.mock.Mock.attach_mock()
no longer triggers a call to aPropertyMock
being attached.gh-81936:
help()
andshowtopic()
methods now respect a configured output argument topydoc.Helper
and not use the pager in such cases. Patch by Enrico Tröger.gh-119577: The
DeprecationWarning
emitted when testing the truth value of anxml.etree.ElementTree.Element
now describes unconditionally returningTrue
in a future version rather than raising an exception in Python 3.14.gh-118908: Limit exposed globals from internal imports and definitions on new REPL startup. Patch by Eugene Triguba and Pablo Galindo.
gh-119506: Fix
io.TextIOWrapper.write()
method breaks internal buffer when the method is called again during flushing internal buffer.
Build¶
gh-120671: Fix failing configure tests due to a missing space when appending to CFLAGS.
gh-120602: Correctly handle LLVM installs with
LLVM_VERSION_SUFFIX
when building with--enable-experimental-jit
.gh-120326: On Windows, fix build error when
--disable-gil
and--experimental-jit
options are combined.gh-120291: Make the
python-config
shell script compatible with non-bash shells.
C API¶
gh-120642: Remove the private
_Py_CODEUNIT
type from the public C API. The internalpycore_code.h
header should now be used to get this internal type. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-120858:
PyDict_Next()
no longer locks the dictionary in the free-threaded build. The locking needs to be done by the caller around the entire iteration loop.gh-120642: Remove the following unstable functions:
PyUnstable_Replace_Executor()
PyUnstable_SetOptimizer()
PyUnstable_GetOptimizer()
PyUnstable_GetExecutor()
PyUnstable_Optimizer_NewCounter()
PyUnstable_Optimizer_NewUOpOptimizer()
Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-119344: The critical section API is now public as part of the non-limited C API.
gh-118789: Add
PyUnstable_Object_ClearWeakRefsNoCallbacks()
, which clears weakrefs without calling their callbacks.gh-117511: Make the
PyMutex
public in the non-limited C API.
Python 3.13.0 beta 2¶
Release date: 2024-06-05
Security¶
gh-118773: Fixes creation of ACLs in
os.mkdir()
on Windows to work correctly on non-English machines.gh-118486:
os.mkdir()
on Windows now accepts mode of0o700
to restrict the new directory to the current user. This fixes CVE 2024-4030 affectingtempfile.mkdtemp()
in scenarios where the base temporary directory is more permissive than the default.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-119724: Reverted improvements to error messages for
elif
/else
statements not matching any valid statements, which made in hard to locate the syntax errors inside thoseelif
/else
blocks.gh-119842: Honor
PyOS_InputHook()
in the new REPL. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-119821: Fix execution of annotation scopes within classes when
globals
is set to a non-dict. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-119548: Add a
clear
command to the REPL. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-111999: Fix the signature of
str.format_map()
.gh-119560: An invalid assert in beta 1 has been removed. The assert would fail if
PyState_FindModule()
was used in an extension module’s init function before the module def had been initialized.gh-119369: Fix deadlock during thread deletion in free-threaded build, which could occur when the GIL was enabled at runtime.
gh-119525: Fix deadlock involving
_PyType_Lookup()
cache in the free-threaded build when the GIL is dynamically enabled at runtime.gh-119311: Fix bug where names are unexpectedly mangled in the bases of generic classes.
gh-119395: Fix bug where names appearing after a generic class are mangled as if they are in the generic class.
gh-119213: Non-builtin modules built with argument clinic were crashing if used in a subinterpreter before the main interpreter. The objects that were causing the problem by leaking between interpreters carelessly have been fixed.
gh-119011: Fixes
type.__type_params__
to return an empty tuple instead of a descriptor.gh-118692: Avoid creating unnecessary
StopIteration
instances for monitoring.gh-119049: Fix displaying the source line for warnings created by the C API if the
warnings
module had not yet been imported.gh-118844: Fix build failures when configuring with both
--disable-gil
and--enable-experimental-jit
.gh-118921: Add
copy()
method forFrameLocalsProxy
which returns a snapshotdict
for local variables.gh-117657: Fix data races on the field that stores a pointer to the interpreter’s main thread that occur in free-threaded builds.
gh-118561: Fix race condition in free-threaded build where
list.extend()
could expose uninitialised memory to concurrent readers.gh-117195: Avoid assertion failure for debug builds when calling
object.__sizeof__(1)
Library¶
gh-119819: Fix regression to allow logging configuration with multiprocessing queue types.
gh-117142: The
ctypes
module may now be imported in all subinterpreters, including those that have their own GIL.gh-118835: Fix _pyrepl crash when using custom prompt with ANSI escape codes.
gh-117398: The
_datetime
module (C implementation fordatetime
) now supports being imported in multiple interpreters.gh-89727: Fix issue with
shutil.rmtree()
where aRecursionError
is raised on deep directory trees.gh-89727: Partially fix issue with
shutil.rmtree()
where aRecursionError
is raised on deep directory trees. A recursion error is no longer raised whenrmtree.avoids_symlink_attacks
is false.gh-119118: Fix performance regression in the
tokenize
module by caching theline
token attribute and calculating the column offset more efficiently.gh-89727: Fix issue with
os.fwalk()
where aRecursionError
was raised on deep directory trees by adjusting the implementation to be iterative instead of recursive.gh-119588:
zipfile.Path.is_symlink
now assesses if the given path is a symlink.gh-119555: Catch
SyntaxError
fromcompile()
in the runsource() method of the InteractiveColoredConsole. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.gh-113892: Now, the method
sock_connect
ofasyncio.ProactorEventLoop
raises aValueError
if given socket is not in non-blocking mode, as well as in other loop implementations.gh-119443: The interactive REPL no longer runs with
from __future__ import annotations
enabled. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-117398: Objects in the datetime C-API are now all statically allocated, which means better memory safety, especially when the module is reloaded. This should be transparent to users.
gh-118894:
asyncio
REPL now has the same capabilities as PyREPL.gh-118911: In PyREPL, updated
maybe-accept
’s logic so that if the user hits Enter twice, they are able to terminate the block even if there’s trailing whitespace. Also, now when the user hits arrow up, the cursor is on the last functional line. This matches IPython’s behavior. Patch by Aya Elsayed.gh-111201: Remove dependency to
readline
from the new Python REPL.gh-119174: Fix high DPI causes turtledemo(turtle-graphics examples) windows blurry Patch by Wulian233 and Terry Jan Reedy
gh-119121: Fix a NameError happening in
asyncio.staggered.staggered_race
. This function is now tested.gh-119113: Fix issue where
pathlib.PurePath.with_suffix()
didn’t raiseTypeError
when givenNone
as a suffix.gh-118643: Fix an AttributeError in the
email
module when re-fold a long address list. Also fix more cases of incorrect encoding of the address separator in the address list.gh-58933: Make
pdb
return to caller frame correctly whenf_trace
of the caller frame is not setgh-118895: Setting attributes on
typing.NoDefault
now raisesAttributeError
instead ofTypeError
.gh-118868: Fixed issue where kwargs were no longer passed to the logging handler QueueHandler
gh-118851:
ctx
arguments to the constructors ofast
node classes now default toast.Load()
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-118760: Restore the default value of
tkiter.wantobjects
to1
.gh-118760: Fix errors in calling Tkinter bindings on Windows.
gh-118507: Fix
os.path.isfile()
on Windows for pipes. Speedupos.path.isjunction()
andos.path.lexists()
on Windows with a native implementation.gh-118772: Allow
typing.TypeVar
instances without a default to follow instances without a default in some cases. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-110863:
os.path.realpath()
now suppresses anyOSError
fromos.readlink()
when strict mode is disabled (the default).gh-118263: Speed up
os.path.splitroot()
&os.path.normpath()
with a direct C call.gh-118033: Fix
dataclasses.dataclass()
not creating a__weakref__
slot when subclassingtyping.Generic
.gh-106531: In
importlib.resources
, sync with importlib_resources 6.3.2, including:MultiplexedPath
now expectsTraversable
paths, deprecating string arguments toMultiplexedPath
; Enabled support for resources in namespace packages in zip files; FixedNotADirectoryError
when calling files on a subdirectory of a namespace package.gh-113978: Ignore warnings on text completion inside REPL.
gh-103956: Fix lack of newline characters in
trace
module output when line tracing is enabled but source code line for current frame is not available.gh-92081: Fix missing spaces in email headers when the spaces are mixed with encoded 8-bit characters.
gh-103194: Prepare Tkinter for C API changes in Tcl 8.7/9.0 to avoid
_tkinter.Tcl_Obj
being unexpectedly returned instead ofbool
,str
,bytearray
, orint
.gh-87106: Fixed handling in
inspect.Signature.bind()
of keyword arguments having the same name as positional-only arguments when a variadic keyword argument (e.g.**kwargs
) is present.bpo-45767: Fix integer conversion in
os.major()
,os.minor()
, andos.makedev()
. Support device numbers larger than2**63-1
. Support non-existent device number (NODEV
).gh-67693: Fix
urllib.parse.urlunparse()
andurllib.parse.urlunsplit()
for URIs with path starting with multiple slashes and no authority. Based on patch by Ashwin Ramaswami.
Tests¶
gh-119050: regrtest test runner: Add XML support to the refleak checker (-R option). Patch by Victor Stinner.
Build¶
gh-119729: On POSIX systems, the pkg-config (
.pc
) filenames now include the ABI flags, which may include debug (“d”) and free-threaded (“t”). For example: *python-3.14.pc
(default, non-debug build) *python-3.14d.pc
(default, debug build) *python-3.14t.pc
(free-threaded build)gh-115119: Fall back to the bundled libmpdec if a system version cannot be found.
gh-119132: Update
sys.version
to identify whether the build is default build or free-threading build. Patch By Donghee Na.gh-118836: Fix an
AssertionError
when building with--enable-experimental-jit
and the compiler emits aSHT_NOTE
section.gh-118943: Fix a possible race condition affecting parallel builds configured with
--enable-experimental-jit
, in which compilation errors could be caused by an incompletely-generated header file.
Windows¶
gh-119679: Ensures correct import libraries are included in Windows installs.
gh-119690: Adds Unicode support and fixes audit events for
_winapi.CreateNamedPipe
.gh-111201: Add support for new pyrepl on Windows
gh-119070: Fixes
py.exe
handling of shebangs like/usr/bin/env python3.12
, which were previously interpreted aspython3.exe
instead ofpython3.12.exe
.gh-117505: Fixes an issue with the Windows installer not running ensurepip in a fully isolated environment. This could cause unexpected interactions with the user site-packages.
gh-118209: Avoid crashing in
mmap
on Windows when the mapped memory is inaccessible due to file system errors or access violations.gh-116145: Updated bundled Tcl/Tk to 8.6.14.
C API¶
gh-119585: Fix crash when a thread state that was created by
PyGILState_Ensure()
calls a destructor that duringPyThreadState_Clear()
that calls back intoPyGILState_Ensure()
andPyGILState_Release()
. This might occur when in the free-threaded build or when using thread-local variables whose destructors callPyGILState_Ensure()
.gh-119336: Restore the removed
_PyLong_NumBits()
function. It is used by the pywin32 project. Patch by Ethan Smithgh-119247: Added
Py_BEGIN_CRITICAL_SECTION_SEQUENCE_FAST
andPy_END_CRITICAL_SECTION_SEQUENCE_FAST
macros to make it possible to use PySequence_Fast APIs safely when free-threaded, and update str.join to work without the GIL using them.gh-111389: Add
PyHASH_MULTIPLIER
constant: prime multiplier used in string and various other hashes. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-116984: Make mimalloc includes relative to the current file to avoid embedders or extensions needing to include
Internal/mimalloc
if they are already including internal CPython headers.gh-118789: Restore
_PyWeakref_ClearRef
that was previously removed in Python 3.13 alpha 1.
Python 3.13.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2024-05-08
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
gh-118414: Add instrumented opcodes to YIELD_VALUE assertion for tracing cases.
gh-117953: When a builtin or extension module is imported for the first time, while a subinterpreter is active, the module’s init function is now run by the main interpreter first before import continues in the subinterpreter. Consequently, single-phase init modules now fail in an isolated subinterpreter without the init function running under that interpreter, whereas before it would run under the subinterpreter before failing, potentially leaving behind global state and callbacks and otherwise leaving the module in an inconsistent state.
gh-117549: Don’t use designated initializer syntax in inline functions in internal headers. They cause problems for C++ or MSVC users who aren’t yet using the latest C++ standard (C++20). While internal, pycore_backoff.h, is included (indirectly, via pycore_code.h) by some key 3rd party software that does so for speed.
gh-95382: Improve performance of
json.dumps()
andjson.dump()
when using the argument indent. Depending on the data the encoding usingjson.dumps()
with indent can be up to 2 to 3 times faster.gh-116322: In
--disable-gil
builds, the GIL will be enabled while loading C extension modules. If the module indicates that it supports running without the GIL, the GIL will be disabled once loading is complete. Otherwise, the GIL will remain enabled for the remainder of the interpreter’s lifetime. This behavior does not apply if the GIL has been explicitly enabled or disabled withPYTHON_GIL
or-Xgil
.gh-118513: Fix incorrect
UnboundLocalError
when two comprehensions in the same function both reference the same name, and in one comprehension the name is bound while in the other it’s an implicit global.gh-118518: Allow the Linux perf support to work without frame pointers using perf’s advanced JIT support. The feature is activated when using the
PYTHON_PERF_JIT_SUPPORT
environment variable or when running Python with-Xperf_jit
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-117514: Add
sys._is_gil_enabled()
function that returns whether the GIL is currently enabled. In the default build it always returnsTrue
because the GIL is always enabled. In the free-threaded build, it may returnTrue
orFalse
.gh-118164: Break a loop between the Python implementation of the
decimal
module and the Python code for integer to string conversion. Also optimize integer to string conversion for values in the range from 9_000 to 135_000 decimal digits.gh-118473: Fix
sys.set_asyncgen_hooks()
not to be partially set when raisingTypeError
.gh-118465: Compiler populates the new
__firstlineno__
field on a class with the line number of the first line of the class definition.gh-118492: Fix an issue where the type cache can expose a previously accessed attribute when a finalizer is run.
gh-117714: update
async_generator.athrow().close()
andasync_generator.asend().close()
to close their section of the underlying async generatorgh-111201: The interactive interpreter is now implemented in Python, which allows for a number of new features like colors, multiline input, history viewing, and paste mode. Contributed by Pablo Galindo, Łukasz Langa and Lysandros Nikolaou based on code from the PyPy project.
gh-74929: Implement PEP 667: converted
FrameType.f_locals
andPyFrame_GetLocals()
to return a write-through proxy object when the frame refers to a function or comprehension.gh-116767: Fix crash in compiler on ‘async with’ that has many context managers.
gh-118335: Change how to use the tier 2 interpreter. Instead of running Python with
-X uops
or setting the environment variablePYTHON_UOPS=1
, this choice is now made at build time by configuring with--enable-experimental-jit=interpreter
.Beware! This changes the environment variable to enable or disable micro-ops to
PYTHON_JIT
. The oldPYTHON_UOPS
is no longer used.gh-118306: Update JIT compilation to use LLVM 18
gh-118160: Annotation scopes within classes can now contain comprehensions. However, such comprehensions are not inlined into their parent scope at runtime. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
gh-118272: Fix bug where
generator.close
does not free the generator frame’s locals.gh-118216: Don’t consider
__future__
imports with dots before the module name.gh-118074: Make sure that the Executor objects in the COLD_EXITS array aren’t assumed to be GC-able (which would access bytes outside the object).
gh-107674: Lazy load frame line number to improve performance of tracing
gh-118082: Improve
SyntaxError
message for imports without names, like infrom x import
andimport
cases. It now points out to users thatimport
expects at least one name after it.gh-118090: Improve
SyntaxError
message for empty type param brackets.gh-117958: Added a
get_jit_code()
method to access JIT compiled machine code from the UOp Executor when the experimental JIT is enabled. Patch by Anthony Shaw.gh-117901: Add option for compiler’s codegen to save nested instruction sequences for introspection.
gh-116622: Redirect stdout and stderr to system log when embedded in an Android app.
gh-109118: annotation scope within class scopes can now contain lambdas.
gh-117894: Prevent
agen.aclose()
objects being re-used after.throw()
.gh-117881: prevent concurrent access to an async generator via athrow().throw() or asend().throw()
gh-117536: Fix a
RuntimeWarning
when callingagen.aclose().throw(Exception)
.gh-117755: Fix mimalloc allocator for huge memory allocation (around 8,589,934,592 GiB) on s390x. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-117750: Fix issue where an object’s dict would get out of sync with the object’s internal values when being cleared.
obj.__dict__.clear()
now clears the internal values, but leaves the dict attached to the object.gh-117431: Improve the performance of the following
bytes
andbytearray
methods by adapting them to theMETH_FASTCALL
calling convention:count()
find()
index()
rfind()
rindex()
gh-117709: Speed up calls to
str()
with positional-only argument, by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Erlend Aasland.gh-117680: Give
_PyInstructionSequence
a Python interface and use it in tests.gh-115776: Statically allocated objects are, by definition, immortal so must be marked as such regardless of whether they are in extension modules or not.
gh-117385: Remove unhandled
PY_MONITORING_EVENT_BRANCH
andPY_MONITORING_EVENT_EXCEPTION_HANDLED
events fromsys.settrace()
.gh-116322: Extension modules may indicate to the runtime that they can run without the GIL. Multi-phase init modules do so by calling providing
Py_MOD_GIL_NOT_USED
for thePy_mod_gil
slot, while single-phase init modules callPyUnstable_Module_SetGIL(mod, Py_MOD_GIL_NOT_USED)
from their init function.gh-116129: Implement PEP 696, adding support for defaults on type parameters. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
gh-93502: Add two new functions to the C-API,
PyRefTracer_SetTracer()
andPyRefTracer_GetTracer()
, that allows to track object creation and destruction the same way thetracemalloc
module does. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-107674: Improved the performance of
sys.settrace()
significantlygh-95754: Improve the error message when a script shadowing a module from the standard library causes
AttributeError
to be raised. Similarly, improve the error message when a script shadowing a third party module attempts to access an attribute from that third party module while still initialising.gh-99180: Elide uninformative traceback indicators in
return
and simpleassignment
statements. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-105879: Allow the globals and locals arguments to
exec()
andeval()
to be passed as keywords.
Library¶
gh-118418: A
DeprecationWarning
is now emitted if you fail to pass a value to the new type_params parameter oftyping._eval_type()
ortyping.ForwardRef._evaluate()
. (Using either of these private and undocumented functions is discouraged to begin with, but failing to pass a value to thetype_params
parameter may lead to incorrect behaviour on Python 3.12 or newer.)gh-118660: Add an optional second type parameter to
typing.ContextManager
andtyping.AsyncContextManager
, representing the return types of__exit__()
and__aexit__()
respectively. This parameter defaults tobool | None
.gh-118650: The
enum
module allows method named_repr_*
to be defined onEnum
types.gh-118648: Add type parameter defaults to
typing.Generator
andtyping.AsyncGenerator
.gh-101137: Mime type
text/x-rst
is now supported bymimetypes
.gh-118164: The Python implementation of the
decimal
module could appear to hang in relatively small power cases (like2**117
) if context precision was set to a very high value. A different method to check for exactly representable results is used now that doesn’t rely on computing10**precision
(which could be effectively too large to compute).gh-111744:
breakpoint()
andpdb.set_trace()
now enter the debugger immediately after the call rather than before the next line is executed.gh-118406: Add signature for
sqlite3.Connection
objects.gh-101732: Use a Y2038 compatible openssl time function when available.
gh-118404: Fix
inspect.signature()
for non-comparable callables.gh-118402: Fix
inspect.signature()
for the result of thefunctools.cmp_to_key()
call.gh-116622: On Android,
sysconfig.get_platform
now returns the format specified by PEP 738.gh-118285: Allow to specify the signature of custom callable instances of extension type by the
__text_signature__
attribute. Specify signatures ofoperator.attrgetter
,operator.itemgetter
, andoperator.methodcaller
instances.gh-118314: Fix an edge case in
binascii.a2b_base64()
strict mode, where excessive padding is not detected when no padding is necessary.gh-118271: Add the
PhotoImage
methodsread()
to read an image from a file anddata()
to get the image data. Add background and grayscale parameters toPhotoImage
methodwrite()
.gh-118225: Add the
PhotoImage
methodcopy_replace()
to copy a region from one image to other image, possibly with pixel zooming and/or subsampling. Add from_coords parameter toPhotoImage
methodscopy()
,zoom()
andsubsample()
. Add zoom and subsample parameters toPhotoImage
methodcopy()
.gh-118221: Fix a bug where
sqlite3.Connection.iterdump()
could fail if a customrow factory
was used. Patch by Erlend Aasland.gh-118013: Fix regression introduced in gh-103193 that meant that calling
inspect.getattr_static()
on an instance would cause a strong reference to that instance’s class to persist in an internal cache in theinspect
module. This caused unexpected memory consumption if the class was dynamically created, the class held strong references to other objects which took up a significant amount of memory, and the cache contained the sole strong reference to the class. The fix for the regression leads to a slowdown ingetattr_static()
, but the function should still be significantly faster than it was in Python 3.11. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-118218: Speed up
itertools.pairwise()
in the common case by up to 1.8x.gh-117486: Improve the behavior of user-defined subclasses of
ast.AST
. Such classes will now require no changes in the usual case to conform with the behavior changes of theast
module in Python 3.13. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-90848: Fixed
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
to configure parent mock with keyword arguments.gh-118168: Fix incorrect argument substitution when
typing.Unpack
is used with the builtintuple
.typing.Unpack
now raisesTypeError
when used with certain invalid types. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-118131: Add command-line interface for the
random
module. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.gh-118107: Fix
zipimport
reading of ZIP64 files with file entries that are too big or offset too far.gh-102511: Fix
os.path.normpath()
for UNC paths on Windows. Speed upos.path.splitroot()
with a native implementation.gh-117535: Change the unknown filename of
warnings
fromsys
to<sys>
to clarify that it’s not a real filename.gh-114053: Fix erroneous
NameError
when callingtyping.get_type_hints()
on a class that made use of PEP 695 type parameters in a module that hadfrom __future__ import annotations
at the top of the file. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-116931: Add parameter fileobj check for
tarfile.TarFile.addfile()
gh-117995: Don’t raise
DeprecationWarning
when a sequence of parameters is used to bind indexed, nameless placeholders. See also gh-100668.gh-80361: Fix TypeError in
email.message.Message.get_payload()
when the charset is RFC 2231 encoded.gh-86650: Fix IndexError when parse some emails with invalid Message-ID (including one-off addresses generated by Microsoft Outlook).
gh-117691: Improve the error messages emitted by
tarfile
deprecation warnings relating to PEP 706. If afilter
argument is not provided toextract()
orextractall
, the deprecation warning now points to the line in the user’s code where the relevant function was called. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-115874: Fixed a possible segfault during garbage collection of
_asyncio.FutureIter
objects. Patch by Savannah Ostrowski.gh-115060: Speed up
pathlib.Path.glob()
by omitting an initialis_dir()
call. As a result of this change,glob()
can no longer raiseOSError
.gh-77102:
site
module now parses.pth
file with UTF-8 first, and locale encoding ifUnicodeDecodeError
happened. It supported only locale encoding before.gh-76785: We’ve exposed the low-level
_interpreters
module for the sake of the PyPI implementation of PEP 734. It was sometimes available as the_xxsubinterpreters
module and was formerly used only for testing. For the most part, it should be considered an internal module, like_thread
and_imp
. See https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-734-multiple-interpreters-in-the-stdlib/41147/26.gh-115060: Speed up
pathlib.Path.glob()
by not scanning directories for non-wildcard pattern segments.gh-117727: Speed up
pathlib.Path.iterdir()
by usingos.scandir()
internally.gh-117586: Speed up
pathlib.Path.walk()
by working with strings internally.gh-117722: Change the new multi-separator support in
asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil()
to only accept tuples of separators rather than arbitrary iterables.gh-117692: Fixes a bug when
doctest.DocTestFinder
was failing on wrappedbuiltin_function_or_method
.gh-117348: Largely restored import time performance of configparser by avoiding dataclasses.
gh-117641: Speedup
os.path.commonpath()
on Unix.gh-117663: Fix
_simple_enum
to detect aliases when multiple arguments are present but only one is the member value.gh-117636: Speedup
os.path.join()
.gh-117618: Support
package.module
asfilename
forbreak
command ofpdb
gh-102247: the status codes enum with constants in http.HTTPStatus are updated to include the names from RFC9110. This RFC includes some HTTP statuses previously only used for WEBDAV and assigns more generic names to them.
The old constants are preserved for backwards compatibility.
gh-117607: Speedup
os.path.relpath()
.gh-117586: Speed up
pathlib.Path.glob()
by working with strings internally.gh-117225: Add colour to doctest output. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
gh-117566:
ipaddress.IPv6Address.is_loopback()
will now returnTrue
for IPv4-mapped loopback addresses, i.e. addresses in the::ffff:127.0.0.0/104
address space.gh-117546: Fix issue where
os.path.realpath()
stopped resolving symlinks after encountering a symlink loop on POSIX.gh-116720: Improved behavior of
asyncio.TaskGroup
when an external cancellation collides with an internal cancellation. For example, when two task groups are nested and both experience an exception in a child task simultaneously, it was possible that the outer task group would misbehave, because its internal cancellation was swallowed by the inner task group.In the case where a task group is cancelled externally and also must raise an
ExceptionGroup
, it will now call the parent task’scancel()
method. This ensures that aasyncio.CancelledError
will be raised at the nextawait
, so the cancellation is not lost.An added benefit of these changes is that task groups now preserve the cancellation count (
asyncio.Task.cancelling()
).In order to handle some corner cases,
asyncio.Task.uncancel()
may now reset the undocumented_must_cancel
flag when the cancellation count reaches zero.gh-117516: Add
typing.TypeIs
, implementing PEP 742. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-117503: Fix support of non-ASCII user names in bytes paths in
os.path.expanduser()
on Posix.gh-117394:
os.path.ismount()
is now 2-3 times faster if the user has permissions.gh-117313: Only treat
'\n'
,'\r'
and'\r\n'
as line separators in re-folding theemail
messages. Preserve control characters'\v'
,'\f'
,'\x1c'
,'\x1d'
and'\x1e'
and Unicode line separators'\x85'
,'\u2028'
and'\u2029'
as is.gh-117142: Convert
_ctypes
to multi-phase initialisation (PEP 489).gh-66543: Add the
mimetypes.guess_file_type()
function which works with file path. Passing file path instead of URL inguess_type()
is soft deprecated.gh-68583: webbrowser CLI: replace getopt with argparse, add long options. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
gh-116871: Name suggestions for
AttributeError
andImportError
now only include underscored names if the original name was underscored.gh-116023: Don’t show empty fields (value
None
or[]
) inast.dump()
by default. Addshow_empty=False
parameter to optionally show them.gh-115961: Added
name
andmode
attributes for compressed and archived file-like objects in modulesbz2
,lzma
,tarfile
andzipfile
. The value of themode
attribute ofgzip.GzipFile
was changed from integer (1
or2
) to string ('rb'
or'wb'
). The value of themode
attribute of the readable file-like object returned byzipfile.ZipFile.open()
was changed from'r'
to'rb'
.gh-82062: Fix
inspect.signature()
to correctly handle parameter defaults on methods in extension modules that use names defined in the module namespace.gh-83856: Honor
atexit
for allmultiprocessing
start methodsgh-113081: Print colorized exception just like built-in traceback in
pdb
gh-112855: Speed up pickling of
pathlib.PurePath
objects. Patch by Barney Gale.gh-109617:
ncurses
: fixed a crash that could occur on macOS 13 or earlier when Python was built with Apple Xcode 15’s SDK.gh-83151: Enabled arbitrary statements and evaluations in
pdb
shell to access the local variables of the current frame, which made it possible for multi-scope code like generators or nested function to work.gh-110209: Add
__class_getitem__()
totypes.GeneratorType
andtypes.CoroutineType
for type hinting purposes. Patch by James Hilton-Balfe.gh-108191: The
types.SimpleNamespace
now accepts an optional positional argument which specifies initial values of attributes as a dict or an iterable of key-value pairs.gh-62090: Fix assertion errors caused by whitespace in metavars or
SUPPRESS
-ed groups inargparse
by simplifying usage formatting. Patch by Ali Hamdan.gh-102402: Adjust
logging.LogRecord
to usetime.time_ns()
and fix minor bug related to floating-point math.gh-100242: Bring pure Python implementation
functools.partial.__new__
more in line with the C-implementation by not just always checking for the presence of the attribute'func'
on the first argument ofpartial
. Instead, both the Python version and the C version perform anisinstance(func, partial)
check on the first argument ofpartial
.gh-99730: HEAD requests are no longer upgraded to GET request during redirects in urllib.
gh-66410: Setting the
tkinter
module globalwantobjects
to2
before creating theTk
object or call thewantobjects()
method of theTk
object with argument2
makes now arguments to callbacks registered in thetkinter
module to be passed as various Python objects (int
,float
,bytes
,tuple
), depending on their internal representation in Tcl, instead of alwaysstr
.tkinter.wantobjects
is now set to2
by default.bpo-40943: Fix several IndexError when parse emails with truncated Message-ID, address, routes, etc, e.g.
example@
.bpo-39324: Add mime type mapping for .md <-> text/markdown
bpo-18108:
shutil.chown()
now supports dir_fd and follow_symlinks keyword arguments.bpo-30988: Fix parsing of emails with invalid address headers having a leading or trailing dot. Patch by tsufeki.
bpo-32839: Add the
after_info()
method for Tkinter widgets.
Documentation¶
gh-117928: The minimum Sphinx version required for the documentation is now 6.2.1.
Build¶
gh-118734: Fixes Windows build when invoked directly (not through the
build.bat
script) without specifying a value forUseTIER2
.gh-115119: The
configure
option--with-system-libmpdec
now defaults toyes
. The bundled copy oflibmpdecimal
will be removed in Python 3.15.gh-117845: Fix building against recent libedit versions by detecting readline hook signatures in configure.
gh-116622: A testbed project was added to run the test suite on Android.
gh-117645: Increase WASI stack size from 512 KiB to 8 MiB and the initial memory from 10 MiB to 20 MiB. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-115119: configure now uses pkg-config to detect
decimal
dependencies if the--with-system-libmpdec
option is given.
Windows¶
gh-115119: Update Windows installer to use libmpdecimal 4.0.0.
gh-118486:
os.mkdir()
now accepts mode of0o700
to restrict the new directory to the current user.gh-118347: Fixes launcher updates not being installed.
gh-118293: The
multiprocessing
module now passes theSTARTF_FORCEOFFFEEDBACK
flag when spawning processes to tell Windows not to change the mouse cursor.gh-115009: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.45.3.
gh-90329: Suppress the warning displayed on virtual environment creation when the requested and created paths differ only by a short (8.3 style) name. Warnings will continue to be shown if a junction or symlink in the path caused the venv to be created in a different location than originally requested.
gh-117786: Fixes virtual environments not correctly launching when created from a Store install.
macOS¶
gh-115119: Update macOS installer to use libmpdecimal 4.0.0.
gh-114099: iOS preprocessor symbol usage was made compatible with older macOS SDKs.
gh-115009: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.45.3.
gh-91629: Use
~/.config/fish/conf.d
configs and fish_add_path to setPATH
when installing for the Fish shell.
IDLE¶
bpo-34774: Use user-selected color theme for Help => IDLE Doc.
C API¶
gh-118124: Fix
Py_BUILD_ASSERT
andPy_BUILD_ASSERT_EXPR
for non-constant expressions: usestatic_assert()
on C11 and newer. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110850: Add “Raw” variant of PyTime functions
Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-117987: Restore functions removed in Python 3.13 alpha 1:
Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-117929: Restore removed
PyEval_InitThreads()
function. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-117534: Improve validation logic in the C implementation of
datetime.datetime.fromisoformat()
to better handle invalid years. Patch by Vlad Efanov.gh-68114: Fixed skipitem()’s handling of the old ‘w’ and ‘w#’ formatters. These are no longer supported and now raise an exception if used.
gh-111997: Add a C-API for firing monitoring events.
Python 3.13.0 alpha 6¶
Release date: 2024-04-09
Core and Builtins¶
gh-117494: Refactored the instruction sequence data structure out of compile.c into instruction_sequence.c.
gh-116968: Introduce a unified 16-bit backoff counter type (
_Py_BackoffCounter
), shared between the Tier 1 adaptive specializer and the Tier 2 optimizer. The API used for adaptive specialization counters is changed but the behavior is (supposed to be) identical.The behavior of the Tier 2 counters is changed:
There are no longer dynamic thresholds (we never varied these).
All counters now use the same exponential backoff.
The counter for
JUMP_BACKWARD
starts counting down from 16.The
temperature
in side exits starts counting down from 64.
gh-117431: Improve the performance of the following
bytes
andbytearray
methods by adapting them to theMETH_FASTCALL
calling convention:endswith()
startswith()
gh-117431: Improve the performance of the following
str
methods by adapting them to theMETH_FASTCALL
calling convention:gh-117411: Move
PyFutureFeatures
to an internal header and make it private.gh-109120: Added handle of incorrect star expressions, e.g
f(3, *)
. Patch by Grigoryev Semyongh-117266: Fix crashes for certain user-created subclasses of
ast.AST
. Such classes are now expected to set the_field_types
attribute.gh-99108: Updated the
hashlib
built-in HACL* project C code from upstream that we use for many implementations when they are not present via OpenSSL in a given build. This also avoids the rare potential for a C symbol name one definition rule linking issue.gh-117108: Change the old space bit of objects in the young generation from 0 to gcstate->visited, so that any objects created during GC will have the old bit set correctly if they get moved into the old generation.
gh-117108: The cycle GC now chooses the size of increments based on the total heap size, instead of the rate of object creation. This ensures that it can keep up with growing heaps.
gh-116735: For
INSTRUMENTED_CALL_FUNCTION_EX
, setarg0
tosys.monitoring.MISSING
instead ofNone
forCALL
event.gh-113964: Starting new threads and process creation through
os.fork()
are now only prevented once all non-daemon threads exit.gh-116626: Ensure
INSTRUMENTED_CALL_FUNCTION_EX
always emitsCALL
gh-116554:
list.sort()
now exploits more cases of partial ordering, particularly those with long descending runs with sub-runs of equal values. Those are recognized as single runs now (previously, each block of repeated values caused a new run to be created).gh-114099: Added a Loader that can discover extension modules in an iOS-style Frameworks folder.
gh-115775: Compiler populates the new
__static_attributes__
field on a class with the names of attributes of this class which are accessed through self.X from any function in its body.gh-115776: The array of values, the
PyDictValues
struct is now embedded in the object during allocation. This provides better performance in the common case, and does not degrade as much when the object’s__dict__
is materialized.gh-108362: Implement an incremental cyclic garbage collector. By collecting the old generation in increments, there is no need for a full heap scan. This can hugely reduce maximum pause time for programs with large heaps.
Reduce the number of generations from three to two. The old generation is split into two spaces, “visited” and “pending”.
Collection happens in two steps:: * An increment is formed from the young generation and a small part of the pending space. * This increment is scanned and the survivors moved to the end of the visited space.
When the collecting space becomes empty, the two spaces are swapped.
gh-109870: Dataclasses now calls
exec()
once per dataclass, instead of once per method being added. This can speed up dataclass creation by up to 20%.bpo-24612: Improve the
SyntaxError
that happens when ‘not’ appears after an operator. Patch by Pablo Galindo
Library¶
gh-117648: Improve performance of
os.path.join()
andos.path.expanduser()
.gh-117584: Raise
TypeError
for non-paths inposixpath.relpath()
.gh-117467: Preserve mailbox ownership when rewriting in
mailbox.mbox.flush()
. Patch by Tony Mountifield.gh-114848: Raise
FileNotFoundError
whengetcwd()
returns ‘(unreachable)’, which can happen on Linux >= 2.6.36 with glibc < 2.27.gh-117459:
asyncio.asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe()
now keeps the traceback ofCancelledError
,TimeoutError
andInvalidStateError
which are raised in the coroutine.gh-117381: Fix error message for
ntpath.commonpath()
.gh-117337: Deprecate undocumented
glob.glob0()
andglob.glob1()
functions. Useglob.glob()
and pass a directory to its root_dir argument instead.gh-117348: Refactored
configparser.RawConfigParser._read()
to reduce cyclometric complexity and improve comprehensibility.gh-117335: Raise TypeError for non-sequences for
ntpath.commonpath()
.gh-66449:
configparser.ConfigParser
now accepts unnamed sections before named ones, if configured to do so.gh-88014: In documentation of
gzip.GzipFile
in module gzip, explain data type of optional constructor argument mtime, and recommendmtime = 0
for generating deterministic streams.gh-117310: Fixed an unlikely early & extra
Py_DECREF
triggered crash inssl
when creating a new_ssl._SSLContext
if CPython was built implausibly such that the default cipher list is empty or the SSL library it was linked against reports a failure from its CSSL_CTX_set_cipher_list()
API.gh-117294: A
DocTestCase
now reports as skipped if all examples in the doctest are skipped.gh-98966: In
subprocess
, raise a more informative message whenstdout=STDOUT
.gh-117225: doctest: only print “and X failed” when non-zero, don’t pluralise “1 items”. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
gh-117205: Speed up
compileall.compile_dir()
by 20% when using multiprocessing by increasingchunksize
.gh-117178: Fix regression in lazy loading of self-referential modules, introduced in gh-114781.
gh-112383: Fix
dis
module’s handling ofENTER_EXECUTOR
instructions.gh-117182: Lazy-loading of modules that modify their own
__class__
no longer reverts the__class__
totypes.ModuleType
.gh-117084: Fix
zipfile
extraction for directory entries with the name containing backslashes on Windows.gh-117114: Make
os.path.isdevdrive()
available on all platforms. For those that do not offer Dev Drives, it will always returnFalse
.gh-117110: Fix a bug that prevents subclasses of
typing.Any
to be instantiated with arguments. Patch by Chris Fu.gh-109653: Deferred select imports in importlib.metadata and importlib.resources for a 14% speedup.
gh-70647: Start the deprecation period for the current behavior of
datetime.datetime.strptime()
andtime.strptime()
which always fails to parse a date string with aValueError
involving a day of month such asstrptime("02-29", "%m-%d")
when a year is not specified and the date happen to be February 29th. This should help avoid users finding new bugs every four years due to a natural mistaken assumption about the API when parsing partial date values.gh-116987: Fixed
inspect.findsource()
for class code objects.gh-114099: Modify standard library to allow for iOS platform differences.
gh-90872: On Windows,
subprocess.Popen.wait()
no longer callsWaitForSingleObject()
with a negative timeout: pass0
ms if the timeout is negative. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-116957: configparser: Don’t leave ConfigParser values in an invalid state (stored as a list instead of a str) after an earlier read raised DuplicateSectionError or DuplicateOptionError.
gh-115538:
_io.WindowsConsoleIO
now emit a warning if a boolean value is passed as a filedescriptor argument.gh-90095: Ignore empty lines and comments in
.pdbrc
gh-106531: Refreshed zipfile._path from zipp 3.18, providing better compatibility for PyPy, better glob performance for deeply nested zipfiles, and providing internal access to
CompleteDirs.inject
for use in other tests (like importlib.resources).gh-63207: On Windows,
time.time()
now uses theGetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime()
clock to have a resolution better than 1 us, instead of theGetSystemTimeAsFileTime()
clock which has a resolution of 15.6 ms. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-116764: Restore support of
None
and other false values inurllib.parse
functionsparse_qs()
andparse_qsl()
. Also, they now raise a TypeError for non-zero integers and non-empty sequences.gh-116811: In
PathFinder.invalidate_caches
, delegate toMetadataPathFinder.invalidate_caches
.gh-116647: Fix recursive child in dataclasses
gh-113171: Fixed various false positives and false negatives in
ipaddress.IPv4Address.is_private
(see these docs for details)
Also in the corresponding
ipaddress.IPv4Network
andipaddress.IPv6Network
attributes.gh-63283: In
encodings.idna
, any capitalization of the the ACE prefix (xn--
) is now acceptable. Patch by Pepijn de Vos and Zackery Spytz.gh-71042: Add
platform.android_ver()
, which provides device and OS information on Android.gh-73468: Added new
math.fma()
function, wrapping C99’sfma()
operation: fused multiply-add function. Patch by Mark Dickinson and Victor Stinner.gh-116608: The
importlib.resources
functionsis_resource()
,open_binary()
,open_text()
,path()
,read_binary()
, andread_text()
are un-deprecated, and support subdirectories via multiple positional arguments. Thecontents()
function also allows subdirectories, but remains deprecated.gh-116484: Change automatically generated
tkinter.Checkbutton
widget names to avoid collisions with automatically generatedtkinter.ttk.Checkbutton
widget names within the same parent widget.gh-114314: In
ctypes
, ctype data is now stored in type objects directly rather than in a dict subclass. This is an internal change that should not affect usage.gh-116401: Fix blocking
os.fwalk()
andshutil.rmtree()
on opening named pipe.gh-71052: Implement
ctypes.util.find_library()
on Android.gh-90535: Fix support of interval values > 1 in
logging.TimedRotatingFileHandler
forwhen='MIDNIGHT'
andwhen='Wx'
.gh-113308: Remove some internal protected parts from
uuid
:_has_uuid_generate_time_safe
,_netbios_getnode
,_ipconfig_getnode
, and_load_system_functions
. They were unused.gh-115627: Fix the
ssl
module error handling of connection terminate by peer. It now throws an OSError with the appropriate error code instead of an EOFError.gh-114847: Speed up
os.path.realpath()
on non-Windows platforms.gh-114271: Fix a race in
threading.Thread.join()
.threading._MainThread
now always represents the main thread of the main interpreter.PyThreadState.on_delete
andPyThreadState.on_delete_data
have been removed.gh-113538: Add
asyncio.Server.close_clients()
andasyncio.Server.abort_clients()
methods which allow to more forcefully close an asyncio server.gh-85287: Changes Unicode codecs to return UnicodeEncodeError or UnicodeDecodeError, rather than just UnicodeError.
gh-105866: Fixed
_get_slots
bug which caused error when defining dataclasses with slots and a weakref_slot.gh-96471: Add
asyncio.Queue
termination withshutdown()
method.bpo-33533:
asyncio.as_completed()
now returns an object that is both an asynchronous iterator and plain iterator. The new asynchronous iteration pattern allows for easier correlation between prior tasks and their completed results. This is a closer match toconcurrent.futures.as_completed()
’s iteration pattern. Patch by Justin Arthur.bpo-27578:
inspect.getsource()
(and related functions) work with empty module files, returning'\n'
(or reasonable equivalent) instead of raisingOSError
. Patch by Kernc.bpo-37141: Accept an iterable of separators in
asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil()
, stopping when one of them is encountered.gh-66543: Make
mimetypes.guess_type()
properly parsing of URLs with only a host name, URLs containing fragment or query, and filenames with only a UNC sharepoint on Windows. Based on patch by Dong-hee Na.bpo-15010:
unittest.TestLoader.discover()
now saves the original value ofunittest.TestLoader._top_level_dir
and restores it at the end of the call.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
gh-83434: Disable JUnit XML output (
--junit-xml=FILE
command line option) in regrtest when hunting for reference leaks (-R
option). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-117187: Fix XML tests for vanilla Expat <2.6.0.
gh-116333: Tests of TLS related things (error codes, etc) were updated to be more lenient about specific error message strings and behaviors as seen in the BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks of OpenSSL.
gh-117089: Consolidated tests for importlib.metadata in their own
metadata
package.gh-115979: Update test_importlib so that it passes under WASI SDK 21.
gh-112536: Add –tsan to test.regrtest for running TSAN tests in reasonable execution times. Patch by Donghee Na.
gh-116307: Added import helper
isolated_modules
asCleanImport
does not remove modules imported during the context. Use it in importlib.resources tests to avoid leavingmod
around to impede importlib.metadata tests.
Build¶
Windows¶
gh-117267: Ensure
DirEntry.stat().st_ctime
behaves consistently withos.stat()
during the deprecation period ofst_ctime
by containing the same value asst_birthtime
. After the deprecation period,st_ctime
will be the metadata change time (or unavailable throughDirEntry
), and onlyst_birthtime
will contain the creation time.gh-116195: Improves performance of
os.getppid()
by using an alternate system API when available. Contributed by vxiiduu.gh-88494: On Windows,
time.monotonic()
now uses theQueryPerformanceCounter()
clock to have a resolution better than 1 us, instead of theGetTickCount64()
clock which has a resolution of 15.6 ms. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-116773: Fix instances of
<_overlapped.Overlapped object at 0xXXX> still has pending operation at deallocation, the process may crash
.gh-91227: Fix the asyncio ProactorEventLoop implementation so that sending a datagram to an address that is not listening does not prevent receiving any more datagrams.
gh-115119: Switched from vendored
libmpdecimal
code to a separately-hosted external package in thecpython-source-deps
repository when building the_decimal
module.
C API¶
gh-87193:
_PyBytes_Resize()
can now be called for bytes objects with reference count > 1, including 1-byte bytes objects. It creates a new bytes object and destroys the old one if it has reference count > 1.gh-117021: Fix integer overflow in
PyLong_AsPid()
on non-Windows 64-bit platforms.gh-115756:
PyCode_GetFirstFree()
is an ustable API now and has been renamed toPyUnstable_Code_GetFirstFree()
. (Contributed by Bogdan Romanyuk in gh-115781)gh-116869: Add
test_cext
test: build a C extension to check if the Python C API emits C compiler warnings. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-116869: Make the C API compatible with
-Werror=declaration-after-statement
compiler flag again. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-116936: Add
PyType_GetModuleByDef()
to the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-116809: Restore removed private
_PyErr_ChainExceptions1()
function. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-115754: In the limited C API version 3.13, getting
Py_None
,Py_False
,Py_True
,Py_Ellipsis
andPy_NotImplemented
singletons is now implemented as function calls at the stable ABI level to hide implementation details. Getting these constants still return borrowed references. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-115754: Add
Py_GetConstant()
andPy_GetConstantBorrowed()
functions to get constants. For example,Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_ZERO)
returns a strong reference to the constant zero. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-111696: Add support for
%T
,%T#
,%N
and%N#
formats toPyUnicode_FromFormat()
: format the fully qualified name of an object type and of a type: callPyType_GetModuleName()
. See PEP 737 for more information. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-111696: Add
PyType_GetModuleName()
function to get the type’s module name. Equivalent to getting thetype.__module__
attribute. Patch by Eric Snow and Victor Stinner.gh-111696: Add
PyType_GetFullyQualifiedName()
function to get the type’s fully qualified name. Equivalent tof"{type.__module__}.{type.__qualname__}"
, ortype.__qualname__
iftype.__module__
is not a string or is equal to"builtins"
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-85283: The
fcntl
,grp
,pwd
,termios
,_statistics
and_testconsole
C extensions are now built with the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-111140: Add additional flags to
PyLong_AsNativeBytes()
andPyLong_FromNativeBytes()
to allow the caller to determine how to handle edge cases around values that fill the entire buffer.gh-113024: Add
PyObject_GenericHash()
function.
Python 3.13.0 alpha 5¶
Release date: 2024-03-12
Security¶
gh-115398: Allow controlling Expat >=2.6.0 reparse deferral (CVE 2023-52425) by adding five new methods:
gh-114572:
ssl.SSLContext.cert_store_stats()
andssl.SSLContext.get_ca_certs()
now correctly lock access to the certificate store, when thessl.SSLContext
is shared across multiple threads.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-116604: Respect the status of the garbage collector when indirect calls are made via
PyErr_CheckSignals()
and the evaluation breaker. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-112087:
list
is now compatible with the implementation of PEP 703.gh-116381: Add specialization for
CONTAINS_OP
.gh-116296: Fix possible refleak in
object.__reduce__()
internal error handling.gh-115823: Properly calculate error ranges in the parser when raising
SyntaxError
exceptions caused by invalid byte sequences. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-115778: Add
tierN
annotation for instruction definition in interpreter DSL.gh-115733: Fix crash when calling
next()
on exhausted list iterators.gh-115700: The regen-cases build stage now works on Windows.
gh-115347: Fix bug where docstring was replaced by a redundant NOP when Python is run with
-OO
.gh-115323: Make error message more meaningful for when
bytearray.extend()
is called with astr
object.gh-112175: Every
PyThreadState
now has its owneval_breaker
, allowing specific threads to be interrupted.gh-115154: Fix a bug that was causing the
tokenize.untokenize()
function to handle unicode named literals incorrectly. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-112433: Add ability to force alignment of
ctypes.Structure
by way of the new_align_
attribute on the class.gh-104090: The multiprocessing resource tracker now exits with non-zero status code if a resource leak was detected. It still exits with status code 0 otherwise.
gh-105858: Improve the constructors for
ast
nodes. Arguments of list types now default to an empty list if omitted, and optional fields default toNone
. AST nodes now have an__annotations__
attribute with the expected types of their attributes. Passing unrecognized extra arguments to AST nodes is deprecated and will become an error in Python 3.15. Omitting a required argument to an AST node is deprecated and will become an error in Python 3.15. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-101860: Expose
__name__
attribute on property.gh-96497: Fix incorrect resolution of mangled class variables used in assignment expressions in comprehensions.
Library¶
gh-116349:
platform.java_ver()
is deprecated and will be removed in 3.15. It was largely untested, had a confusing API, and was only useful for Jython support.gh-116143: Fix a race in pydoc
_start_server
, eliminating a window in which_start_server
can return a thread that is “serving” but without adocserver
set.gh-116127:
typing
: implement PEP 705 which addstyping.ReadOnly
support totyping.TypedDict
.gh-116325:
typing
: raiseSyntaxError
instead ofAttributeError
on forward references as empty strings.gh-115957: When
asyncio.TaskGroup.create_task
is called on an inactiveasyncio.TaskGroup
, the given coroutine will be closed (which prevents aRuntimeWarning
).gh-115978: Disable preadv(), readv(), pwritev(), and writev() on WASI.
Under wasmtime for WASI 0.2, these functions don’t pass test_posix (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/7830).
gh-88352: Fix the computation of the next rollover time in the
logging.TimedRotatingFileHandler
handler.computeRollover()
now always returns a timestamp larger than the specified time and works correctly during the DST change.doRollover()
no longer overwrite the already rolled over file, saving from data loss when run at midnight or during repeated time at the DST change.gh-87115: Set
__main__.__spec__
toNone
when running a script withpdb
gh-76511: Fix UnicodeEncodeError in
email.Message.as_string()
that results when a message that claims to be in the ascii character set actually has non-ascii characters. Non-ascii characters are now replaced with the U+FFFD replacement character, like in thereplace
error handler.gh-89547: Add support for nested typing special forms like Final[ClassVar[int]].
gh-116040: [Enum] fix by-value calls when second value is falsey; e.g. Cardinal(1, 0)
gh-115821: [Enum] Improve error message when calling super().__new__() in custom __new__.
gh-85644: Use the
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
environment variable inwebbrowser
to check desktop. Prefer it to the deprecatedGNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
for GNOME detection.gh-75988: Fixed
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
to pass the call through to the wrapped object to return the real result.gh-115881: Fix issue where
ast.parse()
would incorrectly flag conditional context managers (such aswith (x() if y else z()): ...
) as invalid syntax iffeature_version=(3, 8)
was passed. This reverts changes to the grammar made as part of gh-94949.gh-115886: Fix silent truncation of the name with an embedded null character in
multiprocessing.shared_memory.SharedMemory
.gh-115532: Add kernel density estimation to the statistics module.
gh-115714: On WASI, the
time
module no longer get process time usingtimes()
orCLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
, system API is that is unreliable and is likely to be removed from WASI. The affected clock functions fall back to callingclock()
.gh-115809: Improve algorithm for computing which rolled-over log files to delete in
logging.TimedRotatingFileHandler
. It is now reliable for handlers withoutnamer
and with arbitrary deterministicnamer
that leaves the datetime part in the file name unmodified.gh-74668:
urllib.parse
functionsparse_qs()
andparse_qsl()
now support bytes arguments containing raw and percent-encoded non-ASCII data.gh-67044:
csv.writer()
now always quotes or escapes'\r'
and'\n'
, regardless of lineterminator value.gh-115712: Restore support of space delimiter with
skipinitialspace=True
incsv
.csv.writer()
now quotes empty fields if delimiter is a space and skipinitialspace is true and raises exception if quoting is not possible.gh-112364: Fixed
ast.unparse()
to handle format_spec with"
,'
or\\
. Patched by Frank Hoffmann.gh-112997: Stop logging potentially sensitive callback arguments in
asyncio
unless debug mode is active.gh-114914: Fix an issue where an abandoned
StreamWriter
would not be garbage collected.gh-111358: Fix a bug in
asyncio.BaseEventLoop.shutdown_default_executor()
to ensure the timeout passed to the coroutine behaves as expected.gh-115618: Fix improper decreasing the reference count for
None
argument inproperty
methodsgetter()
,setter()
anddeleter()
.gh-112720: Refactor
dis.ArgResolver
to make it possible to subclass and change the way jump args are interpreted.gh-112006: Fix
inspect.unwrap()
for types with the__wrapper__
data descriptor. Fixinspect.Signature.from_callable()
for builtinsclassmethod()
andstaticmethod()
.gh-101293: Support callables with the
__call__()
method and types with__new__()
and__init__()
methods set to class methods, static methods, bound methods, partial functions, and other types of methods and descriptors ininspect.Signature.from_callable()
.gh-113942:
pydoc
no longer skips global functions implemented as builtin methods, such asMethodDescriptorType
andWrapperDescriptorType
.gh-115256: Added DeprecationWarning when accessing the tarfile attribute of TarInfo objects. The attribute is never used internally and is only attached to TarInfos when the tarfile is opened in write-mode, not read-mode. The attribute creates an unnecessary reference cycle which may cause corruption when not closing the handle after writing a tarfile.
gh-115197:
urllib.request
no longer resolves the hostname before checking it against the system’s proxy bypass list on macOS and Windows.gh-113812:
DatagramTransport.sendto()
will now send zero-length datagrams if called with an empty bytes object. The transport flow control also now accounts for the datagram header when calculating the buffer size.gh-114763: Protect modules loaded with
importlib.util.LazyLoader
from race conditions when multiple threads try to access attributes before the loading is complete.gh-114709:
posixpath.commonpath()
now raises aValueError
exception when passed an empty iterable. Previously,IndexError
was raised.posixpath.commonpath()
now raises aTypeError
exception when passedNone
. Previously,ValueError
was raised.gh-114610: Fix bug where
pathlib.PurePath.with_stem()
converted a non-empty path suffix to a stem when given an empty stem argument. It now raisesValueError
, just likepathlib.PurePath.with_suffix()
does when called on a path with an empty stem, given a non-empty suffix argument.gh-107361: Add
ssl.VERIFY_X509_PARTIAL_CHAIN
andVERIFY_X509_STRICT
to the default SSL context created withssl.create_default_context()
.gh-112281: Allow creating union of types for
typing.Annotated
with unhashable metadata.gh-111775: Fix
importlib.resources.simple.ResourceHandle.open()
for text mode, added missedstream
argument.gh-90095: Make .pdbrc and -c work with any valid pdb commands.
gh-107625: Raise
configparser.ParsingError
fromread()
andread_file()
methods ofconfigparser.ConfigParser
if a key without a corresponding value is continued (that is, followed by an indented line).gh-107155: Fix incorrect output of
help(x)
wherex
is alambda
function, which has an__annotations__
dictionary attribute with a"return"
key.gh-57141: Add option for non-shallow comparisons to
filecmp.dircmp
likefilecmp.cmp()
. Original patch by Steven Ward. Enhanced by Tobias Rautenkranzgh-69990:
Profile.print_stats()
has been improved to accept multiple sort arguments. Patched by Chiu-Hsiang Hsu and Furkan Onder.gh-104061: Add
socket.SO_BINDTOIFINDEX
constant.gh-60346: Fix ArgumentParser inconsistent with parse_known_args.
gh-102389: Add
windows_31j
to aliases forcp932
codecgh-72249:
functools.partial`s of :func:`repr()
has been improved to include the module name. Patched by Furkan Onder and Anilyka Barry.gh-100985: Update HTTPSConnection to consistently wrap IPv6 Addresses when using a proxy.
gh-100884: email: fix misfolding of comma in address-lists over multiple lines in combination with unicode encoding.
gh-95782: Fix
io.BufferedReader.tell()
,io.BufferedReader.seek()
,_pyio.BufferedReader.tell()
,io.BufferedRandom.tell()
,io.BufferedRandom.seek()
and_pyio.BufferedRandom.tell()
being able to return negative offsets.gh-96310: Fix a traceback in
argparse
when all options in a mutually exclusive group are suppressed.gh-93205: Fixed a bug in
logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler
where multiple rotating handler instances pointing to files with the same name but different extensions would conflict and not delete the correct files.bpo-31116: Add Z85 encoding to
base64
.bpo-44865: Add missing call to localization function in
argparse
.bpo-43952: Fix
multiprocessing.connection.Listener.accept()
to accept empty bytes as authkey. Not accepting empty bytes as key causes it to hang indefinitely.bpo-42125: linecache: get module name from
__spec__
if available. This allows getting source code for the__main__
module when a custom loader is used.bpo-41122: Failing to pass arguments properly to
functools.singledispatchmethod()
now throws a TypeError instead of hitting an index out of bounds internally.bpo-40818: The asyncio REPL now runs
sys.__interactivehook__
on startup. The default implementation ofsys.__interactivehook__
provides auto-completion to the asyncio REPL. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-33775: Add ‘default’ and ‘version’ help text for localization in argparse.
Documentation¶
gh-115399: Document CVE 2023-52425 of Expat <2.6.0 under “XML vulnerabilities”.
Tests¶
gh-71052: Add test exclusions to support running the test suite on Android.
gh-71052: Enable
test_concurrent_futures
on platforms that support threading but not multiprocessing.gh-115796: Make ‘_testinternalcapi.assemble_code_object’ construct the exception table for the code object.
gh-115720: Leak tests (
-R
,--huntrleaks
) now show a summary of the number of leaks found in each iteration.gh-115122: Add
--bisect
option to regrtest test runner: run failed tests withtest.bisect_cmd
to identify failing tests. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-115596: Fix
ProgramPriorityTests
intest_os
permanently changing the process priority.gh-115556: On Windows, commas passed in arguments to
Tools\buildbot\test.bat
andPCbuild\\rt.bat
are now properly handled.gh-115420: Fix translation of exception handler targets by
_testinternalcapi.optimize_cfg
.gh-115376: Fix segfault in
_testinternalcapi.compiler_codegen
on bad input.
Build¶
gh-116313: Get WASI builds to work under wasmtime 18 w/ WASI 0.2/preview2 primitives.
gh-71052: Change Android’s
sys.platform
from"linux"
to"android"
.gh-116117: Backport
libb2
’s PR #42 to fix compiling CPython on 32-bit Windows withclang-cl
.gh-71052: Fix several Android build issues
gh-114099: A testbed project was added to run the test suite on iOS.
gh-115350: Fix building ctypes module with -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN defined
gh-111225: Link extension modules against libpython on Android.
gh-115737: The install name for libPython is now correctly set for non-framework macOS builds.
gh-114099: Makefile targets were added to support compiling an iOS-compatible framework build.
Windows¶
gh-116012: Ensure the value of
GetLastError()
is preserved across GIL operations.gh-115582: Building extensions intended for free-threaded builds of CPython now require compiling with
/DPy_GIL_DISABLED
manually when using a regular install. This is expected to change in future releases.gh-115554: The installer now has more strict rules about updating the Inicializador Python para Windows. In general, most users only have a single launcher installed and will see no difference. When multiple launchers have been installed, the option to install the launcher is disabled until all but one have been removed. Downgrading the launcher (which was never allowed) is now more obviously blocked.
gh-115543: Inicializador Python para Windows can now detect Python 3.13 when installed from the Microsoft Store, and will install Python 3.12 by default when
PYLAUNCHER_ALLOW_INSTALL
is set.
macOS¶
gh-116145: Update macOS installer to Tcl/Tk 8.6.14.
IDLE¶
gh-88516: On macOS show a proxy icon in the title bar of editor windows to match platform behaviour.
Tools/Demos¶
C API¶
gh-114626: Add again
_PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords
name, removed in Python 3.13 alpha 4 by mistake. Keep the old private_PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords
name (Python 3.7) as an alias to the new public namePyCFunctionFastWithKeywords
(Python 3.13a4). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-111418: Add
PyHASH_MODULUS
,PyHASH_BITS
,PyHASH_INF
andPyHASH_IMAG
C macros. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.
Python 3.13.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2024-02-15
Security¶
gh-115399: Update bundled libexpat to 2.6.0
gh-115243: Fix possible crashes in
collections.deque.index()
when the deque is concurrently modified.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-112087: For an empty reverse iterator for list will be reduced to
reversed()
. Patch by Donghee Nagh-114570: Add
PythonFinalizationError
exception. This exception derived fromRuntimeError
is raised when an operation is blocked during the Python finalization. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-114695: Add
sys._clear_internal_caches()
, which clears all internal performance-related caches (and deprecate the less-generalsys._clear_type_cache()
function).gh-114828: Fix compilation crashes in uncommon code examples using
super()
inside a comprehension in a class body.gh-112069: Adapt
set
andfrozenset
methods to Argument Clinic.gh-115011: Setters for members with an unsigned integer type now support the same range of valid values for objects that has a
__index__()
method as forint
.gh-114887: Changed socket type validation in
create_datagram_endpoint()
to accept all non-stream sockets. This fixes a regression in compatibility with raw sockets.gh-114944: Fixes a race between
PyParkingLot_Park
and_PyParkingLot_UnparkAll
.gh-113462: Limit the number of versions that a single class can use. Prevents a few wayward classes using up all the version numbers.
gh-76763: The
chr()
builtin function now always raisesValueError
for values outside the valid range. Previously it raisedOverflowError
for very large or small values.gh-114806: No longer specialize calls to classes, if those classes have metaclasses. Fixes bug where the
__call__
method of the metaclass was not being called.gh-107944: Improve error message for function calls with bad keyword arguments via getargs
gh-112529: The free-threaded build no longer allocates space for the
PyGC_Head
structure in objects that support cyclic garbage collection. A number of other fields and data structures are used as replacements, includingob_gc_bits
,ob_tid
, and mimalloc internal data structures.gh-114456: Lower the recursion limit under a debug build of WASI.
gh-114083: Compiler applies folding of LOAD_CONST with following instruction in a separate pass before other optimisations. This enables jump threading in certain circumstances.
gh-114388: Fix a
RuntimeWarning
emitted when assign an integer-like value that is not an instance ofint
to an attribute that corresponds to a C struct member of type T_UINT and T_ULONG. Fix a doubleRuntimeWarning
emitted when assign a negative integer value to an attribute that corresponds to a C struct member of type T_UINT.gh-114265: Compiler propagates line numbers before optimization, leading to more optimization opportunities and removing the need for the
guarantee_lineno_for_exits
hack.gh-112529: The free-threaded build now has its own thread-safe GC implementation that uses mimalloc to find GC tracked objects. It is non-generational, unlike the existing GC implementation.
gh-114050: Fix segmentation fault caused by an incorrect format string in
TypeError
exception when more than two arguments are passed toint
.gh-112354: The
END_FOR
instruction now pops only one value. This is to better support side exits in loops.gh-113884: Make
queue.SimpleQueue
thread safe when the GIL is disabled.gh-114058: Implement the foundations of the Tier 2 redundancy eliminator.
gh-113939: frame.clear(): Clear frame.f_locals as well, and not only the fast locals. This is relevant once frame.f_locals was accessed, which would contain also references to all the locals.
gh-112050: Convert
collections.deque
to use Argument Clinic.gh-112050: Make methods on
collections.deque
thread-safe when the GIL is disabled.gh-113464: Add an option (
--enable-experimental-jit
forconfigure
-based builds or--experimental-jit
forPCbuild
-based ones) to build an experimental just-in-time compiler, based on copy-and-patchgh-113055: Make interp->obmalloc a pointer. For interpreters that share state with the main interpreter, this points to the same static memory structure. For interpreters with their own obmalloc state, it is heap allocated. Add free_obmalloc_arenas() which will free the obmalloc arenas and radix tree structures for interpreters with their own obmalloc state.
gh-55664: Add warning when creating
type
using a namespace dictionary with non-string keys. Patched by Daniel Urban and Furkan Onder.gh-104530: Use native Win32 condition variables.
Library¶
gh-115392: Fix a bug in
doctest
where incorrect line numbers would be reported for decorated functions.gh-114563: Fix several
format()
bugs when using the C implementation ofDecimal
: * memory leak in some rare cases when using thez
format option (coerce negative 0) * incorrect output when applying thez
format option to typeF
(fixed-point with capitalNAN
/INF
) * incorrect output when applying the#
format option (alternate form)gh-102840: Fix confused traceback when floordiv, mod, or divmod operations happens between instances of
fractions.Fraction
andcomplex
.gh-115165: Most exceptions are now ignored when attempting to set the
__orig_class__
attribute on objects returned when callingtyping
generic aliases (including generic aliases created usingtyping.Annotated
). Previously onlyAttributeError
was ignored. Patch by Dave Shawley.gh-112903: Fix “issubclass() arg 1 must be a class” errors in certain cases of multiple inheritance with generic aliases (regression in early 3.13 alpha releases).
gh-115133: Fix tests for
XMLPullParser
with Expat 2.6.0.gh-115059:
io.BufferedRandom.read1()
now flushes the underlying write buffer.gh-79382: Trailing
**
no longer allows to match files and non-existing paths in recursiveglob()
.gh-67837: Avoid race conditions in the creation of directories during concurrent extraction in
tarfile
andzipfile
.gh-115060: Speed up
pathlib.Path.glob()
by removing redundant regex matching.gh-97928: Partially revert the behavior of
tkinter.Text.count()
. By default it preserves the behavior of older Python versions, except that settingwantobjects
to 0 no longer has effect. Add a new parameter return_ints: specifyingreturn_ints=True
makesText.count()
always returning the single count as an integer instead of a 1-tuple orNone
.gh-114628: When csv.Error is raised when handling TypeError, do not print the TypeError traceback.
gh-85984: Added
_POSIX_VDISABLE
from C’s<unistd.h>
totermios
.gh-114965: Update bundled pip to 24.0
gh-114959:
tarfile
no longer ignores errors when trying to extract a directory on top of a file.gh-114894: Add
array.array.clear()
.gh-114071: Support tuple subclasses using auto() for enum member value.
gh-109475: Fix support of explicit option value “–” in
argparse
(e.g.--option=--
).gh-49766: Fix
date
-datetime
comparison. Now the special comparison methods like__eq__
and__lt__
returnNotImplemented
if one of comparands isdate
and other isdatetime
instead of ignoring the time part and the time zone or forcefully return “not equal” or raiseTypeError
. It makes comparison ofdate
anddatetime
subclasses more symmetric and allows to change the default behavior by overriding the special comparison methods in subclasses.gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on Windows ARM64 platform by setting
MAX_STRUCT_SIZE
to 32 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russogh-114678: Ensure that deprecation warning for ‘N’ specifier in
Decimal
format is not raised for cases where ‘N’ appears in other places in the format specifier. Based on patch by Stefan Krah.gh-70303: Return both files and directories from
pathlib.Path.glob()
if a pattern ends with “**
”. Previously only directories were returned.gh-109653: Improve import time of
importlib.metadata
andemail.utils
.gh-113280: Fix a leak of open socket in rare cases when error occurred in
ssl.SSLSocket
creation.gh-77749:
email.policy.EmailPolicy.fold()
now always encodes non-ASCII characters in headers ifutf8
is false.gh-83383: Synchronization of the
dbm.dumb
database is now no-op if there was no modification since opening or last synchronization. The directory file for a newly created emptydbm.dumb
database is now created immediately after opening instead of deferring this until synchronizing or closing.gh-91602: Add filter keyword-only parameter to
sqlite3.Connection.iterdump()
for filtering database objects to dump. Patch by Mariusz Felisiak.gh-112451: Prohibit subclassing pure-Python
datetime.timezone
. This is consistent with C-extension implementation. Patch by Mariusz Felisiak.gh-69893: Add the
close()
method for the iterator returned byxml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse()
.gh-109653: Reduce the import time of
threading
module by ~50%. Patch by Daniel Hollas.gh-114492: Make the result of
termios.tcgetattr()
reproducible on Alpine Linux. Previously it could leave a random garbage in some fields.gh-114315: Make
threading.Lock
a real class, not a factory function. Add__new__
to_thread.lock
type.gh-100414: Add
dbm.sqlite3
as a backend todbm
, and make it the new defaultdbm
backend. Patch by Raymond Hettinger and Erlend E. Aasland.gh-113267: Revert changes in gh-106584 which made calls of
TestResult
methodsstartTest()
andstopTest()
unbalanced.gh-75128: Ignore an
OSError
inasyncio.BaseEventLoop.create_server()
when IPv6 is available but the interface cannot actually support it.gh-114423:
_DummyThread
entries inthreading._active
are now automatically removed when the related thread dies.gh-114257: Dismiss the
FileNotFound
error inctypes.util.find_library()
and just returnNone
on Linux.gh-114321: Expose more platform specific constants in the
fcntl
module on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and NetBSD.gh-114328: The
tty.setcbreak()
and newtty.cfmakecbreak()
no longer clears the terminal input ICRLF flag. This fixes a regression introduced in 3.12 that no longer matched how OSes define cbreak mode in theirstty(1)
manual pages.gh-114281: Remove type hints from
Lib/asyncio/staggered.py
. The annotations in the typeshed project should be used instead.gh-101438: Avoid reference cycle in ElementTree.iterparse. The iterator returned by
ElementTree.iterparse
may hold on to a file descriptor. The reference cycle prevented prompt clean-up of the file descriptor if the returned iterator was not exhausted.gh-114198: The signature for the
__replace__
method ondataclasses
now has the first argument namedself
, rather thanobj
.gh-104522:
OSError
raised when run a subprocess now only has filename attribute set to cwd if the error was caused by a failed attempt to change the current directory.gh-114149: Enum: correctly handle tuple subclasses in custom
__new__
.gh-83648: Support deprecation of options, positional arguments and subcommands in
argparse
.gh-114087: Speed up
dataclasses.asdict
up to 1.35x.gh-109534: Fix a reference leak in
asyncio.selector_events.BaseSelectorEventLoop
when SSL handshakes fail. Patch contributed by Jamie Phan.gh-79634: Accept path-like objects as patterns in
pathlib.Path.glob()
andrglob()
.gh-112202: Ensure that a
asyncio.Condition.notify()
call does not get lost if the awakenedTask
is simultaneously cancelled or encounters any other error.gh-113951: Fix the behavior of
tag_unbind()
methods oftkinter.Text
andtkinter.Canvas
classes with three arguments. Previously,widget.tag_unbind(tag, sequence, funcid)
destroyed the current binding for sequence, leaving sequence unbound, and deleted the funcid command. Now it removes only funcid from the binding for sequence, keeping other commands, and deletes the funcid command. It leaves sequence unbound only if funcid was the last bound command.gh-97959: Fix rendering class methods, bound methods, method and function aliases in
pydoc
. Class methods no longer have “method of builtins.type instance” note. Corresponding notes are now added for class and unbound methods. Method and function aliases now have references to the module or the class where the origin was defined if it differs from the current. Bound methods are now listed in the static methods section. Methods of builtin classes are now supported as well as methods of Python classes.gh-113796: Add more validation checks in the
csv.Dialect
constructor.ValueError
is now raised if the same character is used in different roles.gh-113732: Fix support of
QUOTE_NOTNULL
andQUOTE_STRINGS
incsv.reader()
.gh-113225: Speed up
pathlib.Path.walk()
by usingos.DirEntry.path
where possible.gh-89039: When replace() method is called on a subclass of datetime, date or time, properly call derived constructor. Previously, only the base class’s constructor was called.
Also, make sure to pass non-zero fold values when creating subclasses in various methods. Previously, fold was silently ignored.
gh-112919: Speed-up
datetime.datetime.replace()
,datetime.date.replace()
anddatetime.time.replace()
.gh-59013: Set breakpoint on the first executable line of the function, instead of the line of function definition when the user do
break func
usingpdb
gh-112343: Improve handling of pdb convenience variables to avoid replacing string contents.
gh-112240: Add option to calendar module CLI to specify the weekday to start each week. Patch by Steven Ward.
gh-111741: Recognise
image/webp
as a standard format in themimetypes
module.gh-43457: Fix the
tkinter
widget methodwm_attributes()
. It now accepts the attribute name without the minus prefix to get window attributes and allows to specify attributes and values to set as keyword arguments. Add new optional keyword argument return_python_dict: callingw.wm_attributes(return_python_dict=True)
returns the attributes as a dict instead of a tuple. Callingw.wm_attributes()
now returns a tuple instead of string if wantobjects was set to 0.gh-82626: Many functions now emit a warning if a boolean value is passed as a file descriptor argument.
gh-111051: Added check for file modification during debugging with
pdb
gh-110345: Show the Tcl/Tk patchlevel (rather than version) in
tkinter._test()
.gh-38807: Fix race condition in
trace
. Instead of checking if a directory exists and creating it, directly callos.makedirs()
with the kwargexist_ok=True
.gh-75705: Set unixfrom envelope in
mailbox.mbox
andmailbox.MMDF
.gh-106233: Fix stacklevel in
InvalidTZPathWarning
duringzoneinfo
module import.gh-105102: Allow
ctypes.Union
to be nested inctypes.Structure
when the system endianness is the opposite of the classes.gh-104282: Fix null pointer dereference in
lzma._decode_filter_properties()
due to improper handling of BCJ filters with properties of zero length. Patch by Radislav Chugunov.gh-96471: Add
queue.Queue
termination withshutdown()
.gh-101599: Changed argparse flag options formatting to remove redundancy.
gh-85984: Add POSIX pseudo-terminal functions
os.posix_openpt()
,os.grantpt()
,os.unlockpt()
, andos.ptsname()
.gh-102512: When
os.fork()
is called from a foreign thread (aka_DummyThread
), the type of the thread in a child process is changed to_MainThread
. Also changed its name and daemonic status, it can be now joined.gh-88569: Add
os.path.isreserved()
, which identifies reserved pathnames such as “NUL”, “AUX” and “CON”. This function is only available on Windows.Deprecate
pathlib.PurePath.is_reserved()
.bpo-38364: The
inspect
functionsisgeneratorfunction
,iscoroutinefunction
,isasyncgenfunction
now supportfunctools.partialmethod
wrapped functions the same way they supportfunctools.partial
.
Documentation¶
gh-115233: Fix an example for
LoggerAdapter
in the Logging Cookbook.gh-114123: Move the
csv
module docstring to thecsv
module instead of reexporting it from the internal_csv
module, and remove__doc__
fromcsv.__all__
.Move
csv.__version__
to thecsv
module instead of reexporting it from the internal_csv
module, and remove__version__
fromcsv.__all__
.
Tests¶
Build¶
gh-115167: Avoid vendoring
vcruntime140_threads.dll
when building with Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.gh-113632: Promote WASI to a tier 2 platform and drop Emscripten from tier 3 in configure.ac.
gh-114099: configure and Makefile were refactored to accommodate framework builds on Apple platforms other than macOS.
gh-114875: Add
getgrent()
as a prerequisite for building thegrp
module.
Windows¶
gh-115049: Fixes
py.exe
launcher failing when run as users without user profiles.gh-115009: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.45.1.
gh-109991: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 3.0.13.
gh-111239: Update Windows builds to use zlib v1.3.1.
gh-100107: The
py.exe
launcher will no longer attempt to run the Microsoft Store redirector when launching a script containing a/usr/bin/env
shebanggh-112984: Adds free-threaded binaries to Windows installer as an optional component.
gh-89240: Allows
multiprocessing
to create pools of greater than 62 processes.
macOS¶
gh-115009: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.45.1.
gh-109991: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 3.0.13.
gh-114490: Add Mach-O linkage support for
platform.architecture()
.gh-87804: On macOS the result of
os.statvfs
andos.fstatvfs
now correctly report the size of very large disks, in previous versions the reported number of blocks was wrong for disks with at least 2**32 blocks.
IDLE¶
Tools/Demos¶
gh-113516: Don’t set
LDSHARED
when building for WASI.gh-109991: Update GitHub CI workflows to use OpenSSL 3.0.13 and multissltests to use 1.1.1w, 3.0.13, 3.1.5, and 3.2.1.
gh-115015: Fix a bug in Argument Clinic that generated incorrect code for methods with no parameters that use the METH_METHOD | METH_FASTCALL | METH_KEYWORDS calling convention. Only the positional parameter count was checked; any keyword argument passed would be silently accepted.
C API¶
gh-111140: Adds
PyLong_AsNativeBytes()
,PyLong_FromNativeBytes()
andPyLong_FromUnsignedNativeBytes()
functions.gh-114685:
PyBuffer_FillInfo()
now raises aSystemError
if called withPyBUF_READ
orPyBUF_WRITE
as flags. These flags should only be used with thePyMemoryView_*
C API.gh-114685:
PyObject_GetBuffer()
now raises aSystemError
if called withPyBUF_READ
orPyBUF_WRITE
as flags. These flags should only be used with thePyMemoryView_*
C API.gh-114626: Add
PyCFunctionFast
andPyCFunctionFastWithKeywords
typedefs (identical to the existing_PyCFunctionFast
and_PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords
typedefs, just without a leading_
prefix).gh-114329: Add
PyList_GetItemRef()
, which is similar toPyList_GetItem()
but returns a strong reference instead of a borrowed reference.gh-110850: Add PyTime C API:
PyTime_t
type.PyTime_MIN
andPyTime_MAX
constants.PyTime_AsSecondsDouble()
,PyTime_Monotonic()
,PyTime_PerfCounter()
, andPyTime_Time()
functions.
Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-112066: Add
PyDict_SetDefaultRef()
: insert a key and value into a dictionary if the key is not already present. This is similar todict.setdefault()
, but returns an integer value indicating if the key was already present. It is also similar toPyDict_SetDefault()
, but returns a strong reference instead of a borrowed reference.
Python 3.13.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2024-01-17
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
gh-107901: Compiler duplicates basic blocks that have an eval breaker check, no line number, and multiple predecessors.
gh-107901: A jump leaving an exception handler back to normal code no longer checks the eval breaker.
gh-113655: Set the C recursion limit to 4000 on Windows, and 10000 on Linux/OSX. This seems to be near the sweet spot to maintain safety, but not compromise backwards compatibility.
gh-113710: Add typed stack effects to the interpreter DSL, along with various instruction annotations.
gh-77046: On Windows, file descriptors wrapping Windows handles are now created non inheritable by default (PEP 446). Patch by Zackery Spytz and Victor Stinner.
gh-113853: Guarantee that all executors make progress. This then guarantees that tier 2 execution always makes progress.
gh-113753: Fix an issue where the finalizer of
PyAsyncGenASend
objects might not be called if they were allocated from a free list.gh-107901: Compiler changed so that synthetic jumps which are not at loop end no longer check the eval breaker.
gh-113703: Fix a regression in the
codeop
module that was causing it to incorrectly identify incomplete f-strings. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-89811: Check for a valid
tp_version_tag
before performing bytecode specializations that rely on this value being usable.gh-111488: Changed error message in case of no ‘in’ keyword after ‘for’ in list comprehensions
gh-113657: Fix an issue that caused important instruction pointer updates to be optimized out of tier two traces.
gh-113603: Fixed bug where a redundant NOP is not removed, causing an assertion to fail in the compiler in debug mode.
gh-113602: Fix an error that was causing the parser to try to overwrite existing errors and crashing in the process. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-113486: No longer issue spurious
PY_UNWIND
events for optimized calls to classes.gh-113297: Fix segfault in the compiler on with statement with 19 context managers.
gh-111375: Only use
NULL
in the exception stack to indicate an exception was handled. Patch by Carey Metcalfe.gh-112215: Increase the C recursion limit by a factor of 3 for non-debug builds, except for webassembly and s390 platforms which are unchanged. This mitigates some regressions in 3.12 with deep recursion mixing builtin (C) and Python code.
gh-113054: Fixed bug where a redundant NOP is not removed, causing an assertion to fail in the compiler in debug mode.
gh-106905: Use per AST-parser state rather than global state to track recursion depth within the AST parser to prevent potential race condition due to simultaneous parsing.
The issue primarily showed up in 3.11 by multithreaded users of
ast.parse()
. In 3.12 a change to when garbage collection can be triggered prevented the race condition from occurring.gh-108866: Change the API and contract of
_PyExecutorObject
to return the next_instr pointer, instead of the frame, and to always execute at least one instruction.gh-112943: Correctly compute end column offsets for multiline tokens in the
tokenize
module. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-112125: Fix
None.__ne__(None)
returningNotImplemented
instead ofFalse
.gh-74616:
input()
now raises a ValueError when output on the terminal if the prompt contains embedded null characters instead of silently truncating it.gh-112716: Fix SystemError in the
import
statement and in__reduce__()
methods of builtin types when__builtins__
is not a dict.gh-112730: Use color to highlight error locations in tracebacks. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-112625: Fixes a bug where a bytearray object could be cleared while iterating over an argument in the
bytearray.join()
method that could result in reading memory after it was freed.gh-112660: Do not clear unexpected errors during formatting error messages for ImportError and AttributeError for modules.
gh-105967: Workaround a bug in Apple’s macOS platform zlib library where
zlib.crc32()
andbinascii.crc32()
could produce incorrect results on multi-gigabyte inputs. Including when usingzipfile
on zips containing large data.gh-95754: Provide a better error message when accessing invalid attributes on partially initialized modules. The origin of the module being accessed is now included in the message to help with the common issue of shadowing other modules.
gh-112217: Add check for the type of
__cause__
returned from calling the typeT
inraise from T
.gh-111058: Change coro.cr_frame/gen.gi_frame to return
None
after the coroutine/generator has been closed. This fixes a bug wheregetcoroutinestate()
andgetgeneratorstate()
return the wrong state for a closed coroutine/generator.gh-112388: Fix an error that was causing the parser to try to overwrite tokenizer errors. Patch by pablo Galindo
gh-112387: Fix error positions for decoded strings with backwards tokenize errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-99606: Make code generated for an empty f-string identical to the code of an empty normal string.
gh-112367: Avoid undefined behaviour when using the perf trampolines by not freeing the code arenas until shutdown. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-112320: The Tier 2 translator now tracks the confidence level for staying “on trace” (i.e. not exiting back to the Tier 1 interpreter) for branch instructions based on the number of bits set in the branch “counter”. Trace translation ends when the confidence drops below 1/3rd.
gh-109598:
PyComplex_RealAsDouble()
/PyComplex_ImagAsDouble()
now tries to convert an object to acomplex
instance using its__complex__()
method before falling back to the__float__()
method. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.gh-94606: Fix UnicodeEncodeError when
email.message.get_payload()
reads a message with a Unicode surrogate character and the message content is not well-formed for surrogateescape encoding. Patch by Sidney Markowitz.bpo-21861: Use the object’s actual class name in
_io.FileIO.__repr__()
,_io._WindowsConsoleIO()
and_io.TextIOWrapper.__repr__()
, to make these methods subclass friendly.bpo-34392: Added
sys._is_interned()
.
Library¶
gh-114077: Fix possible
OverflowError
insocket.socket.sendfile()
when pass count larger than 2 GiB on 32-bit platform.gh-111803:
plistlib
now supports loading more deeply nested lists in binary format.gh-114014: Fixed a bug in
fractions.Fraction
where an invalid string usingd
in the decimals part creates a different error compared to other invalid letters/characters. Patch by Jeremiah Gabriel Pascual.gh-108364:
sqlite3.Connection.iterdump()
now ensures that foreign key support is disabled before dumping the database schema, if there is any foreign key violation. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland and Mariusz Felisiak.gh-113971: The
zipfile.ZipInfo
previously protected._compresslevel
attribute has been made public as.compress_level
with the old_compresslevel
name remaining available as a property to retain compatibility.gh-113877: Fix
tkinter
methodwinfo_pathname()
on 64-bit Windows.gh-113868: Added
mmap.MAP_NORESERVE
,mmap.MAP_NOEXTEND
,mmap.MAP_HASSEMAPHORE
,mmap.MAP_NOCACHE
,mmap.MAP_JIT
,mmap.MAP_RESILIENT_CODESIGN
,mmap.MAP_RESILIENT_MEDIA
,mmap.MAP_32BIT
,mmap.MAP_TRANSLATED_ALLOW_EXECUTE
,mmap.MAP_UNIX03
andmmap.MAP_TPRO
. All of them aremmap(2)
flags on macOS.gh-113848:
asyncio.TaskGroup()
andasyncio.timeout()
context managers now handleCancelledError
subclasses as well as exactCancelledError
.gh-113661: unittest runner: Don’t exit 5 if tests were skipped. The intention of exiting 5 was to detect issues where the test suite wasn’t discovered at all. If we skipped tests, it was correctly discovered.
gh-96037: Insert
TimeoutError
in the context of the exception that was raised during exiting an expiredasyncio.timeout()
block.gh-113781: Silence unraisable AttributeError when warnings are emitted during Python finalization.
gh-113238: Add
Anchor
toimportlib.resources
(in order for the code to comply with the documentation)gh-111693:
asyncio.Condition.wait()
now re-raises the sameCancelledError
instance that may have caused it to be interrupted. Fixed race condition inasyncio.Semaphore.acquire()
when interrupted with aCancelledError
.gh-113791: Add
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW_APPROX
andCLOCK_UPTIME_RAW_APPROX
totime
on macOS. These are clocks available on macOS 10.12 or later.gh-112932: Restore the ability for
zipfile
toextractall
from zip files with a “/” directory entry in them as is commonly added to zips by some wiki or bug tracker data exporters.gh-113568: Raise deprecation warnings from
pathlib.PurePath
and not its private base classPurePathBase
.gh-113594: Fix
UnicodeEncodeError
inemail
when re-fold lines that contain unknown-8bit encoded part followed by non-unknown-8bit encoded part.gh-113538: In
asyncio.StreamReaderProtocol.connection_made()
, there is callback that logs an error if the task wrapping the “connected callback” fails. This callback would itself fail if the task was cancelled. Prevent this by checking whether the task was cancelled first. If so, close the transport but don’t log an error.gh-113626: Add support for the allow_code argument in the
marshal
module. Passingallow_code=False
prevents serialization and de-serialization of code objects which is incompatible between Python versions.gh-85567: Fix resource warnings for unclosed files in
pickle
andpickletools
command line interfaces.gh-113537: Support loads
str
inplistlib.loads()
.gh-89850: Add default implementations of
pickle.Pickler.persistent_id()
andpickle.Unpickler.persistent_load()
methods in the C implementation. Callingsuper().persistent_id()
andsuper().persistent_load()
in subclasses of the C implementation ofpickle.Pickler
andpickle.Unpickler
classes no longer causes infinite recursion.gh-113569: Indicate if there were no actual calls in unittest
assert_has_calls()
failure.gh-101225: Increase the backlog for
multiprocessing.connection.Listener
objects created bymultiprocessing.manager
andmultiprocessing.resource_sharer
to significantly reduce the risk of getting a connection refused error when creating amultiprocessing.connection.Connection
to them.gh-113568: Raise audit events from
pathlib.Path
and not its private base classPathBase
.gh-113543: Make sure that
webbrowser.MacOSXOSAScript
sendswebbrowser.open
audit event.gh-113028: When a second reference to a string appears in the input to
pickle
, and the Python implementation is in use, we are guaranteed that a single copy gets pickled and a single object is shared when reloaded. Previously, in protocol 0, when a string contained certain characters (e.g. newline) it resulted in duplicate objects.gh-113421: Fix multiprocessing logger for
%(filename)s
.gh-111784: Fix segfaults in the
_elementtree
module. Fix first segfault during deallocation of_elementtree.XMLParser
instances by keeping strong reference topyexpat
module in module state for capsule lifetime. Fix second segfault which happens in the same deallocation process by keeping strong reference to_elementtree
module inXMLParser
structure for_elementtree
module lifetime.gh-113407: Fix import of
unittest.mock
when CPython is built without docstrings.gh-113320: Fix regression in Python 3.12 where
Protocol
classes that were not marked asruntime-checkable
would be unnecessarily introspected, potentially causing exceptions to be raised if the protocol had problematic members. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-53502: Add a new option
aware_datetime
inplistlib
to loads or dumps aware datetime.gh-113358: Fix rendering tracebacks with exceptions with a broken __getattr__
gh-113214: Fix an
AttributeError
during asyncio SSL protocol aborts in SSL-over-SSL scenarios.gh-113246: Update bundled pip to 23.3.2.
gh-87264: Fixed tarfile list() method to show file type.
gh-112182:
asyncio.futures.Future.set_exception()
now transformsStopIteration
intoRuntimeError
instead of hanging or other misbehavior. Patch contributed by Jamie Phan.gh-113225: Speed up
pathlib.Path.glob()
by usingos.DirEntry.path
where possible.gh-113149: Improve error message when a JSON array or object contains a trailing comma. Patch by Carson Radtke.
gh-113117: The
subprocess
module can now use theos.posix_spawn()
function withclose_fds=True
on platforms whereposix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np
is available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.gh-113199: Make
http.client.HTTPResponse.read1
andhttp.client.HTTPResponse.readline
close IO after reading all data when content length is known. Patch by Illia Volochii.gh-113191: Add support of
os.fchmod()
and a file descriptor inos.chmod()
on Windows.gh-113188: Fix
shutil.copymode()
andshutil.copystat()
on Windows. Previously they worked differently if dst is a symbolic link: they modified the permission bits of dst itself rather than the file it points to if follow_symlinks is true or src is not a symbolic link, and did not modify the permission bits if follow_symlinks is false and src is a symbolic link.gh-113119:
os.posix_spawn()
now acceptsenv=None
, which makes the newly spawned process use the current process environment. Patch by Jakub Kulik.gh-113202: Add a
strict
option tobatched()
in theitertools
module.gh-61648: Detect line numbers of properties in doctests.
gh-113175: Sync with importlib_metadata 7.0, including improved type annotations, fixed issue with symlinked packages in
package_distributions
, addedEntryPoints.__repr__
, introduced thediagnose
script, addedDistribution.origin
property, and removed deprecatedEntryPoint
access by numeric index (tuple behavior).gh-59616: Add support of
os.lchmod()
and the follow_symlinks argument inos.chmod()
on Windows. Note that the default value of follow_symlinks inos.lchmod()
isFalse
on Windows.gh-112559:
signal.signal()
andsignal.getsignal()
no longer callrepr
on callable handlers.asyncio.run()
andasyncio.Runner.run()
no longer callrepr
on the task results. Patch by Yilei Yang.gh-112962:
dis
module functions add cache information to theInstruction
instance rather than creating fakeInstruction
instances to represent the cache entries.gh-112989: Reduce overhead to connect sockets with
asyncio
SelectorEventLoop.gh-112970: Use
closefrom()
on Linux where available (e.g. glibc-2.34), rather than only FreeBSD.gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on PPC64LE platform by setting
MAX_STRUCT_SIZE
to 64 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russo.gh-112540: The statistics.geometric_mean() function now returns zero for datasets containing a zero. Formerly, it would raise an exception.
gh-87286: Added
LOG_FTP
,LOG_NETINFO
,LOG_REMOTEAUTH
,LOG_INSTALL
,LOG_RAS
, andLOG_LAUNCHD
tot thesyslog
module, all of them constants on used on macOS.gh-112800: Fix
asyncio
SubprocessTransport.close()
not to throwPermissionError
when used with setuid executables.gh-51944: Add the following constants to the
termios
module. These values are present in macOS system headers:ALTWERASE
,B14400
,B28800
,B7200
,B76800
,CCAR_OFLOW
,CCTS_OFLOW
,CDSR_OFLOW
,CDTR_IFLOW
,CIGNORE
,CRTS_IFLOW
,EXTPROC
,IUTF8
,MDMBUF
,NL2
,NL3
,NOKERNINFO
,ONOEOT
,OXTABS
,VDSUSP
,VSTATUS
.gh-79325: Fix an infinite recursion error in
tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
cleanup on Windows.gh-94692:
shutil.rmtree()
now only catches OSError exceptions. Previously a symlink attack resistant version ofshutil.rmtree()
could ignore or pass to the error handler arbitrary exception when invalid arguments were provided.gh-112736: The use of del-safe symbols in
subprocess
was refactored to allow for use in cross-platform build environments.gh-112727: Speed up
pathlib.Path.absolute()
. Patch by Barney Gale.gh-74690: Speedup
issubclass()
checks against simpleruntime-checkable protocols
by around 6%. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-74690: Speedup
isinstance()
checks by roughly 20% forruntime-checkable protocols
that only have one callable member. Speedupissubclass()
checks for these protocols by roughly 10%. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-112645: Remove deprecation error on passing
onerror
toshutil.rmtree()
.gh-112640: Add
kwdefaults
parameter totypes.FunctionType
to set default keyword argument values.gh-112622: Ensure
name
parameter is passed to event loop inasyncio.create_task()
.gh-112618: Fix a caching bug relating to
typing.Annotated
.Annotated[str, True]
is no longer identical toAnnotated[str, 1]
.gh-112334: Fixed a performance regression in 3.12’s
subprocess
on Linux where it would no longer use the fast-pathvfork()
system call when it could have due to a logic bug, instead falling back to the safe but slowerfork()
.Also fixed a second 3.12.0 potential security bug. If a value of
extra_groups=[]
was passed tosubprocess.Popen
or related APIs, the underlyingsetgroups(0, NULL)
system call to clear the groups list would not be made in the child process prior toexec()
.This was identified via code inspection in the process of fixing the first bug.
gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on Arm platform by setting
MAX_STRUCT_SIZE
to 32 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russo.gh-81194: Fix a crash in
socket.if_indextoname()
with specific value (UINT_MAX). Fix an integer overflow insocket.if_indextoname()
on 64-bit non-Windows platforms.gh-112578: Fix a spurious
RuntimeWarning
when executing thezipfile
module.gh-112516: Update the bundled copy of pip to version 23.3.1.
gh-112510: Add
readline.backend
for the backend readline uses (editline
orreadline
)gh-112328: [Enum] Make
EnumDict
,EnumDict.member_names
,EnumType._add_alias_
andEnumType._add_value_alias_
public.gh-112509: Fix edge cases that could cause a key to be present in both the
__required_keys__
and__optional_keys__
attributes of atyping.TypedDict
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-101336: Add
keep_alive
keyword parameter forAbstractEventLoop.create_server()
andBaseEventLoop.create_server()
.gh-63284: Added support for TLS-PSK (pre-shared key) mode to the
ssl
module.gh-112414: Fix regression in Python 3.12 where calling
repr()
on a module that had been imported using a custom loader could fail withAttributeError
. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-112358: Revert change to
struct.Struct
initialization that broke some cases of subclassing.gh-112405: Optimize
pathlib.PurePath.relative_to()
. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-94722: Fix bug where comparison between instances of
DocTest
fails if one of them hasNone
as its lineno.gh-112361: Speed up a small handful of
pathlib
methods by removing some temporary objects.gh-112345: Improve error message when trying to call
issubclass()
against atyping.Protocol
that has non-method members. Patch by Randolf Scholz.gh-112137: Change
dis
output to display no-lineno as “–” instead of “None”.gh-112332: Deprecate the
exc_type
field oftraceback.TracebackException
. Addexc_type_str
to replace it.gh-81620: Add extra tests for
random.binomialvariate()
gh-112292: Fix a crash in
readline
when imported from a sub interpreter. Patch by Anthony Shawgh-77621: Slightly improve the import time of the
pathlib
module by deferring some imports. Patch by Barney Gale.gh-112137: Change
dis
output to display logical labels for jump targets instead of offsets.gh-112139: Add
Signature.format()
to format signatures to string with extra options. And use it inpydoc
to render more readable signatures that have new lines between parameters.gh-112105: Make
readline.set_completer_delims()
work with libeditgh-106922: Display multiple lines with
traceback
when errors span multiple lines.gh-111874: When creating a
typing.NamedTuple
class, ensure__set_name__()
is called on all objects that define__set_name__
and exist in the values of theNamedTuple
class’s class dictionary. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-68166: Add support of the “vsapi” element type in
tkinter.ttk.Style.element_create()
.gh-110275: Named tuple’s methods
_replace()
and__replace__()
now raise TypeError instead of ValueError for invalid keyword arguments.gh-99367: Do not mangle
sys.path[0]
inpdb
if safe_path is setgh-111615: Fix a regression caused by a fix to gh-93162 whereby you couldn’t configure a
QueueHandler
without specifying handlers.gh-75666: Fix the behavior of
tkinter
widget’sunbind()
method with two arguments. Previously,widget.unbind(sequence, funcid)
destroyed the current binding for sequence, leaving sequence unbound, and deleted the funcid command. Now it removes only funcid from the binding for sequence, keeping other commands, and deletes the funcid command. It leaves sequence unbound only if funcid was the last bound command.gh-67790: Implement basic formatting support (minimum width, alignment, fill) for
fractions.Fraction
.gh-111049: Fix crash during garbage collection of the
io.BytesIO
buffer object.gh-102980: Redirect the output of
interact
command ofpdb
to the same channel as the debugger. Add tests and improve docs.gh-102988:
email.utils.getaddresses()
andemail.utils.parseaddr()
now return('', '')
2-tuples in more situations where invalid email addresses are encountered instead of potentially inaccurate values. Add optional strict parameter to these two functions: usestrict=False
to get the old behavior, accept malformed inputs.getattr(email.utils, 'supports_strict_parsing', False)
can be use to check if the strict parameter is available. Patch by Thomas Dwyer and Victor Stinner to improve the CVE 2023-27043 fix.gh-52161:
cmd.Cmd.do_help()
now cleans docstrings withinspect.cleandoc()
before writing them. Patch by Filip Łapkiewicz.gh-82300: Add
track
parameter tomultiprocessing.shared_memory.SharedMemory
that allows using shared memory blocks without having to register with the POSIX resource tracker that automatically releases them upon process exit.gh-110109: Add private
pathlib._PurePathBase
class: a base class forpathlib.PurePath
that omits certain magic methods. It may be made public (along with_PathBase
) in future.gh-109858: Protect
zipfile
from “quoted-overlap” zipbomb. It now raises BadZipFile when try to read an entry that overlaps with other entry or central directory.gh-109786: Fix possible reference leaks and crash when re-enter the
__next__()
method ofitertools.pairwise
.gh-91539: Small (10 - 20%) and trivial performance improvement of
urllib.request.getproxies_environment()
, typically useful when there are many environment variables to go over.gh-103363: Add follow_symlinks keyword-only argument to
pathlib.Path.owner()
andgroup()
, defaulting toTrue
.gh-99437:
runpy.run_path()
now decodes path-like objects, making sure __file__ and sys.argv[0] of the module being run are always strings.gh-104003: Add
warnings.deprecated()
, a decorator to mark deprecated functions to static type checkers and to warn on usage of deprecated classes and functions. See PEP 702. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-103708: Make hardcoded python name, a configurable parameter so that different implementations of python can override it instead of making huge diffs in sysconfig.py
gh-66515:
mailbox.MH
now supports folders that do not contain a.mh_sequences
file (e.g. Claws Mail IMAP-cache folders). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.gh-83162: Renamed
re.error
toPatternError
for clarity, and keptre.error
for backward compatibility. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier and Adam Chhina.gh-91133: Fix a bug in
tempfile.TemporaryDirectory
cleanup, which now no longer dereferences symlinks when working around file system permission errors.bpo-43153: On Windows,
tempfile.TemporaryDirectory
previously masked aPermissionError
withNotADirectoryError
during directory cleanup. It now correctly raisesPermissionError
if errors are not ignored. Patch by Andrei Kulakov and Ken Jin.bpo-32731:
getpass.getuser()
now raisesOSError
for all failures rather thanImportError
on systems lacking thepwd
module orKeyError
if the password database is empty.bpo-34321:
mmap.mmap
now has a trackfd parameter on Unix; if it isFalse
, the file descriptor specified by fileno will not be duplicated.bpo-35332: The
shutil.rmtree()
function now ignores errors when callingos.close()
when ignore_errors isTrue
, andos.close()
no longer retried after error.bpo-35928:
io.TextIOWrapper
now correctly handles the decoding buffer afterread()
andwrite()
.bpo-26791:
shutil.move()
now moves a symlink into a directory when that directory is the target of the symlink. This provides the same behavior as the mv shell command. The previous behavior raised an exception. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.bpo-41422: Fixed memory leaks of
pickle.Pickler
andpickle.Unpickler
involving cyclic references via the internal memo mapping.bpo-19821: The
pydoc.ispackage()
function has been deprecated.bpo-40262: The
ssl.SSLSocket.recv_into()
method no longer requires the buffer argument to implement__len__
and supports buffers with arbitrary item size.bpo-39912:
warnings.filterwarnings()
andwarnings.simplefilter()
now raise appropriate exceptions instead ofAssertionError
. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-37260: Fixed a race condition in
shutil.rmtree()
in which directory entries removed by another process or thread whileshutil.rmtree()
is running can cause it to raise FileNotFoundError. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.bpo-36959: Fix some error messages for invalid ISO format string combinations in
strptime()
that referred to directives not contained in the format string. Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley.bpo-18060: Fixed a class inheritance issue that can cause segfaults when deriving two or more levels of subclasses from a base class of Structure or Union.
bpo-29779: Add a new
PYTHON_HISTORY
environment variable to set the location of a.python_history
file.bpo-21360:
mailbox.Maildir
now ignores files with a leading dot.
Documentation¶
gh-111699: Relocate
smtpd
deprecation notice to its own section rather than underlocale
in What’s New in Python 3.12 documentgh-110746: Improved markup for valid options/values for methods ttk.treeview.column and ttk.treeview.heading, and for Layouts.
gh-95649: Document that the
asyncio
module contains code taken from v0.16.0 of the uvloop project, as well as the required MIT licensing information.
Tests¶
gh-111798: Disable
test_super_deep()
fromtest_call
under pydebug builds on WASI; the stack depth is too small to make the test useful.gh-111801: Lower the recursion limit in
test_isinstance
fortest_infinitely_many_bases()
. This prevents a stack overflow on a pydebug build of WASI.gh-111802: Specify a low recursion depth for
test_bad_getattr()
intest.pickletester
to avoid exhausting the stack under a pydebug build for WASI.gh-44626: Fix
os.path.isabs()
incorrectly returningTrue
when given a path that starts with exactly one (back)slash on Windows.Fix
pathlib.PureWindowsPath.is_absolute()
incorrectly returningFalse
for some paths beginning with two (back)slashes.gh-113633: Use module state for the _testcapi extension module.
gh-109980: Fix
test_tarfile_vs_tar
intest_shutil
for macOS, where system tar can include more information in the archive thanshutil.make_archive
.gh-112769: The tests now correctly compare zlib version when
zlib.ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION
contains non-integer suffixes. For example zlib-ng defines the version as1.3.0.zlib-ng
.gh-112334: Adds a regression test to verify that
vfork()
is used when expected bysubprocess
on vfork enabled POSIX systems (Linux).gh-108927: Fixed order dependence in running tests in the same process when a test that has submodules (e.g. test_importlib) follows a test that imports its submodule (e.g. test_importlib.util) and precedes a test (e.g. test_unittest or test_compileall) that uses that submodule.
bpo-40648: Test modes that file can get with chmod() on Windows.
Build¶
gh-114013: Fix
Tools/wasm/wasi.py
to not include the path topython.wasm
as part ofHOSTRUNNER
. The environment variable is meant to specify how to run the WASI host only, havingpython.wasm
and relevant flags appended to theHOSTRUNNER
. This fixesmake test
work.gh-113258: Changed the Windows build to write out generated frozen modules into the build tree instead of the source tree.
gh-112305: Fixed the
check-clean-src
step performed on out of tree builds to detect errant$(srcdir)/Python/frozen_modules/*.h
files and recommend appropriate source tree cleanup steps to get a working build again.gh-112536: Add support for thread sanitizer (TSAN)
gh-112867: Fix the build for the case that WITH_PYMALLOC_RADIX_TREE=0 set.
gh-103065: Introduce
Tools/wasm/wasi.py
to simplify doing a WASI build.bpo-11102: The
os.major()
,os.makedev()
, andos.minor()
functions are now available on HP-UX v3.bpo-36351: Do not set ipv6type when cross-compiling.
Windows¶
gh-114096: Process privileges that are activated for creating directory junctions are now restored afterwards, avoiding behaviour changes in other parts of the program.
gh-111877:
os.stat()
calls were returning incorrect time values for files that could not be accessed directly.gh-111973: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.44.2.
gh-113009:
multiprocessing
: On Windows, fix a race condition inProcess.terminate()
: no longer set thereturncode
attribute to always callWaitForSingleObject()
inProcess.wait()
. Previously, sometimes the process was still running afterTerminateProcess()
even ifGetExitCodeProcess()
is notSTILL_ACTIVE
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-86179: Fixes path calculations when launching Python on Windows through a symlink.
gh-71383: Update Tcl/Tk in Windows installer to 8.6.13 with a patch to suppress incorrect ThemeChanged warnings.
gh-111650: Ensures the
Py_GIL_DISABLED
preprocessor variable is defined inpyconfig.h
so that extension modules written in C are able to use it.gh-112278: Reduce the time cost for some functions in
platform
on Windows if current user has no permission to the WMI.gh-73427: Deprecate
sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding()
. UsePYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSFSENCODING
instead. Patch by Inada Naoki.gh-87868: Correctly sort and remove duplicate environment variables in
_winapi.CreateProcess()
.bpo-37308: Fix mojibake in
mmap.mmap
when using a non-ASCII tagname argument on Windows.
macOS¶
gh-113666: Add the following constants to module
stat
:UF_SETTABLE
,UF_TRACKED
,UF_DATAVAULT
,SF_SUPPORTED
,SF_SETTABLE
,SF_SYNTHETIC
,SF_RESTRICTED
,SF_FIRMLINK
andSF_DATALESS
. The valuesUF_SETTABLE
,SF_SUPPORTED
,SF_SETTABLE
andSF_SYNTHETIC
are only available on macOS.gh-113536:
os.waitid()
is now available on macOSgh-110459: Running
configure ... --with-openssl-rpath=X/Y/Z
no longer fails to detect OpenSSL on macOS.gh-74573: Document that
dbm.ndbm
can silently corrupt DBM files on updates when exceeding undocumented platform limits, and can crash (segmentation fault) when reading such a corrupted file. (FB8919203)gh-65701: The freeze tool doesn’t work with framework builds of Python. Document this and bail out early when running the tool with such a build.
gh-87277: webbrowser: Don’t look for X11 browsers on macOS. Those are generally not used and probing for them can result in starting XQuartz even if it isn’t used otherwise.
gh-111973: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.44.2.
gh-108269: Set
CFBundleAllowMixedLocalizations
to true in the Info.plist for the framework, embedded Python.app and IDLE.app with framework installs on macOS. This allows applications to pick up the user’s preferred locale when that’s different from english.gh-102362: Make sure the result of
sysconfig.get_plaform()
includes at least a major and minor versions, even ifMACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
is set to only a major version during build to match the format expected by pip.gh-110017: Disable a signal handling stress test on macOS due to a bug in macOS (FB13453490).
gh-110820: Make sure the preprocessor definitions for
ALIGNOF_MAX_ALIGN_T
,SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE
andHAVE_GCC_ASM_FOR_X64
are correct for Universal 2 builds on macOS.gh-109981: Use
/dev/fd
on macOS to determine the number of open files intest.support.os_helper.fd_count
to avoid a crash with “guarded” file descriptors when probing for open files.
IDLE¶
gh-72284: Improve the lists of features, editor key bindings, and shell key bingings in the IDLE doc.
gh-113903: Fix rare failure of test.test_idle, in test_configdialog.
gh-113729: Fix the “Help -> IDLE Doc” menu bug in 3.11.7 and 3.12.1.
gh-113269: Fix test_editor hang on macOS Catalina.
gh-112898: Fix processing unsaved files when quitting IDLE on macOS.
bpo-13586: Enter the selected text when opening the “Replace” dialog.
C API¶
gh-106560: Fix redundant declarations in the public C API. Declare PyBool_Type, PyLong_Type and PySys_Audit() only once. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-112438: Fix support of format units “es”, “et”, “es#”, and “et#” in nested tuples in
PyArg_ParseTuple()
-like functions.gh-111545: Add
Py_HashPointer()
function to hash a pointer. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-65210: Change the declaration of the keywords parameter of
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()
andPyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()
for better compatibility with C++.
Python 3.13.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2023-11-22
Core and Builtins¶
gh-112243: Don’t include comments in f-string debug expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-112287: Slightly optimize the Tier 2 (uop) interpreter by only loading
oparg
andoperand
when needed. Also double the trace size limit again, to 512 this time.gh-111807: Lower the max parser stack depth to 1000 under WASI debug builds.
gh-111798: When Python is built in debug mode, set the C recursion limit to 500 instead of 1500. A debug build is likely built with low optimization level which implies higher stack memory usage than a release build. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-106529: Enable translating unspecialized
FOR_ITER
to Tier 2.gh-111916: Make hashlib related modules thread-safe without the GIL
gh-81137: Deprecate assignment to a function’s
__code__
field when the new code object is of a mismatched type (e.g., from a generator to a plain function).gh-79932: Raise exception if
frame.clear()
is called on a suspended frame.gh-81925: Implement native thread ids for GNU KFreeBSD.
gh-111843: Use exponential backoff to reduce the number of failed tier 2 optimization attempts by over 99%.
gh-110829: Joining a thread now ensures the underlying OS thread has exited. This is required for safer fork() in multi-threaded processes.
gh-109369: Make sure that tier 2 traces are de-optimized if the code is instrumented
gh-111772: Specialize slot loads and stores for _Py_T_OBJECT as well as Py_T_OBJECT_EX
gh-111666: Speed up
BaseExceptionGroup.derive()
,BaseExceptionGroup.subgroup()
, andBaseExceptionGroup.split()
by changing how they parse passed arguments.gh-111654: Fix runtime crash when some error happens in opcode
LOAD_FROM_DICT_OR_DEREF
.gh-111623: Add support for sharing tuples between interpreters using the cross-interpreter API. Patch by Anthony Shaw.
gh-111354: The oparg of
YIELD_VALUE
is now1
if the instruction is part of a yield-from or await, and0
otherwise.The SUSPENDED frame state is now split into
SUSPENDED
andSUSPENDED_YIELD_FROM
. This simplifies the code in_PyGen_yf
.gh-111520: Merge the Tier 1 (bytecode) and Tier 2 (micro-ops) interpreters together, moving the Tier 2 interpreter loop and switch into
_PyEval_EvalFrameDefault()
inPython/ceval.c
. ThePython/executor.c
file is gone. Also theTIER_ONE
andTIER_TWO
macros are now handled by the code generator.Beware! This changes the environment variables to enable micro-ops and their debugging to
PYTHON_UOPS
andPYTHON_LLTRACE
.gh-109181: Speed up
Traceback
object creation by lazily compute the line number. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-111420: Allow type comments in parenthesized
with
statementsgh-111438: Add support for sharing floats between interpreters using the cross-interpreter API. Patch by Anthony Shaw.
gh-111435: Add support for sharing of
True
andFalse
between interpreters using the cross-interpreter API. Patch by Anthony Shaw.gh-102388: Fix a bug where
iso2022_jp_3
andiso2022_jp_2004
codecs read out of boundsgh-111366: Fix an issue in the
codeop
that was causingSyntaxError
exceptions raised in the presence of invalid syntax to not contain precise error messages. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-111380: Fix a bug that was causing
SyntaxWarning
to appear twice when parsing if invalid syntax is encountered later. Patch by Pablo galindogh-111374: Added a new environment variable
PYTHON_FROZEN_MODULES
. It determines whether or not frozen modules are ignored by the import machinery, equivalent of the-X frozen_modules
command-line option.gh-111354: Remove
oparg
fromYIELD_VALUE
. Changeoparg
ofRESUME
to include information about the except-depth. These changes make it possible to simplify the code in generator close.gh-94438: Fix a regression that prevented jumping across
is None
andis not None
when debugging. Patch by Savannah Ostrowski.gh-67224: Show source lines in tracebacks when using the
-c
option when running Python. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-111123: Fix a bug where a
global
declaration in anexcept
block is rejected when the global is used in theelse
block.gh-110938: Fix error messages for indented blocks with functions and classes with generic type parameters. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-109214: Remove unnecessary instruction pointer updates before returning from frames.
gh-110912: Correctly display the traceback for
MemoryError
exceptions using thetraceback
module. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-109894: Fixed crash due to improperly initialized static
MemoryError
in subinterpreter.gh-110892: Return
NULL
forPyTrace_RETURN
events caused by an exceptiongh-110864: Fix argument parsing by
_PyArg_UnpackKeywordsWithVararg
for functions defining pos-or-keyword, vararg, and kw-only parameters.gh-109094: Replace
prev_instr
on the interpreter frame byinstr_ptr
which points to the beginning of the instruction that is currently executing (or will execute once the frame resumes).gh-110805: Allow the repl to show source code and complete tracebacks. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-110722: Add
PYTHON_PRESITE=package.module
to import a module early in the interpreter lifecycle beforesite.py
is executed. Python needs to be built in debug mode for this option to exist.gh-110481: Implement biased reference counting in
--disable-gil
builds.gh-110543: Fix regression in Python 3.12 where
types.CodeType.replace()
would produce a broken code object if called on a module or class code object that contains a comprehension. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-89519: Removed chained
classmethod
descriptors (introduced in bpo-19072). This can no longer be used to wrap other descriptors such asproperty
. The core design of this feature was flawed and caused a number of downstream problems. To “pass-through” aclassmethod
, consider using the__wrapped__
attribute that was added in Python 3.10.gh-103615: Use local events for opcode tracing
bpo-46657: Add mimalloc memory allocator support.
gh-106718: When PyConfig.stdlib_dir is explicitly set, it’s now respected and won’t be overridden by PyConfig.home.
gh-106905: Fix incorrect SystemError about AST constructor recursion depth mismatch.
gh-100445: Improve error message for unterminated strings with escapes.
bpo-45759: Improved error messages for
elif
/else
statements not matching any valid statements. Patch by Jeremiah Vivian.
Library¶
gh-111942: Fix SystemError in the TextIOWrapper constructor with non-encodable “errors” argument in non-debug mode.
gh-111995: Added the
NI_IDN
constant to thesocket
module when present in C at build time for use withsocket.getnameinfo()
.gh-109538: Issue warning message instead of having
RuntimeError
be displayed when event loop has already been closed atStreamWriter.__del__()
.gh-111942: Fix crashes in
io.TextIOWrapper.reconfigure()
when pass invalid arguments, e.g. non-string encoding.gh-111460:
curses
: restore wide character support (includingcurses.unget_wch()
andget_wch()
) on macOS, which was unavailable due to a regression in Python 3.12.gh-103791:
contextlib.suppress
now supports suppressing exceptions raised as part of aBaseExceptionGroup
, in addition to the recent support forExceptionGroup
.gh-111835: The
mmap.mmap
class now has anseekable()
method that can be used when a seekable file-like object is required. Theseek()
method now returns the new absolute position. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-111804: Remove posix.fallocate() under WASI as the underlying posix_fallocate() is not available in WASI preview2.
gh-111841: Fix truncating arguments on an embedded null character in
os.putenv()
andos.unsetenv()
on Windows.gh-111768:
wsgiref.util.is_hop_by_hop()
is now exposed correctly in__all__
.gh-80731: Avoid executing the default function in
cmd.Cmd
in an except blockgh-111541: Fix
doctest
forSyntaxError
not-builtin subclasses.gh-111719: Add extra argument validation for
alias
command inpdb
gh-111482:
time
: Maketime.clock_gettime()
andtime.clock_gettime_ns()
functions up to 2x faster by faster calling convention. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110894: Call loop exception handler for exceptions in
client_connected_cb
ofasyncio.start_server()
so that applications can handle it. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-111531: Fix reference leaks in
bind_class()
andbind_all()
methods oftkinter
widgets.gh-111246:
asyncio.loop.create_unix_server()
will now automatically remove the Unix socket when the server is closed.gh-111356: Added
io.text_encoding()
,io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE
, andio.IncrementalNewlineDecoder
toio.__all__
.gh-66425: Remove the code to set the REMOTE_HOST header from wsgiref module, as it is unreachable. This header is used for performance reasons, which is not necessary in the wsgiref module.
gh-111429: Speed up
pathlib.PurePath.relative_to()
andis_relative_to()
.gh-111342: Fixed typo in
math.sumprod()
.gh-68166: Remove mention of not supported “vsapi” element type in
tkinter.ttk.Style.element_create()
. Add tests forelement_create()
and otherttk.Style
methods. Add examples forelement_create()
in the documentation.gh-111388: Add
show_group
parameter totraceback.format_exception_only()
, which allows to formatExceptionGroup
instances.gh-79033: Another attempt at fixing
asyncio.Server.wait_closed()
. It now blocks until both conditions are true: the server is closed, and there are no more active connections. (This means that in some cases where in 3.12.0 this function would incorrectly have returned immediately, it will now block; in particular, when there are no active connections but the server hasn’t been closed yet.)gh-111295: Fix
time
not checking for errors when initializing.gh-111253: Add error checking during
_socket
module init.gh-111251: Fix
_blake2
not checking for errors when initializing.gh-111233: Fix
select
not checking for errors when initializing.gh-111230: Fix
ssl
not checking for errors when initializing.gh-111174: Fix crash in
io.BytesIO.getbuffer()
called repeatedly for empty BytesIO.gh-111187: Postpone removal version for locale.getdefaultlocale() to Python 3.15.
gh-111159: Fix
doctest
output comparison for exceptions with notes.gh-110910: Fix invalid state handling in
asyncio.TaskGroup
andasyncio.Timeout
. They now raise proper RuntimeError if they are improperly used and are left in consistent state after this.gh-111092: Make turtledemo run without default root enabled.
gh-110944: Support alias and convenience vars for
pdb
completiongh-110745: Added newline parameter to
pathlib.Path.read_text()
. Patch by Junya Okabe.gh-84583: Make
pdb
enter post-mortem mode even forSyntaxError
gh-80675: Set
f_trace_lines = True
on all frames uponpdb.set_trace()
gh-110771: Expose the setup and cleanup portions of
asyncio.run_forever()
as the standalone methodsasyncio.run_forever_setup()
andasyncio.run_forever_cleanup()
. This allows for tighter integration with GUI event loops.gh-110774: Support setting the
asyncio.Runner
loop_factory kwarg inunittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
gh-110392: Fix
tty.setraw()
andtty.setcbreak()
: previously they returned partially modified list of the original tty attributes.tty.cfmakeraw()
andtty.cfmakecbreak()
now make a copy of the list of special characters before modifying it.gh-59013: Make line number of function breakpoint more precise in
pdb
gh-88434: Emit deprecation warning for non-integer numbers in
gettext
functions and methods that consider plural forms even if the translation was not found.gh-110395: Ensure that
select.kqueue()
objects correctly appear as closed in forked children, to prevent operations on an invalid file descriptor.gh-110196: Add
__reduce__
method toIPv6Address
in order to keepscope_id
gh-109747: Improve errors for unsupported look-behind patterns. Now re.error is raised instead of OverflowError or RuntimeError for too large width of look-behind pattern.
gh-109466: Add the
ipaddress.IPv4Address.ipv6_mapped
property, which returns the IPv4-mapped IPv6 address.gh-85098: Implement the CLI of the
symtable
module and improve the repr ofSymbol
.gh-108791: Improved error handling in
pdb
command line interface, making it produce more concise error messages.gh-105931: Change
compileall
to only strip the stripdir prefix from the full path recorded in the compiled.pyc
file, when the prefix matches the start of the full path in its entirety. When the prefix does not match, no stripping is performed and a warning to this effect is displayed.Previously all path components of the stripdir prefix that matched the full path were removed, while those that did not match were left alone (including ones interspersed between matching components).
gh-107431: Make the
DictProxy
andListProxy
types inmultiprocessing.managers
Generic Alias Types for[]
use in typing contexts.gh-72904: Add
glob.translate()
. This function converts a pathname with shell-style wildcards to a regular expression.gh-90026: Define
USE_XATTRS
on Cygwin so that XATTR-related functions in theos
module become available.gh-90890: New methods
mailbox.Maildir.get_info()
,mailbox.Maildir.set_info()
,mailbox.Maildir.get_flags()
,mailbox.Maildir.set_flags()
,mailbox.Maildir.add_flag()
,mailbox.Maildir.remove_flag()
. These methods speed up accessing a message’s info and/or flags and are useful when it is not necessary to access the message’s contents, as when iterating over a Maildir to find messages with specific flags.gh-102956: Fix returning of empty byte strings after seek in zipfile module
gh-102895: Added a parameter
local_exit
forcode.interact()
to preventexit()
andquit
from closingsys.stdin
and raiseSystemExit
.gh-97928: Change the behavior of
tkinter.Text.count()
. It now always returns an integer if one or less counting options are specified. Previously it could return a single count as a 1-tuple, an integer (only if option"update"
was specified) orNone
if no items found. The result is now the same ifwantobjects
is set to0
.gh-96954: Switch the storage of the unicode codepoint names to use a different data-structure, a directed acyclic word graph. This makes the unicodedata shared library about 440 KiB smaller. Contributed by Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick using code from the PyPy project.
gh-73561: Omit the interface scope from an IPv6 address when used as Host header by
http.client
.gh-86826:
zipinfo
now supports the full range of values in the TZ string determined by RFC 8536 and detects all invalid formats. Both Python and C implementations now raise exceptions of the same type on invalid data.
Tests¶
gh-111808: Make the default value of
test.support.infinite_recursion()
to be conditional based on whether optimizations were used when compiling the interpreter. This helps with platforms like WASI whose stack size is greatly restricted in debug builds.gh-110722: Gathering line coverage of standard libraries within the regression test suite is now precise, as well as much faster. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
gh-110367: Make regrtest
--verbose3
option compatible with--huntrleaks -jN
options. The./python -m test -j1 -R 3:3 --verbose3
command now works as expected. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-111165: Remove no longer used functions
run_unittest()
andrun_doctest()
from thetest.support
module.gh-110932: Fix regrtest if the
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable is defined: use the variable value as the random seed. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110995: test_gdb: Fix detection of gdb built without Python scripting support. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-110918: Test case matching patterns specified by options
--match
,--ignore
,--matchfile
and--ignorefile
are now tested in the order of specification, and the last match determines whether the test case be run or ignored.gh-108747: Add unit test for
usercustomize
andsitecustomize
hooks fromsite
.
Build¶
gh-96954: Make
make regen-unicodedata
work for out-of-tree builds of CPython.gh-112088: Add
Tools/build/regen-configure.sh
script to regenerate theconfigure
with an Ubuntu container image. Thequay.io/tiran/cpython_autoconf:271
container image (tiran/cpython_autoconf) is no longer used. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-111046: For wasi-threads, memory is now exported to fix compatibility issues with some wasm runtimes.
gh-110828: AIX 32bit needs
-latomic
to build the_testcapi
extension module.gh-85283: The
errno
,md5
,resource
,winsound
,_ctypes_test
,_multiprocessing.posixshmem
,_scproxy
,_stat
,_testimportmultiple
and_uuid
C extensions are now built with the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Windows¶
gh-111856: Fixes
fstat()
on file systems that do not support file ID requests. This includes FAT32 and exFAT.gh-111293: Fix
os.DirEntry.inode
dropping higher 64 bits of a file id on some filesystems on Windows.gh-110913: WindowsConsoleIO now correctly chunks large buffers without splitting up UTF-8 sequences.
macOS¶
gh-59703: For macOS framework builds, in
getpath.c
use the systemdladdr
function to find the path to the shared library rather than depending on deprecated macOS APIs.gh-110950: Update macOS installer to include an upstream Tcl/Tk fix for the
Secure coding is not enabled for restorable state!
warning encountered in Tkinter on macOS 14 Sonoma.gh-111015: Ensure that IDLE.app and Python Launcher.app are installed with appropriate permissions on macOS builds.
gh-71383: Update macOS installer to include an upstream Tcl/Tk fix for the
ttk::ThemeChanged
error encountered in Tkinter.gh-92603: Update macOS installer to include a fix accepted by upstream Tcl/Tk for a crash encountered after the first
tkinter.Tk()
instance is destroyed.
IDLE¶
bpo-35668: Add docstrings to the IDLE debugger module. Fix two bugs: initialize
Idb.botframe
(should be in Bdb); inIdb.in_rpc_code
, check whetherprev_frame
isNone
before trying to use it. Greatly expand test_debugger.
Tools/Demos¶
gh-111903: Argument Clinic now supports the
@critical_section
directive that instructs Argument Clinic to generate a critical section around the function call, which locks theself
object in--disable-gil
builds. Patch by Sam Gross.
C API¶
gh-112026: Add again the private
_PyThreadState_UncheckedGet()
function as an alias to the new publicPyThreadState_GetUnchecked()
function. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-112026: Restore the removed
_PyDict_GetItemStringWithError()
function. It is used by numpy. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-112026: Restore removed private C API functions, macros and structures which have no simple replacement for now:
_PyDict_GetItem_KnownHash()
_PyDict_NewPresized()
_PyHASH_BITS
_PyHASH_IMAG
_PyHASH_INF
_PyHASH_MODULUS
_PyHASH_MULTIPLIER
_PyLong_Copy()
_PyLong_FromDigits()
_PyLong_New()
_PyLong_Sign()
_PyObject_CallMethodId()
_PyObject_CallMethodNoArgs()
_PyObject_CallMethodOneArg()
_PyObject_CallOneArg()
_PyObject_EXTRA_INIT
_PyObject_FastCallDict()
_PyObject_GetAttrId()
_PyObject_Vectorcall()
_PyObject_VectorcallMethod()
_PyStack_AsDict()
_PyThread_CurrentFrames()
_PyUnicodeWriter structure
_PyUnicodeWriter_Dealloc()
_PyUnicodeWriter_Finish()
_PyUnicodeWriter_Init()
_PyUnicodeWriter_Prepare()
_PyUnicodeWriter_PrepareKind()
_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCIIString()
_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteChar()
_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteLatin1String()
_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteStr()
_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteSubstring()
_PyUnicode_AsString()
_PyUnicode_FromId()
_PyVectorcall_Function()
_Py_IDENTIFIER()
_Py_c_abs()
_Py_c_diff()
_Py_c_neg()
_Py_c_pow()
_Py_c_prod()
_Py_c_quot()
_Py_c_sum()
_Py_static_string()
_Py_static_string_init()
Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-112026: Add again
<ctype.h>
and<unistd.h>
includes inPython.h
, but don’t include them in the limited C API version 3.13 and newer. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-111956: Add internal-only one-time initialization API:
_PyOnceFlag
and_PyOnceFlag_CallOnce
.gh-111262: Add
PyDict_Pop()
andPyDict_PopString()
functions: remove a key from a dictionary and optionally return the removed value. This is similar todict.pop()
, but without the default value and not raisingKeyError
if the key missing. Patch by Stefan Behnel and Victor Stinner.gh-111863: Rename
Py_NOGIL
toPy_GIL_DISABLED
. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.gh-111138: Add
PyList_Extend()
andPyList_Clear()
functions: similar to Pythonlist.extend()
andlist.clear()
methods. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108765: On Windows,
Python.h
no longer includes the<stddef.h>
standard header file. If needed, it should now be included explicitly. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-111569: Implement “Python Critical Sections” from PEP 703. These are macros to help replace the GIL with per-object locks in the
--disable-gil
build of CPython. The macros are no-ops in the default build.gh-111506: In the limited C API version 3.13,
Py_SET_REFCNT()
function is now implemented as an opaque function call. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108082: Add
PyErr_FormatUnraisable()
function.gh-110964: Move the undocumented private _PyArg functions and _PyArg_Parser structure to internal C API (
pycore_modsupport.h
). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110815: Support non-ASCII keyword names in
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()
.gh-109587: Introduced
PyUnstable_PerfTrampoline_CompileCode()
,PyUnstable_PerfTrampoline_SetPersistAfterFork()
andPyUnstable_CopyPerfMapFile()
. These functions allow extension modules to initialize trampolines eagerly, after the application is “warmed up”. This makes it possible to have perf-trampolines running in an always-enabled fashion.gh-85283: Add the
PySys_Audit()
function to the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-85283: Add
PyMem_RawMalloc()
,PyMem_RawCalloc()
,PyMem_RawRealloc()
andPyMem_RawFree()
to the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-106672: Functions
PyDict_GetItem()
,PyDict_GetItemString()
,PyMapping_HasKey()
,PyMapping_HasKeyString()
,PyObject_HasAttr()
,PyObject_HasAttrString()
, andPySys_GetObject()
, which clear all errors occurred during calling the function, report now them usingsys.unraisablehook()
.gh-67565: Remove redundant C-contiguity check in
getargs.c
,binascii
,ssl
and Argument Clinic. Patched by Stefan Krah and Furkan Onder
Python 3.13.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2023-10-13
Security¶
gh-108310: Fixed an issue where instances of
ssl.SSLSocket
were vulnerable to a bypass of the TLS handshake and included protections (like certificate verification) and treating sent unencrypted data as if it were post-handshake TLS encrypted data. Security issue reported as CVE 2023-40217 by Aapo Oksman. Patch by Gregory P. Smith.gh-107774: PEP 669 specifies that
sys.monitoring.register_callback
will generate an audit event. Pre-releases of Python 3.12 did not generate the audit event. This is now fixed.gh-102988: Reverted the
email.utils
security improvement change released in 3.12beta4 that unintentionally causedemail.utils.getaddresses
to fail to parse email addresses with a comma in the quoted name field. See gh-106669.gh-99108: Refresh our new HACL* built-in
hashlib
code from upstream. Built-in SHA2 should be faster and an issue with SHA3 on 32-bit platforms is fixed.gh-102509: Start initializing
ob_digit
during creation ofPyLongObject
objects. Patch by Illia Volochii.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-110782: Fix crash when
typing.TypeVar
is constructed with a keyword argument. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-110752: Reset
ceval.eval_breaker
ininterpreter_clear()
gh-110721: Use the
traceback
implementation for the defaultPyErr_Display()
functionality. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-110696: Fix incorrect error message for invalid argument unpacking. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-104169: Split the tokenizer into two separate directories: - One part includes the actual lexeme producing logic and lives in
Parser/lexer
. - The second part wraps the lexer according to the different tokenization modes we have (string, utf-8, file, interactive, readline) and lives inParser/tokenizer
.gh-110688: Remove undocumented
test_c_api
method fromset
, which was only defined for testing purposes underPy_DEBUG
. Now we have proper CAPI tests.gh-104584: Fix a reference leak when running with
PYTHONUOPS
or-X uops
enabled.gh-110514: Add
PY_THROW
tosys.setprofile()
eventsgh-110489: Optimise
math.ceil()
when the input is exactly a float, resulting in about a 10% improvement.gh-110455: Guard
assert(tstate->thread_id > 0)
with#ifndef HAVE_PTHREAD_STUBS
. This allows for for pydebug builds to work under WASI which (currently) lacks thread support.gh-110309: Remove unnecessary empty constant nodes in the ast of f-string specs.
gh-110259: Correctly identify the format spec in f-strings (with single or triple quotes) that have multiple lines in the expression part and include a formatting spec. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-110237: Fix missing error checks for calls to
PyList_Append
in_PyEval_MatchClass
.gh-110164: regrtest: If the
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable is defined, regrtest now disables tests randomization. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109889: Fix the compiler’s redundant NOP detection algorithm to skip over NOPs with no line number when looking for the next instruction’s lineno.
gh-109853:
sys.path[0]
is now set correctly for subinterpreters.gh-109923: Set line number on the
POP_TOP
that follows aRETURN_GENERATOR
.gh-105716: Subinterpreters now correctly handle the case where they have threads running in the background. Before, such threads would interfere with cleaning up and destroying them, as well as prevent running another script.
gh-109369: The internal eval_breaker and supporting flags, plus the monitoring version have been merged into a single atomic integer to speed up checks.
gh-109823: Fix bug where compiler does not adjust labels when removing an empty basic block which is a jump target.
gh-109793: The main thread no longer exits prematurely when a subinterpreter is cleaned up during runtime finalization. The bug was a problem particularly because, when triggered, the Python process would always return with a 0 exitcode, even if it failed.
gh-109719: Fix missing jump target labels when compiler reorders cold/warm blocks.
gh-109595: Add
-X cpu_count
command line option to override return results ofos.cpu_count()
andos.process_cpu_count()
. This option is useful for users who need to limit CPU resources of a container system without having to modify the container (application code). Patch by Donghee Na.gh-109627: Fix bug where the compiler does not assign a new jump target label to a duplicated small exit block.
gh-109596: Fix some tokens in the grammar that were incorrectly marked as soft keywords. Also fix some repeated rule names and ensure that repeated rules are not allowed. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-109496: On a Python built in debug mode,
Py_DECREF()
now calls_Py_NegativeRefcount()
if the object is a dangling pointer to deallocated memory: memory filled with0xDD
“dead byte” by the debug hook on memory allocators. The fix is to check the reference count before checking for_Py_IsImmortal()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-107265: Deopt opcodes hidden by the executor when base opcode is needed
gh-109371: Deopted instructions correctly for tool initialization and modified the incorrect assertion in instrumentation, when a previous tool already sets INSTRUCTION events
gh-105658: Fix bug where the line trace of an except block ending with a conditional includes an excess event with the line of the conditional expression.
gh-109219: Fix compiling type param scopes that use a name which is also free in an inner scope.
gh-109351: Fix crash when compiling an invalid AST involving a named (walrus) expression.
gh-109341: Fix crash when compiling an invalid AST involving a
ast.TypeAlias
.gh-109195: Fix source location for the
LOAD_*
instruction preceding aLOAD_SUPER_ATTR
to load thesuper
global (or shadowing variable) so that it encompasses only the namesuper
and not the following parentheses.gh-109256: Opcode IDs for specialized opcodes are allocated in their own range to improve stability of the IDs for the ‘real’ opcodes.
gh-109207: Fix a SystemError in
__repr__
of symtable entry object.gh-109179: Fix bug where the C traceback display drops notes from
SyntaxError
.gh-109118: Disallow nested scopes (lambdas, generator expressions, and comprehensions) within PEP 695 annotation scopes that are nested within classes.
gh-109156: Add tests for de-instrumenting instructions while keeping the instrumentation for lines
gh-109114: Relax the detection of the error message for invalid lambdas inside f-strings to not search for arbitrary replacement fields to avoid false positives. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-105848: Add a new
CALL_KW
opcode, used for calls containing keyword arguments. Also, fix a possible crash when jumping over method calls in a debugger.gh-109052: Use the base opcode when comparing code objects to avoid interference from instrumentation
gh-109118: Fix interpreter crash when a NameError is raised inside the type parameters of a generic class.
gh-88943: Improve syntax error for non-ASCII character that follows a numerical literal. It now points on the invalid non-ASCII character, not on the valid numerical literal.
gh-108976: Fix crash that occurs after de-instrumenting a code object in a monitoring callback.
gh-108732: Make iteration variables of module- and class-scoped comprehensions visible to pdb and other tools that use
frame.f_locals
again.gh-108959: Fix caret placement for error locations for subscript and binary operations that involve non-semantic parentheses and spaces. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-104584: Fix a crash when running with
PYTHONUOPS
or-X uops
enabled and an error occurs during optimization.gh-108727: Define
tp_dealloc
forCounterOptimizer_Type
. This fixes a segfault on deallocation.gh-108520: Fix
multiprocessing.synchronize.SemLock.__setstate__()
to properly initializemultiprocessing.synchronize.SemLock._is_fork_ctx
. This fixes a regression when passing a SemLock across nested processes.Rename
multiprocessing.synchronize.SemLock.is_fork_ctx
tomultiprocessing.synchronize.SemLock._is_fork_ctx
to avoid exposing it as public API.gh-108654: Restore locals shadowed by an inlined comprehension if the comprehension raises an exception.
gh-108488: Change the initialization of inline cache entries so that the cache entry for
JUMP_BACKWARD
is initialized to zero, instead of theadaptive_counter_warmup()
value used for all other instructions. This counter, unique among instructions, counts up from zero.gh-108716: Turn off deep-freezing of code objects. Modules are still frozen, so that a file system search is not needed for common modules.
gh-108614: Add RESUME_CHECK instruction, to avoid having to handle instrumentation, signals, and contexts switches in the tier 2 execution engine.
gh-108487: Move an assert that would cause a spurious crash in a devious case that should only trigger deoptimization.
gh-106176: Use a
WeakValueDictionary
to track the lists containing the modules each thread is currently importing. This helps avoid a reference leak from keeping the list around longer than necessary. Weakrefs are used as GC can’t interrupt the cleanup.gh-105481: The regen-opcode build stage was removed and its work is now done in regen-cases.
gh-107901: Fix missing line number on
JUMP_BACKWARD
at the end of a for loop.gh-108113: The
compile()
built-in can now accept a new flag,ast.PyCF_OPTIMIZED_AST
, which is similar toast.PyCF_ONLY_AST
except that the returnedAST
is optimized according to the value of theoptimize
argument.ast.parse()
now accepts an optional argumentoptimize
which is passed on to thecompile()
built-in. This makes it possible to obtain an optimizedAST
.gh-107971: Opcode IDs are generated from bytecodes.c instead of being hard coded in opcode.py.
gh-107944: Improve error message for function calls with bad keyword arguments. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-108390: Raise an exception when setting a non-local event (
RAISE
,EXCEPTION_HANDLED
, etc.) insys.monitoring.set_local_events
.Fixes crash when tracing in recursive calls to Python classes.
gh-108035: Remove the
_PyCFrame
struct, moving the pointer to the current interpreter frame back to the threadstate, as it was for 3.10 and earlier. The_PyCFrame
existed as a performance optimization for tracing. Since PEP 669 has been implemented, this optimization no longer applies.gh-91051: Fix abort / segfault when using all eight type watcher slots, on platforms where
char
is signed by default.gh-106581: Fix possible assertion failures and missing instrumentation events when
PYTHONUOPS
or-X uops
is enabled.gh-107526: Revert converting
vars
,dir
,next
,getattr
, anditer
to argument clinic.gh-84805: Autogenerate signature for
METH_NOARGS
andMETH_O
extension functions.gh-107758: Make the
dump_stack()
routine used by thelltrace
feature (low-level interpreter debugging) robust against recursion by ensuring that it never calls a__repr__
method implemented in Python. Also make the similar output for Tier-2 uops appear onstdout
(instead ofstderr
), to match thelltrace
code in ceval.c.gh-107659: Add docstrings for
ctypes.pointer()
andctypes.POINTER()
.gh-105848: Modify the bytecode so that the actual callable for a
CALL
is at a consistent position on the stack (regardless of whether or not bound-method-calling optimizations are active).gh-107674: Fixed performance regression in
sys.settrace
.gh-107724: In pre-release versions of 3.12, up to rc1, the sys.monitoring callback function for the
PY_THROW
event was missing the third, exception argument. That is now fixed.gh-84436: Skip reference count modifications for many known immortal objects.
gh-107596: Specialize subscripting
str
objects byint
indexes.gh-107080: Trace refs builds (
--with-trace-refs
) were crashing when used with isolated subinterpreters. The problematic global state has been isolated to each interpreter. Other fixing the crashes, this change does not affect users.gh-107557: Generate the cases needed for the barebones tier 2 abstract interpreter for optimization passes in CPython.
gh-106608: Make
_PyUOpExecutorObject
variable length.gh-100964: Clear generators’ exception state after
return
to break reference cycles.gh-107455: Improve error messages when converting an incompatible type to
ctypes.c_char_p
,ctypes.c_wchar_p
andctypes.c_void_p
.gh-107263: Increase C recursion limit for functions other than the main interpreter from 800 to 1500. This should allow functions like
list.__repr__
andjson.dumps
to handle all the inputs that they could prior to 3.12gh-104584: Fix an issue which caused incorrect inline caches to be read when running with
PYTHONUOPS
or-X uops
enabled.gh-104432: Fix potential unaligned memory access on C APIs involving returned sequences of
char *
pointers within thegrp
andsocket
modules. These were revealed using a-fsaniziter=alignment
build on ARM macOS. Patch by Christopher Chavez.gh-106078: Isolate
_decimal
(apply PEP 687). Patch by Charlie Zhao.gh-106898: Add the exception as the third argument to
PY_UNIND
callbacks insys.monitoring
. This makes thePY_UNWIND
callback consistent with the other exception handling callbacks.gh-106895: Raise a
ValueError
when a monitoring callback function returnsDISABLE
for events that cannot be disabled locally.gh-106897: Add a
RERAISE
event tosys.monitoring
, which occurs when an exception is reraise, either explicitly by a plainraise
statement, or implicitly in anexcept
orfinally
block.gh-77377: Ensure that multiprocessing synchronization objects created in a fork context are not sent to a different process created in a spawn context. This changes a segfault into an actionable RuntimeError in the parent process.
gh-106931: Statically allocated string objects are now interned globally instead of per-interpreter. This fixes a situation where such a string would only be interned in a single interpreter. Normal string objects are unaffected.
gh-104621: Unsupported modules now always fail to be imported.
gh-107122: Add
dbm.ndbm.ndbm.clear()
todbm.ndbm
. Patch By Donghee Na.gh-107122: Add
dbm.gnu.gdbm.clear()
todbm.gnu
. Patch By Donghee Na.gh-107015: The ASYNC and AWAIT tokens are removed from the Grammar, which removes the possibility of making
async
andawait
soft keywords when usingfeature_version<7
inast.parse()
.gh-106917: Fix classmethod-style
super()
method calls (i.e., where the second argument tosuper()
, or the implied second argument drawn fromself/cls
in the case of zero-arg super, is a type) when the target of the call is not a classmethod.gh-105699: Python no longer crashes due an infrequent race when initializing per-interpreter interned strings. The crash would manifest when the interpreter was finalized.
gh-105699: Python no longer crashes due to an infrequent race in setting
Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding
andPy_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors
(both deprecated), when simultaneously initializing two isolated subinterpreters. Now they are only set during runtime initialization.gh-106908: Fix various hangs, reference leaks, test failures, and tracing/introspection bugs when running with
PYTHONUOPS
or-X uops
enabled.gh-106092: Fix a segmentation fault caused by a use-after-free bug in
frame_dealloc
when the trashcan delays the deallocation of aPyFrameObject
.gh-106485: Reduce the number of materialized instances dictionaries by dematerializing them when possible.
gh-106719: No longer suppress arbitrary errors in the
__annotations__
getter and setter in the type and module types.gh-106723: Propagate
frozen_modules
to multiprocessing spawned process interpreters.gh-104909: Split
LOAD_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE
into micro-ops.gh-104909: Split
LOAD_GLOBAL
specializations into micro-ops.gh-106597: A new debug structure of offsets has been added to the
_PyRuntimeState
that will help out-of-process debuggers and profilers to obtain the offsets to relevant interpreter structures in a way that is agnostic of how Python was compiled and that doesn’t require copying the headers. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-106487: Allow the count argument of
str.replace()
to be a keyword. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.gh-96844: Improve error message of
list.remove()
. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-81283: Compiler now strips indents from docstrings. It reduces
pyc
file size 5% when the module is heavily documented. This change affects to__doc__
so tools like doctest will be affected.gh-106396: When the format specification of an f-string expression is empty, the parser now generates an empty
ast.JoinedStr
node for it instead of an one-elementast.JoinedStr
with an empty stringast.Constant
.gh-100288: Specialize
LOAD_ATTR
for non-descriptors on the class. AddsLOAD_ATTR_NONDESCRIPTOR_WITH_VALUES
andLOAD_ATTR_NONDESCRIPTOR_NO_DICT
.gh-106008: Fix possible reference leaks when failing to optimize comparisons with
None
in the bytecode compiler.gh-106145: Make
end_lineno
andend_col_offset
required ontype_param
ast nodes.gh-106213: Changed the way that Emscripten call trampolines work for compatibility with Wasm/JS Promise integration.
gh-106182:
sys.getfilesystemencoding()
andsys.getfilesystemencodeerrors
now return interned Unicode object.gh-106210: Removed Emscripten import trampoline as it was no longer necessary for Pyodide.
gh-104584: Added a new, experimental, tracing optimizer and interpreter (a.k.a. “tier 2”). This currently pessimizes, so don’t use yet – this is infrastructure so we can experiment with optimizing passes. To enable it, pass
-Xuops
or setPYTHONUOPS=1
. To get debug output, setPYTHONUOPSDEBUG=N
whereN
is a debug level (0-4, where 0 is no debug output and 4 is excessively verbose).gh-105775:
LOAD_CLOSURE
is now a pseudo-op.gh-105730: Allow any callable other than type objects as the condition predicate in
BaseExceptionGroup.split()
andBaseExceptionGroup.subgroup()
.gh-105979: Fix crash in
_imp.get_frozen_object()
due to improper exception handling.gh-106003: Add a new
TO_BOOL
instruction, which performs boolean conversions forPOP_JUMP_IF_TRUE
,POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE
, andUNARY_NOT
(which all expect exactbool
values now). Also, modify the oparg ofCOMPARE_OP
to include an optional “boolean conversion” flag.gh-98931: Ensure custom
SyntaxError
error messages are raised for invalid imports with multiple targets. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-105724: Improve
assert
error messages by providing exact error range.gh-105908: Fixed bug where gh-99111 breaks future import
barry_as_FLUFL
in the Python REPL.gh-105840: Fix possible crashes when specializing function calls with too many
__defaults__
.gh-105831: Fix an f-string bug, where using a debug expression (the
=
sign) that appears in the last line of a file results to the debug buffer that holds the expression text being one character too small.gh-105800: Correctly issue
SyntaxWarning
in f-strings if invalid sequences are used. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-105340: Include the comprehension iteration variable in
locals()
inside a module- or class-scope comprehension.gh-105331: Raise
ValueError
if thedelay
argument toasyncio.sleep()
is a NaN (matchingtime.sleep()
).gh-105587: The runtime can’t guarantee that immortal objects will not be mutated by Extensions. Thus, this modifies _PyStaticObject_CheckRefcnt to warn instead of asserting.
gh-105564: Don’t include artificil newlines in the
line
attribute of tokens in the APIs of thetokenize
module. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-105549: Tokenize separately
NUMBER
andNAME
tokens that are not ambiguous. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-105588: Fix an issue that could result in crashes when compiling malformed
ast
nodes.gh-100987: Allow objects other than code objects as the “executable” in internal frames. In the long term, this can help tools like Cython and PySpy interact more efficiently. In the shorter term, it allows us to perform some optimizations more simply.
gh-105375: Fix bugs in the
builtins
module where exceptions could end up being overwritten.gh-105375: Fix bug in the compiler where an exception could end up being overwritten.
gh-105375: Improve error handling in
PyUnicode_BuildEncodingMap()
where an exception could end up being overwritten.gh-105486: Change the repr of
ParamSpec
list of args intypes.GenericAlias
.gh-105678: Break the
MAKE_FUNCTION
instruction into two parts,MAKE_FUNCTION
which makes the function andSET_FUNCTION_ATTRIBUTE
which sets the attributes on the function. This makes the stack effect ofMAKE_FUNCTION
regular to ease optimization and code generation.gh-105435: Fix spurious newline character if file ends on a comment without a newline. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-105390: Correctly raise
tokenize.TokenError
exceptions instead ofSyntaxError
for tokenize errors such as incomplete input. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-105259: Don’t include newline character for trailing
NEWLINE
tokens emitted in thetokenize
module. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-104635: Eliminate redundant
STORE_FAST
instructions in the compiler. Patch by Donghee Na and Carl Meyer.gh-105324: Fix the main function of the
tokenize
module when reading fromsys.stdin
. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-33092: Simplify and speed up interpreter for f-strings. Removes
FORMAT_VALUE
opcode. AddCONVERT_VALUE
,FORMAT_SIMPLE
andFORMAT_WITH_SPEC
opcode. Compiler emits more efficient sequence for each format expression.gh-105229: Remove remaining two-codeunit superinstructions. All remaining superinstructions only take a single codeunit, simplifying instrumentation and quickening.
gh-105235: Prevent out-of-bounds memory access during
mmap.find()
calls.gh-98963: Restore the ability for a subclass of
property
to define__slots__
or otherwise be dict-less by ignoring failures to set a docstring on such a class. This behavior had regressed in 3.12beta1. AnAttributeError
where there had not previously been one was disruptive to existing code.gh-104812: The “pending call” machinery now works for all interpreters, not just the main interpreter, and runs in all threads, not just the main thread. Some calls are still only done in the main thread, ergo in the main interpreter. This change does not affect signal handling nor the existing public C-API (
Py_AddPendingCall()
), which both still only target the main thread. The new functionality is meant strictly for internal use for now, since consequences of its use are not well understood yet outside some very restricted cases. This change brings the capability in line with the intention when the state was made per-interpreter several years ago.gh-105194: Do not escape with backslashes f-string format specifiers. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-105229: Replace some dynamic superinstructions with single instruction equivalents.
gh-105162: Fixed bug in generator.close()/throw() where an inner iterator would be ignored when the outer iterator was instrumented.
gh-105164: Ensure annotations are set up correctly if the only annotation in a block is within a
match
block. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-105148: Make
_PyASTOptimizeState
internal to ast_opt.c. Make_PyAST_Optimize
take two integers instead of a pointer to this struct. This avoids the need to include pycore_compile.h in ast_opt.c.gh-104799: Attributes of
ast
nodes that are lists now default to the empty list if omitted. This means that some code that previously raisedTypeError
when the AST node was used will now proceed with the empty list instead. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-105111: Remove the old trashcan macros
Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN
andPy_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END
. They should be replaced by the new macrosPy_TRASHCAN_BEGIN
andPy_TRASHCAN_END
.gh-105035: Fix
super()
calls on types with customtp_getattro
implementation (e.g. meta-types.)gh-105017: Show CRLF lines in the tokenize string attribute in both NL and NEWLINE tokens. Patch by Marta Gómez.
gh-105013: Fix handling of multiline parenthesized lambdas in
inspect.getsource()
. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-105017: Do not include an additional final
NL
token when parsing files having CRLF lines. Patch by Marta Gómez.gh-104976: Ensure that trailing
DEDENT
tokenize.TokenInfo
objects emitted by thetokenize
module are reported as in Python 3.11. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-104972: Ensure that the
line
attribute intokenize.TokenInfo
objects in thetokenize
module are always correct. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-104955: Fix signature for the new
__release_buffer__()
slot. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-104690: Starting new threads and process creation through
os.fork()
during interpreter shutdown (such as fromatexit
handlers) is no longer supported. It can lead to race condition between the main Python runtime thread freeing thread states while internalthreading
routines are trying to allocate and use the state of just created threads. Or forked children trying to use the mid-shutdown runtime and thread state in the child process.gh-104879: Fix crash when accessing the
__module__
attribute of type aliases defined outside a module. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-104825: Tokens emitted by the
tokenize
module do not include an implicit\n
character in theline
attribute anymore. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-104770: If a generator returns a value upon being closed, the value is now returned by
generator.close()
.gh-89091: Raise
RuntimeWarning
for unawaited async generator methods likeasend()
,athrow()
andaclose()
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-96663: Add a better, more introspect-able error message when setting attributes on classes without a
__dict__
and no slot member for the attribute.gh-93627: Update the Python pickle module implementation to match the C implementation of the pickle module. For objects setting reduction methods like
__reduce_ex__()
or__reduce__()
toNone
, pickling will result in aTypeError
.gh-91095: Specializes calls to most Python classes. Specifically, any class that inherits from
object
, or another Python class, and does not override__new__
.The specialized instruction does the following:
Creates the object (by calling
object.__new__
)Pushes a shim frame to the frame stack (to cleanup after
__init__
)Pushes the frame for
__init__
to the frame stack
Speeds up the instantiation of most Python classes.
Library¶
gh-110786:
sysconfig
’s CLI now ignoresBrokenPipeError
, making it exit normally if its output is being piped and the pipe closes.gh-103480: The
sysconfig
module is now a package, instead of a single-file module.gh-110733: Micro-optimization: Avoid calling
min()
,max()
inBaseEventLoop._run_once()
.gh-94597: Added
asyncio.EventLoop
for use with theasyncio.run()
loop_factory kwarg to avoid calling the asyncio policy system.gh-110682:
runtime-checkable protocols
used to consider__match_args__
a protocol member in__instancecheck__
if it was present on the protocol. Now, this attribute is ignored if it is present.gh-110488: Fix a couple of issues in
pathlib.PurePath.with_name()
: a single dot was incorrectly considered a valid name, and inPureWindowsPath
, a name with an NTFS alternate data stream, likea:b
, was incorrectly considered invalid.gh-110590: Fix a bug in
_sre.compile()
whereTypeError
would be overwritten byOverflowError
when the code argument was a list of non-ints.gh-65052: Prevent
pdb
from crashing when trying to display undisplayable objectsgh-110519: Deprecation warning about non-integer number in
gettext
now always refers to the line in the user code where gettext function or method is used. Previously it could refer to a line ingettext
code.gh-89902: Deprecate non-standard format specifier “N” for
decimal.Decimal
. It was not documented and only supported in the C implementation.gh-110378:
contextmanager()
andasynccontextmanager()
context managers now close an invalid underlying generator object that yields more then one value.gh-106670: In
pdb
, set convenience variable$_exception
for post mortem debugging.gh-110365: Fix
termios.tcsetattr()
bug that was overwriting existing errors during parsing integers fromterm
list.gh-109653: Slightly improve the import time of several standard-library modules by deferring imports of
warnings
within those modules. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-110273:
dataclasses.replace()
now raises TypeError instead of ValueError if specify keyword argument for a field declared with init=False or miss keyword argument for required InitVar field.gh-110249: Add
--inline-caches
flag todis
command line.gh-109653: Fix a Python 3.12 regression in the import time of
random
. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-110222: Add support of struct sequence objects in
copy.replace()
. Patched by Xuehai Pan.gh-109649:
multiprocessing
,concurrent.futures
,compileall
: Replaceos.cpu_count()
withos.process_cpu_count()
to select the default number of worker threads and processes. Get the CPU affinity if supported. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110150: Fix base case handling in statistics.quantiles. Now allows a single data point.
gh-110036: On Windows, multiprocessing
Popen.terminate()
now catchesPermissionError
and get the process exit code. If the process is still running, raise again thePermissionError
. Otherwise, the process terminated as expected: store its exit code. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110038: Fixed an issue that caused
KqueueSelector.select()
to not return all the ready events in some cases when a file descriptor is registered for both read and write.gh-110045: Update the
symtable
module to support the new scopes introduced by PEP 695.gh-88402: Add new variables to
sysconfig.get_config_vars()
on Windows:LIBRARY
,LDLIBRARY
,LIBDIR
,SOABI
, andPy_NOGIL
.gh-109631:
re
functions such asre.findall()
,re.split()
,re.search()
andre.sub()
which perform short repeated matches can now be interrupted by user.gh-109653: Reduce the import time of
email.utils
by around 43%. This results in the import time ofemail.message
falling by around 18%, which in turn reduces the import time ofimportlib.metadata
by around 6%. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-109818: Fix
reprlib.recursive_repr()
not copying__type_params__
from decorated function.gh-109047:
concurrent.futures
: The executor manager thread now catches exceptions when adding an item to the call queue. During Python finalization, creating a new thread can now raiseRuntimeError
. Catch the exception and callterminate_broken()
in this case. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109782: Ensure the signature of
os.path.isdir()
is identical on all platforms. Patch by Amin Alaee.gh-109653: Improve import time of
functools
by around 13%. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-109590:
shutil.which()
will prefer files with an extension inPATHEXT
if the given mode includesos.X_OK
on win32. If noPATHEXT
match is found, a file without an extension inPATHEXT
can be returned. This change will haveshutil.which()
act more similarly to previous behavior in Python 3.11.gh-109653: Reduce the import time of
enum
by over 50%. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-109593: Avoid deadlocking on a reentrant call to the multiprocessing resource tracker. Such a reentrant call, though unlikely, can happen if a GC pass invokes the finalizer for a multiprocessing object such as SemLock.
gh-109653: Reduce the import time of
typing
by around a third. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-109649: Add
os.process_cpu_count()
function to get the number of logical CPUs usable by the calling thread of the current process. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-74481: Add
set_error_mode
related constants inmsvcrt
module in Python debug build.gh-109613: Fix
os.stat()
andos.DirEntry.stat()
: check for exceptions. Previously, on Python built in debug mode, these functions could trigger a fatal Python error (and abort the process) when a function succeeded with an exception set. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109599: Expose the type of PyCapsule objects as
types.CapsuleType
.gh-109109: You can now get the raw TLS certificate chains from TLS connections via
ssl.SSLSocket.get_verified_chain()
andssl.SSLSocket.get_unverified_chain()
methods.Contributed by Mateusz Nowak.
gh-109559: Update
unicodedata
database to Unicode 15.1.0.gh-109543: Remove unnecessary
hasattr()
check duringtyping.TypedDict
creation.gh-109495: Remove unnecessary extra
__slots__
indatetime
's pure python implementation to reduce memory size, as they are defined in the superclass. Patch by James Hilton-Balfegh-109461:
logging
: Use a context manager for lock acquisition.gh-109096:
http.server.CGIHTTPRequestHandler
has been deprecated for removal in 3.15. Its design is old and the web world has long since moved beyond CGI.gh-109409: Fix error when it was possible to inherit a frozen dataclass from multiple parents some of which were possibly not frozen.
gh-109375: The
pdb
alias
command now prevents registering aliases without arguments.gh-109319: Deprecate the
dis.HAVE_ARGUMENT
field in favour ofdis.hasarg
.gh-107219: Fix a race condition in
concurrent.futures
. When a process in the process pool was terminated abruptly (while the future was running or pending), close the connection write end. If the call queue is blocked on sending bytes to a worker process, closing the connection write end interrupts the send, so the queue can be closed. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-66143: The
codecs.CodecInfo
object has been made copyable and pickleable. Patched by Robert Lehmann and Furkan Onder.gh-109187:
pathlib.Path.resolve()
now treats symlink loops like other errors: in strict mode,OSError
is raised, and in non-strict mode, no exception is raised.gh-50644: Attempts to pickle or create a shallow or deep copy of
codecs
streams now raise a TypeError. Previously, copying failed with a RecursionError, while pickling produced wrong results that eventually caused unpickling to fail with a RecursionError.gh-109174: Add support of
types.SimpleNamespace
incopy.replace()
.gh-109164:
pdb
: Replacegetopt
withargparse
for parsing command line arguments.gh-109151: Enable
readline
editing features in the sqlite3 command-line interface (python -m sqlite3
).gh-108987: Fix
_thread.start_new_thread()
race condition. If a thread is created during Python finalization, the newly spawned thread now exits immediately instead of trying to access freed memory and lead to a crash. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108682: Enum: require
names=()
ortype=...
to create an empty enum using the functional syntax.gh-109033: Exceptions raised by os.utime builtin function now include the related filename
gh-108843: Fix an issue in
ast.unparse()
when unparsing f-strings containing many quote types.gh-108469:
ast.unparse()
now supports new f-string syntax introduced in Python 3.12. Note that the f-string quotes are reselected for simplicity under the new syntax. (Patch by Steven Sun)gh-108751: Add
copy.replace()
function which allows to create a modified copy of an object. It supports named tuples, dataclasses, and many other objects.gh-108682: Enum: raise
TypeError
ifsuper().__new__()
is called from a custom__new__
.gh-108278: Deprecate passing the callback callable by keyword for the following
sqlite3.Connection
APIs:The affected parameters will become positional-only in Python 3.15.
Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
gh-105829: Fix concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor deadlock
gh-108295: Fix crashes related to use of weakrefs on
typing.TypeVar
.gh-108463: Make expressions/statements work as expected in pdb
gh-108277: Add
os.timerfd_create()
,os.timerfd_settime()
,os.timerfd_gettime()
,os.timerfd_settime_ns()
, andos.timerfd_gettime_ns()
to provide a low level interface for Linux’s timer notification file descriptor.gh-107811:
tarfile
: extraction of members with overly large UID or GID (e.g. on an OS with 32-bitid_t
) now fails in the same way as failing to set the ID.gh-64662: Fix support for virtual tables in
sqlite3.Connection.iterdump()
. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.gh-108111: Fix a regression introduced in gh-101251 for 3.12, resulting in an incorrect offset calculation in
gzip.GzipFile.seek()
.gh-108294:
time.sleep()
now raises an auditing event.gh-108278: Deprecate passing name, number of arguments, and the callable as keyword arguments, for the following
sqlite3.Connection
APIs:The affected parameters will become positional-only in Python 3.15.
Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
gh-108322: Speed-up NormalDist.samples() by using the inverse CDF method instead of calling random.gauss().
gh-83417: Add the ability for venv to create a
.gitignore
file which causes the created environment to be ignored by Git. It is on by default when venv is called via its CLI.gh-105736: Harmonized the pure Python version of
OrderedDict
with the C version. Now, both versions set up their internal state in__new__
. Formerly, the pure Python version did the set up in__init__
.gh-108083: Fix bugs in the constructor of
sqlite3.Connection
andsqlite3.Connection.close()
where exceptions could be leaked. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-107932: Fix
dis
module to properly report and display bytecode that do not have source lines.gh-105539:
sqlite3
now emits anResourceWarning
if asqlite3.Connection
object is notclosed
explicitly. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-107995: The
__module__
attribute on instances offunctools.cached_property
is now set to the name of the module in which the cached_property is defined, rather than “functools”. This means that doctests incached_property
docstrings are now properly collected by thedoctest
module. Patch by Tyler Smart.gh-107963: Fix
multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload()
to check the given list of modules names. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-106242: Fixes
os.path.normpath()
to handle embedded null characters without truncating the path.gh-81555:
xml.dom.minidom
now only quotes"
in attributes.gh-50002:
xml.dom.minidom
now preserves whitespaces in attributes.gh-93057: Passing more than one positional argument to
sqlite3.connect()
and thesqlite3.Connection
constructor is deprecated. The remaining parameters will become keyword-only in Python 3.15. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-76913: Add merge_extra parameter/feature to
logging.LoggerAdapter
gh-107913: Fix possible losses of
errno
andwinerror
values inOSError
exceptions if they were cleared or modified by the cleanup code before creating the exception object.gh-107845:
tarfile.data_filter()
now takes the location of symlinks into account when determining their target, so it will no longer reject some valid tarballs withLinkOutsideDestinationError
.gh-107812: Extend socket’s netlink support to the FreeBSD platform.
gh-107805: Fix signatures of module-level generated functions in
turtle
.gh-107782:
pydoc
is now able to show signatures which are not representable in Python, e.g. forgetattr
anddict.pop
.gh-56166: Deprecate passing optional arguments maxsplit, count and flags in module-level functions
re.split()
,re.sub()
andre.subn()
as positional. They should only be passed by keyword.gh-107710: Speed up
logging.getHandlerNames()
.gh-107715: Fix
doctest.DocTestFinder.find()
in presence of class names with special characters. Patch by Gertjan van Zwieten.gh-100814: Passing a callable object as an option value to a Tkinter image now raises the expected TclError instead of an AttributeError.
gh-72684: Add
tkinter
widget methods:tk_busy_hold()
,tk_busy_configure()
,tk_busy_cget()
,tk_busy_forget()
,tk_busy_current()
, andtk_busy_status()
.gh-106684: Raise
ResourceWarning
whenasyncio.StreamWriter
is not closed leading to memory leaks. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-107465: Add
pathlib.Path.from_uri()
classmethod.gh-107077: Seems that in some conditions, OpenSSL will return
SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL
instead ofSSL_ERROR_SSL
when a certification verification has failed, but the error parameters will still containERR_LIB_SSL
andSSL_R_CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED
. We are now detecting this situation and raising the appropriatessl.SSLCertVerificationError
. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-107576: Fix
types.get_original_bases()
to only return__orig_bases__
if it is present oncls
directly. Patch by James Hilton-Balfe.gh-105481: Remove
opcode.is_pseudo
,opcode.MIN_PSEUDO_OPCODE
andopcode.MAX_PSEUDO_OPCODE
, which were added in 3.12, were never documented and were not intended to be used externally.gh-105481:
opcode.ENABLE_SPECIALIZATION
(which was added in 3.12 but never documented or intended for external usage) is moved to_opcode.ENABLE_SPECIALIZATION
where tests can access it.gh-107396: tarfiles; Fixed use before assignment of self.exception for gzip decompression
gh-107409: Set
__wrapped__
attribute inreprlib.recursive_repr()
.gh-107406: Implement new
__repr__()
method forstruct.Struct
. Now it returnsStruct(<format repr>)
.gh-107369: Optimize
textwrap.indent()
. It is ~30% faster for large input. Patch by Inada Naoki.gh-78722: Fix issue where
pathlib.Path.iterdir()
did not raiseOSError
until iterated.gh-105578: Deprecate
typing.AnyStr
in favor of the new Type Parameter syntax. See PEP 695.gh-62519: Make
gettext.pgettext()
search plural definitions when translation is not found.gh-107089: Shelves opened with
shelve.open()
have a much fasterclear()
method. Patch by James Cave.gh-82500: Fix overflow on 32-bit systems with
asyncio
os.sendfile()
implementation.gh-83006: Document behavior of
shutil.disk_usage()
for non-mounted filesystems on Unix.gh-65495: Use lowercase
mail from
andrcpt to
insmptlib.SMTP
.gh-106186: Do not report
MultipartInvariantViolationDefect
defect when theemail.parser.Parser
class is used to parse emails withheadersonly=True
.gh-105002: Fix invalid result from
PurePath.relative_to()
method when attempting to walk a “..
” segment in other with walk_up enabled. AValueError
exception is now raised in this case.gh-106739: Add the
rtype_cache
to the warning message (as an addition to the type of leaked objects and the number of leaked objects already included in the message) to make debugging leaked objects easier when the multiprocessing resource tracker process finds leaked objects at shutdown. This helps more quickly identify what was leaked and/or why the leaked object was not properly cleaned up.gh-106751: Optimize
SelectSelector.select()
for many iteration case. Patch By Donghee Na.gh-106751: Optimize
_PollLikeSelector.select()
for many iteration case.gh-106751: Optimize
KqueueSelector.select()
for many iteration case. Patch By Donghee Na.gh-106831: Fix potential missing
NULL
check ofd2i_SSL_SESSION
result in_ssl.c
.gh-105481: The various opcode lists in the
dis
module are now generated from bytecodes.c instead of explicitly constructed in opcode.py.gh-106727: Make
inspect.getsource()
smarter for class for same name definitionsgh-105726: Added
__slots__
tocontextlib.AbstractContextManager
andcontextlib.AbstractAsyncContextManager
so that child classes can use__slots__
.gh-106774: Update the bundled copy of pip to version 23.2.1.
gh-106751:
selectors
: OptimizeEpollSelector.select()
code by moving some code outside of the loop.gh-106752: Fixed several bugs in zipfile.Path, including: in
zipfile.Path.match()
, Windows separators are no longer honored (and never were meant to be); Fixedname
/suffix
/suffixes
/stem
operations when no filename is present and the Path is not at the root of the zipfile; Reworked glob for performance and more correct matching behavior.gh-105293: Remove call to
SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context
during client side context creation in thessl
module.gh-105481: Expose opcode metadata through
_opcode
.gh-106670: Add the new
exceptions
command to the Pdb debugger. It makes it possible to move between chained exceptions when using post mortem debugging.gh-106664:
selectors
: Add_SelectorMapping.get()
method and optimize_SelectorMapping.__getitem__()
.gh-106628: Speed up parsing of emails by about 20% by not compiling a new regular expression for every single email.
gh-89427: Set the environment variable
VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT
atvenv
activation, even whenVIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT
is set.gh-106530: Revert a change to
colorsys.rgb_to_hls()
that caused division by zero for certain almost-white inputs. Patch by Terry Jan Reedy.gh-106584: Fix exit code for
unittest
if all tests are skipped. Patch by Egor Eliseev.gh-106566: Optimize
(?!)
(pattern which always fails) in regular expressions.gh-106554:
selectors
: Reduce Selector overhead by using adict.get()
to lookup file descriptors.gh-106558: Remove ref cycle in callers of
convert_to_error()
by deletingresult
from scope in afinally
block.gh-100502: Add
pathlib.PurePath.pathmod
class attribute that stores the implementation ofos.path
used for low-level path operations: eitherposixpath
orntpath
.gh-106527: Reduce overhead to add and remove
asyncio
readers and writers.gh-106524: Fix crash in
_sre.template()
with templates containing invalid group indices.gh-106531: Removed
_legacy
and the names it provided fromimportlib.resources
:Resource
,contents
,is_resource
,open_binary
,open_text
,path
,read_binary
, andread_text
.gh-106052:
re
module: fix the matching of possessive quantifiers in the case of a subpattern containing backtracking.gh-106510: Improve debug output for atomic groups in regular expressions.
gh-106503: Fix ref cycle in
asyncio._SelectorSocketTransport
by removing_write_ready
inclose
.gh-105497: Fix flag mask inversion when unnamed flags exist.
gh-90876: Prevent
multiprocessing.spawn
from failing to import in environments wheresys.executable
isNone
. This regressed in 3.11 with the addition of support for path-like objects in multiprocessing.gh-106403: Instances of
typing.TypeVar
,typing.ParamSpec
,typing.ParamSpecArgs
,typing.ParamSpecKwargs
, andtyping.TypeVarTuple
once again support weak references, fixing a regression introduced in Python 3.12.0 beta 1. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-89812: Add private
pathlib._PathBase
class, which provides experimental support for virtual filesystems, and may be made public in a future version of Python.gh-106292: Check for an instance-dict cached value in the
__get__()
method offunctools.cached_property()
. This better matches the pre-3.12 behavior and improves compatibility for users subclassingfunctools.cached_property()
and adding a__set__()
method.gh-106350: Detect possible memory allocation failure in the libtommath function
mp_init()
used by the_tkinter
module.gh-106330: Fix incorrect matching of empty paths in
pathlib.PurePath.match()
. This bug was introduced in Python 3.12.0 beta 1.gh-106309: Deprecate
typing.no_type_check_decorator()
. No major type checker ever added support for this decorator. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-102541: Make
pydoc.doc()
catch bad moduleImportError
when output stream is notNone
.gh-106263: Fix crash when calling
repr
with a manually constructed SignalDict object. Patch by Charlie Zhao.gh-106236: Replace
assert
statements withraise RuntimeError
inthreading
, so that_DummyThread
cannot be joined even with-OO
.gh-106238: Fix rare concurrency bug in lock acquisition by the logging package.
gh-106152: Added PY_THROW event hook for
cProfile
for generatorsgh-106075: Added
asyncio.taskgroups.__all__
toasyncio.__all__
for export in star imports.gh-104527: Zipapp will now skip over appending an archive to itself.
gh-106046: Improve the error message from
os.fspath()
if called on an object where__fspath__
is set toNone
. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-105987: Fix crash due to improper reference counting in
asyncio
eager task factory internal routines.gh-105974: Fix bug where a
typing.Protocol
class that had one or more non-callable members would raiseTypeError
whenissubclass()
was called against it, even if it defined a custom__subclasshook__
method. The behaviour in Python 3.11 and lower – which has now been restored – was not to raiseTypeError
in these situations if a custom__subclasshook__
method was defined. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-96145: Reverted addition of
json.AttrDict
.gh-89812: Add
pathlib.UnsupportedOperation
, which is raised instead ofNotImplementedError
when a path operation isn’t supported.gh-105808: Fix a regression introduced in gh-101251 for 3.12, causing
gzip.GzipFile.flush()
to not flush the compressor (nor pass along thezip_mode
argument).gh-105481:
stack_effect()
no longer raises an exception if anoparg
is provided for anopcode
that doesn’t use its arg, or when it is not provided for anopcode
that does use it. In the latter case, the stack effect is returned foroparg=0
.gh-104799: Enable
ast.unparse()
to unparse function and class definitions created without the newtype_params
field from PEP 695. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-105793: Add follow_symlinks keyword-only argument to
pathlib.Path.is_dir()
andis_file()
, defaulting toTrue
.gh-105570: Deprecate two methods of creating
typing.TypedDict
classes with 0 fields using the functional syntax:TD = TypedDict("TD")
andTD = TypedDict("TD", None)
. Both will be disallowed in Python 3.15. To create aTypedDict
class with 0 fields, either useclass TD(TypedDict): pass
orTD = TypedDict("TD", {})
.gh-105745: Fix
webbrowser.Konqueror.open
method.gh-105733:
ctypes
: Deprecate undocumentedctypes.SetPointerType()
andctypes.ARRAY()
functions. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105687: Remove deprecated
re.template
,re.T
,re.TEMPLATE
,sre_constans.SRE_FLAG_TEMPLATE
.gh-105684: Supporting
asyncio.Task.set_name()
is now mandatory for third party task implementations. The undocumented_set_task_name()
function (deprecated since 3.8) has been removed. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-105375: Fix a bug in
_Unpickler_SetInputStream()
where an exception could end up being overwritten in case of failure.gh-105626: Change the default return value of
http.client.HTTPConnection.get_proxy_response_headers()
to beNone
and not{}
.gh-105375: Fix bugs in
sys
where exceptions could end up being overwritten because of deferred error handling.gh-105605: Harden
pyexpat
error handling during module initialisation to prevent exceptions from possibly being overwritten, and objects from being dereferenced twice.gh-105375: Fix bug in
decimal
where an exception could end up being overwritten.gh-105375: Fix bugs in
_datetime
where exceptions could be overwritten in case of module initialisation failure.gh-105375: Fix bugs in
_ssl
initialisation which could lead to leaked references and overwritten exceptions.gh-105375: Fix a bug in
array.array
where an exception could end up being overwritten.gh-105375: Fix bugs in
_ctypes
where exceptions could end up being overwritten.gh-105375: Fix a bug in the
posix
module where an exception could be overwritten.gh-105375: Fix bugs in
_elementtree
where exceptions could be overwritten.gh-105375: Fix bugs in
zoneinfo
where exceptions could be overwritten.gh-105375: Fix bugs in
errno
where exceptions could be overwritten.gh-105566: Deprecate creating a
typing.NamedTuple
class using keyword arguments to denote the fields (NT = NamedTuple("NT", x=int, y=str)
). This will be disallowed in Python 3.15. Use the class-based syntax or the functional syntax instead.Two methods of creating
NamedTuple
classes with 0 fields using the functional syntax are also deprecated, and will be disallowed in Python 3.15:NT = NamedTuple("NT")
andNT = NamedTuple("NT", None)
. To create aNamedTuple
class with 0 fields, either useclass NT(NamedTuple): pass
orNT = NamedTuple("NT", [])
.gh-105545: Remove deprecated in 3.11
webbrowser.MacOSXOSAScript._name
attribute.gh-105497: Fix flag inversion when alias/mask members exist.
gh-105509:
typing.Annotated
is now implemented as an instance oftyping._SpecialForm
rather than a class. This should have no user-facing impact for users of thetyping
module public API.gh-105375: Fix bugs in
pickle
where exceptions could be overwritten.gh-70303: Emit
FutureWarning
frompathlib.Path.glob()
andrglob()
if the given pattern ends with “**
”. In a future Python release, patterns with this ending will match both files and directories. Add a trailing slash to only match directories.gh-105375: Fix a bug in
sqlite3
where an exception could be overwritten in thecollation
callback.gh-105382: Remove cafile, capath and cadefault parameters of the
urllib.request.urlopen()
function, deprecated in Python 3.6. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105376:
logging
: Remove undocumented and untestedLogger.warn()
andLoggerAdapter.warn()
methods andlogging.warn()
function. Deprecated since Python 3.3, they were aliases to thelogging.Logger.warning()
method,logging.LoggerAdapter.warning()
method andlogging.warning()
function. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105332: Revert pickling method from by-name back to by-value.
gh-104554: Add RTSPS scheme support in urllib.parse
gh-105292: Add option to
traceback.format_exception_only()
to recurse into the nested exception of aBaseExceptionGroup
.gh-105280: Fix bug where
isinstance([], collections.abc.Mapping)
could evaluate toTrue
if garbage collection happened at the wrong time. The bug was caused by changes to the implementation oftyping.Protocol
in Python 3.12.gh-105239: Fix longstanding bug where
issubclass(object, typing.Protocol)
would evaluate toTrue
in some edge cases. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-104310: In the beta 1 release we added a utility function for extension module authors, to use when testing their module for support in multiple interpreters or under a per-interpreter GIL. The name of that function has changed from
allowing_all_extensions
to_incompatible_extension_module_restrictions
. The default for the “disable_check” argument has change fromTrue
toFalse
, to better match the new function name.gh-105080: Fixed inconsistent signature on derived classes for
inspect.signature()
gh-105144: Fix a recent regression in the
typing
module. The regression meant that doingclass Foo(X, typing.Protocol)
, whereX
was a class that hadabc.ABCMeta
as its metaclass, would then cause subsequentisinstance(1, X)
calls to erroneously raiseTypeError
. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-62948: The
io.IOBase
finalizer now logs theclose()
method errors withsys.unraisablehook
. Previously, errors were ignored silently by default, and only logged in Python Development Mode or on Python built on debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105096:
wave
: Deprecate thegetmark()
,setmark()
andgetmarkers()
methods of thewave.Wave_read
andwave.Wave_write
classes. They will be removed in Python 3.15. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104992: Remove the untested and undocumented
unittest.TestProgram.usageExit()
method, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.gh-104996: Improve performance of
pathlib.PurePath
initialisation by deferring joining of paths when multiple arguments are given.gh-101588: Deprecate undocumented copy/deepcopy/pickle support for itertools.
gh-103631: Fix
pathlib.PurePosixPath(pathlib.PureWindowsPath(...))
not converting path separators to restore 3.11 compatible behavior.gh-104947: Make comparisons between
pathlib.PureWindowsPath
objects consistent across Windows and Posix to match 3.11 behavior.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
audioop
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
aifc
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
uu
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104935: Fix bugs with the interaction between
typing.runtime_checkable()
andtyping.Generic
that were introduced by the PEP 695 implementation. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
crypt
module and its private_crypt
extension, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
nis
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104898: Add missing
__slots__
toos.PathLike
.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
xdrlib
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
nntplib
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104886: Remove the undocumented
configparser.LegacyInterpolation
class, deprecated in the docstring since Python 3.2, and with a deprecation warning since Python 3.11. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.gh-104786: Remove kwargs-based
typing.TypedDict
creationgh-104876: Remove the
turtle.RawTurtle.settiltangle()
method, deprecated in docs since Python 3.1 and with a deprecation warning since Python 3.11. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.gh-104773: PEP 594: Removed the
msilib
package, deprecated in Python 3.11.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
spwd
module, deprecated in Python 3.11: the python-pam project can be used instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-75552: Removed the
tkinter.tix
module, deprecated since Python 3.6.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
chunk
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
mailcap
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
sunau
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104780: PEP 594: Remove the
ossaudiodev
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
pipes
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104873: Add
typing.get_protocol_members()
to return the set of members defining atyping.Protocol
. Addtyping.is_protocol()
to check whether a class is atyping.Protocol
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-104874: Document the
__name__
and__supertype__
attributes oftyping.NewType
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-104835: Removed the following
unittest
functions, deprecated in Python 3.11:unittest.findTestCases()
unittest.makeSuite()
unittest.getTestCaseNames()
Use
TestLoader
methods instead:Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
gh-104804: Remove the untested and undocumented
webbrowser
MacOSX
class, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.gh-83863: Support for using
pathlib.Path
objects as context managers has been removed. Before Python 3.9, exiting the context manager marked a path as “closed”, which caused some (but not all!) methods to raise when called. Since Python 3.9, using a path as a context manager does nothing.gh-104799: Adjust the location of the (see PEP 695)
type_params
field onast.ClassDef
,ast.AsyncFunctionDef
, andast.FunctionDef
to better preserve backward compatibility. Patch by Jelle Zijlstragh-104797: Allow
typing.Protocol
classes to inherit fromcollections.abc.Buffer
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-104783: Remove
locale.resetlocale()
function deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104780: Remove the
2to3
program and thelib2to3
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
telnetlib
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
imghdr
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
cgi
andcgitb
modules, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the
sndhdr
module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104372: On Linux where
subprocess
can use thevfork()
syscall for faster spawning, prevent the parent process from blocking other threads by dropping the GIL while it waits for the vfork’ed child processexec()
outcome. This prevents spawning a binary from a slow filesystem from blocking the rest of the application.gh-99108: We now release the GIL around built-in
hashlib
computations of reasonable size for the SHA families and MD5 hash functions, matching what our OpenSSL backed hash computations already does.gh-102613: Improve performance of
pathlib.Path.glob()
when expanding a pattern with a non-terminal “**
” component by filtering walked paths through a regular expression, rather than callingos.scandir()
more than once on each directory.gh-104399: Prepare the
_tkinter
module for building with Tcl 9.0 and future libtommath by replacing usage of deprecated functionsmp_to_unsigned_bin_n()
andmp_unsigned_bin_size()
when necessary.gh-102676: Add fields
start_offset
,cache_offset
,end_offset
,baseopname
,baseopcode
,jump_target
andoparg
todis.Instruction
.gh-103558: Fixed
parent
argument validation mechanism ofargparse
. Improved test coverage.gh-103464: Provide helpful usage messages when parsing incorrect
pdb
commands.gh-103384: Generalize the regex pattern
BaseConfigurator.INDEX_PATTERN
to allow spaces and non-alphanumeric characters in keys.gh-101162: Forbid using
builtins.issubclass()
withtypes.GenericAlias
as the first argument.gh-103200: Fix cache repopulation semantics of zipimport.invalidate_caches(). The cache is now repopulated upon retrieving files with an invalid cache, not when the cache is invalidated.
gh-100061: Fix a bug that causes wrong matches for regular expressions with possessive qualifier.
gh-77609: Add follow_symlinks argument to
pathlib.Path.glob()
andrglob()
, defaulting to false.gh-102541: Hide traceback in
help()
prompt, when import failed.gh-102120: Added a stream mode to
tarfile
that allows for reading archives without caching info about the inner files.gh-102029: Deprecate passing any arguments to
threading.RLock()
.gh-88233: Refactored
zipfile._strip_extra
to use higher level abstractions for extras instead of a heavy-state loop.gh-102024: Reduce calls of
_idle_semaphore.release()
inconcurrent.futures.thread._worker()
.gh-73435: Add support for recursive wildcards in
pathlib.PurePath.match()
.gh-84867:
unittest.TestLoader
no longer loads test cases from exactunittest.TestCase
andunittest.FunctionTestCase
classes.gh-99203: Restore following CPython <= 3.10.5 behavior of
shutil.make_archive()
: do not create an empty archive ifroot_dir
is not a directory, and, in that case, raiseFileNotFoundError
orNotADirectoryError
regardless offormat
choice. Beyond the brought-back behavior, the function may now also raise these exceptions indry_run
mode.gh-80480: Emit
DeprecationWarning
forarray
’s'u'
type code, deprecated in docs since Python 3.3.gh-94924:
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
now properly returns coroutine functions compatible withinspect.iscoroutinefunction()
gh-94777: Fix hanging
multiprocessing
ProcessPoolExecutor
when a child process crashes while data is being written in the call queue.gh-92871: Remove the
typing.io
andtyping.re
namespaces, deprecated since Python 3.8. All items are still available from the maintyping
module.bpo-43633: Improve the textual representation of IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses (RFC 4291 Sections 2.2, 2.5.5.2) in
ipaddress
. Patch by Oleksandr Pavliuk.bpo-44850: Improve performance of
operator.methodcaller()
using the PEP 590vectorcall
convention. Patch by Anthony Lee and Pieter Eendebak.bpo-44185:
unittest.mock.mock_open()
will call theclose()
method of the file handle mock when it is exiting from the context manager. Patch by Samet Yaslan.bpo-40988: Improve performance of
functools.singledispatchmethod
by caching the generated dispatch wrapper. Optimization suggested by frederico. Patch by @mental32, Alex Waygood and Pieter Eendebak.bpo-41768:
unittest.mock
speccing no longer calls class properties. Patch by Melanie Witt.bpo-18319: Ensure
gettext(msg)
retrieve translations even if a plural form exists. In other words:gettext(msg) == ngettext(msg, '', 1)
.bpo-17013: Add
ThreadingMock
tounittest.mock
that can be used to create Mock objects that can wait until they are called. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan and Mario Corchero.
Documentation¶
gh-109209: The minimum Sphinx version required for the documentation is now 4.2.
gh-108826:
dis
module command-line interface is now mentioned in documentation.gh-107305: Add documentation for
PyInterpreterConfig
andPy_NewInterpreterFromConfig()
. Also clarify some of the nearby docs relative to per-interpreter GIL.gh-107008: Document the
curses
module variablesLINES
andCOLS
.gh-106948: Add a number of standard external names to
nitpick_ignore
.gh-106232: Make timeit doc command lines compatible with Windows by using double quotes for arguments. This works on linux and macOS also.
gh-105172: Fixed
functools.lru_cache()
docstring accounting fortyped
argument’s different handling of str and int. Patch by Bar Harel.gh-105052: Update
timeit
doc to specify that time in seconds is just the default.gh-89455: Add missing documentation for the
max_group_depth
andmax_group_width
parameters and theexceptions
attribute of thetraceback.TracebackException
class.gh-89412: Add missing documentation for the
end_lineno
andend_offset
attributes of thetraceback.TracebackException
class.gh-104943: Remove mentions of old Python versions in
typing.NamedTuple
.gh-54738: Add documentation on how to localize the
argparse
module.gh-102823: Document the return type of
x // y
whenx
andy
have typefloat
.gh-102759: Align function signature for
functools.reduce
in documentation and docstring with the C implementation.
Tests¶
gh-110647: Fix test_stress_modifying_handlers() of test_signal. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-103053: Fix test_tools.test_freeze on FreeBSD: run “make distclean” instead of “make clean” in the copied source directory to remove also the “python” program. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-110167: Fix a deadlock in test_socket when server fails with a timeout but the client is still running in its thread. Don’t hold a lock to call cleanup functions in doCleanups(). One of the cleanup function waits until the client completes, whereas the client could deadlock if it called addCleanup() in such situation. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-110367: regrtest: When using worker processes (-jN) with –verbose3 option, regrtest can now display the worker output even if a worker process does crash. Previously, sys.stdout and sys.stderr were replaced and so the worker output was lost on a crash. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-110267: Add tests for pickling and copying PyStructSequence objects. Patched by Xuehai Pan.
gh-110171:
libregrtest
now always sets and showsrandom.seed
, so tests are more reproducible. Use--randseed
flag to pass the explicit random seed for tests.gh-110152: Remove
Tools/scripts/run_tests.py
andmake hostrunnertest
. Just run./python -m test --slow-ci
,make buildbottest
ormake test
instead. Python test runner (regrtest) now handles cross-compilation and HOSTRUNNER. It also adds options to Python such fast-u -E -W default -bb
when--fast-ci
or--slow-ci
option is used. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110031: Skip test_threading tests using thread+fork if Python is built with Address Sanitizer (ASAN). Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-110088: Fix test_asyncio timeouts: don’t measure the maximum duration, a test should not measure a CI performance. Only measure the minimum duration when a task has a timeout or delay. Add
CLOCK_RES
totest_asyncio.utils
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109974: Fix race conditions in test_threading lock tests. Wait until a condition is met rather than using
time.sleep()
with a hardcoded number of seconds. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110033: Fix
test_interprocess_signal()
oftest_signal
. Make sure that thesubprocess.Popen
object is deleted before the test raising an exception in a signal handler. Otherwise,Popen.__del__()
can get the exception which is logged asException ignored in: ...
and the test fails. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109594: Fix test_timeout() of test_concurrent_futures.test_wait. Remove the future which may or may not complete depending if it takes longer than the timeout or not. Keep the second future which does not complete before wait() timeout. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-109972: Split test_gdb.py file into a test_gdb package made of multiple tests, so tests can now be run in parallel. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-109566: regrtest: When
--fast-ci
or--slow-ci
option is used, regrtest now replaces the current process with a new process to add-u -W default -bb -E
options to Python. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109748: Fix
test_zippath_from_non_installed_posix()
of test_venv: don’t copy__pycache__/
sub-directories, because they can be modified by other Python tests running in parallel. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109739: regrtest: Fix reference leak check on Windows. Disable the load tracker on Windows in the reference leak check mode (-R option). Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-109276: regrtest: When a test fails with “env changed” and the –rerun option is used, the test is now re-run in verbose mode in a fresh process. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-103053: Skip test_freeze_simple_script() of test_tools.test_freeze if Python is built with
./configure --enable-optimizations
, which means with Profile Guided Optimization (PGO): it just makes the test too slow. The freeze tool is tested by many other CIs with other (faster) compiler flags. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109580: Skip
test_perf_profiler
if Python is built with ASAN, MSAN or UBSAN sanitizer. Python does crash randomly in this test on such build. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109566: regrtest: Add
--fast-ci
and--slow-ci
options.--fast-ci
uses a default timeout of 10 minutes and-u all,-cpu
(skip slowest tests).--slow-ci
uses a default timeout of 20 minutes and-u all
(run all tests). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109425: libregrtest now decodes stdout of test worker processes with the “backslashreplace” error handler to log corrupted stdout, instead of failing with an error and not logging the stdout. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-109396: Fix
test_socket.test_hmac_sha1()
in FIPS mode. Use a longer key: FIPS mode requires at least of at least 112 bits. The previous key was only 32 bits. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-104736: Fix test_gdb on Python built with LLVM clang 16 on Linux ppc64le (ex: Fedora 38). Search patterns in gdb “bt” command output to detect when gdb fails to retrieve the traceback. For example, skip a test if
Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC
is found. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109276: libregrtest now calls
random.seed()
before running each test file when-r/--randomize
command line option is used. Moreover, it’s also called in worker processes. It should help to make tests more deterministic. Previously, it was only called once in the main process before running all test files and it was not called in worker processes. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109276: libregrtest now uses a separated file descriptor to write test result as JSON. Previously, if a test wrote debug messages late around the JSON, the main test process failed to parse JSON. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-108996: Fix and enable
test_msvcrt
.gh-109237: Fix
test_site.test_underpth_basic()
when the working directory contains at least one non-ASCII character: encode the._pth
file to UTF-8 and enable the UTF-8 Mode to use UTF-8 for the child process stdout. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109230: Fix
test_pyexpat.test_exception()
: it can now be run from a directory different than Python source code directory. Before, the test failed in this case. Skip the test if Modules/pyexpat.c source is not available. Skip also the test on Python implementations other than CPython. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108996: Add tests for
msvcrt
.gh-109015: Fix test_asyncio, test_imaplib and test_socket tests on FreeBSD if the TCP blackhole is enabled (
sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole
). Skip the few tests which failed withETIMEDOUT
which such non standard configuration. Currently, the FreeBSD GCP image enables TCP and UDP blackhole (sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2
andsysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=1
). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91960: Skip
test_gdb
if gdb is unable to retrieve Python frame objects: if a frame is<optimized out>
. When Python is built with “clang -Og”, gdb can fail to retrieve the frame parameter of_PyEval_EvalFrameDefault()
. In this case, tests likepy_bt()
are likely to fail. Without getting access to Python frames,python-gdb.py
is mostly clueless on retrieving the Python traceback. Moreover,test_gdb
is no longer skipped on macOS if Python is built with Clang. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108962: Skip
test_tempfile.test_flags()
ifchflags()
fails with “OSError: [Errno 45] Operation not supported” (ex: on FreeBSD 13). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91960: FreeBSD 13.2 CI coverage for pull requests is now provided by Cirrus-CI (a hosted CI service that supports Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD).
gh-89392: Removed support of
test_main()
function in tests. They now always use normal unittest test runner.gh-108851: Fix
test_tomllib
recursion tests for WASI buildbots: reduce the recursion limit and compute the maximum nested array/dict depending on the current available recursion limit. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108851: Add
get_recursion_available()
andget_recursion_depth()
functions to thetest.support
module. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108834: Add
--fail-rerun option
option to regrtest: if a test failed when then passed when rerun in verbose mode, exit the process with exit code 2 (error), instead of exit code 0 (success). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108834: Rename regrtest
--verbose2
option (-w
) to--rerun
. Keep--verbose2
as a deprecated alias. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108834: When regrtest reruns failed tests in verbose mode (
./python -m test --rerun
), tests are now rerun in fresh worker processes rather than being executed in the main process. If a test does crash or is killed by a timeout, the main process can detect and handle the killed worker process. Tests are rerun in parallel if the-jN
option is used to run tests in parallel. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108822:
regrtest
now computes statistics on all tests: successes, failures and skipped.test_netrc
,test_pep646_syntax
andtest_xml_etree
now return results in theirtest_main()
function. Patch by Victor Stinner and Alex Waygood.gh-108794: The
doctest.DocTestRunner.run()
method now counts the number of skipped tests. Adddoctest.DocTestRunner.skips
anddoctest.TestResults.skipped
attributes. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108388: Convert test_concurrent_futures to a package of 7 sub-tests. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-108388: Split test_multiprocessing_fork, test_multiprocessing_forkserver and test_multiprocessing_spawn into test packages. Each package is made of 4 sub-tests: processes, threads, manager and misc. It allows running more tests in parallel and so reduce the total test duration. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-105776: Fix test_cppext when the C compiler command
-std=c11
option: remove-std=
options from the compiler command. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-107652: Set up CIFuzz to run fuzz targets in GitHub Actions. Patch by Illia Volochii.
gh-107237:
test_logging
: Fixtest_udp_reconnection()
by increasing the timeout from 100 ms to 5 minutes (LONG_TIMEOUT). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-107178: Add the C API test for functions in the Mapping Protocol, the Sequence Protocol and some functions in the Object Protocol.
gh-106714: test_capi: Fix test_no_FatalError_infinite_loop() to no longer write a coredump, by using test.support.SuppressCrashReport. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-104090: Avoid creating a reference to the test object in
collectedDurations()
.gh-106752: Moved tests for
zipfile.Path
intoLib/test/test_zipfile/_path
. Madezipfile._path
a package.gh-106690: Add .coveragerc to cpython repository for use with coverage package.
gh-101634: When running the Python test suite with
-jN
option, if a worker stdout cannot be decoded from the locale encoding report a failed testn so the exitcode is non-zero. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105084: When the Python build is configured
--with-wheel-pkg-dir
, tests requiring thesetuptools
andwheel
wheels will search for the wheels inWHEEL_PKG_DIR
.gh-81005: String tests are modified to reflect that
str
andunicode
are merged in Python 3. Patch by Daniel Fortunov.gh-103186: Suppress and assert expected RuntimeWarnings in test_sys_settrace.py
gh-69714: Add additional tests to
calendar
to achieve full test coverage.
Build¶
gh-103053: “make check-clean-src” now also checks if the “python” program is found in the source directory: fail with an error if it does exist. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-109191: Fix compile error when building with recent versions of libedit.
gh-110276: No longer ignore
PROFILE_TASK
failure silently: command used by Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109566: Remove
make testall
target: usemake buildbottest
instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109740: The experimental
--disable-gil
configure flag now includes “t” (for “threaded”) in extension ABI tags.gh-109054: Fix building the
_testcapi
extension on Linux AArch64 which requires linking to libatomic when<cpython/pyatomic.h>
is used: the_Py_atomic_or_uint64()
function requires libatomic__atomic_fetch_or_8()
on this platform. The configure script now checks if linking to libatomic is needed and generates a new LIBATOMIC variable used to build the _testcapi extension. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-63760: Fix Solaris build: no longer redefine the
gethostname()
function. Solaris defines the function since 2005. Patch by Victor Stinner, original patch by Jakub Kulík.gh-108740: Fix a race condition in
make regen-all
. Thedeepfreeze.c
source and files generated by Argument Clinic are now generated or updated before generating “global objects”. Previously, some identifiers may miss depending on the order in which these files were generated. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108634: Python built with
configure
--with-trace-refs
(tracing references) is now ABI compatible with Python release build and debug build. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-85283: The
_stat
C extension is now built with the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108447: Fix x86_64 GNU/Hurd build
gh-107814: When calling
find_python.bat
with-q
it did not properly silence the output of nuget. That is now fixed.gh-105481: Remove the make target
regen-opcode-targets
, merge its work intoregen-opcode
which repeats most of the calculation. This simplifies the code for the build and reduces code duplication.gh-106881: Check for
linux/limits.h
before including it inModules/posixmodule.c
.gh-95855: Refactor platform triplet detection code and add detection for MIPS soft float and musl libc.
gh-106962: Detect MPI compilers in
configure
.gh-106118: Fix compilation for platforms without
O_CLOEXEC
. The issue was introduced with Python 3.12b1 in gh-103295. Patch by Erlend Aasland.gh-105875: SQLite 3.15.2 or newer is required to build the
sqlite3
extension module. Patch by Erlend Aasland.gh-90005: Fix a regression in
configure
where we could end up unintentionally linking withlibbsd
.gh-102404: Document how to perform a WASI build on Linux. Also add Tools/wasm/build_wasi.sh as a reference implementation of the docs.
gh-89886: Autoconf 2.71 and aclocal 1.16.4 is now required to regenerate
!configure
.gh-104692: Include
commoninstall
as a prerequisite forbininstall
This ensures that
commoninstall
is completed beforebininstall
is started when parallel builds are used (make -j install
), and so thepython3
symlink is only installed after all standard library modules are installed.gh-101538: Add experimental wasi-threads support. Patch by Takashi Yamamoto.
Windows¶
gh-110437: Allows overriding the source of VC redistributables so that releases can be guaranteed to never downgrade between updates.
gh-109286: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.43.1.
gh-82367:
os.path.realpath()
now resolves MS-DOS style file names even if the file is not accessible. Patch by Moonsik Park.gh-109991: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 3.0.11.
gh-106242: Fixes
realpath()
to behave consistently when passed a path containing an embedded null character on Windows. In strict mode, it now raisesOSError
instead of the unexpectedValueError
, and in non-strict mode will make the path absolute.gh-83180: Changes the Inicializador Python para Windows to prefer an active virtual environment when the launched script has a shebang line using a Unix-like virtual command, even if the command requests a specific version of Python.
gh-106844: Fix integer overflow and truncating by the null character in
_winapi.LCMapStringEx()
which affectsntpath.normcase()
.gh-105436: Ensure that an empty environment block is terminated by two null characters, as is required by Windows.
gh-105146: Updated the links at the end of the installer to point to Discourse rather than the mailing lists.
gh-103646: When installed from the Microsoft Store,
pip
no longer defaults to per-user installs. However, as the install directory is unwritable, it should automatically decide to do a per-user install anyway. This should resolve issues whenpip
is passed an option that conflicts with--user
.gh-88745: Improve performance of
shutil.copy2()
by using the operating system’sCopyFile2
function. This may result in subtle changes to metadata copied along with some files, bringing them in line with normal OS behavior.gh-104820: Fixes
stat()
and related functions on file systems that do not support file ID requests. This includes FAT32 and exFAT.gh-104803: Add
os.path.isdevdrive()
to detect whether a path is on a Windows Dev Drive. ReturnsFalse
on platforms that do not support Dev Drive, and is absent on non-Windows platforms.
macOS¶
IDLE¶
gh-104719: Remove IDLE’s modification of tokenize.tabsize and test other uses of tokenize data and methods.
Tools/Demos¶
gh-109991: Update GitHub CI workflows to use OpenSSL 3.0.11 and multissltests to use 1.1.1w, 3.0.11, and 3.1.3.
gh-108494: Argument Clinic now has a partial support of the Limited API: see documentation in the Python Developer’s Guide Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-107704: It is now possible to deprecate passing keyword arguments for keyword-or-positional parameters with Argument Clinic, using the new
/ [from X.Y]
syntax. (To be read as “positional-only from Python version X.Y”.) See documentation in the Python Developer’s Guide for more information.gh-107880: Argument Clinic can now clone
__init__()
and__new__()
methods.gh-104683: Add
--exclude
option to Argument Clinic CLI.gh-95065: Argument Clinic now supports overriding automatically generated signature by using directive
@text_signature
. See documentation in the Python Developer’s Guidegh-107609: Fix duplicate module check in Argument Clinic. Previously, a duplicate definition would incorrectly be silently accepted. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
gh-107467: The Argument Clinic command-line tool now prints to stderr instead of stdout on failure.
gh-106970: Fix bugs in the Argument Clinic
destination <name> clear
command; the destination buffers would never be cleared, and thedestination
directive parser would simply continue to the fault handler after processing the command. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-106706: Change bytecode syntax for families to remove redundant name matching pseudo syntax.
gh-106359: Argument Clinic now explicitly forbids “kwarg splats” in function calls used as annotations.
gh-103186:
freeze
now fetchesCONFIG_ARGS
from the original CPython instance the Makefile uses to call utility scripts. Patch by Ijtaba Hussain.gh-95065: It is now possible to deprecate passing parameters positionally with Argument Clinic, using the new
* [from X.Y]
syntax. (To be read as “keyword-only from Python version X.Y”.) See documentation in the Python Developer’s Guide for more information. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland with help from Alex Waygood, Nikita Sobolev, and Serhiy Storchaka.
C API¶
gh-85283: If the
Py_LIMITED_API
macro is defined,Py_BUILD_CORE
,Py_BUILD_CORE_BUILTIN
andPy_BUILD_CORE_MODULE
macros are now undefined by<Python.h>
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-110289: Add
PyUnicode_EqualToUTF8AndSize()
andPyUnicode_EqualToUTF8()
functions.gh-110235: Raise
TypeError
for duplicate/unknown fields inPyStructSequence
constructor. Patched by Xuehai Pan.gh-110014: Remove undocumented
PY_TIMEOUT_MAX
constant from the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-109521:
PyImport_GetImporter()
now sets RuntimeError if it fails to getsys.path_hooks
orsys.path_importer_cache
or they are not list and dict correspondingly. Previously it could return NULL without setting error in obscure cases, crash or raise SystemError if these attributes have wrong type.gh-108724: Add
PyMutex
internal-only lightweight locking API.gh-85283: Add
PySys_AuditTuple()
function: similar toPySys_Audit()
, but pass event arguments as a Pythontuple
object. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108867: Add
PyThreadState_GetUnchecked()
function: similar toPyThreadState_Get()
, but don’t kill the process with a fatal error if it is NULL. The caller is responsible to check if the result is NULL. Previously, the function was private and known as_PyThreadState_UncheckedGet()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108765:
Python.h
no longer includes the<ctype.h>
standard header file. If needed, it should now be included explicitly. For example, it providesisalpha()
andtolower()
functions which are locale dependent. Python provides locale independent functions, likePy_ISALPHA()
andPy_TOLOWER()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108765:
Python.h
no longer includes the<unistd.h>
standard header file. If needed, it should now be included explicitly. For example, it provides the functions:close()
,getpagesize()
,getpid()
andsysconf()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108765:
Python.h
no longer includes the<ieeefp.h>
standard header. It was included for thefinite()
function which is now provided by the<math.h>
header. It should now be included explicitly if needed. Remove also theHAVE_IEEEFP_H
macro. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108765:
Python.h
no longer includes these standard header files:<time.h>
,<sys/select.h>
and<sys/time.h>
. If needed, they should now be included explicitly. For example,<time.h>
provides theclock()
andgmtime()
functions,<sys/select.h>
provides theselect()
function, and<sys/time.h>
provides thefutimes()
,gettimeofday()
andsetitimer()
functions. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108511: Add functions
PyObject_HasAttrWithError()
,PyObject_HasAttrStringWithError()
,PyMapping_HasKeyWithError()
andPyMapping_HasKeyStringWithError()
.gh-107073: Add
PyObject_VisitManagedDict()
andPyObject_ClearManagedDict()
functions which must be called by the traverse and clear functions of a type usingPy_TPFLAGS_MANAGED_DICT
flag. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108634: Python built with
configure
--with-trace-refs
(tracing references) now supports the Limited API. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108014: Add
PyLong_AsInt()
function: similar toPyLong_AsLong()
, but store the result in a C int instead of a C long. Previously, it was known as the private function_PyLong_AsInt()
(with an underscore prefix). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108314: Add
PyDict_ContainsString()
function: same asPyDict_Contains()
, but key is specified as a const char* UTF-8 encoded bytes string, rather than a PyObject*. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-108337: Add atomic operations on additional data types in pyatomic.h.
gh-108014: Add
Py_IsFinalizing()
function: check if the main Python interpreter is shutting down. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-107916: C API functions
PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
,PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename()
andPyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename()
save now the error code before callingPyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault()
.gh-107915: Such C API functions as
PyErr_SetString()
,PyErr_Format()
,PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
and many others no longer crash or ignore errors if it failed to format the error message or decode the filename. Instead, they keep a corresponding error.gh-107810: Improve
DeprecationWarning
for uses ofPyType_Spec
with metaclasses that have customtp_new
.gh-107249: Implement the
Py_UNUSED
macro for Windows MSVC compiler. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-107226:
PyModule_AddObjectRef()
is now only available in the limited API version 3.10 or later.gh-106320: Remove private
_PyUnicode_AsString()
alias toPyUnicode_AsUTF8()
. It was kept for backward compatibility with Python 3.0 - 3.2. ThePyUnicode_AsUTF8()
is available since Python 3.3. ThePyUnicode_AsUTF8String()
function can be used to keep compatibility with Python 3.2 and older. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-106572: Convert
PyObject_DelAttr()
andPyObject_DelAttrString()
macros to functions. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-106307: Add
PyMapping_GetOptionalItem()
function.gh-106521: Add
PyObject_GetOptionalAttr()
andPyObject_GetOptionalAttrString()
functions.gh-106320: Remove
_PyInterpreterState_Get()
alias toPyInterpreterState_Get()
which was kept for backward compatibility with Python 3.8. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-106316: Remove
cpython/pytime.h
header file: it only contained private functions. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-106023: Remove private
_PyObject_FastCall()
function: usePyObject_Vectorcall()
which is available since Python 3.8 (PEP 590). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-106168: If Python is built in debug mode or
with assertions
,PyTuple_SET_ITEM()
andPyList_SET_ITEM()
now check the index argument with an assertion. If the assertion fails, make sure that the size is set before. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-106084: Remove the old aliases to functions calling functions which were kept for backward compatibility with Python 3.8 provisional API:
_PyObject_CallMethodNoArgs()
: usePyObject_CallMethodNoArgs()
_PyObject_CallMethodOneArg()
: usePyObject_CallMethodOneArg()
_PyObject_CallOneArg()
: usePyObject_CallOneArg()
_PyObject_FastCallDict()
: usePyObject_VectorcallDict()
_PyObject_Vectorcall()
: usePyObject_Vectorcall()
_PyObject_VectorcallMethod()
: usePyObject_VectorcallMethod()
_PyVectorcall_Function()
: usePyVectorcall_Function()
Just remove the underscore prefix to update your code. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-106004: Adds
PyDict_GetItemRef()
andPyDict_GetItemStringRef()
functions: similar toPyDict_GetItemWithError()
but returning a strong reference instead of a borrowed reference. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105927: Deprecate the
PyWeakref_GetObject()
andPyWeakref_GET_OBJECT()
functions: use the newPyWeakref_GetRef()
function instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105927: Add
PyWeakref_GetRef()
function: similar toPyWeakref_GetObject()
but returns a strong reference, orNULL
if the referent is no longer live. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105922: Add
PyImport_AddModuleRef()
: similar toPyImport_AddModule()
, but return a strong reference instead of a borrowed reference. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105227: The new
PyType_GetDict()
provides the dictionary for the given type object that is normally exposed bycls.__dict__
. Normally it’s sufficient to usetp_dict
, but for the static builtin typestp_dict
is now alwaysNULL
.PyType_GetDict()
provides the correct dict object instead.gh-105375: Fix a bug in
PyErr_WarnExplicit()
where an exception could end up being overwritten if the API failed internally.gh-105603: We’ve renamed the new (in 3.12)
PyInterpreterConfig.own_gil
toPyInterpreterConfig.gil
and changed the meaning of the value from “bool” to an integer with supported values ofPyInterpreterConfig_DEFAULT_GIL
,PyInterpreterConfig_SHARED_GIL
, andPyInterpreterConfig_OWN_GIL
. The default is “shared”.gh-105387: In the limited C API version 3.12,
Py_INCREF()
andPy_DECREF()
functions are now implemented as opaque function calls to hide implementation details. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105396: Deprecate the
PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock()
function which is just an alias toPyImport_ImportModule()
since Python 3.3. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-103968:
PyType_FromMetaclass()
now allows metaclasses withtp_new
set toNULL
.gh-105268: Remove the old private, undocumented and untested
_PyGC_FINALIZED()
macro which was kept for backward compatibility with Python 3.8 and older. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105182: Remove
PyEval_AcquireLock()
andPyEval_ReleaseLock()
functions, deprecated in Python 3.2. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105182: Remove
PyEval_InitThreads()
andPyEval_ThreadsInitialized()
functions, deprecated in Python 3.9. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105145: Deprecate old Python initialization functions:
Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-85275:
PyObject_AsCharBuffer()
,PyObject_AsReadBuffer()
,PyObject_CheckReadBuffer()
, andPyObject_AsWriteBuffer()
are removed. Please migrate to new buffer protocol;PyObject_GetBuffer()
andPyBuffer_Release()
.gh-105156: Deprecate the old
Py_UNICODE
andPY_UNICODE_TYPE
types: use directly thewchar_t
type instead. Since Python 3.3,Py_UNICODE
andPY_UNICODE_TYPE
are just aliases towchar_t
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-105145: Remove the following old functions to configure the Python initialization, deprecated in Python 3.11:
PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode()
PySys_AddWarnOption()
PySys_AddXOption()
PySys_HasWarnOptions()
PySys_SetArgvEx()
PySys_SetArgv()
PySys_SetPath()
Py_SetPath()
Py_SetProgramName()
Py_SetPythonHome()
Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding()
_Py_SetProgramFullPath()
Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-105107: Remove functions deprecated in Python 3.9.
PyEval_CallObject()
,PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords()
: usePyObject_CallNoArgs()
andPyObject_Call()
(positional arguments must not be NULL) instead.PyEval_CallFunction()
: usePyObject_CallFunction()
instead.PyEval_CallMethod()
: usePyObject_CallMethod()
instead.PyCFunction_Call()
: usePyObject_Call()
instead.
Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-105115:
PyTypeObject.tp_bases
(andtp_mro
) for builtin static types are now shared by all interpreters, whereas in 3.12-beta1 they were stored onPyInterpreterState
. Also note that now the tuples are immortal objects.gh-105071: Add
PyUnstable_Exc_PrepReraiseStar
to the unstable C api to expose the implementation ofexcept*
.gh-104922:
PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
is no longer required to use'#'
formats in APIs likePyArg_ParseTuple()
andPy_BuildValue()
. They usesPy_ssize_t
for'#'
regardlessPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
.gh-104584: Add an unstable C API for hooking in an optimizer. This is mainly internal, but marked “unstable” to allow third-party experimentation.
gh-104668: Don’t call
PyOS_InputHook
orPyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer
in subinterpreters, since it’s generally difficult to avoid using global state in their registered callbacks. This also avoids situations where extensions may find themselves running in a subinterpreter they don’t support (or haven’t yet been loaded in).bpo-42327: Add
PyModule_Add()
function: similar toPyModule_AddObjectRef()
andPyModule_AddObject()
, but always steals a reference to the value.bpo-40309: Properly handle trailing spaces before closing parenthesis in
Py_BuildValue()
format strings.
Python 3.12.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2023-05-22
Security¶
gh-99889: Fixed a security in flaw in
uu.decode()
that could allow for directory traversal based on the input if noout_file
was specified.gh-104049: Do not expose the local on-disk location in directory indexes produced by
http.client.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
.gh-99108: Upgrade built-in
hashlib
SHA3 implementation to a verified implementation from theHACL*
project. Used when OpenSSL is not present or lacks SHA3.gh-102153:
urllib.parse.urlsplit()
now strips leading C0 control and space characters following the specification for URLs defined by WHATWG in response to CVE 2023-24329. Patch by Illia Volochii.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-102856: Implement PEP 701 changes in the
tokenize
module. Patch by Marta Gómez Macías and Pablo Galindo Salgadogh-104615: Fix wrong ordering of assignments in code like
a, a = x, y
. Contributed by Carl Meyer.gh-104572: Improve syntax error message for invalid constructs in PEP 695 contexts and in annotations when
from __future__ import annotations
is active.gh-104482: Fix three error handling bugs in ast.c’s validation of pattern matching statements.
gh-102818: Do not add a frame to the traceback in the
sys.setprofile
andsys.settrace
trampoline functions. This ensures that frames are not duplicated if an exception is raised in the callback function, and ensures that frames are not omitted if a C callback is used and that does not add the frame.gh-104405: Fix an issue where some bytecode instructions could ignore PEP 523 when “inlining” calls.
gh-103082: Change behavior of
sys.monitoring.events.LINE
events insys.monitoring
: Line events now occur when a new line is reached dynamically, instead of using a static approximation, as before. This makes the behavior very similar to that of “line” events insys.settrace
. This should ease porting of tools from 3.11 to 3.12.gh-104263: Fix
float("nan")
to produce a quiet NaN on platforms (like MIPS) where the meaning of the signalling / quiet bit is inverted from its usual meaning. Also introduce a new macroPy_INFINITY
matching C99’sINFINITY
, and refactor internals to rely on C99’sNAN
andINFINITY
macros instead of hard-coding bit patterns for infinities and NaNs. Thanks Sebastian Berg.gh-99113: Multi-phase init extension modules may now indicate that they support running in subinterpreters that have their own GIL. This is done by using
Py_MOD_PER_INTERPRETER_GIL_SUPPORTED
as the value for thePy_mod_multiple_interpreters
module def slot. Otherwise the module, by default, cannot be imported in such subinterpreters. (This does not affect the main interpreter or subinterpreters that do not have their own GIL.) In addition to the isolation that multi-phase init already normally requires, support for per-interpreter GIL involves one additional constraint: thread-safety. If the module has external (linked) dependencies and those libraries have any state that isn’t thread-safe then the module must do the additional work to add thread-safety. This should be an uncommon case.gh-99113: The GIL is now (optionally) per-interpreter. This is the fundamental change for PEP 684. This is all made possible by virtue of the isolated state of each interpreter in the process. The behavior of the main interpreter remains unchanged. Likewise, interpreters created using
Py_NewInterpreter()
are not affected. To get an interpreter with its own GIL, callPy_NewInterpreterFromConfig()
.gh-104108: Multi-phase init extension modules may now indicate whether or not they actually support multiple interpreters. By default such modules are expected to support use in multiple interpreters. In the uncommon case that one does not, it may use the new
Py_mod_multiple_interpreters
module def slot. A value of0
means the module does not support them.1
means it does. The default is1
.gh-104142: Fix an issue where
list
ortuple
repetition could fail to respect PEP 683.gh-104078: Improve the performance of
PyObject_HasAttrString()
gh-104066: Improve the performance of
hasattr()
for module objects with a missing attribute.gh-104028: Reduce object creation while calling callback function from gc. Patch by Donghee Na.
gh-104018: Disallow the “z” format specifier in %-format of bytes objects.
gh-102213: Fix performance loss when accessing an object’s attributes with
__getattr__
defined.gh-103895: Improve handling of edge cases in showing
Exception.__notes__
. Ensures that the messages always end with a newline and that string/bytes are not exploded over multiple lines. Patch by Carey Metcalfe.gh-103907: Don’t modify the refcounts of known immortal objects (
True
,False
, andNone
) in the main interpreter loop.gh-103899: Provide a helpful hint in the
TypeError
message when accidentally calling a module object that has a callable attribute of the same name (such asdis.dis()
ordatetime.datetime
).gh-103845: Remove both line and instruction instrumentation before adding new ones for monitoring, to avoid newly added instrumentation being removed immediately.
gh-103763: Implement PEP 695, adding syntactic support for generic classes, generic functions, and type aliases.
A new
type X = ...
syntax is added for type aliases, which resolves at runtime to an instance of the new classtyping.TypeAliasType
. The value is lazily evaluated and is accessible through the.__value__
attribute. This is implemented as a new AST nodeast.TypeAlias
.New syntax (
class X[T]: ...
,def func[T](): ...
) is added for defining generic functions and classes. This is implemented as a newtype_params
attribute on the AST nodes for classes and functions. This node holds instances of the new AST classesast.TypeVar
,ast.ParamSpec
, andast.TypeVarTuple
.typing.TypeVar
,typing.ParamSpec
,typing.ParamSpecArgs
,typing.ParamSpecKwargs
,typing.TypeVarTuple
, andtyping.Generic
are now implemented in C rather than Python.There are new bytecode instructions
LOAD_LOCALS
,LOAD_CLASSDICT_OR_GLOBAL
, andLOAD_CLASSDICT_OR_DEREF
to support correct resolution of names in class namespaces.Patch by Eric Traut, Larry Hastings, and Jelle Zijlstra.
gh-103801: Adds three minor linting fixes to the wasm module caught that were caught by ruff.
gh-103793: Optimized asyncio Task creation by deferring expensive string formatting (task name generation) from Task creation to the first time
get_name
is called. This makes asyncio benchmarks up to 5% faster.gh-102310: Change the error range for invalid bytes literals.
gh-103590: Do not wrap a single exception raised from a
try-except*
construct in anExceptionGroup
.gh-103650: Change the perf map format to remove the ‘0x’ prefix from the addresses
gh-102856: Implement the required C tokenizer changes for PEP 701. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado, Lysandros Nikolaou, Batuhan Taskaya, Marta Gómez Macías and sunmy2019.
gh-100530: Clarify the error message raised when the called part of a class pattern isn’t actually a class.
gh-101517: Fix bug in line numbers of instructions emitted for
except*
.gh-103492: Clarify
SyntaxWarning
with literalis
comparison by specifying which literal is problematic, since comparisons usingis
with e.g.None
and bool literals are idiomatic.gh-87729: Add
LOAD_SUPER_ATTR
(and a specialization forsuper().method()
) to speed upsuper().method()
andsuper().attr
. This makessuper().method()
roughly 2.3x faster and brings it within 20% of the performance of a simple method call. Patch by Vladimir Matveev and Carl Meyer.gh-103488: Change the internal offset distinguishing yield and return target addresses, so that the instruction pointer is correct for exception handling and other stack unwinding.
gh-82012: The bitwise inversion operator (
~
) on bool is deprecated. It returns the bitwise inversion of the underlyingint
representation such thatbool(~True) == True
, which can be confusing. Usenot
for logical negation of bools. In the rare case that you really need the bitwise inversion of the underlyingint
, convert to int explicitly~int(x)
.gh-77757: Exceptions raised in a typeobject’s
__set_name__
method are no longer wrapped by aRuntimeError
. Context information is added to the exception as a PEP 678 note.gh-103333:
AttributeError
now retains thename
attribute when pickled and unpickled.gh-103242: Migrate
set_ecdh_curve()
method not to use deprecated OpenSSL APIs. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-103323: We’ve replaced our use of
_PyRuntime.tstate_current
with a thread-local variable. This is a fairly low-level implementation detail, and there should be no change in behavior.gh-84436: The implementation of PEP-683 which adds Immortal Objects by using a fixed reference count that skips reference counting to make objects truly immutable.
gh-102700: Allow built-in modules to be submodules. This allows submodules to be statically linked into a CPython binary.
gh-103082: Implement PEP 669 Low Impact Monitoring for CPython.
gh-88691: Reduce the number of inline
CACHE
entries forCALL
.gh-102500: Make the buffer protocol accessible in Python code using the new
__buffer__
and__release_buffer__
magic methods. See PEP 688 for details. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-97933: PEP 709: inline list, dict and set comprehensions to improve performance and reduce bytecode size.
gh-99184: Bypass instance attribute access of
__name__
inrepr
ofweakref.ref
.gh-98003: Complex function calls are now faster and consume no C stack space.
bpo-39610:
len()
for 0-dimensionalmemoryview
objects (such asmemoryview(ctypes.c_uint8(42))
) now raises aTypeError
. Previously this returned1
, which was not consistent withmem_0d[0]
raising anIndexError
.bpo-31821: Fix
pause_reading()
to work when called fromconnection_made()
inasyncio
.
Library¶
gh-104600:
functools.update_wrapper()
now sets the__type_params__
attribute (added by PEP 695).gh-104340: When an
asyncio
pipe protocol loses its connection due to an error, and the caller doesn’t awaitwait_closed()
on the correspondingStreamWriter
, don’t log a warning about an exception that was never retrieved. After all, according to theStreamWriter.close()
docs, thewait_closed()
call is optional (“not mandatory”).gh-104555: Fix issue where an
issubclass()
check comparing a classX
against aruntime-checkable protocol
Y
with non-callable members would not causeTypeError
to be raised if anisinstance()
call had previously been made comparing an instance ofX
toY
. This issue was present in edge cases on Python 3.11, but became more prominent in 3.12 due to some unrelated changes that were made to runtime-checkable protocols. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-104372: Refactored the
_posixsubprocess
internals to avoid Python C API usage between fork and exec when markingpass_fds=
file descriptors inheritable.gh-104484: Added case_sensitive argument to
pathlib.PurePath.match()
gh-75367: Fix data descriptor detection in
inspect.getattr_static()
.gh-104536: Fix a race condition in the internal
multiprocessing.process
cleanup logic that could manifest as an unintendedAttributeError
when callingprocess.close()
.gh-103857: Update datetime deprecations’ stracktrace to point to the calling line
gh-101520: Move the core functionality of the
tracemalloc
module in thePython/
folder, leaving just the module wrapper inModules/
.gh-104392: Remove undocumented and unused
_paramspec_tvars
attribute from some classes intyping
.gh-102613: Fix issue where
pathlib.Path.glob()
raisedRecursionError
when walking deep directory trees.gh-103000: Improve performance of
dataclasses.asdict()
for the common case where dict_factory isdict
. Patch by David C Ellis.gh-104301: Allow leading whitespace in disambiguated statements in
pdb
.gh-104139: Teach
urllib.parse.unsplit()
to retain the"//"
when assemblingitms-services://?action=generate-bugs
style Apple Platform Deployment URLs.gh-104307:
socket.getnameinfo()
now releases the GIL while contacting the DNS servergh-104310: Users may now use
importlib.util.allowing_all_extensions()
(a context manager) to temporarily disable the strict compatibility checks for importing extension modules in subinterpreters.gh-87695: Fix issue where
pathlib.Path.glob()
raisedOSError
when it encountered a symlink to an overly long path.gh-104265: Prevent possible crash by disallowing instantiation of the
_csv.Reader
and_csv.Writer
types. The regression was introduced in 3.10.0a4 with PR 23224 (bpo-14935). Patch by Radislav Chugunov.gh-102613: Improve performance of
pathlib.Path.glob()
when expanding recursive wildcards (”**
”) by merging adjacent wildcards and de-duplicating results only when necessary.gh-65772: Remove unneeded comments and code in turtle.py.
gh-90208: Fixed issue where
pathlib.Path.glob()
returned incomplete results when it encountered aPermissionError
. This method now suppresses allOSError
exceptions, except those raised from callingis_dir()
on the top-level path.gh-104144: Optimize
asyncio.TaskGroup
when usingasyncio.eager_task_factory()
. Skip scheduling a done callback if a TaskGroup task completes eagerly.gh-104144: Optimize
asyncio.gather()
when usingasyncio.eager_task_factory()
to complete eagerly if all fututres completed eagerly. Avoid scheduling done callbacks for futures that complete eagerly.gh-104114: Fix issue where
pathlib.Path.glob()
returns paths using the case of non-wildcard segments for corresponding path segments, rather than the real filesystem case.gh-104104: Improve performance of
pathlib.Path.glob()
by usingre.IGNORECASE
to implement case-insensitive matching.gh-104102: Improve performance of
pathlib.Path.glob()
when evaluating patterns that contain'../'
segments.gh-103822: Update the return type of
weekday
to the newly added Day attributegh-103629: Update the
repr
oftyping.Unpack
according to PEP 692.gh-103963: Make
dis
display the names of the args forCALL_INTRINSIC_*
.gh-104035: Do not ignore user-defined
__getstate__
and__setstate__
methods for slotted frozen dataclasses.gh-103987: In
mmap
, fix several bugs that could lead to access to memory-mapped files after they have been invalidated.gh-88773: Added
turtle.teleport()
to theturtle
module to move a turtle to a new point without tracing a line, visible or invisible. Patch by Liam Gersten.gh-103935: Use
io.open_code()
for files to be executed instead of rawopen()
gh-68968: Fixed garbled output of
assertEqual()
when an input lacks final newline.gh-100370: Fix potential
OverflowError
insqlite3.Connection.blobopen()
for 32-bit builds. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-102628: Substitute CTRL-D with CTRL-Z in
sqlite3
CLI banner when running on Windows.gh-103636: Module-level attributes
January
andFebruary
are deprecated fromcalendar
.gh-103583: Isolate
_multibytecodec
and codecs extension modules. Patches by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-103848: Add checks to ensure that
[
bracketed]
hosts found byurllib.parse.urlsplit()
are of IPv6 or IPvFuture format.gh-103872: Update the bundled copy of pip to version 23.1.2.
gh-74940: The C.UTF-8 locale is no longer converted to en_US.UTF-8, enabling the use of UTF-8 encoding on systems which have no locales installed.
gh-103861: Fix
zipfile.Zipfile
creating invalid zip files whenforce_zip64
was used to add files to them. Patch by Carey Metcalfe.gh-103857: Deprecated
datetime.datetime.utcnow()
anddatetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp()
. (Patch by Paul Ganssle)gh-103839: Avoid compilation error due to tommath.h not being found when building Tkinter against Tcl 8.7 built with bundled libtommath.
gh-103791:
contextlib.suppress
now supports suppressing exceptions raised as part of anExceptionGroup
. If other exceptions exist on the group, they are re-raised in a group that does not contain the suppressed exceptions.gh-90750: Use
datetime.datetime.fromisocalendar()
in the implementation ofdatetime.datetime.strptime()
, which should now accept only valid ISO dates. (Patch by Paul Ganssle)gh-103685: Prepare
tkinter.Menu.index()
for Tk 8.7 so that it does not raiseTclError: expected integer but got ""
when it should returnNone
.gh-81403:
urllib.request.CacheFTPHandler
no longer raisesURLError
if a cached FTP instance is reused. ftplib’s endtransfer method calls voidresp to drain the connection to handle FTP instance reuse properly.gh-103699: Add
__orig_bases__
to non-generic TypedDicts, call-based TypedDicts, and call-based NamedTuples. Other TypedDicts and NamedTuples already had the attribute.gh-92248: Deprecate
type
,choices
, andmetavar
parameters ofargparse.BooleanOptionalAction
.gh-89415: Add
socket
constants for source-specific multicast. Patch by Reese Hyde.gh-103673:
socketserver
gainsForkingUnixStreamServer
andForkingUnixDatagramServer
classes. Patch by Jay Berry.gh-103636: Added Enum for months and days in the calendar module.
gh-84976: Create a new
Lib/_pydatetime.py
file that defines the Python version of thedatetime
module, and makedatetime
import the contents of the new library only if the C implementation is missing. Currently, the full Python implementation is defined and then deleted if the C implementation is not available, slowing downimport datetime
unnecessarily.gh-103596: Attributes/methods are no longer shadowed by same-named enum members, although they may be shadowed by enum.property’s.
gh-103584: Updated
importlib.metadata
with changes fromimportlib_metadata
5.2 through 6.5.0, including: Supportinstalled-files.txt
forDistribution.files
when present.PackageMetadata
now stipulates an additionalget
method allowing for easy querying of metadata keys that may not be present.packages_distributions
now honors packages and modules with Python modules that not.py
sources (e.g..pyc
,.so
). Expand protocol forPackageMetadata.get_all
to match the upstream implementation ofemail.message.Message.get_all
in python/typeshed#9620. Deprecated use ofDistribution
without defining abstract methods. Deprecated expectation thatPackageMetadata.__getitem__
will returnNone
for missing keys. In the future, it will raise aKeyError
.gh-103578: Fixed a bug where
pdb
crashes when reading source file with different encoding by replacingio.open()
withio.open_code()
. The new method would also call into the hook set byPyFile_SetOpenCodeHook()
.gh-103556: Now creating
inspect.Signature
objects with positional-only parameter with a default followed by a positional-or-keyword parameter without one is impossible.gh-103559: Update the bundled copy of pip to version 23.1.1.
gh-103548: Improve performance of
pathlib.Path.absolute()
andcwd()
by joining paths only when necessary. Also improve performance ofpathlib.PurePath.is_absolute()
on Posix by skipping path parsing and normalization.gh-103538: Remove
_tkinter
module code guarded by definition of theTK_AQUA
macro which was only needed for Tk 8.4.7 or earlier and was never actually defined by any build system or documented for manual use.gh-103525: Fix misleading exception message when mixed
str
andbytes
arguments are supplied topathlib.PurePath
andPath
.gh-103489: Add
getconfig()
andsetconfig()
toConnection
to make configuration changes to a database connection. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-103365: Set default Flag boundary to
STRICT
and fix bitwise operations.gh-103472: Avoid a potential
ResourceWarning
inhttp.client.HTTPConnection
by closing the proxy / tunnel’s CONNECT response explicitly.gh-103462: Fixed an issue with using
writelines()
inasyncio
to send very large payloads that exceed the amount of data that can be written in one call tosocket.socket.send()
orsocket.socket.sendmsg()
, resulting in the remaining buffer being left unwritten.gh-103449: Fix a bug in doc string generation in
dataclasses.dataclass()
.gh-103092: Isolate
_collections
(apply PEP 687). Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-103357: Added support for
logging.Formatter
defaults
parameter tologging.config.dictConfig()
andlogging.config.fileConfig()
. Patch by Bar Harel.gh-74690: The performance of
isinstance()
checks againstruntime-checkable protocols
has been considerably improved for protocols that only have a few members. To achieve this improvement, several internal implementation details of thetyping
module have been refactored, includingtyping._ProtocolMeta.__instancecheck__
,typing._is_callable_members_only
, andtyping._get_protocol_attrs
. Patches by Alex Waygood.gh-74690: The members of a runtime-checkable protocol are now considered “frozen” at runtime as soon as the class has been created. See “What’s new in Python 3.12” for more details.
gh-103256: Fixed a bug that caused
hmac
to raise an exception when the requested hash algorithm was not available in OpenSSL despite being available separately as part ofhashlib
itself. It now falls back properly to the built-in. This could happen when, for example, your OpenSSL does not include SHA3 support and you want to computehmac.digest(b'K', b'M', 'sha3_256')
.gh-103285: Improve performance of
ast.get_source_segment()
.gh-103225: Fix a bug in
pdb
when displaying line numbers of module-level source code.gh-93910: Remove deprecation of enum
member.member
access.gh-102978: Fixes
unittest.mock.patch()
not enforcing function signatures for methods decorated with@classmethod
or@staticmethod
when patch is called withautospec=True
.gh-103092: Isolate
_socket
(apply PEP 687). Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-100479: Add
pathlib.PurePath.with_segments()
, which creates a path object from arguments. This method is called whenever a derivative path is created, such as frompathlib.PurePath.parent
. Subclasses may override this method to share information between path objects.gh-103220: Fix issue where
os.path.join()
added a slash when joining onto an incomplete UNC drive with a trailing slash on Windows.gh-103204: Fixes
http.server
accepting HTTP requests with HTTP version numbers preceded by ‘+’, or ‘-’, or with digit-separating ‘_’ characters. The length of the version numbers is also constrained.gh-75586: Fix various Windows-specific issues with
shutil.which
.gh-103193: Improve performance of
inspect.getattr_static()
. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-103176:
sys._current_exceptions()
now returns a mapping from thread-id to an exception instance, rather than to a(typ, exc, tb)
tuple.gh-103015: Add entrypoint keyword-only parameter to
sqlite3.Connection.load_extension()
, for overriding the SQLite extension entry point. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-103000: Improve performance of
dataclasses.astuple()
anddataclasses.asdict()
in cases where the contents are common Python types.gh-102953: The extraction methods in
tarfile
, andshutil.unpack_archive()
, have a new a filter argument that allows limiting tar features than may be surprising or dangerous, such as creating files outside the destination directory. See Filtros de extração for details.gh-97696: Implemented an eager task factory in asyncio. When used as a task factory on an event loop, it performs eager execution of coroutines. Coroutines that are able to complete synchronously (e.g. return or raise without blocking) are returned immediately as a finished task, and the task is never scheduled to the event loop. If the coroutine blocks, the (pending) task is scheduled and returned.
gh-81079: Add case_sensitive keyword-only argument to
pathlib.Path.glob()
andrglob()
.gh-101819: Isolate the
io
extension module by applying PEP 687. Patch by Kumar Aditya, Victor Stinner, and Erlend E. Aasland.gh-91896: Deprecate
collections.abc.ByteString
gh-101362: Speed up
pathlib.Path
construction by omitting the path anchor from the internal list of path parts.gh-102114: Functions in the
dis
module that accept a source code string as argument now print a more concise traceback when the string contains a syntax or indentation error.gh-62432: The
unittest
runner will now exit with status code 5 if no tests were run. It is common for test runner misconfiguration to fail to find any tests, this should be an error.gh-78079: Fix incorrect normalization of UNC device path roots, and partial UNC share path roots, in
pathlib.PurePath
. Pathlib no longer appends a trailing slash to such paths.gh-85984: Add
tty.cfmakeraw()
andtty.cfmakecbreak()
totty
and modernize, the behavior oftty.setraw()
andtty.setcbreak()
to use POSIX.1-2017 Chapter 11 “General Terminal Interface” flag masks by default.gh-101688: Implement
types.get_original_bases()
to provide further introspection for types.gh-101640:
argparse.ArgumentParser
now catches errors when writing messages, such as whensys.stderr
isNone
. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.gh-83861: Fix datetime.astimezone method return value when invoked on a naive datetime instance that represents local time falling in a timezone transition gap. PEP 495 requires that instances with fold=1 produce earlier times than those with fold=0 in this case.
gh-89550: Decrease execution time of some
gzip
file writes by 15% by adding more appropriate buffering.gh-95299: Remove the bundled setuptools wheel from
ensurepip
, and stop installing setuptools in environments created byvenv
.gh-99353: Respect the
http.client.HTTPConnection
.debuglevel
flag inurllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler
when its constructor parameterdebuglevel
is not set. And do the same for*HTTPS*
.gh-98040: Remove the long-deprecated
imp
module.gh-97850: Deprecate
pkgutil.find_loader()
andpkgutil.get_loader()
in favor ofimportlib.util.find_spec()
.gh-94473: Flatten arguments in
tkinter.Canvas.coords()
. It now accepts not onlyx1, y1, x2, y2, ...
and[x1, y1, x2, y2, ...]
, but also(x1, y1), (x2, y2), ...
and[(x1, y1), (x2, y2), ...]
.gh-98040: Remove more deprecated importlib APIs:
find_loader()
,find_module()
,importlib.abc.Finder
,pkgutil.ImpImporter
,pkgutil.ImpLoader
.gh-96522: Fix potential deadlock in pty.spawn()
gh-96534: Support divert(4) added in FreeBSD 14.
gh-87474: Fix potential file descriptor leaks in
subprocess.Popen
.gh-94906: Support multiple steps in
math.nextafter()
. Patch by Shantanu Jain and Matthias Gorgens.gh-51574: Make
tempfile.mkdtemp()
return absolute paths when its dir parameter is relative.gh-94518: Convert private
_posixsubprocess.fork_exec()
to use Argument Clinic.gh-92184: When creating zip files using
zipfile
,os.altsep
, if notNone
, will always be treated as a path separator even when it is not/
. Patch by Carey Metcalfe.bpo-46797: Deprecation warnings are now emitted for
ast.Num
,ast.Bytes
,ast.Str
,ast.NameConstant
andast.Ellipsis
. These have been documented as deprecated since Python 3.8, and will be removed in Python 3.14.bpo-44844: Enables
webbrowser
to detect and launch Microsoft Edge browser.bpo-45606: Fixed the bug in
pathlib.Path.glob()
– previously a dangling symlink would not be found by this method when the pattern is an exact match, but would be found when the pattern contains a wildcard or the recursive wildcard (**
). With this change, a dangling symlink will be found in both cases.bpo-23041: Add
QUOTE_STRINGS
andQUOTE_NOTNULL
to the suite ofcsv
module quoting styles.bpo-24964: Added
http.client.HTTPConnection.get_proxy_response_headers()
that provides access to the HTTP headers on a proxy server response to theCONNECT
request.bpo-17258:
multiprocessing
now supports stronger HMAC algorithms for inter-process connection authentication rather than only HMAC-MD5.bpo-39744: Make
asyncio.subprocess.Process.communicate()
close the subprocess’s stdin even when called withinput=None
.bpo-22708: http.client CONNECT method tunnel improvements: Use HTTP 1.1 protocol; send a matching Host: header with CONNECT, if one is not provided; convert IDN domain names to Punycode. Patch by Michael Handler.
Documentation¶
gh-67056: Document that the effect of registering or unregistering an
atexit
cleanup function from within a registered cleanup function is undefined.gh-103629: Mention the new way of typing
**kwargs
withUnpack
andTypedDict
introduced in PEP 692.gh-48241: Clarifying documentation about the url parameter to urllib.request.urlopen and urllib.request.Request needing to be encoded properly.
gh-86094: Add support for Unicode Path Extra Field in ZipFile. Patch by Yeojin Kim and Andrea Giudiceandrea
gh-99202: Fix extension type from documentation for compiling in C++20 mode
Tests¶
gh-104494: Update
test_pack_configure_in
andtest_place_configure_in
for changes to error message formatting in Tk 8.7.gh-104461: Run test_configure_screen on X11 only, since the
DISPLAY
environment variable and-screen
option for toplevels are not useful on Tk for Win32 or Aqua.gh-86275: Added property-based tests to the
zoneinfo
tests, along with stubs for thehypothesis
interface. (Patch by Paul Ganssle)gh-103329: Regression tests for the behaviour of
unittest.mock.PropertyMock
were added.gh-102795: fix use of poll in test_epoll’s test_control_and_wait
gh-75729: Fix the
os.spawn*
tests failing on Windows when the working directory or interpreter path contains spaces.
Build¶
gh-101282: BOLT optimization is now applied to the libpython shared library if building a shared library. BOLT instrumentation and application settings can now be influenced via the
BOLT_INSTRUMENT_FLAGS
andBOLT_APPLY_FLAGS
configure variables.gh-99017:
PYTHON_FOR_REGEN
now require Python 3.10 or newer.gh-104490: Define
.PHONY
/ virtual make targets consistently and properly.gh-104106: Add gcc fallback of mkfifoat/mknodat for macOS. Patch by Donghee Na.
gh-103532: The
TKINTER_PROTECT_LOADTK
macro is no longer defined or used in the_tkinter
module. It was previously only defined when building against Tk 8.4.13 and older, but Tk older than 8.5.12 has been unsupported since gh-91152.gh-99069: Extended workaround defining
static_assert
when missing from the libc headers to all clang and gcc builds. In particular, this fixes building on macOS <= 10.10.gh-100220: Changed the default value of the
SHELL
Makefile variable from/bin/sh
to/bin/sh -e
to ensure that complex recipes correctly fail after an error. Previously,make install
could fail to install some files and yet return a successful result.gh-90656: Add platform triplets for 64-bit LoongArch:
loongarch64-linux-gnusf
loongarch64-linux-gnuf32
loongarch64-linux-gnu
Patch by Zhang Na.
Windows¶
gh-104623: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.42.0.
gh-82814: Fix a potential
[Errno 13] Permission denied
when usingshutil.copystat()
within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on a mounted filesystem by addingerrno.EACCES
to the list of ignored errors within the internal implementation.gh-103088: Fix virtual environment
activate
script having incorrect line endings for Cygwin.gh-103088: Fixes venvs not working in bash on Windows across different disks
gh-102997: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.41.2.
gh-88013: Fixed a bug where
TypeError
was raised when callingntpath.realpath()
with a bytes parameter in some cases.
macOS¶
gh-99834: Update macOS installer to Tcl/Tk 8.6.13.
gh-104623: Update macOS installer to SQLite 3.42.0.
gh-103545: Add
os.PRIO_DARWIN_THREAD
,os.PRIO_DARWIN_PROCESS
,os.PRIO_DARWIN_BG
andos.PRIO_DARWIN_NONUI
. These can be used withos.setpriority
to run the process at a lower priority and make use of the efficiency cores on Apple Silicon systems.gh-104180: Support reading SOCKS proxy configuration from macOS System Configuration. Patch by Sam Schott.
gh-60436: update curses textbox to additionally handle backspace using the
curses.ascii.DEL
key press.gh-102997: Update macOS installer to SQLite 3.41.2.
IDLE¶
Tools/Demos¶
C API¶
gh-101291: Added unstable C API for extracting the value of “compact” integers:
PyUnstable_Long_IsCompact()
andPyUnstable_Long_CompactValue()
.gh-104109: We’ve added
Py_NewInterpreterFromConfig()
andPyInterpreterConfig
to the public C-API (but not the stable ABI; not yet at least). The new function may be used to create a new interpreter with various features configured. The function was added to support PEP 684 (per-interpreter GIL).gh-103968:
PyType_FromSpec()
and its variants now allow creating classes whose metaclass overridestp_new
. Thetp_new
is ignored. This behavior is deprecated and will be disallowed in 3.14+. The newPyType_FromMetaclass()
already disallows it.gh-103743: Add
PyUnstable_Object_GC_NewWithExtraData()
function that can be used to allocate additional memory after an object for data not managed by Python.gh-103295: Introduced
PyUnstable_WritePerfMapEntry()
,PyUnstable_PerfMapState_Init()
andPyUnstable_PerfMapState_Fini()
. These allow extension modules (JIT compilers in particular) to write to perf-map files in a thread safe manner. The Suporte do Python ao perfilador perf do Linux also uses these APIs to write entries in the perf-map file.gh-103509: Added C API for extending types whose instance memory layout is opaque:
PyType_Spec.basicsize
can now be zero or negative,PyObject_GetTypeData()
can be used to get subclass-specific data, andPy_TPFLAGS_ITEMS_AT_END
can be used to safely extend variable-size objects. See PEP 697 for details.gh-103091: Add a new C-API function to eagerly assign a version tag to a PyTypeObject:
PyUnstable_Type_AssignVersionTag()
.gh-101408:
PyObject_GC_Resize
should calculate preheader size if needed. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-98836: Add support of more formatting options (left aligning, octals, uppercase hexadecimals,
intmax_t
,ptrdiff_t
,wchar_t
C strings, variable width and precision) inPyUnicode_FromFormat()
andPyUnicode_FromFormatV()
.gh-96803: Add unstable C-API functions to get the code object, lasti and line number from the internal
_PyInterpreterFrame
in the limited API. The functions are:PyCodeObject * PyUnstable_InterpreterFrame_GetCode(struct _PyInterpreterFrame *frame)
int PyUnstable_InterpreterFrame_GetLasti(struct _PyInterpreterFrame *frame)
int PyUnstable_InterpreterFrame_GetLine(struct _PyInterpreterFrame *frame)
Python 3.12.0 alpha 7¶
Release date: 2023-04-04
Core and Builtins¶
gh-102192: Deprecated
_PyErr_ChainExceptions
in favour of_PyErr_ChainExceptions1
.gh-89987: Reduce the number of inline
CACHE
entries forBINARY_SUBSCR
.gh-102859: Removed
JUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POP
andJUMP_IF_TRUE_OR_POP
instructions.gh-101975: Fixed
stacktop
value on tracing entries to avoid corruption on garbage collection.gh-102778: Add
sys.last_exc
and deprecatesys.last_type
,sys.last_value
andsys.last_traceback
, which hold the same information in its legacy form.gh-100982: Replace all occurrences of
COMPARE_AND_BRANCH
withCOMPARE_OP
.gh-102701: Fix overflow when creating very large dict.
gh-102755: Add
PyErr_DisplayException()
which takes just an exception instance, to replace the legacyPyErr_Display()
which takes the(typ, exc, tb)
triplet.gh-102594: Add note to exception raised in
PyErr_SetObject
when normalization fails.gh-90997: Shrink the number of inline
CACHE
entries used byLOAD_GLOBAL
.gh-102491: Improve import time of
platform
by removing IronPython version parsing. The IronPython version parsing was not functional (see https://github.com/IronLanguages/ironpython3/issues/1667).gh-101291: Rearrage bits in first field (after header) of PyLongObject. * Bits 0 and 1: 1 - sign. I.e. 0 for positive numbers, 1 for zero and 2 for negative numbers. * Bit 2 reserved (probably for the immortal bit) * Bits 3+ the unsigned size.
This makes a few operations slightly more efficient, and will enable a more compact and faster 2s-complement representation of most ints in future.
gh-102397: Fix segfault from race condition in signal handling during garbage collection. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
gh-102406:
codecs
encoding/decoding errors now get the context information (which operation and which codecs) attached as PEP 678 notes instead of through chaining a new instance of the exception.gh-102281: Fix potential nullptr dereference and use of uninitialized memory in fileutils. Patch by Max Bachmann.
gh-102300: Reuse operands with refcount of 1 in float specializations of BINARY_OP.
gh-102213: Fix performance loss when accessing an object’s attributes with
__getattr__
defined.gh-102255: Improve build support for the Xbox. Patch by Max Bachmann.
gh-102027: Fix SSE2 and SSE3 detection in
_blake2
internal module. Patch by Max Bachmann.gh-101865: Deprecate
co_lnotab
in code objects, schedule it for removal in Python 3.14bpo-1635741: Adapt
_pickle
to PEP 687. Patch by Mohamed Koubaa and Erlend Aasland.
Library¶
gh-103085: Pure python
locale.getencoding()
will not warn deprecation.gh-103068: It’s no longer possible to register conditional breakpoints in
Pdb
that raiseSyntaxError
. Patch by Tian Gao.gh-102549: Don’t ignore exceptions in member type creation.
gh-103056: Ensure final
_generate_next_value_
is astaticmethod
.gh-103046: Display current line label correctly in
dis
whenshow_caches
is False andlasti
points to a CACHE entry.gh-102433:
isinstance()
checks againstruntime-checkable protocols
now useinspect.getattr_static()
rather thanhasattr()
to lookup whether attributes exist. This means that descriptors and__getattr__()
methods are no longer unexpectedly evaluated duringisinstance()
checks against runtime-checkable protocols. However, it may also mean that some objects which used to be considered instances of a runtime-checkable protocol may no longer be considered instances of that protocol on Python 3.12+, and vice versa. Most users are unlikely to be affected by this change. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-103023: It’s no longer possible to register expressions to display in
Pdb
that raiseSyntaxError
. Patch by Tian Gao.gh-102947: Improve traceback when
dataclasses.fields()
is called on a non-dataclass. Patch by Alex Waygoodgh-102780: The
asyncio.Timeout
context manager now works reliably even when performing cleanup due to task cancellation. Previously it could raise aCancelledError
instead of anTimeoutError
in such cases.gh-102871: Remove support for obsolete browsers from
webbrowser
. Removed browsers include Grail, Mosaic, Netscape, Galeon, Skipstone, Iceape, Firebird, and Firefox versions 35 and below.gh-102839: Improve performance of
math.log()
arguments handling by removing the argument clinic.gh-102828: Add the
onexc
arg toshutil.rmtree()
, which is likeonerror
but expects an exception instance rather than an exc_info tuple. Deprecateonerror
.gh-88965: typing: Fix a bug relating to substitution in custom classes generic over a
ParamSpec
. Previously, if theParamSpec
was substituted with a parameters list that itself contained aTypeVar
, theTypeVar
in the parameters list could not be subsequently substituted. This is now fixed.Patch by Nikita Sobolev.
gh-76846: Fix issue where
__new__()
and__init__()
methods ofpathlib.PurePath
andPath
subclasses were not called in some circumstances.gh-78530:
asyncio.wait()
now accepts generators yielding tasks. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-102748:
asyncio.iscoroutine()
now returnsFalse
for generators asasyncio
does not support legacy generator-based coroutines. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-102670: Optimized fmean(), correlation(), covariance(), and linear_regression() using the new math.sumprod() function.
gh-102615: Typing: Improve the
repr
of generic aliases for classes generic over aParamSpec
. (Use square brackets to represent a parameter list.)gh-100112:
asyncio.Task.get_coro()
now always returns a coroutine when wrapping an awaitable object. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-102578: Speed up setting or deleting mutable attributes on non-dataclass subclasses of frozen dataclasses. Due to the implementation of
__setattr__
and__delattr__
for frozen dataclasses, this previously had a time complexity of O(n). It now has a time complexity of O(1).gh-102519: Add
os.listdrives()
,os.listvolumes()
andos.listmounts()
functions on Windows for enumerating drives, volumes and mount pointsgh-74468: Attribute name of the extracted
tarfile
file object now holds filename of itself rather than of the archive it is contained in. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.gh-102378: Private helper method
inspect._signature_strip_non_python_syntax
will no longer strip/
from the input string.gh-79940: Add
inspect.getasyncgenstate()
andinspect.getasyncgenlocals()
. Patch by Thomas Krennwallner.gh-102103: Add
module
argument todataclasses.make_dataclass()
and make classes produced by it pickleable.gh-102069: Fix
__weakref__
descriptor generation for custom dataclasses.gh-102038: Skip a
stat
insite
if we have already found apyvenv.cfg
gh-98886: Fix issues when defining dataclasses that have fields with specific underscore names that aren’t clearly reserved by
dataclasses
.gh-101673: Fix a
pdb
bug wherell
clears the changes to local variables.gh-101313: Added -h and –help arguments to the webbrowser CLI
gh-100372:
ssl.SSLContext.load_verify_locations()
no longer incorrectly accepts some cases of trailing data when parsing DER.gh-89727: Fix pathlib.Path.walk RecursionError on deep directory trees by rewriting it using iteration instead of recursion.
gh-100131: Added an optional
delete
keyword argument totempfile.TemporaryDirectory
.gh-48330: Added
--durations
command line option, showing the N slowest test cases.unittest.TextTestRunner
andunittest.TextTestResult
constructors accept a new durations keyword argument. Subclasses should take this into account or accept**kwargs
. Addedunittest.TestResult.addDuration()
method andunittest.TestResult.collectedDurations
attribute.(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola)
gh-98169: Fix
dataclasses.astuple()
crash whencollections.defaultdict
is present in the attributes.gh-96931: Fix incorrect results from
ssl.SSLSocket.shared_ciphers()
gh-95495: When built against OpenSSL 3.0, the
ssl
module had a bug where it reported unauthenticated EOFs (i.e. without close_notify) as a clean TLS-level EOF. It now raisesSSLEOFError
, matching the behavior in previous versions of OpenSSL. Theoptions
attribute onSSLContext
also no longer includesOP_IGNORE_UNEXPECTED_EOF
by default. This option may be set to specify the previous OpenSSL 3.0 behavior.gh-94684: Now
uuid.uuid3()
anduuid.uuid5()
functions supportbytes
objects as their name argument.gh-94440: Fix a
concurrent.futures.process
bug whereProcessPoolExecutor
shutdown could hang after a future has been quickly submitted and canceled.gh-72346: Added deprecation warning to isdst parameter of
email.utils.localtime()
.bpo-36305: Fix handling of Windows filenames that resemble drives, such as
./a:b
, inpathlib
.
Documentation¶
gh-103112: Add docstring to
http.client.HTTPResponse.read()
to fixpydoc
output.
Tests¶
Build¶
Windows¶
gh-102690: Update
webbrowser
to fall back to Microsoft Edge instead of Internet Explorer.gh-99726: Improves correctness of stat results for Windows, and uses faster API when available
Tools/Demos¶
gh-102809:
Misc/gdbinit
was removed.
C API¶
gh-102013: Add a new (unstable) C-API function for iterating over GC’able objects using a callback:
PyUnstable_VisitObjects
.
Python 3.12.0 alpha 6¶
Release date: 2023-03-07
Security¶
gh-99108: Replace builtin hashlib implementations of MD5 and SHA1 with verified ones from the HACL* project.
gh-101727: Updated the OpenSSL version used in Windows and macOS binary release builds to 1.1.1t to address CVE 2023-0286, CVE 2022-4303, and CVE 2022-4303 per the OpenSSL 2023-02-07 security advisory.
gh-99108: Replace the builtin
hashlib
implementations of SHA2-384 and SHA2-512 originally from LibTomCrypt with formally verified, side-channel resistant code from the HACL* project. The builtins remain a fallback only used when OpenSSL does not provide them.gh-101283:
subprocess.Popen
now uses a safer approach to findcmd.exe
when launching withshell=True
. Patch by Eryk Sun, based on a patch by Oleg Iarygin.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-102493: Fix regression in semantics of normalisation in
PyErr_SetObject
.gh-102416: Do not memoize incorrectly automatically generated loop rules in the parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
gh-102356: Fix a bug that caused a crash when deallocating deeply nested filter objects. Patch by Marta Gómez Macías.
gh-102336: Cleanup Windows 7 specific special handling. Patch by Max Bachmann.
gh-102250: Fixed a segfault occurring when the interpreter calls a
__bool__
method that raises.gh-102126: Fix deadlock at shutdown when clearing thread states if any finalizer tries to acquire the runtime head lock. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
gh-102027: Use
GetCurrentProcessId
on Windows whengetpid
is unavailable. Patch by Max Bachmann.gh-102056: Fix error handling bugs in interpreter’s exception printing code, which could cause a crash on infinite recursion.
gh-100982: Restrict the scope of the
FOR_ITER_RANGE
instruction to the scope of the originalFOR_ITER
instruction, to allow instrumentation.gh-101967: Fix possible segfault in
positional_only_passed_as_keyword
function, when new list created.gh-101952: Fix possible segfault in
BUILD_SET
opcode, when new set created.gh-74895:
socket.getaddrinfo
no longer raisesOverflowError
forint
port values outside of the C long range. Out of range values are left up to the underlying string based C library API to report. Asocket.gaierror
SAI_SERVICE
may occur instead, or no error at all as not all platform C libraries generate an error.gh-101799: Add
CALL_INTRINSIC_2
and use it instead ofPREP_RERAISE_STAR
.gh-101857: Fix xattr support detection on Linux systems by widening the check to linux, not just glibc. This fixes support for musl.
gh-84783: Make the slice object hashable. Patch by Will Bradshaw and Furkan Onder.
gh-87849: Change the
SEND
instruction to leave the receiver on the stack. This allows the specialized form ofSEND
to skip the chain of C calls and jump directly to theRESUME
in the generator or coroutine.gh-101765: Fix SystemError / segmentation fault in iter
__reduce__
when internal access ofbuiltins.__dict__
keys mutates the iter object.gh-101430: Update
tracemalloc
to handle presize of object properly. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-101696: Invalidate type version tag in
_PyStaticType_Dealloc
for static types, avoiding bug where a false cache hit could crash the interpreter. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-101632: Adds a new
RETURN_CONST
instruction.gh-100719: Remove gi_code field from generator (and coroutine and async generator) objects as it is redundant. The frame already includes a reference to the code object.
gh-98627: When an interpreter is configured to check (and only then), importing an extension module will now fail when the extension does not support multiple interpreters (i.e. doesn’t implement PEP 489 multi-phase init). This does not apply to the main interpreter, nor to subinterpreters created with
Py_NewInterpreter()
.
Library¶
gh-102302: Micro-optimise hashing of
inspect.Parameter
, reducing the time it takes to hash an instance by around 40%.gh-101979: Fix a bug where parentheses in the
metavar
argument toargparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument()
were dropped. Patch by Yeojin Kim.gh-91038:
platform.platform()
now has boolean default arguments.gh-81652: Add
mmap.MAP_ALIGNED_SUPER
FreeBSD andmmap.MAP_CONCEAL
OpenBSD constants tommap
. Patch by Yeojin Kim.gh-101961: For the binary mode,
fileinput.hookcompressed()
doesn’t set theencoding
value even if the value isNone
. Patch by Gihwan Kim.gh-101936: The default value of
fp
becomesio.BytesIO
ifHTTPError
is initialized without a designatedfp
parameter. Patch by Long Vo.gh-101566: In zipfile, sync Path with zipp 3.14, including fix for extractall on the underlying zipfile after being wrapped in
Path
.gh-97930: Apply changes from importlib_resources 5.12, including fix for
MultiplexedPath
to support directories in multiple namespaces (python/importlib_resources#265).gh-101997: Upgrade pip wheel bundled with ensurepip (pip 23.0.1)
gh-99108: The built-in extension modules for
hashlib
SHA2 algorithms, used when OpenSSL does not provide them, now live in a single internal_sha2
module instead of separate_sha256
and_sha512
modules.gh-101892: Callable iterators no longer raise
SystemError
when the callable object exhausts the iterator but forgets to either return a sentinel value or raiseStopIteration
.gh-87634: Remove locking behavior from
functools.cached_property()
.gh-97786: Fix potential undefined behaviour in corner cases of floating-point-to-time conversions.
gh-101517: Fixed bug where
bdb
looks up the source line withlinecache
with alineno=None
, which causes it to fail with an unhandled exception.gh-101773: Optimize
fractions.Fraction
for small components. The private argument_normalize
of thefractions.Fraction
constructor has been removed.gh-101693: In
sqlite3.Cursor.execute()
,DeprecationWarning
is now emitted when named placeholders are used together with parameters supplied as a sequence instead of as adict
. Starting from Python 3.14, using named placeholders with parameters supplied as a sequence will raise aProgrammingError
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-101446: Change repr of
collections.OrderedDict
to use regular dictionary formatting instead of pairs of keys and values.gh-101362: Speed up
pathlib.PurePath
construction by handling arguments more uniformly. When apathlib.Path
argument is supplied, we use its string representation rather than joining its parts withos.path.join()
.gh-101362: Speed up
pathlib.PurePath
construction by callingos.path.join()
only when two or more arguments are given.gh-101362: Speed up
pathlib.Path
construction by running the path flavour compatibility check only when pathlib is imported.gh-85984: Refactored the implementation of
pty.fork()
to useos.login_tty()
.A
DeprecationWarning
is now raised bypty.master_open()
andpty.slave_open()
. They were undocumented and deprecated long long ago in the docstring in favor ofpty.openpty()
.gh-101561: Add a new decorator
typing.override()
. See PEP 698 for details. Patch by Steven Troxler.gh-101360: Fix anchor matching in
pathlib.PureWindowsPath.match()
. Path and pattern anchors are now matched withfnmatch
, just like other path parts. This allows patterns such as"*:/Users/*"
to be matched.gh-101277: Remove global state from
itertools
module (PEP 687). Patches by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-100809: Fix handling of drive-relative paths (like ‘C:’ and ‘C:foo’) in
pathlib.Path.absolute()
. This method now uses the OS API to retrieve the correct current working directory for the drive.gh-99138: Apply PEP 687 to
zoneinfo
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-96764:
asyncio.wait_for()
now usesasyncio.timeout()
as its underlying implementation. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-88233: Correctly preserve “extra” fields in
zipfile
regardless of their ordering relative to a zip64 “extra.”bpo-23224: Fix segfaults when creating
lzma.LZMADecompressor
andbz2.BZ2Decompressor
objects without calling__init__()
, and fix leakage of locks and internal buffers when calling the__init__()
methods oflzma.LZMADecompressor
,lzma.LZMACompressor
,bz2.BZ2Compressor
, andbz2.BZ2Decompressor
objects multiple times.
Documentation¶
gh-85417: Update
cmath
documentation to clarify behaviour on branch cuts.gh-97725: Fix
asyncio.Task.print_stack()
description forfile=None
. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.
Tests¶
gh-102019: Fix deadlock on shutdown if
test_current_{exception,frames}
fails. Patch by Jacob Bower.gh-85984: Utilize new “winsize” functions from termios in pty tests.
gh-89792:
test_tools
now copies up to 10x less source data to a temporary directory during thefreeze
test by ignoring git metadata and other artifacts. It also limits its python build parallelism based on os.cpu_count instead of hard coding it as 8 cores.
Build¶
gh-99942: On Android, in a static build, python-config in embed mode no longer incorrectly reports a library to link to.
gh-99942: On Android, python.pc now correctly reports the library to link to, the same as python-config.sh.
gh-100221: Fix creating install directories in
make sharedinstall
if they exist outsideDESTDIR
already.gh-96821: Explicitly mark C extension modules that need defined signed integer overflow, and add a configure option
--with-strict-overflow
. Patch by Matthias Görgens and Shantanu Jain.
Windows¶
gh-102344: Implement
winreg.QueryValue
usingQueryValueEx
andwinreg.SetValue
usingSetValueEx
. Patch by Max Bachmann.gh-101881: Handle read and write operations on non-blocking pipes properly on Windows.
gh-101881: Add support for the os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions on Windows.
gh-101849: Ensures installer will correctly upgrade existing
py.exe
launcher installs.gh-101763: Updates copy of libffi bundled with Windows installs to 3.4.4.
gh-101759: Update Windows installer to SQLite 3.40.1.
gh-101614: Correctly handle extensions built against debug binaries that reference
python3_d.dll
.gh-101196: The functions
os.path.isdir
,os.path.isfile
,os.path.islink
andos.path.exists
are now 13% to 28% faster on Windows, by making fewer Win32 API calls.
macOS¶
gh-101759: Update macOS installer to SQLite 3.40.1.
C API¶
gh-101907: Removes use of non-standard C++ extension in public header files.
gh-99293: Document that the Py_TPFLAGS_VALID_VERSION_TAG is an internal feature, should not be used, and will be removed.
gh-101578: Add
PyErr_GetRaisedException()
andPyErr_SetRaisedException()
for saving and restoring the current exception. These functions return and accept a single exception object, rather than the triple arguments of the now-deprecatedPyErr_Fetch()
andPyErr_Restore()
. This is less error prone and a bit more efficient.Add
PyException_GetArgs()
andPyException_SetArgs()
as convenience functions for retrieving and modifying theargs
passed to the exception’s constructor.gh-91744: Introduced the Unstable C API tier, marking APi that is allowed to change in minor releases without a deprecation period. See PEP 689 for details.
Python 3.12.0 alpha 5¶
Release date: 2023-02-07
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
gh-92173: Fix the
defs
andkwdefs
arguments toPyEval_EvalCodeEx()
and a reference leak in that function.gh-59956: The GILState API is now partially compatible with subinterpreters. Previously,
PyThreadState_GET()
andPyGILState_GetThisThreadState()
would get out of sync, causing inconsistent behavior and crashes.gh-101400: Fix wrong lineno in exception message on
continue
orbreak
which are not in a loop. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-101372: Fix
is_normalized()
to properly handle the UCD 3.2.0 cases. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-101266: Fix
sys.getsizeof()
reporting forint
subclasses.gh-101291: Refactor the
PyLongObject
struct into a normal Python object header and aPyLongValue
struct.gh-101046: Fix a possible memory leak in the parser when raising
MemoryError
. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-101037: Fix potential memory underallocation issue for instances of
int
subclasses with value zero.gh-100762: Record the (virtual) exception block depth in the oparg of
YIELD_VALUE
. Use this to avoid the expensivethrow()
when closing generators (and coroutines) that can be closed trivially.gh-100982: Adds a new
COMPARE_AND_BRANCH
instruction. This is a bit more efficient when performing a comparison immediately followed by a branch, and restores the design intent of PEP 659 that specializations are local to a single instruction.gh-100942: Fixed segfault in property.getter/setter/deleter that occurred when a property subclass overrode the
__new__
method to return a non-property instance.gh-100923: Remove the
mask
cache entry for theCOMPARE_OP
instruction and embed the mask into the oparg.gh-100892: Fix race while iterating over thread states in clearing
threading.local
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-91351: Fix a case where re-entrant imports could corrupt the import deadlock detection code and cause a
KeyError
to be raised out ofimportlib/_bootstrap
. In addition to the straightforward cases, this could also happen when garbage collection leads to a warning being emitted – as happens when it collects an open socket or file)gh-100726: Optimize construction of
range
object for medium size integers.gh-100712: Added option to build cpython with specialization disabled, by setting
ENABLE_SPECIALIZATION=False
inopcode
, followed bymake regen-all
.bpo-32780: Inter-field padding is now inserted into the PEP3118 format strings obtained from
ctypes.Structure
objects, reflecting their true representation in memory.
Library¶
gh-101541: [Enum] - fix psuedo-flag creation
gh-101570: Upgrade pip wheel bundled with ensurepip (pip 23.0)
gh-101323: Fix a bug where errors where not thrown by zlib._ZlibDecompressor if encountered during decompressing.
gh-101317: Add ssl_shutdown_timeout parameter for
asyncio.StreamWriter.start_tls()
.gh-101326: Fix regression when passing
None
as second or third argument toFutureIter.throw
.gh-92123: Adapt the
_elementtree
extension module to multi-phase init (PEP 489). Patches by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-100795: Avoid potential unexpected
freeaddrinfo
call (double free) insocket
when when a libcgetaddrinfo()
implementation leaves garbage in an output pointer when returning an error. Original patch by Sergey G. Brester.gh-101143: Remove unused references to
TimerHandle
inasyncio.base_events.BaseEventLoop._add_callback
.gh-101144: Make
zipfile.Path.open()
andzipfile.Path.read_text()
also acceptencoding
as a positional argument. This was the behavior in Python 3.9 and earlier. 3.10 introduced a regression where supplying it as a positional argument would lead to aTypeError
.gh-94518: Group-related variables of
_posixsubprocess
module are renamed to stress that supplementary group affinity is added to a fork, not replace the inherited ones. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.gh-101015: Fix
typing.get_type_hints()
on'*tuple[...]'
and*tuple[...]
. It must not drop theUnpack
part.gh-101000: Add
os.path.splitroot()
, which splits a path into a 3-item tuple(drive, root, tail)
. This new function is used bypathlib
to improve the performance of path construction by up to a third.gh-100573: Fix a Windows
asyncio
bug with named pipes where a client doingos.stat()
on the pipe would cause an error in the server that disabled serving future requests.gh-39615:
warnings.warn()
now has the ability to skip stack frames based on code filename prefix rather than only a numericstacklevel
via the newskip_file_prefixes
keyword argument.gh-100750: pass encoding kwarg to subprocess in platform
gh-100160: Emit a deprecation warning in
asyncio.DefaultEventLoopPolicy.get_event_loop()
if there is no current event loop set and it decides to create one.gh-96290: Fix handling of partial and invalid UNC drives in
ntpath.splitdrive()
, and inntpath.normpath()
on non-Windows systems. Paths such as ‘\server’ and ‘\’ are now considered bysplitdrive()
to contain only a drive, and consequently are not modified bynormpath()
on non-Windows systems. The behaviour ofnormpath()
on Windows systems is unaffected, as native OS APIs are used. Patch by Eryk Sun, with contributions by Barney Gale.gh-99952: Fix a reference undercounting issue in
ctypes.Structure
withfrom_param()
results larger than a C pointer.gh-67790: Add float-style formatting support for
fractions.Fraction
instances.gh-86682: Ensure runtime-created collections have the correct module name using the newly added (internal)
sys._getframemodulename()
.gh-88597:
uuid
now has a command line interface. Trypython -m uuid -h
.gh-60580:
ctypes.wintypes.BYTE
definition changed fromc_byte
toc_ubyte
to match Windows SDK. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik and Oleg Iarygin.gh-94518:
_posixsubprocess
now initializes all UID and GID variables using a reserved-1
value instead of a separate flag. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.bpo-38941: The
xml.etree.ElementTree
module now emitsDeprecationWarning
when testing the truth value of anxml.etree.ElementTree.Element
. Before, the Python implementation emittedFutureWarning
, and the C implementation emitted nothing.bpo-40077: Convert
elementtree
types to heap types. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-29847: Fix a bug where
pathlib.Path
accepted and ignored keyword arguments. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.gh-77772:
ctypes.CDLL
,ctypes.OleDLL
,ctypes.WinDLL
, andctypes.PyDLL
now accept path-like objects as theirname
argument. Patch by Robert Hoelzl.
Documentation¶
gh-88324: Reword
subprocess
to emphasize default behavior of stdin, stdout, and stderr arguments. Remove inaccurate statement about child file handle inheritance.
Tests¶
gh-101334:
test_tarfile
has been updated to pass when run as a high UID.
Build¶
gh-101282: Update BOLT configuration not to use deprecated usage of
--split functions
. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-101522: Allow overriding Windows dependencies versions and paths using MSBuild properties.
gh-77532: Minor fixes to allow building with
PlatformToolset=ClangCL
on Windows.gh-101152: In accordance with PEP 699, the
ma_version_tag
field inPyDictObject
is deprecated for extension modules. Accessing this field will generate a compiler warning at compile time. This field will be removed in Python 3.14.gh-100340: Allows -Wno-int-conversion for wasm-sdk 17 and onwards, thus enables building WASI builds once against the latest sdk.
gh-101060: Conditionally add
-fno-reorder-blocks-and-partition
in configure. Effectively fixes--enable-bolt
when using Clang, as this appears to be a GCC-only flag.gh-98705:
__bool__
is defined in AIX system header files which breaks the build in AIX, so undefine it.gh-98636: Fix a regression in detecting
gdbm_compat
library for the_gdbm
module build.gh-96305:
_aix_support
now uses a simple code to get platform details rather than the now non-existent_bootsubprocess
during bootstrap.
Windows¶
gh-101543: Ensure the install path in the registry is only used when the standard library hasn’t been located in any other way.
gh-101467: The
py.exe
launcher now correctly filters when only a single runtime is installed. It also correctly handles prefix matches on tags so that-3.1
does not match3.11
, but would still match3.1-32
.gh-99834: Updates bundled copy of Tcl/Tk to 8.6.13.0
gh-101135: Restore ability to launch older 32-bit versions from the
py.exe
launcher when both 32-bit and 64-bit installs of the same version are available.gh-82052: Fixed an issue where writing more than 32K of Unicode output to the console screen in one go can result in mojibake.
gh-100320: Ensures the
PythonPath
registry key from an install is used when launching from a different copy of Python that relies on an existing install to provide a copy of its modules and standard library.gh-100247: Restores support for the
py.exe
launcher finding shebang commands in its configuration file using the full command name.
Python 3.12.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2023-01-10
Core and Builtins¶
gh-100776: Fix misleading default value in
input()
’s__text_signature__
.gh-99005: Remove
UNARY_POSITIVE
,ASYNC_GEN_WRAP
andLIST_TO_TUPLE
, replacing them with intrinsics.gh-99005: Add new
CALL_INTRINSIC_1
instruction. RemoveIMPORT_STAR
,PRINT_EXPR
andSTOPITERATION_ERROR
, replacing them with theCALL_INTRINSIC_1
instruction.gh-100288: Remove the LOAD_ATTR_METHOD_WITH_DICT specialized instruction. Stats show it is not useful.
gh-100720: Added
_PyFrame_NumSlotsForCodeObject
, which returns the number of slots needed in a frame for a given code object.gh-100719: Removed the co_nplaincellvars field from the code object, as it is redundant.
gh-100637: Fix
int.__sizeof__()
calculation to include the 1-elementob_digit
array for0
andFalse
.gh-100649: Update the native_thread_id field of PyThreadState after fork.
gh-100126: Fix an issue where “incomplete” frames could be briefly visible to C code while other frames are being torn down, possibly resulting in corruption or hard crashes of the interpreter while running finalizers.
gh-87447: Fix
SyntaxError
on comprehension rebind checking with names that are not actually redefined.Now reassigning
b
in[(b := 1) for a, b.prop in some_iter]
is allowed. Reassigninga
is still disallowed as per PEP 572.gh-100268: Add
int.is_integer()
to improve duck type compatibility betweenint
andfloat
.gh-100425: Improve the accuracy of
sum()
with compensated summation.gh-100374: Fix incorrect result and delay in
socket.getfqdn()
. Patch by Dominic Socular.gh-100357: Convert
vars
,dir
,next
,getattr
, anditer
to argument clinic.gh-100117: Improve the output of
codeobject.co_lines()
by emitting only one entry for each line range.gh-90043: Handle NaNs when specializing
COMPARE_OP
forfloat
values.gh-100222: Redefine the
_Py_CODEUNIT
typedef as a union to describe its layout to the C compiler, avoiding type punning and improving clarity.gh-99955: Internal compiler functions (in compile.c) now consistently return -1 on error and 0 on success.
gh-100188: The
BINARY_SUBSCR_LIST_INT
andBINARY_SUBSCR_TUPLE_INT
instructions are no longer used for negative integers because those instructions always miss when encountering negative integers.gh-99110: Initialize frame->previous in frameobject.c to fix a segmentation fault when accessing frames created by
PyFrame_New()
.gh-94155: Improved the hashing algorithm for code objects, mitigating some hash collisions.
gh-99540:
None
now hashes to a constant value. This is not a requirements change.gh-100143: When built with
--enable-pystats
, stats collection is now off by default. To enable it early at startup, pass the-Xpystats
flag. Stats are now always dumped, even if switched off.gh-100146: Improve
BUILD_LIST
opcode so that it works similarly to theBUILD_TUPLE
opcode, by stealing references from the stack rather than repeatedly using stack operations to set list elements. Implementation details are in a new private API_PyList_FromArraySteal()
.gh-100110: Specialize
FOR_ITER
for tuples.gh-100050: Honor existing errors obtained when searching for mismatching parentheses in the tokenizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-92216: Improve the performance of
hasattr()
for type objects with a missing attribute.gh-99554: Pack debugging location tables more efficiently during bytecode compilation.
gh-98522: Add an internal version number to code objects, to give better versioning of inner functions and comprehensions, and thus better specialization of those functions. This change is invisible to both Python and C extensions.
gh-94603: Improve performance of
list.pop
for small lists.bpo-32782:
ctypes
arrays of length 0 now report a correct itemsize when amemoryview
is constructed from them, rather than always giving a value of 0.
Library¶
gh-100833: Speed up
math.fsum()
by removing defensivevolatile
qualifiers.gh-100805: Modify
random.choice()
implementation to once again work with NumPy arrays.gh-100813: Add
socket.IP_PKTINFO
constant.gh-100792: Make
email.message.Message.__contains__()
twice as fast.gh-91851: Microoptimizations for
fractions.Fraction.__round__()
,fractions.Fraction.__ceil__()
andfractions.Fraction.__floor__()
.gh-90104: Avoid RecursionError on
repr
if a dataclass field definition has a cyclic reference.gh-100689: Fix crash in
pyexpat
by statically allocatingPyExpat_CAPI
capsule.gh-100740: Fix
unittest.mock.Mock
not respecting the spec for attribute names prefixed withassert
.gh-91219: Change
SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
to support subclassing to provide a different set of index file names instead of using__init__
parameters.gh-100690:
Mock
objects which are not unsafe will now raise anAttributeError
when accessing an attribute that matches the name of an assertion but without the prefixassert_
, e.g. accessingcalled_once
instead ofassert_called_once
. This is in addition to this already happening for accessing attributes with prefixesassert
,assret
,asert
,aseert
, andassrt
.gh-89727: Simplify and optimize
os.walk()
by usingisinstance()
checks to check the top of the stack.gh-100485: Add math.sumprod() to compute the sum of products.
gh-86508: Fix
asyncio.open_connection()
to skip binding to local addresses of different family. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-97930:
importlib.resources.files
now accepts a module as an anchor instead of only accepting packages. If a module is passed, resources are resolved adjacent to that module (in the same package or at the package root). The parameter was renamed frompackage
toanchor
with a compatibility shim for those passing by keyword. Additionally, the newanchor
parameter is now optional and will default to the caller’s module.gh-100585: Fixed a bug where importlib.resources.as_file was leaving file pointers open
gh-100562: Improve performance of
pathlib.Path.absolute()
by nearly 2x. This comes at the cost of a performance regression inpathlib.Path.cwd()
, which is generally used less frequently in user code.gh-100519: Small simplification of
http.cookiejar.eff_request_host()
that improves readability and better matches the RFC wording.gh-100287: Fix the interaction of
unittest.mock.seal()
withunittest.mock.AsyncMock
.gh-100488: Add
Fraction.is_integer()
to check whether afractions.Fraction
is an integer. This improves duck type compatibility withfloat
andint
.gh-100474:
http.server
now checks that an index page is actually a regular file before trying to serve it. This avoids issues with directories namedindex.html
.gh-100363: Speed up
asyncio.get_running_loop()
by removing redundantgetpid
checks. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-78878: Fix crash when creating an instance of
_ctypes.CField
.gh-100348: Fix ref cycle in
asyncio._SelectorSocketTransport
by removing_read_ready_cb
inclose
.gh-100344: Provide C implementation for
asyncio.current_task()
for a 4x-6x speedup.gh-100272: Fix JSON serialization of OrderedDict. It now preserves the order of keys.
gh-83076: Instantiation of
Mock()
andAsyncMock()
is now 3.8x faster.gh-100234: Set a default value of 1.0 for the
lambd
parameter in random.expovariate().gh-100228: A
DeprecationWarning
may be raised whenos.fork()
oros.forkpty()
is called from multi-threaded processes. Forking with threads is unsafe and can cause deadlocks, crashes and subtle problems. Lack of a warning does not indicate that the fork call was actually safe, as Python may not be aware of all threads.gh-100039: Improve signatures for enums and flags.
gh-100133: Fix regression in
asyncio
where a subprocess would sometimes lose data received from pipe.bpo-44592: Fixes inconsistent handling of case sensitivity of extrasaction arg in
csv.DictWriter
.gh-100098: Fix
tuple
subclasses being cast totuple
when used as enum values.gh-85432: Rename the fmt parameter of the pure-Python implementation of
datetime.time.strftime()
to format. Rename the t parameter ofdatetime.datetime.fromtimestamp()
to timestamp. These changes mean the parameter names in the pure-Python implementation now match the parameter names in the C implementation. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-98778: Update
HTTPError
to be initialized properly, even if thefp
isNone
. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-99925: Unify error messages in JSON serialization between
json.dumps(float('nan'), allow_nan=False)
andjson.dumps(float('nan'), allow_nan=False, indent=<SOMETHING>)
. Now both include the representation of the value that could not be serialized.gh-89727: Fix issue with
os.walk()
where aRecursionError
would occur on deep directory structures by adjusting the implementation ofos.walk()
to be iterative instead of recursive.gh-94943: Add Suporte a dataclass to the
Enum
__repr__()
. When inheriting from adataclass
, only show the field names in the value section of the memberrepr()
, and not the dataclass’ class name.gh-83035: Fix
inspect.getsource()
handling of decorator calls with nested parentheses.gh-99576: Fix
.save()
method forLWPCookieJar
andMozillaCookieJar
: saved file was not truncated on repeated save.gh-94912: Add
inspect.markcoroutinefunction()
decorator which manually marks a function as a coroutine for the benefit ofiscoroutinefunction()
.gh-99509: Add PEP 585 support for
multiprocessing.queues.Queue
.gh-99482: Remove
Jython
partial compatibility code from several stdlib modules.gh-99433: Fix
doctest
failure ontypes.MethodWrapperType
in modules.gh-85267: Several improvements to
inspect.signature()
’s handling of__text_signature
. - Fixes a case whereinspect.signature()
dropped parameters - Fixes a case whereinspect.signature()
raisedtokenize.TokenError
- Allowsinspect.signature()
to understand defaults involving binary operations of constants -inspect.signature()
is documented as only raisingTypeError
orValueError
, but sometimes raisedRuntimeError
. These cases now raiseValueError
- Removed a dead code pathgh-91166:
asyncio
is optimized to avoid excessive copying when writing to socket and usesendmsg()
if the platform supports it. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-98030: Add missing TCP socket options from Linux:
TCP_MD5SIG
,TCP_THIN_LINEAR_TIMEOUTS
,TCP_THIN_DUPACK
,TCP_REPAIR
,TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE
,TCP_QUEUE_SEQ
,TCP_REPAIR_OPTIONS
,TCP_TIMESTAMP
,TCP_CC_INFO
,TCP_SAVE_SYN
,TCP_SAVED_SYN
,TCP_REPAIR_WINDOW
,TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT
,TCP_ULP
,TCP_MD5SIG_EXT
,TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY
,TCP_FASTOPEN_NO_COOKIE
,TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE
,TCP_INQ
,TCP_TX_DELAY
.gh-88500: Reduced the memory usage of
urllib.parse.unquote()
andurllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes()
on large values.gh-96127:
inspect.signature
was raisingTypeError
on call with mock objects. Now it correctly returns(*args, **kwargs)
as inferred signature.gh-95882: Fix a 3.11 regression in
asynccontextmanager()
, which caused it to propagate exceptions with incorrect tracebacks and fix a 3.11 regression incontextmanager()
, which caused it to propagate exceptions with incorrect tracebacks forStopIteration
.gh-78707: Deprecate passing more than one positional argument to
pathlib.PurePath.relative_to()
andis_relative_to()
.gh-92122: Fix reStructuredText syntax errors in docstrings in the
enum
module.gh-91851: Optimize the
Fraction
arithmetics for small components.bpo-24132: Make
pathlib.PurePath
andPath
subclassable (private to start). Previously, attempting to instantiate a subclass resulted in anAttributeError
being raised. Patch by Barney Gale.bpo-40447: Accept
os.PathLike
(such aspathlib.Path
) in thestripdir
arguments ofcompileall.compile_file()
andcompileall.compile_dir()
.bpo-36880: Fix a reference counting issue when a
ctypes
callback with return typepy_object
returnsNone
, which could cause crashes.
Documentation¶
gh-100616: Document existing
attr
parameter tocurses.window.vline()
function incurses
.gh-100472: Remove claim in documentation that the
stripdir
,prependdir
andlimit_sl_dest
parameters ofcompileall.compile_dir()
andcompileall.compile_file()
could bebytes
.bpo-25377: Clarify use of octal format of mode argument in help(os.chmod) as well as help(os.fchmod)
Tests¶
gh-100454: Start running SSL tests with OpenSSL 3.1.0-beta1.
gh-100086: The Python test runner (libregrtest) now logs Python build information like “debug” vs “release” build, or LTO and PGO optimizations. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-93018: Make two tests forgiving towards host system libexpat with backported security fixes applied.
Build¶
gh-100540: Removed the
--with-system-ffi
configure
option;libffi
must now always be supplied by the system on all non-Windows platforms. The option has had no effect on non-Darwin platforms for several releases, and in 3.11 only had the non-obvious effect of invokingpkg-config
to findlibffi
and never setting-DUSING_APPLE_OS_LIBFFI
. Now on Darwin platformsconfigure
will first check for the OSlibffi
and then fall back to the same processing as other platforms if it is not found.gh-88267: Avoid exporting Python symbols in linked Windows applications when the core is built as static.
bpo-41916: Allow override of ac_cv_cxx_thread so that cross compiled python can set -pthread for CXX.
Windows¶
gh-100180: Update Windows installer to OpenSSL 1.1.1s
gh-99191: Use
_MSVC_LANG >= 202002L
instead of less-precise_MSC_VER >=1929
to more accurately test for C++20 support inPC/_wmimodule.cpp
.gh-79218: Define
MS_WIN64
for Mingw-w64 64bit, fix cython compilation failure.gh-99941: Ensure that
asyncio.Protocol.data_received()
receives an immutablebytes
object (as documented), instead ofbytearray
.bpo-43984:
winreg.SetValueEx()
now leaves the target value untouched in the case of conversion errors. Previously,-1
would be written in case of such errors.bpo-34816:
hasattr(ctypes.windll, 'nonexistant')
now returnsFalse
instead of raisingOSError
.
macOS¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-45256: Fix a bug that caused an
AttributeError
to be raised inpython-gdb.py
whenpy-locals
is used without a frame.gh-100342: Add missing
NULL
check for possible allocation failure in*args
parsing in Argument Clinic.
C API¶
gh-99947: Raising SystemError on import will now have its cause be set to the original unexpected exception.
gh-99240: In argument parsing, after deallocating newly allocated memory, reset its pointer to NULL.
gh-98724: The
Py_CLEAR
,Py_SETREF
andPy_XSETREF
macros now only evaluate their arguments once. If an argument has side effects, these side effects are no longer duplicated. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Python 3.12.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2022-12-06
Security¶
gh-100001:
python -m http.server
no longer allows terminal control characters sent within a garbage request to be printed to the stderr server log.This is done by changing the
http.server
BaseHTTPRequestHandler
.log_message
method to replace control characters with a\xHH
hex escape before printing.gh-87604: Avoid publishing list of active per-interpreter audit hooks via the
gc
module
Core and Builtins¶
gh-99891: Fix a bug in the tokenizer that could cause infinite recursion when showing syntax warnings that happen in the first line of the source. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-91054: Add
PyCode_AddWatcher()
andPyCode_ClearWatcher()
APIs to register callbacks to receive notification on creation and destruction of code objects.gh-99729: Fix an issue that could cause frames to be visible to Python code as they are being torn down, possibly leading to memory corruption or hard crashes of the interpreter.
gh-99708: Fix bug where compiler crashes on an if expression with an empty body block.
gh-99578: Fix a reference bug in
_imp.create_builtin()
after the creation of the first sub-interpreter for modulesbuiltins
andsys
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-99581: Fixed a bug that was causing a buffer overflow if the tokenizer copies a line missing the newline character from a file that is as long as the available tokenizer buffer. Patch by Pablo galindo
gh-99553: Fix bug where an
ExceptionGroup
subclass can wrap aBaseException
.gh-99547: Add a function to os.path to check if a path is a junction: isjunction. Add similar functionality to pathlib.Path as is_junction.
gh-99370: Fix zip path for venv created from a non-installed python on POSIX platforms.
gh-99377: Add audit events for thread creation and clear operations.
gh-98686: Remove the
BINARY_OP_GENERIC
andCOMPARE_OP_GENERIC
“specializations”.gh-99298: Remove the remaining error paths for attribute specializations, and refuse to specialize attribute accesses on types that haven’t had
PyType_Ready()
called on them yet.gh-99127: Allow some features of
syslog
to the main interpreter only. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-91053: Optimizing interpreters and JIT compilers may need to invalidate internal metadata when functions are modified. This change adds the ability to provide a callback that will be invoked each time a function is created, modified, or destroyed.
gh-90994: Improve error messages when there’s a syntax error with call arguments. The following three cases are covered: - No value is assigned to a named argument, eg
foo(a=)
. - A value is assigned to a star argument, egfoo(*args=[0])
. - A value is assigned to a double-star keyword argument, egfoo(**kwarg={'a': 0})
.bpo-45026: Optimize the
range
object iterator. It is now smaller, faster iteration of ranges containing large numbers. Smaller pickles, faster unpickling.bpo-31718: Raise
ValueError
instead ofSystemError
when methods of uninitializedio.IncrementalNewlineDecoder
objects are called. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-38031: Fix a possible assertion failure in
io.FileIO
when the opener returns an invalid file descriptor.
Library¶
gh-100001: Also escape s in the http.server BaseHTTPRequestHandler.log_message so that it is technically possible to parse the line and reconstruct what the original data was. Without this a xHH is ambiguous as to if it is a hex replacement we put in or the characters r”x” came through in the original request line.
gh-99957: Add
frozen_default
parameter totyping.dataclass_transform()
.gh-79033: Fix
asyncio.Server.wait_closed()
to actually do what the docs promise – wait for all existing connections to complete, after closing the server.gh-51524: Fix bug when calling trace.CoverageResults with valid infile.
gh-99645: Fix a bug in handling class cleanups in
unittest.TestCase
. NowaddClassCleanup()
uses separate lists for differentTestCase
subclasses, anddoClassCleanups()
only cleans up the particular class.gh-99508: Fix
TypeError
inLib/importlib/_bootstrap_external.py
while calling_imp.source_hash()
.gh-66285: Fix
asyncio
to not share event loop and signal wakeupfd in forked processes. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-97001: Release the GIL when calling termios APIs to avoid blocking threads.
gh-92647: Use final status of an enum to determine lookup or creation branch of functional API.
gh-99388: Add loop_factory parameter to
asyncio.run()
to allow specifying a custom event loop factory. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-99341: Fix
ast.increment_lineno()
to also coverast.TypeIgnore
when changing line numbers.gh-99382: Check the number of arguments in substitution in user generics containing a
TypeVarTuple
and one or moreTypeVar
.gh-99379: Fix substitution of
ParamSpec
followed byTypeVarTuple
in generic aliases.gh-99344: Fix substitution of
TypeVarTuple
andParamSpec
together in user generics.gh-99284: Remove
_use_broken_old_ctypes_structure_semantics_
old untested and undocumented hack fromctypes
.gh-99201: Fix
IndexError
when initializing the config variables on Windows ifHAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING
is not set.gh-99240: Fix double-free bug in Argument Clinic
str_converter
by extracting memory clean up to a newpost_parsing
section.gh-64490: Fix refcount error when arguments are packed to tuple in Argument Clinic.
gh-99029:
pathlib.PurePath.relative_to()
now treats naked Windows drive paths as relative. This brings its behaviour in line with other parts of pathlib.gh-98253: The implementation of the typing module is now more resilient to reference leaks in binary extension modules.
Previously, a reference leak in a typed C API-based extension module could leak internals of the typing module, which could in turn introduce leaks in essentially any other package with typed function signatures. Although the typing package is not the original source of the problem, such non-local dependences exacerbate debugging of large-scale projects, and the implementation was therefore changed to reduce harm by providing better isolation.
gh-98458: Fix infinite loop in unittest when a self-referencing chained exception is raised
gh-93453:
asyncio.get_event_loop()
and many otherasyncio
functions likeasyncio.ensure_future()
,asyncio.shield()
orasyncio.gather()
, and also theget_event_loop()
method ofasyncio.BaseDefaultEventLoopPolicy
now raise aRuntimeError
if called when there is no running event loop and the current event loop was not set. Previously they implicitly created and set a new current event loop.DeprecationWarning
is no longer emitted if there is no running event loop but the current event loop was set.gh-97966: On
uname_result
, restored expectation that_fields
and_asdict
would include all six properties includingprocessor
.gh-98248: Provide informative error messages in
struct.pack()
when its integral arguments are not in range.gh-98108:
zipfile.Path
is now pickleable if its initialization parameters were pickleable (e.g. for file system paths).gh-98098: Created packages from zipfile and test_zipfile modules, separating
zipfile.Path
functionality.gh-82836: Fix
is_private
properties in theipaddress
module. Previously non-private networks (0.0.0.0/0) would returnTrue
from this method; now they correctly returnFalse
.gh-96828: Add an
OP_ENABLE_KTLS
option for enabling the use of the kernel TLS (kTLS). Patch by Illia Volochii.gh-88863: To avoid apparent memory leaks when
asyncio.open_connection()
raises, break reference cycles generated by local exception and future instances (which has exception instance as its member var). Patch by Dong Uk, Kang.gh-91078:
TarFile.next()
now returnsNone
when called on an empty tarfile.bpo-47220: Document the optional callback parameter of
WeakMethod
. Patch by Géry Ogam.bpo-44817: Ignore WinError 53 (ERROR_BAD_NETPATH), 65 (ERROR_NETWORK_ACCESS_DENIED) and 161 (ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME) when using ntpath.realpath().
bpo-41260: Rename the fmt parameter of the pure Python implementation of
datetime.date.strftime()
to format.bpo-15999: All built-in functions now accept arguments of any type instead of just
bool
andint
for boolean parameters.
Documentation¶
gh-99931: Use sphinxext-opengraph to generate OpenGraph metadata.
gh-89682: Reworded docstring of the default
__contains__
to clarify that it returns abool
.gh-88330: Improved the description of what a resource is in importlib.resources docs.
gh-92892: Document that calling variadic functions with ctypes requires special care on macOS/arm64 (and possibly other platforms).
bpo-41825: Restructured the documentation for the
os.wait*
family of functions, and improved the docs foros.waitid()
with more explanation of the possible argument constants.
Tests¶
gh-99892: Skip test_normalization() of test_unicodedata if it fails to download NormalizationTest.txt file from pythontest.net. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-99934: Correct test_marsh on (32 bit) x86: test_deterministic sets was failing.
gh-99741: We’ve implemented multi-phase init (PEP 489/630/687) for the internal (for testing) _xxsubinterpreters module.
gh-99659: Optional big memory tests in
test_sqlite3
now catch the correctsqlite.DataError
exception type in case of too large strings and/or blobs passed.gh-99593: Cover the Unicode C API with tests.
gh-96002: Add functional test for Argument Clinic.
Build¶
gh-99086: Fix
-Wimplicit-int
,-Wstrict-prototypes
, and-Wimplicit-function-declaration
compiler warnings in configure checks.gh-99337: Fix a compilation issue with GCC 12 on macOS.
gh-99289: Add a
COMPILEALL_OPTS
variable in Makefile to overridecompileall
options (default:-j0
) inmake install
. Also merged thecompileall
commands into a single command building .pyc files for the all optimization levels (0, 1, 2) at once. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-98872: Fix a possible fd leak in
Programs/_freeze_module.c
introduced in Python 3.11.gh-88226: Always define
TARGET_*
labels inPython/ceval.c
, even ifUSE_COMPUTED_GOTOS
is disabled. This allows breakpoints to be set at those labels in (for instance)gdb
.
Windows¶
gh-99345: Use faster initialization functions to detect install location for Windows Store package
gh-98629: Fix initialization of
sys.version
andsys._git
on Windowsgh-99442: Fix handling in Inicializador Python para Windows when
argv[0]
does not include a file extension.bpo-40882: Fix a memory leak in
multiprocessing.shared_memory.SharedMemory
on Windows.
macOS¶
Tools/Demos¶
gh-64490: Argument Clinic varargs bugfixes
Fix out-of-bounds error in
_PyArg_UnpackKeywordsWithVararg()
.Fix incorrect check which allowed more than one varargs in clinic.py.
Fix miscalculation of
noptargs
in generated code.Do not generate
noptargs
when there is a vararg argument and no optional argument.
C API¶
gh-98680:
PyBUF_*
constants were marked as part of Limited API of Python 3.11+. These were available in 3.11.0 withPy_LIMITED_API
defined for 3.11, and are necessary to use the buffer API.gh-99612: Fix
PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8Stateful()
for ASCII-only data:*consumed
was not set.gh-47146: The
structmember.h
header is deprecated. Its non-deprecated contents are now available just by includingPython.h
, with aPy_
prefix added if it was missing. (Deprecated contents areT_OBJECT
,T_NONE
, and no-op flags.) Patch by Petr Viktorin, based on earlier work by Alexander Belopolsky and Matthias Braun.
Python 3.12.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2022-11-14
Security¶
gh-98433: The IDNA codec decoder used on DNS hostnames by
socket
orasyncio
related name resolution functions no longer involves a quadratic algorithm. This prevents a potential CPU denial of service if an out-of-spec excessive length hostname involving bidirectional characters were decoded. Some protocols such asurllib
http3xx
redirects potentially allow for an attacker to supply such a name.Individual labels within an IDNA encoded DNS name will now raise an error early during IDNA decoding if they are longer than 1024 unicode characters given that each decoded DNS label must be 63 or fewer characters and the entire decoded DNS name is limited to 255. Only an application presenting a hostname or label consisting primarily of RFC 3454 section 3.1 “Nothing” characters to be removed would run into of this new limit. See also RFC 5894 section 6 and RFC 3491.
gh-98739: Update bundled libexpat to 2.5.0
Core and Builtins¶
gh-81057: The docs clearly say that
PyImport_Inittab
,PyImport_AppendInittab()
, andPyImport_ExtendInittab()
should not be used afterPy_Initialize()
has been called. We now enforce this for the two functions. Additionally, the runtime now uses an internal copy ofPyImport_Inittab
, to guard against modification.gh-99298: Fix an issue that could potentially cause incorrect error handling for some bytecode instructions.
gh-99254: The compiler now removes all unused constants from code objects (except the first one, which may be a docstring).
gh-99205: Fix an issue that prevented
PyThreadState
andPyInterpreterState
memory from being freed properly.gh-81057: The 18 global C variables holding the state of the allocators have been moved to
_PyRuntimeState
. This is a strictly internal change with no change in behavior.gh-99181: Fix failure in
except*
with unhashable exceptions.gh-99204: Fix calculation of
sys._base_executable
when inside a POSIX virtual environment using copies of the python binary when the base installation does not provide the executable name used by the venv. Calculation will fall back to alternative names (“python<MAJOR>”, “python<MAJOR>.<MINOR>”).gh-96055: Update
faulthandler
to emit an error message with the proper unexpected signal number. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-99153: Fix location of
SyntaxError
for atry
block with bothexcept
andexcept*
.gh-98686: Merge the adaptive opcode logic into each instruction’s unquickened variant, and merge the logic in
EXTENDED_ARG_QUICK
intoEXTENDED_ARG
. With these changes, the quickening that happens at code object creation is now only responsible for initializing warmup counters and inserting superinstructions.gh-99103: Fix the error reporting positions of specialized traceback anchors when the source line contains Unicode characters.
gh-99139: Improve the error suggestion for
NameError
exceptions for instances. Now if aNameError
is raised in a method and the instance has an attribute that’s exactly equal to the name in the exception, the suggestion will includeself.<NAME>
instead of the closest match in the method scope. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-98401: Octal escapes with value larger than
0o377
(ex:"\477"
), deprecated in Python 3.11, now produce aSyntaxWarning
, instead ofDeprecationWarning
. In a future Python version they will be eventually aSyntaxError
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-98401: A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now generates a
SyntaxWarning
, instead ofDeprecationWarning
. For example,re.compile("\d+\.\d+")
now emits aSyntaxWarning
("\d"
is an invalid escape sequence), use raw strings for regular expression:re.compile(r"\d+\.\d+")
. In a future Python version,SyntaxError
will eventually be raised, instead ofSyntaxWarning
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-96793: Handle StopIteration and StopAsyncIteration raised in generator or coroutines in the bytecode, rather than in wrapping C code.
gh-98931: Improve the
SyntaxError
error message when the user typesimport x from y
instead offrom y import x
. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-98852: Fix subscription of type aliases containing bare generic types or types like
TypeVar
: for exampletuple[A, T][int]
andtuple[TypeVar, T][int]
, whereA
is a generic type, andT
is a type variable.gh-98925: Lower the recursion depth for marshal on WASI to support (in-development) wasmtime 2.0.
gh-98783: Fix multiple crashes in debug mode when
str
subclasses are used instead ofstr
itself.gh-98811: Use complete source locations to simplify detection of
__future__
imports which are not at the beginning of the file. Also corrects the offset in the exception raised in one case, which was off by one and impeded highlighting.gh-96793: Add specialization of
FOR_ITER
for generators. Saves multiple layers of dispatch and checking to get from theFOR_ITER
instruction in the caller to theRESUME
in the generator.gh-98586: Added the methods
PyObject_Vectorcall()
andPyObject_VectorcallMethod()
to the Limited API along with the auxiliary macro constantPY_VECTORCALL_ARGUMENTS_OFFSET
.The availability of these functions enables more efficient PEP 590 vector calls from binary extension modules that avoid argument boxing/unboxing overheads.
gh-99257: Fix an issue where member descriptors (such as those for
__slots__
) could behave incorrectly or crash instead of raising aTypeError
when accessed via an instance of an invalid type.gh-93143: Rather than changing
co_code
, the interpreter will now display aRuntimeWarning
and assignNone
to any fast locals that are left unbound after jumps ordel
statements executed while tracing.gh-96421: When calling into Python code from C code, through
PyEval_EvalFrameEx()
or a related C-API function, a shim frame in inserted into the call stack. This occurs in the_PyEval_EvalFrameDefault()
function. The extra frame should be invisible to all Python and most C extensions, but out-of-process profilers and debuggers need to be aware of it. These shim frames can be detected by checkingframe->owner == FRAME_OWNED_BY_CSTACK
.Extensions implementing their own interpreters using PEP 523 need to be aware of this shim frame and the changes to the semantics of
RETURN_VALUE
,YIELD_VALUE
, andRETURN_GENERATOR
, which now clear the frame.gh-98415: Fix detection of MAC addresses for
uuid
on certain OSs. Patch by Chaim Sandersgh-98686: Quicken all code objects, and specialize adaptive bytecode instructions more aggressively.
gh-92119: Print exception class name instead of its string representation when raising errors from
ctypes
calls.gh-91058:
ImportError
raised from failedfrom <module> import <name>
now include suggestions for the value of<name>
based on the available names in<module>
. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-96793: The
FOR_ITER
now leaves the iterator on the stack on termination of the loop. This is to assist specialization of loops for generators.gh-90716: Add _pylong.py module. It includes asymptotically faster algorithms that can be used for operations on integers with many digits. It is used by longobject.c to speed up some operations.
gh-95389: Expose
ETH_P_ALL
and some of the ETHERTYPE_* constants insocket
. Patch by Noam Cohen.gh-93696: Allow
pdb
to locate source for frozen modules in the standard library.
Library¶
gh-99418: Fix bug in
urllib.parse.urlparse()
that causes URL schemes that begin with a digit, a plus sign, or a minus sign to be parsed incorrectly.gh-94597: Deprecate
asyncio.AbstractChildWatcher
to be removed in Python 3.14. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-99305: Improve performance of
secrets.token_hex()
.gh-74044: Fixed bug where
inspect.signature()
reported incorrect arguments for decorated methods.gh-99275: Fix
SystemError
inctypes
when exception was not set during__initsubclass__
.gh-99277: Remove older version of
_SSLProtocolTransport.get_write_buffer_limits
inasyncio.sslproto
gh-99248: fix negative numbers failing in verify()
gh-99155: Fix
statistics.NormalDist
pickle with0
and1
protocols.gh-93464:
enum.auto()
is now correctly activated when combined with other assignment values. E.g.ONE = auto(), 'some text'
will now evaluate as(1, 'some text')
.gh-99134: Update the bundled copy of pip to version 22.3.1.
gh-92584: Remove the
distutils
package. It was deprecated in Python 3.10 by PEP 632 “Deprecate distutils module”. For projects still usingdistutils
and cannot be updated to something else, thesetuptools
project can be installed: it still providesdistutils
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-98999: Now
_pyio
is consistent with_io
in raisingValueError
when executing methods over closed buffers.gh-83004: Clean up refleak on failed module initialisation in
_zoneinfo
gh-83004: Clean up refleaks on failed module initialisation in
_pickle
gh-83004: Clean up refleak on failed module initialisation in
_io
.gh-98897: Fix memory leak in
math.dist()
when both points don’t have the same dimension. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-98878: Use the frame bound builtins when offering a name suggestion in
traceback
to prevent crashing when__builtins__
is not a dict.gh-98139: In
importlib._bootstrap
, enhance namespace package repr to<module 'x' (namespace) from ['path']>
.gh-90352: Fix
_SelectorDatagramTransport
to inherit fromDatagramTransport
inasyncio
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-98793: Fix argument typechecks in
_overlapped.WSAConnect()
and_overlapped.Overlapped.WSASendTo()
functions.gh-98744: Prevent crashing in
traceback
when retrieving the byte-offset for some source files that contain certain unicode characters.gh-98740: Fix internal error in the
re
module which in very rare circumstances prevented compilation of a regular expression containing a conditional expression without the “else” branch.gh-98703: Fix
asyncio.StreamWriter.drain()
to callprotocol.connection_lost
callback only once on Windows.gh-98624: Add a mutex to unittest.mock.NonCallableMock to protect concurrent access to mock attributes.
gh-98658: The
array.array
class now supports subscripting, making it a generic type.gh-98284: Improved
TypeError
message for undefined abstract methods of aabc.ABC
instance. The names of the missing methods are surrounded by single-quotes to highlight them.gh-96151: Allow
BUILTINS
to be a valid field name for frozen dataclasses.gh-98086: Make sure
patch.dict()
can be applied on async functions.gh-72719: Remove modules
asyncore
andasynchat
, which were deprecated by PEP 594.gh-96192: Fix handling of
bytes
path-like objects inos.ismount()
.gh-94172:
ftplib
: Remove theFTP_TLS.ssl_version
class attribute: use the context parameter instead. Patch by Victor Stinnergh-94172: Remove the keyfile and certfile parameters from the
ftplib
,imaplib
,poplib
andsmtplib
modules, and the key_file, cert_file and check_hostname parameters from thehttp.client
module, all deprecated since Python 3.6. Use the context parameter (ssl_context inimaplib
) instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-83638: Add the
autocommit
attribute tosqlite3.Connection
and the autocommit parameter tosqlite3.connect()
to control PEP 249-compliant transaction handling. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-92452: Fixed a race condition that could cause
sysconfig.get_config_var()
to incorrectly returnNone
in multi-threaded programs.gh-91803: Fix an error when using a method of objects mocked with
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
after it was sealed withunittest.mock.seal()
function.bpo-38523:
shutil.copytree()
now applies the ignore_dangling_symlinks argument recursively.bpo-40358: Add walk_up argument in
pathlib.PurePath.relative_to()
.bpo-36267: Fix IndexError in
argparse.ArgumentParser
when astore_true
action is given an explicit argument.
Documentation¶
gh-98832: Changes wording of docstring for
pathlib.Path.iterdir()
.gh-97966: Update uname docs to clarify the special nature of the platform attribute and to indicate when it became late-bound.
Tests¶
gh-98903: The Python test suite now fails with exit code 4 if no tests ran. It should help detecting typos in test names and test methods.
gh-98713: Fix a bug in the
typing
tests where a test relying on CPython-specific implementation details was not decorated with@cpython_only
and was not skipped on other implementations.gh-87390: Add tests for star-unpacking with PEP 646, and some other miscellaneous PEP 646 tests.
gh-96853: Added explicit coverage of
Py_Initialize
(and hencePy_InitializeEx
) back to the embedding tests (all other embedding tests migrated toPy_InitializeFromConfig
in Python 3.11)bpo-34272: Some C API tests were moved into the new Lib/test/test_capi/ directory.
Build¶
gh-99086: Fix
-Wimplicit-int
compiler warning in configure check forPTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM
.gh-99016: Fix build with
PYTHON_FOR_REGEN=python3.8
.gh-97731: Specify the full path to the source location for
make docclean
(needed for cross-builds).gh-98949: Drop unused build dependency on
readelf
.gh-98989: Use
python3.11
, if available, for regeneration and freezing.gh-98831: Add new tooling, in
Tools/cases_generator
, to generate the interpreter switch statement from a list of opcode definitions. This only affects adding, modifying or removing instruction definitions. The instruction definitions now live inPython/bytecodes.c
, in the form of a custom DSL (under development). The tooling reads this file and writesPython/generated_cases.c.h
, which is then included byPython/ceval.c
to provide most of the cases of the main interpreter switch.gh-98817: Remove PCbuild/lib.pyproj: it’s not used for anything, is only a minor convenience for Visual Studio users (who probably mostly don’t even know about it), and it takes a lot of maintenance effort to keep updated.
gh-98776: Fix
make regen-test-levenshtein
for out-of-tree builds.gh-98707: Don’t use vendored
libmpdec
headers if--with-system-libmpdec
is passed to configure. Don’t use vendoredlibexpat
headers if--with-system-expat
is passed to configure.
Windows¶
gh-98689: Update Windows builds to zlib v1.2.13. v1.2.12 has CVE 2022-37434, but the vulnerable
inflateGetHeader
API is not used by Python.gh-98790: Assumes that a missing
DLLs
directory means that standard extension modules are in the executable’s directory.gh-98745: Update
py.exe
launcher to install 3.11 by default and 3.12 on request.gh-98692: Fix the Inicializador Python para Windows ignoring unrecognized shebang lines instead of treating them as local paths
gh-94328: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.39.4.
macOS¶
gh-94328: Update macOS installer to SQLite 3.39.4.
C API¶
gh-98724: The
Py_CLEAR
,Py_SETREF
andPy_XSETREF
macros now only evaluate their argument once. If the argument has side effects, these side effects are no longer duplicated. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-98978: Fix use-after-free in
Py_SetPythonHome(NULL)
,Py_SetProgramName(NULL)
and_Py_SetProgramFullPath(NULL)
function calls. Issue reported by Benedikt Reinartz. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-98410: Add
getbufferproc
andreleasebufferproc
to the stable API.gh-98610: Some configurable capabilities of sub-interpreters have changed. They always allow subprocesses (
subprocess
) now, whereas before subprocesses could be optionally disallowed for a sub-interpreter. Insteados.exec()
can now be disallowed. Disallowing daemon threads is now supported. Disallowing all threads is still allowed, but is never done by default. Note that the optional restrictions are only available through_Py_NewInterpreterFromConfig()
, which isn’t a public API. They do not affect the main interpreter, norPy_NewInterpreter()
.gh-98608: A
_PyInterpreterConfig
has been added and_Py_NewInterpreter()
has been renamed to_Py_NewInterpreterFromConfig()
. The “isolated_subinterpreters” argument is now a granular config that captures the previous behavior. Note that this is all “private” API.gh-96853:
Py_InitializeEx
now correctly callsPyConfig_Clear
after initializing the interpreter (the omission didn’t cause a memory leak only because none of the dynamically allocated config fields are populated by the wrapper function)gh-91248: Add
PyFrame_GetVar()
andPyFrame_GetVarString()
functions to get a frame variable by its name. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Python 3.12.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2022-10-25
Security¶
gh-97616: Fix multiplying a list by an integer (
list *= int
): detect the integer overflow when the new allocated length is close to the maximum size. Issue reported by Jordan Limor. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-97514: On Linux the
multiprocessing
module returns to using filesystem backed unix domain sockets for communication with the forkserver process instead of the Linux abstract socket namespace. Only code that chooses to use the “forkserver” start method is affected.Abstract sockets have no permissions and could allow any user on the system in the same network namespace (often the whole system) to inject code into the multiprocessing forkserver process. This was a potential privilege escalation. Filesystem based socket permissions restrict this to the forkserver process user as was the default in Python 3.8 and earlier.
This prevents Linux CVE 2022-42919.
gh-87389:
http.server
: Fix an open redirection vulnerability in the HTTP server when an URI path starts with//
. Vulnerability discovered, and initial fix proposed, by Hamza Avvan.gh-79096: LWPCookieJar and MozillaCookieJar create files with file mode 600 instead of 644 (Microsoft Windows is not affected)
gh-92888: Fix
memoryview
use after free when accessing the backing buffer in certain cases.gh-68966: The deprecated mailcap module now refuses to inject unsafe text (filenames, MIME types, parameters) into shell commands. Instead of using such text, it will warn and act as if a match was not found (or for test commands, as if the test failed).
Core and Builtins¶
gh-98374: Suppress ImportError for invalid query for help() command. Patch by Donghee Na.
gh-98461: Fix source location in bytecode for list, set and dict comprehensions as well as generator expressions.
gh-98354: Added unicode check for
name
attribute ofspec
argument passed in_imp.create_builtin()
function.gh-98398: Fix source location of ‘assert’ bytecodes.
gh-98390: Fix location of sub-expressions of boolean expressions, by reducing their scope to that of the sub-expression.
gh-98254: Modules from the standard library are now potentially suggested as part of the error messages displayed by the interpreter when an
NameError
is raised to the top level. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-97997: Add running column offset to the tokenizer state to avoid calculating AST column information with pointer arithmetic.
gh-97973: Modify the tokenizer to return all necessary information the parser needs to set location information in the AST nodes, so that the parser does not have to calculate those doing pointer arithmetic.
gh-96078:
os.sched_yield()
now release the GIL while calling sched_yield(2). Patch by Donghee Na.gh-97912: The compiler now avoids quadratic behavior when finding which instructions should use the
LOAD_FAST_CHECK
opcode.gh-97002: Fix an issue where several frame objects could be backed by the same interpreter frame, possibly leading to corrupted memory and hard crashes of the interpreter.
gh-97943: Bugfix:
PyFunction_GetAnnotations()
should return a borrowed reference. It was returning a new reference.gh-97922: The Garbage Collector now runs only on the eval breaker mechanism of the Python bytecode evaluation loop instead on object allocations. The GC can also run when
PyErr_CheckSignals()
is called so C extensions that need to run for a long time without executing any Python code also have a chance to execute the GC periodically.gh-65961: When
__package__
is different than__spec__.parent
, raise aDeprecationWarning
instead ofImportWarning
.Also remove
importlib.util.set_package()
which was scheduled for removal.gh-97850: Long deprecated,
module_repr()
should now be completely eradicated.gh-86298: In cases where
warnings.warn_explicit()
consults the module’s loader, anDeprecationWarning
is issued whenm.__loader__
differs fromm.__spec__.loader
.gh-97779: Ensure that all Python frame objects are backed by “complete” frames.
gh-91052: Add API for subscribing to modification events on selected dictionaries.
gh-97752: Fix possible data corruption or crashes when accessing the
f_back
member of newly-created generator or coroutine frames.gh-97591: Fixed a missing incref/decref pair in
Exception.__setstate__()
. Patch by Ofey Chan.gh-97670: Remove the
sys.getdxp()
function and theTools/scripts/analyze_dxp.py
script. DXP stands for “dynamic execution pairs”. They were related toDYNAMIC_EXECUTION_PROFILE
andDXPAIRS
macros which have been removed in Python 3.11. Python can now be built with./configure --enable-pystats
to gather statistics on Python opcodes. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94526: Fix the Python path configuration used to initialized
sys.path
at Python startup. Paths are no longer encoded to UTF-8/strict to avoid encoding errors if it contains surrogate characters (bytes paths are decoded with the surrogateescape error handler). Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-96670: The parser now raises
SyntaxError
when parsing source code containing null bytes. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-96975: Fix a crash occurring when
PyEval_GetFrame()
is called while the topmost Python frame is in a partially-initialized state.gh-96848: Fix command line parsing: reject
-X int_max_str_digits
option with no value (invalid) when thePYTHONINTMAXSTRDIGITS
environment variable is set to a valid limit. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-95921: Fix overly-broad source position information for chained comparisons used as branching conditions.
gh-96821: Fix undefined behaviour in
audioop.c
.gh-96821: Fix undefined behaviour in
_testcapimodule.c
.gh-95778: When
ValueError
is raised if an integer is larger than the limit, mention thesys.set_int_max_str_digits()
function in the error message. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-96387: At Python exit, sometimes a thread holding the GIL can wait forever for a thread (usually a daemon thread) which requested to drop the GIL, whereas the thread already exited. To fix the race condition, the thread which requested the GIL drop now resets its request before exiting. Issue discovered and analyzed by Mingliang ZHAO. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-96864: Fix a possible assertion failure, fatal error, or
SystemError
if a line tracing event raises an exception while opcode tracing is enabled.gh-95778: The
PyLong_FromString
function was refactored to make it more maintainable and extensible.gh-96678: Fix undefined behaviour in C code of null pointer arithmetic.
gh-96754: Make sure that all frame objects created are created from valid interpreter frames. Prevents the possibility of invalid frames in backtraces and signal handlers.
gh-90997: Improve the performance of reading and writing inline bytecode caches on some platforms.
gh-96751: Remove dead code from
CALL_FUNCTION_EX
opcode.gh-90751:
memoryview
now supports half-floats. Patch by Donghee Na and Antoine Pitrou.gh-96678: Fix case of undefined behavior in ceval.c
gh-64373: Convert
_functools
to argument clinic.gh-96641: Do not expose
KeyWrapper
in_functools
.gh-96636: Ensure that tracing,
sys.setrace()
, is turned on immediately. In pre-release versions of 3.11, some tracing events might have been lost when turning on tracing in a__del__
method or interrupt.gh-96572: Fix use after free in trace refs build mode. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
gh-96611: When loading a file with invalid UTF-8 inside a multi-line string, a correct SyntaxError is emitted.
gh-96612: Make sure that incomplete frames do not show up in tracemalloc traces.
gh-90230: Fix compiler warnings and test failures when building with
--enable-pystats
.gh-96587: Correctly raise
SyntaxError
on exception groups (PEP 654) on python versions prior to 3.11gh-96569: Remove two cases of undefined behavior, by adding NULL checks.
gh-96582: Fix possible
NULL
pointer dereference in_PyThread_CurrentFrames
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-91079: Separate Python recursion checking from C recursion checking which reduces the chance of C stack overflow and allows the recursion limit to be increased safely.
gh-93911: Fix an issue that could prevent
LOAD_ATTR
from specializing properly when accessing properties.gh-96348: Emit a DeprecationWarning when
throw()
,throw()
orathrow()
are called with more than one argument.gh-95196: Disable incorrect pickling of the C implemented classmethod descriptors.
gh-96364: Fix text signatures of
list.__getitem__
anddict.__getitem__
.gh-96352: Fix
AttributeError
missingname
andobj
attributes inobject.__getattribute__()
. Patch by Philip Georgi.gh-93554: Change the jump opcodes so that all conditional jumps are forward jumps. Backward jumps are converted by the assembler into a conditional forward jump whose target is the fallthrough block (and with a reversed condition), followed by an unconditional backward jump. For example:
POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE BACKWARD_TARGET
becomesPOP_JUMP_IF_FALSE NEXT_BLOCK; JUMP BACKWARD_TARGET
.All the directed conditional jump opcodes were removed:
POP_JUMP_FORWARD_IF_TRUE
,POP_JUMP_BACKWARD_IF_TRUE
,POP_JUMP_FORWARD_IF_FALSE
,POP_JUMP_BACKWARD_IF_FALSE
,POP_JUMP_FORWARD_IF_NONE
,POP_JUMP_BACKWARD_IF_NONE
,POP_JUMP_FORWARD_IF_NOT_NONE
,POP_JUMP_BACKWARD_IF_NOT_NONE
.The corresponding opcodes without direction are no longer pseudo-instructions, and they implement the forward conditional jumps.
gh-96268: Loading a file with invalid UTF-8 will now report the broken character at the correct location.
gh-96237: The internal field
_PyInterpreterFrame.f_func
is renamed to_PyInterpreterFrame.f_funcobj
and may be any object. Thef_globals
andf_builtin
fields may hold junk values.It is safest to treat the
_PyInterpreterFrame
struct as opaque.gh-96187: Fixed a bug that caused
_PyCode_GetExtra
to return garbage for negative indexes. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-96143: Add a new
-X perf
Python command line option as well assys.activate_stack_trampoline()
andsys.deactivate_stack_trampoline()
function in thesys
module that allows to set/unset the interpreter in a way that the Linuxperf
profiler can detect Python calls. The newsys.is_stack_trampoline_active()
function allows to query the state of the perf trampoline. Design by Pablo Galindo. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Christian Heimes with contributions from Gregory P. Smith [Google] and Mark Shannon.gh-96071: Fix a deadlock in
PyGILState_Ensure()
when allocating new thread state. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-96046:
PyType_Ready()
now initializesht_cached_keys
and performs additional checks to ensure that type objects are properly configured. This avoids crashes in 3rd party packages that don’t use regular API to create new types.gh-96005: On WASI
ENOTCAPABLE
is now mapped toPermissionError
. Theerrno
modules exposes the new error number.getpath.py
now ignoresPermissionError
when it cannot open landmark filespybuilddir.txt
andpyenv.cfg
.gh-93678: Added test a harness for direct unit tests of the compiler’s optimization stage. The
_testinternalcapi.optimize_cfg()
function runs the optimiser on a sequence of instructions. TheCfgOptimizationTestCase
class intest.support
has utilities for invoking the optimizer and checking the output.gh-95245: Reduces the size of a “simple” Python object from 8 to 6 words by moving the weakreflist pointer into the pre-header directly before the object’s dict/values pointer.
gh-90997: Compile virtual
try
/except
blocks to handle exceptions raised duringclose()
orthrow()
calls through a suspended frame.gh-95977: Optimized calling
__get__()
with vectorcall. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-91210: Improve error message when a parameter without a default value follows one with a default value, and show the same message, even when the non-default/default sequence is preceded by positional-only parameters.
gh-95922: Fixed bug where the compiler’s
eliminate_empty_basic_blocks
function ignores the last block of the code unit.gh-95818: Skip over incomplete frames in
PyThreadState_GetFrame()
.gh-95876: Fix format string in
_PyPegen_raise_error_known_location
that can lead to memory corruption on some 64bit systems. The function was building a tuple withi
(int) instead ofn
(Py_ssize_t) for Py_ssize_t arguments.gh-95605: Fix misleading contents of error message when converting an all-whitespace string to
float
.gh-95150: Update code object hashing and equality to consider all debugging and exception handling tables. This fixes an issue where certain non-identical code objects could be “deduplicated” during compilation.
gh-91146: Reduce allocation size of
list
fromstr.split()
andstr.rsplit()
. Patch by Donghee Na and Inada Naoki.gh-87092: Create a ‘jump target label’ abstraction in the compiler so that the compiler’s codegen stage does not work directly with basic blocks. This prepares the code for changes to the underlying CFG generation mechanism.
gh-95355:
_PyPegen_Parser_New
now properly detects token memory allocation errors. Patch by Honglin Zhu.gh-90081: Run Python code in tracer/profiler function at full speed. Fixes slowdown in earlier versions of 3.11.
gh-95324: Emit a warning in debug mode if an object does not call
PyObject_GC_UnTrack()
before deallocation. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-95245: Merge managed dict and values pointer into a single tagged pointer to save one word in the pre-header.
gh-93678: Add cfg_builder struct and refactor the relevant code so that a cfg can be constructed without an instance of the compiler struct.
gh-95185: Prevented crashes in the AST constructor when compiling some absurdly long expressions like
"+0"*1000000
.RecursionError
is now raised instead. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-93351:
ast.AST
node positions are now validated when provided tocompile()
and other related functions. If invalid positions are detected, aValueError
will be raised.gh-94438: Fix an issue that caused extended opcode arguments and some conditional pops to be ignored when calculating valid jump targets for assignments to the
f_lineno
attribute of frame objects. In some cases, this could cause inconsistent internal state, resulting in a hard crash of the interpreter.gh-95060: Undocumented
PyCode_Addr2Location
function now properly returns whenaddrq
argument is less than zero.gh-95113: Replace all
EXTENDED_ARG_QUICK
instructions with basicEXTENDED_ARG
instructions in unquickened code. Consumers of non-adaptive bytecode should be able to handle extended arguments the same way they were handled in CPython 3.10 and older.gh-91409: Fix incorrect source location info caused by certain optimizations in the bytecode compiler.
gh-95023: Implement
os.setns()
andos.unshare()
for Linux. Patch by Noam Cohen.gh-94036: Fix incorrect source location info for some multi-line attribute accesses and method calls.
gh-94938: Fix error detection in some builtin functions when keyword argument name is an instance of a str subclass with overloaded
__eq__
and__hash__
. Previously it could cause SystemError or other undesired behavior.gh-94996:
ast.parse()
will no longer parse function definitions with positional-only params when passedfeature_version
less than(3, 8)
. Patch by Shantanu Jain.gh-94739: Allow jumping within, out of, and across exception handlers in the debugger.
gh-94949:
ast.parse()
will no longer parse parenthesized context managers when passedfeature_version
less than(3, 9)
. Patch by Shantanu Jain.gh-94947:
ast.parse()
will no longer parse assignment expressions when passedfeature_version
less than(3, 8)
. Patch by Shantanu Jain.gh-91256: Ensures the program name is known for help text during interpreter startup.
gh-94869: Fix the column offsets for some expressions in multi-line f-strings
ast
nodes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-94893: Fix an issue where frame object manipulations could corrupt inline bytecode caches.
gh-94822: Fix an issue where lookups of metaclass descriptors may be ignored when an identically-named attribute also exists on the class itself.
gh-91153: Fix an issue where a
bytearray
item assignment could crash if it’s resized by the new value’s__index__()
method.gh-90699: Fix reference counting bug in
bool.__repr__()
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-94694: Fix an issue that could cause code with multi-line method lookups to have misleading or incorrect column offset information. In some cases (when compiling a hand-built AST) this could have resulted in a hard crash of the interpreter.
gh-93252: Fix an issue that caused internal frames to outlive failed Python function calls, possibly resulting in memory leaks or hard interpreter crashes.
gh-94215: Fix an issue where exceptions raised by line-tracing events would cause frames to be left in an invalid state, possibly resulting in a hard crash of the interpreter.
gh-92228: Disable the compiler’s inline-small-exit-blocks optimization for exit blocks that are associated with source code lines. This fixes a bug where the debugger cannot tell where an exception handler ends and the following code block begins.
gh-94485: Line number of a module’s
RESUME
instruction is set to 0 as specified in PEP 626.gh-94438: Account for instructions that can push NULL to the stack when setting line number in a frame. Prevents some (unlikely) crashes.
gh-91719: Reload
opcode
when raisingunknown opcode error
in the interpreter main loop, for C compilers to generate dispatching code independently.gh-94329: Compile and run code with unpacking of extremely large sequences (1000s of elements). Such code failed to compile. It now compiles and runs correctly.
gh-94360: Fixed a tokenizer crash when reading encoded files with syntax errors from
stdin
with non utf-8 encoded text. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-88116: Fix an issue when reading line numbers from code objects if the encoded line numbers are close to
INT_MIN
. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-94262: Don’t create frame objects for incomplete frames. Prevents the creation of generators and closures from being observable to Python and C extensions, restoring the behavior of 3.10 and earlier.
gh-94192: Fix error for dictionary literals with invalid expression as value.
gh-87995:
types.MappingProxyType
instances are now hashable if the underlying mapping is hashable.gh-93883: Revise the display strategy of traceback enhanced error locations. The indicators are only shown when the location doesn’t span the whole line.
gh-94163: Add
BINARY_SLICE
andSTORE_SLICE
instructions for more efficient handling and better specialization of slicing operations, where the slice is explicit in the source code.gh-94021: Fix unreachable code warning in
Python/specialize.c
.gh-93911: Specialize
LOAD_ATTR
for objects with custom__getattribute__
.gh-93955: Improve performance of attribute lookups on objects with custom
__getattribute__
and__getattr__
. Patch by Ken Jin.gh-93911: Specialize
LOAD_ATTR
forproperty()
attributes.gh-93678: Refactor compiler optimisation code so that it no longer needs the
struct assembler
andstruct compiler
passed around. Instead, each function takes the CFG and other data that it actually needs. This will make it possible to test this code directly.gh-93841: When built with
-enable-pystats
,sys._stats_on()
,sys._stats_off()
,sys._stats_clear()
andsys._stats_dump()
functions have been added to enable gathering stats for parts of programs.gh-93516: Store offset of first traceable instruction in code object to avoid having to recompute it for each instruction when tracing.
gh-93516: Lazily create a table mapping bytecode offsets to line numbers to speed up calculation of line numbers when tracing.
gh-89828:
types.GenericAlias
no longer relays the__class__
attribute. For example,isinstance(list[int], type)
no longer returnsTrue
.gh-93678: Refactor the compiler to reduce boilerplate and repetition.
gh-93671: Fix some exponential backtrace case happening with deeply nested sequence patterns in match statements. Patch by Pablo Galindo
gh-93662: Make sure that the end column offsets are correct in multi-line method calls. Previously, the end column could precede the column offset.
gh-93461:
importlib.invalidate_caches()
now drops entries fromsys.path_importer_cache
with a relative path as name. This solves a caching issue when a process changes its current working directory.FileFinder
no longer inserts a dot in the path, e.g./egg/./spam
is now/egg/spam
.gh-93621: Change order of bytecode instructions emitted for
with
andasync with
to reduce the number of entries in the exception table.gh-93533: Reduce the size of the inline cache for
LOAD_METHOD
by 2 bytes.gh-93444: Removed redundant fields from the compiler’s basicblock struct:
b_nofallthrough
,b_exit
,b_return
. They can be easily calculated from the opcode of the last instruction of the block.gh-93429:
LOAD_METHOD
instruction has been removed. It was merged back intoLOAD_ATTR
.gh-93418: Fixed an assert where an f-string has an equal sign ‘=’ following an expression, but there’s no trailing brace. For example, f”{i=”.
gh-93382: Cache the result of
PyCode_GetCode()
function to restore the O(1) lookup of theco_code
attribute.gh-93359: Ensure that custom
ast
nodes without explicit end positions can be compiled. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-93356: Code for exception handlers is emitted at the end of the code unit’s bytecode. This avoids one jump when no exception is raised.
gh-93354: Use exponential backoff for specialization counters in the interpreter. Can reduce the number of failed specializations significantly and avoid slowdown for those parts of a program that are not suitable for specialization.
gh-93283: Improve error message for invalid syntax of conversion character in f-string expressions.
gh-93345: Fix a crash in substitution of a
TypeVar
in nested generic alias afterTypeVarTuple
.gh-93223: When a bytecode instruction jumps to an unconditional jump instruction, the first instruction can often be optimized to target the unconditional jump’s target directly. For tracing reasons, this would previously only occur if both instructions have the same line number. This also now occurs if the unconditional jump is artificial, i.e., if it has no associated line number.
gh-84694: The
--experimental-isolated-subinterpreters
configure option andEXPERIMENTAL_ISOLATED_SUBINTERPRETERS
macro have been removed.gh-91924: Fix
__lltrace__
debug feature if the stdout encoding is not UTF-8. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-93040: Wraps unused parameters in
Objects/obmalloc.c
withPy_UNUSED
.gh-93143: Avoid
NULL
checks for uninitialized local variables by determining at compile time which variables must be initialized.gh-93061: Backward jumps after
async for
loops are no longer given dubious line numbers.gh-93065: Fix contextvars HAMT implementation to handle iteration over deep trees.
The bug was discovered and fixed by Eli Libman. See MagicStack/immutables#84 for more details.
gh-93012: Added the new function
PyType_FromMetaclass()
, which generalizes the existingPyType_FromModuleAndSpec()
using an additional metaclass argument. This is useful for language binding tools, where it can be used to intercept type-related operations like subclassing or static attribute access by specifying a metaclass with custom slots.Importantly,
PyType_FromMetaclass()
is available in the Limited API, which provides a path towards migrating more binding tools onto the Stable ABI.gh-93021: Fix the
__text_signature__
for__get__()
methods implemented in C. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-89914: The operand of the
YIELD_VALUE
instruction is set to the stack depth. This is done to help frame handling onyield
and may assist debuggers.gh-92955: Fix memory leak in code object’s lines and positions iterators as they were not finalized at exit. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
gh-92930: Fixed a crash in
_pickle.c
from mutating collections during__reduce__
orpersistent_id
.gh-90690: The PRECALL instruction has been removed. It offered only a small advantage for specialization and is not needed in the vast majority of cases.
gh-92914: Always round the allocated size for lists up to the nearest even number.
gh-92858: Improve error message for some suites with syntax error before ‘:’
gh-90473: Decrease default recursion limit on WASI to address limited call stack size.
gh-92804: Fix memory leak in
memoryview
iterator as it was not finalized at exit. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-92777: Specialize
LOAD_METHOD
for objects with lazy dictionaries. Patch by Ken Jin.gh-92658: Add support for connecting and binding to Hyper-V sockets on Windows Hyper-V hosts and guests.
gh-92236: Remove spurious “LINE” event when starting a generator or coroutine, visible tracing functions implemented in C.
gh-91102:
_warnings.warn_explicit()
is ported to Argument Clinic.gh-92619: Make the compiler duplicate an exit block only if none of its instructions have a lineno (previously only the first instruction in the block was checked, leading to unnecessarily duplicated blocks).
gh-88750: The deprecated debug build only
PYTHONTHREADDEBUG
environment variable no longer does anything.gh-92261: Fix hang when trying to iterate over a
typing.Union
.gh-91432: Specialized the
FOR_ITER
opcode using the PEP 659 machinerygh-91399: Removed duplicate ‘{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}’ entry in ‘Objects/unicodetype_db.h’.
gh-91578: Updates the error message for abstract class.
bpo-47091: Improve performance of repetition of
list
andtuple
by usingmemcpy
to copy data and performing the reference increments in one step.bpo-46142: Make
--help
output shorter by moving some info to the new--help-env
and--help-xoptions
command-line options. Also add--help-all
option to print complete usage.bpo-42316: Document some places where an assignment expression needs parentheses.
Library¶
gh-89237: Fix hang on Windows in
subprocess.wait_closed()
inasyncio
withProactorEventLoop
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-97928:
tkinter.Text.count()
raises now an exception for options starting with “-” instead of silently ignoring them.gh-98393: The
os
module no longer accepts bytes-like paths, likebytearray
andmemoryview
types: only the exactbytes
type is accepted for bytes strings. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-98363: Added itertools.batched() to batch data into lists of a given length with the last list possibly being shorter than the others.
gh-98331: Update the bundled copies of pip and setuptools to versions 22.3 and 65.5.0 respectively.
gh-98307: A
createSocket()
method was added toSysLogHandler
.gh-96035: Fix bug in
urllib.parse.urlparse()
that causes certain port numbers containing whitespace, underscores, plus and minus signs, or non-ASCII digits to be incorrectly accepted.gh-98257: Make
sys.setprofile()
andsys.settrace()
functions reentrant. They can no long fail with:RuntimeError("Cannot install a trace function while another trace function is being installed")
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-98251: Allow
venv
to pass alongPYTHON*
variables toensurepip
andpip
when they do not impact path resolutiongh-94597: Deprecated
asyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy.get_child_watcher()
andasyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy.set_child_watcher()
methods to be removed in Python 3.14. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-98178: On macOS, fix a crash in
syslog.syslog()
in multi-threaded applications. On macOS, the libcsyslog()
function is not thread-safe, sosyslog.syslog()
no longer releases the GIL to call it. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-44098: Release the GIL when creating
mmap.mmap
objects on Unix.gh-87730: Wrap network errors consistently in urllib FTP support, so the test suite doesn’t fail when a network is available but the public internet is not reachable.
gh-94597: The child watcher classes
MultiLoopChildWatcher
,FastChildWatcher
andSafeChildWatcher
are deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.14. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-98023: Change default child watcher to
PidfdChildWatcher
on Linux systems which supports it. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-90985: Earlier in 3.11 we deprecated
asyncio.Task.cancel("message")
. We realized we were too harsh, and have undeprecated it.gh-65961: Do not rely solely on
__cached__
on modules; code will also support__spec__.cached
.gh-97646: Replace deprecated
application/javascript
withtext/javascript
inmimetypes
. See RFC 9239. Patch by Noam Cohen.gh-97930: Apply changes from importlib_resources 5.8 and 5.9:
Traversable.joinpath
provides a concrete implementation.as_file
now supports directories of resources.gh-97850: Remove deprecated
importlib.util.set_loader()
andimportlib.util.module_for_loader()
fromimportlib.util
.gh-97837: Change deprecate warning message in
unittest
fromIt is deprecated to return a value!=None
to
It is deprecated to return a value that is not None from a test case
gh-97825: Fixes
AttributeError
whensubprocess.check_output()
is used with argumentinput=None
and either of the arguments encoding or errors are used.gh-97008:
NameError
andAttributeError
spelling suggestions provided since gh-82711 are now also emitted by the pure Pythontraceback
module. Tests for those suggestions now exercise both implementations to ensure they are equivalent. Patch by Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick and Łukasz Langa.gh-97799:
dataclass
now usesinspect.get_annotations()
to examine the annotations on class objects.gh-97781: Removed deprecated interfaces in
importlib.metadata
(entry points accessed as dictionary, implicit dictionary construction of sequence ofEntryPoint
objects, mutablility ofEntryPoints
result, access of entry point by index).entry_points
now has a simpler, more straightforward API (returningEntryPoints
).gh-96827: Avoid spurious tracebacks from
asyncio
when default executor cleanup is delayed until after the event loop is closed (e.g. as the result of a keyboard interrupt).gh-95534:
gzip.GzipFile.read()
reads 10% faster.gh-97592: Avoid a crash in the C version of
asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback()
when an evil argument is passed.gh-97545: Make Semaphore run faster.
gh-73588: Fix generation of the default name of
tkinter.Checkbutton
. Previously, checkbuttons in different parent widgets could have the same short name and share the same state if arguments “name” and “variable” are not specified. Now they are globally unique.gh-96865: fix Flag to use boundary CONFORM
This restores previous Flag behavior of allowing flags with non-sequential values to be combined; e.g.
class Skip(Flag): TWO = 2 EIGHT = 8
Skip.TWO | Skip.EIGHT -> <Skip.TWO|EIGHT: 10>
gh-97005: Update bundled libexpat to 2.4.9
gh-85760: Fix race condition in
asyncio
whereprocess_exited()
called before thepipe_data_received()
leading to inconsistent output. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-96704: Pass the correct
contextvars.Context
when aasyncio
exception handler is called on behalf of a task or callback handle. This adds a newTask
method,get_context
, and also a newHandle
method with the same name. If this method is not found on a task object (perhaps because it is a third-party library that does not yet provide this method), the context prevailing at the time the exception handler is called is used.gh-96819: Fixed check in
multiprocessing.resource_tracker
that guarantees that the length of a write to a pipe is not greater thanPIPE_BUF
.gh-95865: Reduce
urllib.parse.quote_from_bytes()
memory use on large values.Contributed by Dennis Sweeney.
gh-96741: Corrected type annotation for dataclass attribute
pstats.FunctionProfile.ncalls
to bestr
.gh-96734: Update
unicodedata
database to Unicode 15.0.0.gh-96735: Fix undefined behaviour in
struct.unpack()
.gh-46412: Improve performance of
bool(db)
for large ndb/gdb databases. Previously this would calllen(db)
which would iterate over all keys – the answer (empty or not) is known after the first key.gh-96652: Fix the faulthandler implementation of
faulthandler.register(signal, chain=True)
if thesigaction()
function is not available: don’t call the previous signal handler if it’s NULL. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-68163: Correct conversion of
numbers.Rational
’s tofloat
.gh-96538: Speed up
bisect.bisect()
functions by taking advantage of type-stability.gh-96465: Fraction hashes are now cached.
gh-96079: In
typing
, fix missing fieldname
and incorrect__module__
in _AnnotatedAlias.gh-96415: Remove
types._cell_factory
from module namespace.gh-95987: Fix
repr
ofAny
subclasses.gh-96388: Work around missing socket functions in
socket
’s__repr__
.gh-96385: Fix
TypeVarTuple.__typing_prepare_subst__
.TypeError
was not raised when using more than oneTypeVarTuple
, like[*T, *V]
in type alias substitutions.gh-96142: Add
match_args
,kw_only
,slots
, andweakref_slot
to_DataclassParams
.gh-96073: In
inspect
, fix overeager replacement of “typing.
” in formatting annotations.gh-89258: Added a
getChildren()
method tologging.Logger
, to get the immediate child loggers of a logger.gh-96346: Use double caching for compiled RE patterns.
gh-96349: Fixed a minor performance regression in
threading.Event.__init__()
gh-90467: Fix
asyncio.streams.StreamReaderProtocol
to keep a strong reference to the created task, so that it’s not garbage collectedgh-96172: Fix a bug in
unicodedata
:east_asian_width
used to return the wrong value for unassigned characters; and for yet unassigned, but reserved characters.gh-96159: Fix a performance regression in logging TimedRotatingFileHandler. Only check for special files when the rollover time has passed.
gh-96175: Fix unused
localName
parameter in theAttr
class inxml.dom.minidom
.gh-96145: Add AttrDict to JSON module for use with object_hook.
gh-96052: Fix handling compiler warnings (SyntaxWarning and DeprecationWarning) in
codeop.compile_command()
when checking for incomplete input. Previously it emitted warnings and raised a SyntaxError. Now it always returnsNone
for incomplete input without emitting any warnings.gh-96125: Fix incorrect condition that causes
sys.thread_info.name
to be wrong on pthread platforms.gh-96019: Fix a bug in the
makeunicodedata.py
script leading to about 13 KiB of space saving in theunicodedata
module, specifically the character decomposition data.gh-95463: Remove an incompatible change from bpo-28080 that caused a regression that ignored the utf8 in
ZipInfo.flag_bits
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-69142: Add
%:z
strftime format code (generates tzoffset with colons as separator), see Comportamento de strftime() e strptime().gh-95899: Fix
asyncio.Runner
to callasyncio.set_event_loop()
only once to avoid callingattach_loop()
multiple times on child watchers. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-95736: Fix
unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
to set event loop before calling setup functions. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-95865: Speed up
urllib.parse.quote_from_bytes()
by replacing a list comprehension withmap()
.gh-95861: Add support for computing Spearman’s correlation coefficient to the existing statistics.correlation() function.
gh-95804: Fix
logging
shutdown handler so it respectsMemoryHandler.flushOnClose
.gh-95704: When a task catches
asyncio.CancelledError
and raises some other error, the other error should generally not silently be suppressed.gh-95149: The
HTTPStatus
enum offers a couple of properties to indicate the HTTP status category e.g.HTTPStatus.OK.is_success
.gh-95609: Update bundled pip to 22.2.2.
gh-95289: Fix
asyncio.TaskGroup
to propagate exception whenasyncio.CancelledError
was replaced with another exception by a context manager. Patch by Kumar Aditya and Guido van Rossum.gh-94909: Fix incorrect joining of relative Windows paths with drives in
pathlib.PurePath
initializer.gh-95385: Faster
json.dumps()
when sorting of keys is not requested (default).gh-83901: Improve
Signature.bind
error message for missing keyword-only arguments.gh-95339: Update bundled pip to 22.2.1.
gh-95045: Fix GC crash when deallocating
_lsprof.Profiler
by untracking it before calling any callbacks. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-95231: Fail gracefully if
EPERM
orENOSYS
is raised when loadingcrypt
methods. This may happen when trying to loadMD5
on a Linux kernel with FIPS enabled.gh-95097: Fix
asyncio.run()
forasyncio.Task
implementations withoutuncancel()
method. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-95087: Fix IndexError in parsing invalid date in the
email
module.gh-95199: Upgrade bundled setuptools to 63.2.0.
gh-95194: Upgrade bundled pip to 22.2.
gh-93899: Fix check for existence of
os.EFD_CLOEXEC
,os.EFD_NONBLOCK
andos.EFD_SEMAPHORE
flags on older kernel versions where these flags are not present. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-95166: Fix
concurrent.futures.Executor.map()
to cancel the currently waiting on future on an error - e.g. TimeoutError or KeyboardInterrupt.gh-95132: Fix a
sqlite3
regression where*args
and**kwds
were incorrectly relayed fromconnect()
to theConnection
factory. The regression was introduced in 3.11a1 with PR 24421 (gh-85128). Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-93157: Fix
fileinput
module didn’t supporterrors
option wheninplace
is true.gh-91212: Fixed flickering of the turtle window when the tracer is turned off. Patch by Shin-myoung-serp.
gh-95077: Add deprecation warning for enum
member.member
access (e.g.Color.RED.BLUE
). RemoveEnumMeta.__getattr__
.gh-95109: Ensure that timeouts scheduled with
asyncio.Timeout
that have already expired are delivered promptly.gh-95105:
wsgiref.types.InputStream.__iter__()
should returnIterator[bytes]
, notIterable[bytes]
. Patch by Shantanu Jain.gh-95066: Replaced assert with exception in
ast.parse()
, whenfeature_version
has an invalid major version. Patch by Shantanu Jain.gh-77617: Add
sqlite3
command-line interface. Patch by Erlend Aasland.gh-95005: Replace _PyAccu with _PyUnicodeWriter in JSON encoder and StringIO and remove the _PyAccu implementation.
gh-90085: Remove
-c/--clock
and-t/--time
CLI options oftimeit
. The options had been deprecated since Python 3.3 and the functionality was removed in Python 3.7. Patch by Shantanu Jain.gh-94857: Fix refleak in
_io.TextIOWrapper.reconfigure
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-94821: Fix binding of unix socket to empty address on Linux to use an available address from the abstract namespace, instead of “0”.
gh-94736: Fix crash when deallocating an instance of a subclass of
_multiprocessing.SemLock
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-81620: Add random.binomialvariate().
gh-74116: Allow
asyncio.StreamWriter.drain()
to be awaited concurrently by multiple tasks. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-87822: When called with
capture_locals=True
, thetraceback
module functions swallow exceptions raised from calls torepr()
on local variables of frames. This is in order to prioritize the original exception over rendering errors. An indication of the failure is printed in place of the missing value. (Patch by Simon-Martin Schroeder).gh-88050: Fix
asyncio
subprocess transport to kill process cleanly when process is blocked and avoidRuntimeError
when loop is closed. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-94637:
SSLContext.set_default_verify_paths()
now releases the GIL aroundSSL_CTX_set_default_verify_paths
call. The function call performs I/O and CPU intensive work.gh-94309: Deprecate aliases
typing.Hashable
andtyping.Sized
gh-92546: An undocumented
python -m pprint
benchmark is moved intopprint
suite of pyperformance. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.gh-94607: Fix subclassing complex generics with type variables in
typing
. Previously an error message sayingSome type variables ... are not listed in Generic[...]
was shown.typing
no longer populates__parameters__
with the__parameters__
of a Python class.gh-94619: Remove the long-deprecated
module_repr()
fromimportlib
.gh-93910: The ability to access the other values of an enum on an enum (e.g.
Color.RED.BLUE
) has been restored in order to fix a performance regression.gh-93896: Fix
asyncio.run()
andunittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
to always the set event loop as it was done in Python 3.10 and earlier. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-94343: Allow setting the attributes of
reprlib.Repr
during object initializationgh-94382: Port static types of
_multiprocessing
module to heap types. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-78724: Fix crash in
struct.Struct
when it was not completely initialized by initializing it in__new__()
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-94510: Re-entrant calls to
sys.setprofile()
andsys.settrace()
now raiseRuntimeError
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-92336: Fix bug where
linecache.getline()
fails on bad files withUnicodeDecodeError
orSyntaxError
. It now returns an empty string as per the documentation.gh-94398: Once a
asyncio.TaskGroup
has started shutting down (i.e., at least one task has failed and the task group has started cancelling the remaining tasks), it should not be possible to add new tasks to the task group.gh-94383:
xml.etree
: Remove theElementTree.Element.copy()
method of the pure Python implementation, deprecated in Python 3.10, use thecopy.copy()
function instead. The C implementation ofxml.etree
has nocopy()
method, only a__copy__()
method. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94379:
zipimport
: Removefind_loader()
andfind_module()
methods, deprecated in Python 3.10: use thefind_spec()
method instead. See PEP 451 for the rationale. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94352:
shlex.split()
: PassingNone
for s argument now raises an exception, rather than readingsys.stdin
. The feature was deprecated in Python 3.9. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-89988: Fix memory leak in
pickle.Pickler
when looking updispatch_table
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-90016: Deprecate
sqlite3
default adapters and converters. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-94254: Fixed types of
struct
module to be immutable. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-93259: Now raise
ValueError
whenNone
or an empty string are passed toDistribution.from_name
(and other callers).gh-74696:
shutil.make_archive()
now passes the root_dir argument to custom archivers which support it.gh-94216: The
dis
module now has the opcodes for pseudo instructions (those which are used by the compiler during code generation but then removed or replaced by real opcodes before the final bytecode is emitted).gh-93096: Removed undocumented
python -m codecs
. Usepython -m unittest test.test_codecs.EncodedFileTest
instead.gh-94207: Made
_struct.Struct
GC-tracked in order to fix a reference leak in the_struct
module.gh-93096: Removed undocumented
-t
argument ofpython -m base64
. Usepython -m unittest test.test_base64.LegacyBase64TestCase.test_encodebytes
instead.gh-94226: Remove the
locale.format()
function, deprecated in Python 3.7: uselocale.format_string()
instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94199: Remove the
ssl.match_hostname()
function. Thessl.match_hostname()
was deprecated in Python 3.7. OpenSSL performs hostname matching since Python 3.7, Python no longer uses thessl.match_hostname()
function. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94214: Document the
context
object used in thevenv.EnvBuilder
class, and add the new environment’s library path to it.gh-94199: Remove the
ssl.wrap_socket()
function, deprecated in Python 3.7: instead, create assl.SSLContext
object and call itsssl.SSLContext.wrap_socket
method. Any package that still usesssl.wrap_socket()
is broken and insecure. The function neither sends a SNI TLS extension nor validates server hostname. Code is subject to CWE 295 Improper Certificate Validation. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94199: Remove the
ssl.RAND_pseudo_bytes()
function, deprecated in Python 3.6: useos.urandom()
orssl.RAND_bytes()
instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94199:
hashlib
: Remove the pure Python implementation ofhashlib.pbkdf2_hmac()
, deprecated in Python 3.10. Python 3.10 and newer requires OpenSSL 1.1.1 (PEP 644): this OpenSSL version provides a C implementation ofpbkdf2_hmac()
which is faster. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94196:
gzip
: Remove thefilename
attribute ofgzip.GzipFile
, deprecated since Python 2.6, use thename
attribute instead. In write mode, thefilename
attribute added'.gz'
file extension if it was not present. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94182: run the
asyncio.PidfdChildWatcher
on the running loop, this allows event loops to run subprocesses when there is no default event loop running on the main threadgh-94169: Remove
io.OpenWrapper
and_pyio.OpenWrapper
, deprecated in Python 3.10: just useopen()
instead. Theopen()
(io.open()
) function is a built-in function. Since Python 3.10,_pyio.open()
is also a static method. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91742: Fix
pdb
crash after jump caused by a null pointer dereference. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-94101: Manual instantiation of
ssl.SSLSession
objects is no longer allowed as it lead to misconfigured instances that crashed the interpreter when attributes where accessed on them.gh-84753:
inspect.iscoroutinefunction()
,inspect.isgeneratorfunction()
, andinspect.isasyncgenfunction()
now properly returnTrue
for duck-typed function-like objects like instances ofunittest.mock.AsyncMock
.This makes
inspect.iscoroutinefunction()
consistent with the behavior ofasyncio.iscoroutinefunction()
. Patch by Mehdi ABAAKOUK.gh-94028: Fix a regression in the
sqlite3
where statement objects were not properly cleared and reset after use in cursor iters. The regression was introduced by PR 27884 in Python 3.11a1. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-93973: Add keyword argument
all_errors
toasyncio.create_connection
so that multiple connection errors can be raised as anExceptionGroup
.gh-93963: Officially deprecate from
importlib.abc
classes moved toimportlib.resources.abc
.gh-93858: Prevent error when activating venv in nested fish instances.
gh-93847: Fix repr of enum of generic aliases.
gh-91404: Revert the
re
memory leak when a match is terminated by a signal or memory allocation failure as the implemented fix caused a major performance regression.gh-83499: Fix double closing of file description in
tempfile
.gh-93820: Fixed a regression when
copy.copy()
-ingenum.Flag
with multiple flag members.gh-79512: Fixed names and
__module__
value ofweakref
classesReferenceType
,ProxyType
,CallableProxyType
. It makes them pickleable.gh-91389: Fix an issue where
dis
utilities could report missing or incorrect position information in the presence ofCACHE
entries.gh-93626: Set
__future__.annotations
to have aNone
mandatoryRelease to indicate that it is currently ‘TBD’.gh-90473: Emscripten and WASI have no home directory and cannot provide PEP 370 user site directory.
gh-90494:
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
now always raise a TypeError if__reduce__()
returns a tuple with length 6 instead of silently ignore the 6th item or produce incorrect result.gh-90549: Fix a multiprocessing bug where a global named resource (such as a semaphore) could leak when a child process is spawned (as opposed to forked).
gh-93521: Fixed a case where dataclasses would try to add
__weakref__
into the__slots__
for a dataclass that specifiedweakref_slot=True
when it was already defined in one of its bases. This resulted in aTypeError
upon the new class being created.gh-79579:
sqlite3
now correctly detects DML queries with leading comments. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-93421: Update
sqlite3.Cursor.rowcount
when a DML statement has run to completion. This fixes the row count for SQL queries likeUPDATE ... RETURNING
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-93475: Expose
FICLONE
andFICLONERANGE
constants infcntl
. Patch by Illia Volochii.gh-93370: Deprecate
sqlite3.version
andsqlite3.version_info
.gh-91810: Suppress writing an XML declaration in open files in
ElementTree.write()
withencoding='unicode'
andxml_declaration=None
.gh-91162: Support splitting of unpacked arbitrary-length tuple over
TypeVar
andTypeVarTuple
parameters. For example:A[T, *Ts][*tuple[int, ...]]
->A[int, *tuple[int, ...]]
A[*Ts, T][*tuple[int, ...]]
->A[*tuple[int, ...], int]
gh-93353: Fix the
importlib.resources.as_file()
context manager to remove the temporary file if destroyed late during Python finalization: keep a local reference to theos.remove()
function. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-83658: Make
multiprocessing.Pool
raise an exception ifmaxtasksperchild
is notNone
or a positive int.gh-93312: Add
os.PIDFD_NONBLOCK
flag to open a file descriptor for a process withos.pidfd_open()
in non-blocking mode. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-88123: Implement
Enum.__contains__
that returnsTrue
orFalse
to replace the deprecated behaviour that would sometimes raise aTypeError
.gh-93297: Make asyncio task groups prevent child tasks from being GCed
gh-85308: Changed
argparse.ArgumentParser
to use filesystem encoding and error handler instead of default text encoding to read arguments from file (e.g.fromfile_prefix_chars
option). This change affects Windows; argument file should be encoded with UTF-8 instead of ANSI Codepage.gh-93156: Accessing the
pathlib.PurePath.parents
sequence of an absolute path using negative index values produced incorrect results.gh-93162: Add the ability for
logging.config.dictConfig()
to usefully configureQueueHandler
andQueueListener
as a pair, and addlogging.getHandlerByName()
andlogging.getHandlerNames()
APIs to allow access to handlers by name.gh-93243: The
smtpd
module was removed per the schedule in PEP 594.gh-92886: Replace
assert
statements withraise AssertionError()
inBaseHandler
so that the tested behaviour is maintained running with optimizations(-O)
.gh-90155: Fix broken
asyncio.Semaphore
when acquire is cancelled.gh-90817: The
locale.resetlocale()
function is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.13. Uselocale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91513: Added
taskName
attribute tologging
module for use withasyncio
tasks.gh-74696:
shutil.make_archive()
no longer temporarily changes the current working directory during creation of standard.zip
or tar archives.gh-92728: The
re.template()
function and the correspondingre.TEMPLATE
andre.T
flags are restored after they were removed in 3.11.0b1, but they are now deprecated, so they might be removed from Python 3.13.gh-93033: Search in some strings (platform dependent i.e [U+0xFFFF, U+0x0100] on Windows or [U+0xFFFFFFFF, U+0x00010000] on Linux 64-bit) are now up to 10 times faster.
gh-89973: Fix
re.error
raised infnmatch
if the pattern contains a character range with upper bound lower than lower bound (e.g.[c-a]
). Now such ranges are interpreted as empty ranges.gh-93044: No longer convert the database argument of
sqlite3.connect()
to bytes before passing it to the factory.gh-93010: In a very special case, the email package tried to append the nonexistent
InvalidHeaderError
to the defect list. It should have beenInvalidHeaderDefect
.gh-92986: Fix
ast.unparse()
whenImportFrom.level
isNone
gh-92932: Now
dis()
andget_instructions()
handle operand values for instructions prefixed byEXTENDED_ARG_QUICK
. Patch by Sam Gross and Donghee Na.gh-92675: Fix
venv.ensure_directories()
to acceptpathlib.Path
arguments in addition tostr
paths. Patch by David Foster.gh-87901: Removed the
encoding
argument fromos.popen()
that was added in 3.11b1.gh-91922: Fix function
sqlite.connect()
and thesqlite.Connection
constructor on non-UTF-8 locales. Also, they now support bytes paths non-decodable with the current FS encoding.gh-92869: Added
c_time_t
toctypes
, which has the same size as thetime_t
type in C.gh-92839: Fixed crash resulting from calling bisect.insort() or bisect.insort_left() with the key argument not equal to
None
.gh-90473:
subprocess
now fails early on Emscripten and WASI platforms to work around missingos.pipe()
on WASI.gh-89325: Removed many old deprecated
unittest
features:TestCase
method aliases, undocumented and brokenTestCase
methodassertDictContainsSubset
, undocumentedTestLoader.loadTestsFromModule
parameter use_load_tests, and an underscored alias of theTextTestResult
class.gh-92734: Allow multi-element reprs emitted by
reprlib
to be pretty-printed using configurable indentation.gh-92671: Fixed
ast.unparse()
for empty tuples in the assignment target context.gh-91581:
utcfromtimestamp()
no longer attempts to resolvefold
in the pure Python implementation, since the fold is never 1 in UTC. In addition to being slightly faster in the common case, this also prevents some errors when the timestamp is close todatetime.min
. Patch by Paul Ganssle.gh-86388: Removed randrange() functionality deprecated since Python 3.10. Formerly, randrange(10.0) losslessly converted to randrange(10). Now, it raises a TypeError. Also, the exception raised for non-integral values such as randrange(10.5) or randrange(‘10’) has been changed from ValueError to TypeError.
gh-90385: Add
pathlib.Path.walk()
as an alternative toos.walk()
.gh-92550: Fix
pathlib.Path.rglob()
for empty pattern.gh-92591: Allow
logging
filters to return alogging.LogRecord
instance so that filters attached tologging.Handler
s can enrich records without side effects on other handlers.gh-92445: Fix a bug in
argparse
wherenargs="*"
would raise an error instead of returning an empty list when 0 arguments were supplied if choice was also defined inparser.add_argument
.gh-92547: Remove undocumented
sqlite3
features deprecated in Python 3.10:sqlite3.enable_shared_cache()
sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode
Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
gh-92530: Fix an issue that occurred after interrupting
threading.Condition.notify()
.gh-92531: The statistics.median_grouped() function now always return a float. Formerly, it did not convert the input type when for sequences of length one.
gh-84131: The
pathlib.Path
deprecated methodlink_to
has been removed. Use 3.10’shardlink_to()
method instead as its semantics are consistent with that ofsymlink_to()
.gh-89336: Removed
configparser
module APIs: theSafeConfigParser
class alias, theParsingError.filename
property and parameter, and theConfigParser.readfp
method, all of which were deprecated since Python 3.2.gh-92391: Add
__class_getitem__()
tocsv.DictReader
andcsv.DictWriter
, allowing them to be parameterized at runtime. Patch by Marc Mueller.gh-91968: Add
SO_RTABLE
andSO_USER_COOKIE
constants tosocket
.gh-91810:
ElementTree
methodwrite()
and functiontostring()
now use the text file’s encoding (“UTF-8” if not available) instead of locale encoding in XML declaration whenencoding="unicode"
is specified.gh-81790:
os.path.splitdrive()
now understands DOS device paths with UNC links (beginning\\?\UNC\
). Contributed by Barney Gale.gh-91760: Apply more strict rules for numerical group references and group names in regular expressions. Only sequence of ASCII digits is now accepted as a numerical reference. The group name in bytes patterns and replacement strings can now only contain ASCII letters and digits and underscore.
gh-90622: Worker processes for
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
are no longer spawned on demand (a feature added in 3.9) when the multiprocessing context start method is"fork"
as that can lead to deadlocks in the child processes due to a fork happening while threads are running.gh-91577: Move imports in
SharedMemory
methods to module level so that they can be executed late in python finalization.gh-91581: Remove an unhandled error case in the C implementation of calls to
datetime.fromtimestamp
with no time zone (i.e. getting a local time from an epoch timestamp). This should have no user-facing effect other than giving a possibly more accurate error message when called with timestamps that fall on 10000-01-01 in the local time. Patch by Paul Ganssle.gh-91539: Improve performance of
urllib.request.getproxies_environment
when there are many environment variablesgh-91524: Speed up the regular expression substitution (functions
re.sub()
andre.subn()
and correspondingre.Pattern
methods) for replacement strings containing group references by 2–3 times.gh-91447: Fix findtext in the xml module to only give an empty string when the text attribute is set to
None
.gh-91456: Deprecate current default auto() behavior: In 3.13 the default will be for for auto() to always return the largest member value incremented by 1, and to raise if incompatible value types are used.
bpo-47231: Fixed an issue with inconsistent trailing slashes in tarfile longname directories.
bpo-39064:
zipfile.ZipFile
now raiseszipfile.BadZipFile
instead ofValueError
when reading a corrupt zip file in which the central directory offset is negative.bpo-41287: Fix handling of the
doc
argument in subclasses ofproperty()
.gh-90005:
ctypes
dependencylibffi
is now detected withpkg-config
.bpo-32547: The constructors for
DictWriter
andDictReader
now coerce thefieldnames
argument to alist
if it is an iterator.bpo-35540: Fix
dataclasses.asdict()
crash whencollections.defaultdict
is present in the attributes.bpo-47063: Add an index_pages parameter to support using non-default index page names.
bpo-46951: Order the contents of zipapp archives, to make builds more reproducible.
bpo-42777: Implement
pathlib.Path.is_mount()
for Windows paths.bpo-46755: In
QueueHandler
, clearstack_info
fromLogRecord
to prevent stack trace from being written twice.bpo-45393: Fix the formatting for
await x
andnot x
in the operator precedence table when using thehelp()
system.bpo-46642: Improve error message when trying to subclass an instance of
typing.TypeVar
,typing.ParamSpec
,typing.TypeVarTuple
, etc. Based on patch by Gregory Beauregard.bpo-46364: Restrict use of sockets instead of pipes for stdin of subprocesses created by
asyncio
to AIX platform only.bpo-28249: Set
doctest.DocTest.lineno
toNone
when an object does not have__doc__
.bpo-46197: Fix
ensurepip
environment isolation for subprocess runningpip
.bpo-45924: Fix
asyncio
incorrect traceback when future’s exception is raised multiple times. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-45046: Add support of context managers in
unittest
: methodsenterContext()
andenterClassContext()
of classTestCase
, methodenterAsyncContext()
of classIsolatedAsyncioTestCase
and functionunittest.enterModuleContext()
.bpo-44173: Enable fast seeking of uncompressed unencrypted
zipfile.ZipExtFile
bpo-42627: Fix incorrect parsing of Windows registry proxy settings
bpo-42047: Add
threading.get_native_id()
support for DragonFly BSD. Patch by David Carlier.bpo-14243: The
tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile
function has a new optional parameter delete_on_closebpo-41246: Give the same callback function for when the overlapped operation is done to the functions
recv
,recv_into
,recvfrom
,sendto
,send
andsendfile
insideIocpProactor
.bpo-39264: Fixed
collections.UserDict.get()
to not call__missing__()
when a value is not found. This matches the behavior ofdict
. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-38693:
importlib
now uses f-strings internally instead ofstr.format
.bpo-38267: Add timeout parameter to
asyncio.loop.shutdown_default_executor()
. The default value isNone
, which means the executor will be given an unlimited amount of time. When called fromasyncio.Runner
orasyncio.run()
, the default timeout is 5 minutes.bpo-34828:
sqlite3.Connection.iterdump()
now handles databases that useAUTOINCREMENT
in one or more tables.bpo-32990: Support reading wave files with the
WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE
format in thewave
module.bpo-26253: Allow adjustable compression level for tarfile streams in
tarfile.open()
.
Documentation¶
gh-85525: Remove extra row
gh-86404: Deprecated tools
make suspicious
andrstlint.py
are now removed. They have been replaced by sphinx-lint.gh-97741: Fix
!
in c domain ref target syntax via aconf.py
patch, so it works as intended to disable ref target resolution.gh-96432: Fraction literals now support whitespace around the forward slash,
Fraction('2 / 3')
.gh-96098: Improve discoverability of the higher level concurrent.futures module by providing clearer links from the lower level threading and multiprocessing modules.
gh-95957: What’s New 3.11 now has instructions for how to provide compiler and linker flags for Tcl/Tk and OpenSSL on RHEL 7 and CentOS 7.
gh-95588: Clarified the conflicting advice given in the
ast
documentation aboutast.literal_eval()
being “safe” for use on untrusted input while at the same time warning that it can crash the process. The latter statement is true and is deemed unfixable without a large amount of work unsuitable for a bugfix. So we keep the warning and no longer claim thatliteral_eval
is safe.gh-91207: Fix stylesheet not working in Windows CHM htmlhelp docs and add warning that they are deprecated. Contributed by C.A.M. Gerlach.
gh-95454: Replaced incorrectly written true/false values in documentation. Patch by Robert O’Shea
gh-95451: Update library documentation with availability information on WebAssembly platforms
wasm32-emscripten
andwasm32-wasi
.gh-95415: Use consistent syntax for platform availability. The directive now supports a content body and emits a warning when it encounters an unknown platform.
gh-94321: Document the PEP 246 style protocol type
sqlite3.PrepareProtocol
.gh-86128: Document a limitation in ThreadPoolExecutor where its exit handler is executed before any handlers in atexit.
gh-61162: Clarify
sqlite3
behavior when How to use the connection context manager.gh-87260: Align
sqlite3
argument specs with the actual implementation.gh-86986: The minimum Sphinx version required to build the documentation is now 3.2.
gh-88831: Augmented documentation of asyncio.create_task(). Clarified the need to keep strong references to tasks and added a code snippet detailing how to do this.
gh-86438: Clarify that
-W
andPYTHONWARNINGS
are matched literally and case-insensitively, rather than as regular expressions, inwarnings
.gh-93031: Update tutorial introduction output to use 3.10+ SyntaxError invalid range.
gh-92240: Added release dates for “What’s New in Python 3.X” for 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.8 and 3.10
bpo-47161: Document that
pathlib.PurePath
does not collapse initial double slashes because they denote UNC paths.bpo-40838: Document that
inspect.getdoc()
,inspect.getmodule()
, andinspect.getsourcefile()
might returnNone
.bpo-43689: The
Differ
documentation now also mentions other whitespace characters, which make it harder to understand the diff output.bpo-38056: Overhaul the Error Handlers documentation in
codecs
.bpo-13553: Document tkinter.Tk args.
Tests¶
gh-95027: On Windows, when the Python test suite is run with the
-jN
option, the ANSI code page is now used as the encoding for the stdout temporary file, rather than using UTF-8 which can lead to decoding errors. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-96624: Fixed the failure of repeated runs of
test.test_unittest
caused by side effects intest_dotted_but_module_not_loaded
.gh-95243: Mitigate the inherent race condition from using find_unused_port() in testSockName() by trying to find an unused port a few times before failing. Patch by Ross Burton.
gh-95573: Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_ssl.py exposed a bug in the macOS kernel where intense concurrent load on non-blocking sockets occasionally causes
errno.ENOBUFS
(“No buffer space available”) to be emitted. FB11063974 filed with Apple, in the mean time as a workaround buffer size used in tests on macOS is decreased to avoid intermittent failures. Patch by Fantix King.gh-95280: Fix problem with
test_ssl
test_get_ciphers
on systems that require perfect forward secrecy (PFS) ciphers.gh-95212: Make multiprocessing test case
test_shared_memory_recreate
parallel-safe.gh-95218: Move tests for importlib.resources into test_importlib.resources.
gh-93963: Updated tests to use preferred location for
importlib.resources
ABCs.gh-94675: Add a regression test for
re
exponentional slowdown when using rjsmin.gh-91330: Added more tests for
dataclasses
to cover behavior with data descriptor-based fields.gh-94208:
test_ssl
is now checking for supported TLS version and protocols in more tests.gh-94315: Tests now check for DAC override capability instead of relying on
os.geteuid()
.gh-54781: Rename test_tk to test_tkinter, and rename test_ttk_guionly to test_ttk. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-93839: Move
Lib/ctypes/test/
toLib/test/test_ctypes/
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-93951: In test_bdb.StateTestCase.test_skip, avoid including auxiliary importers.
gh-93957: Provide nicer error reporting from subprocesses in test_venv.EnsurePipTest.test_with_pip.
gh-93884: Add test cases for
PyNumber_ToBase()
that take a large number or a non-int object as parameter.gh-93852: test_asyncio, test_logging, test_socket and test_socketserver now create AF_UNIX domains in the current directory to no longer fail with
OSError("AF_UNIX path too long")
if the temporary directory (theTMPDIR
environment variable) is too long. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-93353: regrtest now checks if a test leaks temporary files or directories if run with -jN option. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-84461:
run_tests.py
now handles cross compiling env vars correctly and passHOSTRUNNER
to regression tests.gh-93616:
test_modulefinder
now creates a temporary directory inModuleFinderTest.setUp()
instead of module scope.gh-93575: Fix issue with test_unicode test_raiseMemError. The test case now use
test.support.calcobjsize
to calculate size of PyUnicode structs.sys.getsizeof()
may return different size when string has UTF-8 memory.gh-90473: WASI does not have a
chmod(2)
syscall.os.chmod()
is now a dummy function on WASI. Skip all tests that depend on workingos.chmod()
.gh-90473: Skip tests on WASI that require symlinks with absolute paths.
gh-57539: Increase calendar test coverage for
calendar.LocaleTextCalendar.formatweekday()
.gh-90473: Skip symlink tests on WASI. wasmtime uses
openat2(2)
withRESOLVE_BENEATH
flag, which prevents symlinks with absolute paths.gh-89858: Fix
test_embed
for out-of-tree builds. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-92886: Fixing tests that fail when running with optimizations (
-O
) intest_imaplib.py
.gh-92886: Fixing tests that fail when running with optimizations (
-O
) intest_zipimport.py
gh-92886: Fixing tests that fail when running with optimizations (
-O
) intest_py_compile.py
gh-92886: Fixing tests that fail when running with optimizations (
-O
) intest_sys_settrace.py
.gh-92886: Fixing tests that fail when running with optimizations (
-O
) in_test_multiprocessing.py
gh-92670: Skip
test_shutil.TestCopy.test_copyfile_nonexistent_dir
test on AIX as the test uses a trailing slash to force the OS consider the path as a directory, but on AIX the trailing slash has no effect and is considered as a file.gh-92514: Remove unused
test.support.BasicTestRunner
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-47016: Create a GitHub Actions workflow for verifying bundled pip and setuptools. Patch by Illia Volochii and Adam Turner.
Build¶
gh-96761: Fix the build process of clang compiler for _bootstrap_python if LTO optimization is applied. Patch by Matthias Görgens and Donghee Na.
gh-96883:
wasm32-emscripten
builds for browsers now includeconcurrent.futures
forasyncio
andunittest.mock
.gh-85936: CPython now uses the ThinLTO option as the default policy if the Clang compiler accepts the flag. Patch by Donghee Na.
gh-96729: Ensure that Windows releases built with
Tools\msi\buildrelease.bat
are upgradable to and from official Python releases.gh-96269: Shared module targets now depend on new
MODULE_DEPS
variable, which includesEXPORTSYMS
. This fixes a build order issue on unsupported AIX platform.gh-84461:
wasm32-emscripten
platform no longer buildsresource
module,getresuid()
,getresgid()
, and their setters. The APIs are stubs and not functional.gh-95973: Add a new
--with-dsymutil
configure option to link debug information in macOS. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-90536: Use the BOLT post-link optimizer to improve performance, particularly on medium-to-large applications.
gh-93744: Remove the
configure --with-cxx-main
build option: it didn’t work for many years. Remove theMAINCC
variable fromconfigure
andMakefile
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-94801: Fix a regression in
configure
script that caused some header checks to ignore customCPPFLAGS
. The regression was introduced in gh-94802.gh-95145: wasm32-wasi builds no longer depend on WASIX’s pthread stubs. Python now has its own stubbed pthread API.
gh-95174: Python now detects missing
dup
function in WASI and works around some missingerrno
,select
, andsocket
constants.gh-95174: Python now skips missing
socket
functions and methods on WASI. WASI can only create sockets from existing fd / accept and has no netdb.gh-95085: Platforms
wasm32-unknown-emscripten
andwasm32-unknown-wasi
have been promoted to PEP 11 tier 3 platform support.gh-94847: Fixed
_decimal
module build issue on GCC when compiling with LTO and pydebug. Debug builds no longer force inlining of functions.gh-94841: Fix the possible performance regression of
PyObject_Free()
compiled with MSVC version 1932.gh-94801:
configure
now uses custom flags likeZLIB_CFLAGS
andZLIB_LIBS
when searching for headers and libraries.gh-94773:
deepfreeze.py
now supports code object with frozensets that contain incompatible, unsortable types.gh-94682: Build and test with OpenSSL 1.1.1q
gh-90005: Dependencies of
readline
andcurses
module are now detected inconfigure
script withpkg-config
. Onlyncurses
/ncursesw
are detected automatically. The oldcurses
library is not configured automatically. Workaround for missingtermcap
ortinfo
library has been removed.gh-90005: Fix building
_ctypes
extension withoutpkg-config
.gh-90005:
_dbm
module dependencies are now detected by configure.gh-94404:
makesetup
now works around an issue with sed on macOS and uses correct CFLAGS for object files that end up in a shared extension. Module CFLAGS are used before PY_STDMODULE_CFLAGS to avoid clashes with system headers.gh-93939: C extension modules are now built by
configure
andmake
instead ofdistutils
andsetup.py
.gh-93939: The
2to3
,idle
, andpydoc
scripts are now generated and installed byMakefile
instead ofsetup.py
.gh-94280: Updated pegen regeneration script on Windows to find and use Python 3.9 or higher. Prior to this, pegen regeneration already required 3.9 or higher, but the script may have used lower versions of Python.
gh-93584: Address race condition in
Makefile
when installing a PGO build. Alltest
andinstall
targets now depend onall
target.gh-93491:
configure
now detects and reports PEP 11 support tiers.gh-69093: Fix
Modules/Setup.stdlib.in
rule for_sqlite3
extension.gh-93207:
va_start()
with two parameters, likeva_start(args, format),
is now required to build Python.va_start()
is no longer called with a single parameter. Patch by Kumar Aditya.gh-93202: Python now always use the
%zu
and%zd
printf formats to format asize_t
orPy_ssize_t
number. Building Python 3.12 requires a C11 compiler, so these printf formats are now always supported. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-90473: Disable pymalloc and increase stack size on
wasm32-wasi
.bpo-34449: Drop invalid compiler switch
-fPIC
for HP aCC on HP-UX. Patch by Michael Osipov.
Windows¶
gh-98360: Fixes
multiprocessing
spawning child processes on Windows from a virtual environment to ensure that child processes that also usemultiprocessing
to spawn more children will recognize that they are in a virtual environment.gh-98414: Fix
py.exe
launcher handling of-V:<company>/
option when default preferences have been set in environment variables or configuration files.gh-97728: Fix possible crashes caused by the use of uninitialized variables when pass invalid arguments in
os.system()
on Windows and in Windows-specific modules (likewinreg
).gh-90989: Made Inicializador Python para Windows install per-user by default (unless an all users install already exists), and clarify some text in the installer.
gh-97649: The
Tools
directory is no longer installed on Windowsgh-96965: Update libffi to 3.4.3
gh-96577: Fixes a potential buffer overrun in
msilib
.gh-96559: Fixes the Windows launcher not using the compatible interpretation of default tags found in configuration files when no tag was passed to the command.
gh-94781: Fix
pcbuild.proj
to clean previous instances of output files inPython\deepfreeze
andPython\frozen_modules
directories on Windows. Patch by Charlie Zhao.gh-89545: Updates
platform
code getting the Windows version to use native Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries to determine OS version, type, and architecture.gh-95733: Make certain requirements of the Windows Store package optional to allow installing on earlier updates of Windows.
gh-95656: Enable the
enable_load_extension()
sqlite3
API.gh-95587: Fixes some issues where the Windows installer would incorrectly detect certain features of an existing install when upgrading.
gh-94399: Restores the behaviour of Inicializador Python para Windows for
/usr/bin/env
shebang lines, which will now searchPATH
for an executable matching the given command. If none is found, the usual search process is used.gh-95445: Fixes the unsuccessful removal of the HTML document directory when uninstalling with Windows msi.
gh-95359: Fix Inicializador Python para Windows handling of
py.ini
commands (it was incorrectly expecting apy_
prefix on keys) and crashes when reading per-user configuration file.gh-95285: Fix Inicializador Python para Windows handling of command lines where it is only passed a short executable name.
gh-90844: Allow virtual environments to correctly launch when they have spaces in the path.
gh-94772: Fix incorrect handling of shebang lines in py.exe launcher
gh-94018:
zipfile
will now remove trailing spaces from path components when extracting files on Windows.gh-93824: Drag and drop of files onto Python files in Windows Explorer has been enabled for Windows ARM64.
gh-43414:
os.get_terminal_size()
now attempts to read the size from any provided handle, rather than only supporting file descriptors 0, 1 and 2.gh-92817: Ensures that
py.exe
will prefer an active virtual environment over default tags specified with environment variables or through apy.ini
file.gh-92984: Explicitly disable incremental linking for non-Debug builds
gh-92841:
asyncio
no longer throwsRuntimeError: Event loop is closed
on interpreter exit after asynchronous socket activity. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.bpo-46907: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.38.4.
gh-91061: Accept os.PathLike for the argument to winsound.PlaySound
bpo-42658: Support native Windows case-insensitive path comparisons by using
LCMapStringEx
instead ofstr.lower()
inntpath.normcase()
. AddLCMapStringEx
to the_winapi
module.bpo-38704: Prevent installation on unsupported Windows versions.
macOS¶
gh-97897: The macOS 13 SDK includes support for the
mkfifoat
andmknodat
system calls. Using thedir_fd
option with eitheros.mkfifo()
oros.mknod()
could result in a segfault if cpython is built with the macOS 13 SDK but run on an earlier version of macOS. Prevent this by adding runtime support for detection of these system calls (“weaklinking”) as is done for other newer syscalls on macOS.
IDLE¶
gh-97527: Fix a bug in the previous bugfix that caused IDLE to not start when run with 3.10.8, 3.12.0a1, and at least Microsoft Python 3.10.2288.0 installed without the Lib/test package. 3.11.0 was never affected.
gh-65802: Document handling of extensions in Save As dialogs.
gh-95191: Include prompts when saving Shell (interactive input and output).
gh-95511: Fix the Shell context menu copy-with-prompts bug of copying an extra line when one selects whole lines.
gh-95471: In the Edit menu, move
Select All
and add a new separator.gh-95411: Enable using IDLE’s module browser with .pyw files.
gh-89610: Add .pyi as a recognized extension for IDLE on macOS. This allows opening stub files by double clicking on them in the Finder.
Tools/Demos¶
gh-68686: Remove ptags and eptags scripts.
gh-97681: Remove the
Tools/demo/
directory which contained old demo scripts. A copy can be found in the old-demos project. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-97669: Remove outdated example scripts of the
Tools/scripts/
directory. A copy can be found in the old-demos project. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-95853: The
wasm_build.py
script now pre-builds Emscripten ports, checks for broken EMSDK versions, and warns about pkg-config env vars.gh-95853: The new tool
Tools/wasm/wasm_builder.py
automates configure, compile, and test steps for building CPython on WebAssembly platforms.gh-95731: Fix handling of module docstrings in
Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
.gh-93939: Add script
Tools/scripts/check_modules.py
to check and validate builtin and shared extension modules. The script also handlesModules/Setup
and will eventually replacesetup.py
.gh-94538: Fix Argument Clinic output to custom file destinations. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
gh-94430: Allow parameters named
module
andself
with custom C names in Argument Clinic. Patch by Erlend E. Aaslandgh-86087: The
Tools/scripts/parseentities.py
script used to parse HTML4 entities has been removed.
C API¶
gh-98393: The
PyUnicode_FSDecoder()
function no longer accepts bytes-like paths, likebytearray
andmemoryview
types: only the exactbytes
type is accepted for bytes strings. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91051: Add
PyType_Watch()
and related APIs to allow callbacks onPyType_Modified()
.gh-95756: Lazily create and cache
co_
attributes for better performance for code getters.gh-96512: Configuration for the integer string conversion length limitation now lives in the PyConfig C API struct.
gh-95589: Extensions classes that set
tp_dictoffset
andtp_weaklistoffset
lose the support for multiple inheritance, but are now safe. Extension classes should usePy_TPFLAGS_MANAGED_DICT
andPy_TPFLAGS_MANAGED_WEAKREF
instead.gh-95781: An unrecognized format character in
PyUnicode_FromFormat()
andPyUnicode_FromFormatV()
now sets aSystemError
. In previous versions it caused all the rest of the format string to be copied as-is to the result string, and any extra arguments discarded.gh-92678: Restore the 3.10 behavior for multiple inheritance of C extension classes that store their dictionary at the end of the struct.
gh-92678: Support C extensions using managed dictionaries by setting the
Py_TPFLAGS_MANAGED_DICT
flag.gh-93274: API for implementing vectorcall (
Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VECTORCALL
,PyVectorcall_NARGS()
andPyVectorcall_Call()
) was added to the limited API and stable ABI.gh-95504: Fix sign placement when specifying width or precision in
PyUnicode_FromFormat()
andPyUnicode_FromFormatV()
. Patch by Philip Georgi.gh-93012: The
Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VECTORCALL
flag is now removed from a class when the class’s__call__()
method is reassigned. This makes vectorcall safe to use with mutable types (i.e. heap types without theimmutable
flag). Mutable types that do not overridetp_call
now inherit thePy_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VECTORCALL
flag.gh-95388: Creating
immutable types
with mutable bases is deprecated and is planned to be disabled in Python 3.14.gh-92678: Adds unstable C-API functions
_PyObject_VisitManagedDict
and_PyObject_ClearManagedDict
to allow C extensions to allow the VM to manage their object’s dictionaries.gh-94936: Added
PyCode_GetVarnames()
,PyCode_GetCellvars()
andPyCode_GetFreevars()
for accessingco_varnames
,co_cellvars
andco_freevars
respectively via the C API.gh-94930: Fix
SystemError
raised whenPyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()
is used with#
in(...)
but withoutPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
defined.gh-94731: Python again uses C-style casts for most casting operations when compiled with C++. This may trigger compiler warnings, if they are enabled with e.g.
-Wold-style-cast
or-Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant
options forg++
.gh-93937: The following frame functions and type are now directly available with
#include <Python.h>
, it’s no longer needed to add#include <frameobject.h>
:Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-91321: Fix the compatibility of the Python C API with C++ older than C++11. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-91731: Avoid defining the
static_assert
when compiling with C++ 11, where this is a keyword and redefining it can lead to undefined behavior. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-89546:
PyType_FromMetaclass()
(and otherPyType_From*
functions) now check that offsets and the base class’stp_basicsize
fit in the new class’stp_basicsize
.gh-93503: Add two new public functions to the public C-API,
PyEval_SetProfileAllThreads()
andPyEval_SetTraceAllThreads()
, that allow to set tracing and profiling functions in all running threads in addition to the calling one. Also, two analogous functions to thethreading
module (threading.setprofile_all_threads()
andthreading.settrace_all_threads()
) that allow to do the same from Python. Patch by Pablo Galindogh-93442: Add C++ overloads for _Py_CAST_impl() to handle 0/NULL. This will allow C++ extensions that pass 0 or NULL to macros using _Py_CAST() to continue to compile.
gh-93466: Slot IDs in PyType_Spec may not be repeated. The documentation was updated to mention this. For some cases of repeated slots, PyType_FromSpec and related functions will now raise an exception.
gh-92898: Fix C++ compiler warnings when casting function arguments to
PyObject*
. Patch by Serge Guelton.gh-93103: Deprecate global configuration variables, like
Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag
, in the documentation: thePy_InitializeFromConfig()
API should be instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-77782: Deprecate global configuration variable like
Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag
: thePy_InitializeFromConfig()
API should be instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-92913: Ensures changes to
PyConfig.module_search_paths
are ignored unlessPyConfig.module_search_paths_set
is setgh-92781: Avoid mixing declarations and code in the C API to fix the compiler warning: “ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code” [-Werror=declaration-after-statement]. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-92651: Remove the
token.h
header file. There was never any public tokenizer C API. Thetoken.h
header file was only designed to be used by Python internals. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-92536: Remove legacy Unicode APIs based on
Py_UNICODE*
.gh-85858: Remove the
PyUnicode_InternImmortal()
function and theSSTATE_INTERNED_IMMORTAL
macro. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-92193: Add new function
PyFunction_SetVectorcall()
to the C API which sets the vectorcall field of a givenPyFunctionObject
.Warning: extensions using this API must preserve the behavior of the unaltered function!
gh-59121: Fixed an assert that prevented
PyRun_InteractiveOne
from providing tracebacks when parsing from the provided FD.bpo-45383: The
PyType_FromSpec()
API will now find and use a metaclass based on the provided bases. An error will be raised if there is a metaclass conflict.
Python 3.11.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2022-05-06
Security¶
gh-57684: Add the
-P
command line option and thePYTHONSAFEPATH
environment variable to not prepend a potentially unsafe path tosys.path
. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Core and Builtins¶
gh-89519: Chaining classmethod descriptors (introduced in bpo-19072) is deprecated. It can no longer be used to wrap other descriptors such as property(). The core design of this feature was flawed, and it caused a number of downstream problems.
gh-92345:
pymain_run_python()
now importsreadline
andrlcompleter
before sys.path is extended to include the current working directory of an interactive interpreter. Non-interactive interpreters are not affected.bpo-43857: Improve the
AttributeError
message when deleting a missing attribute. Patch by Géry Ogam.gh-92245: Make sure that PEP 523 is respected in all cases. In 3.11a7, specialization may have prevented Python-to-Python calls respecting PEP 523.
gh-92203: Add a closure keyword-only parameter to
exec()
. It can only be specified when exec-ing a code object that uses free variables. When specified, it must be a tuple, with exactly the number of cell variables referenced by the code object. closure has a default value ofNone
, and it must beNone
if the code object doesn’t refer to any free variables.gh-91173: Disable frozen modules in debug builds. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
gh-92114: Improve error message when subscript a type with
__class_getitem__
set toNone
.gh-92112: Fix crash triggered by an evil custom
mro()
on a metaclass.gh-92063: The
PRECALL_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR_FAST_WITH_KEYWORDS
instruction now ensures methods are called only on objects of the correct type.gh-92031: Deoptimize statically allocated code objects during
Py_FINALIZE()
so that future_PyCode_Quicken
calls always start with unquickened code.gh-92036: Fix a crash in subinterpreters related to the garbage collector. When a subinterpreter is deleted, untrack all objects tracked by its GC. To prevent a crash in deallocator functions expecting objects to be tracked by the GC, leak a strong reference to these objects on purpose, so they are never deleted and their deallocator functions are not called. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-92032: The interpreter can now autocomplete soft keywords, as of now
match
,case
, and_
(wildcard pattern) from PEP 634.gh-87999: The warning emitted by the Python parser for a numeric literal immediately followed by keyword has been changed from deprecation warning to syntax warning.
gh-91869: Fix an issue where specialized opcodes with extended arguments could produce incorrect tracing output or lead to assertion failures.
gh-91603: Speed up
types.UnionType
instantiation. Based on patch provided by Yurii Karabas.gh-89373: If Python is built in debug mode, Python now ensures that deallocator functions leave the current exception unchanged. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-91632: Fix a minor memory leak at exit: release the memory of the
generic_alias_iterator
type. Patch by Donghee Na.gh-81548: Octal escapes with value larger than
0o377
now produce aDeprecationWarning
. In a future Python version they will be aSyntaxWarning
and eventually aSyntaxError
.bpo-43950: Use a single compact table for line starts, ends and column offsets. Reduces memory consumption for location info by half
gh-91102: Use Argument Clinic for
EncodingMap
. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.gh-91636: Fixed a crash in a garbage-collection edge-case, in which a
PyFunction_Type.tp_clear
function could leave a python function object in an inconsistent state.gh-91603: Speed up
isinstance()
andissubclass()
checks fortypes.UnionType
. Patch by Yurii Karabas.gh-91625: Fixed a bug in which adaptive opcodes ignored any preceding
EXTENDED_ARG
s on specialization failure.gh-78607: The LLTRACE special build now looks for the name
__lltrace__
defined in module globals, rather than the name__ltrace__
, which had been introduced as a typo.gh-91576: Speed up iteration of ascii strings by 50%. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
gh-89279: Improve interpreter performance on Windows by inlining a few specific macros.
gh-91502: Add a new
_PyFrame_IsEntryFrame()
API function, to check if aPyFrameObject
is an entry frame. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-91266: Refactor the
bytearray
strip methodsstrip
,lstrip
andrstrip
to use a common implementation.gh-91479: Replaced the
__note__
field ofBaseException
(added in an earlier version of 3.11) with the final design of PEP 678. Namely,BaseException
gets anadd_note()
method, and its__notes__
field is created when necessary.gh-46055: Speed up right shift of negative integers, by removing unnecessary creation of temporaries. Original patch by Xinhang Xu, reworked by Mark Dickinson.
gh-91462: Make the interpreter’s low-level tracing (lltrace) feature output more readable by displaying opcode names (rather than just numbers), and by displaying stack contents before each opcode.
gh-89455: Fixed an uninitialized bool value in the traceback printing code path that was introduced by the initial bpo-45292 exception groups work.
gh-91421: Fix a potential integer overflow in _Py_DecodeUTF8Ex.
gh-91428: Add
static const char *const _PyOpcode_OpName[256] = {...};
toopcode.h
for debug builds to assist in debugging the Python interpreter. It is now more convenient to make various forms of debugging output more human-readable by including opcode names rather than just the corresponding decimal digits.bpo-47120: Make
POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE
,POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE
,POP_JUMP_IF_NONE
andPOP_JUMP_IF_NOT_NONE
virtual, mapping to new relative jump opcodes.bpo-45317: Add internal documentation explaining design of new (for 3.11) frame stack.
bpo-47197: ctypes used to mishandle
void
return types, so that for instance a function declared likectypes.CFUNCTYPE(None, ctypes.c_int)
would be called with signatureint f(int)
instead ofvoid f(int)
. Wasm targets require function pointers to be called with the correct signatures so this led to crashes. The problem is now fixed.bpo-47120: Make opcodes
JUMP_IF_TRUE_OR_POP
andJUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POP
relative rather than absolute.bpo-47177: Replace the
f_lasti
member of the internal_PyInterpreterFrame
structure with aprev_instr
pointer, which reduces overhead in the main interpreter loop. Thef_lasti
attribute of Python-layer frame objects is preserved for backward-compatibility.bpo-46961: Integer mod/remainder operations, including the three-argument form of
pow()
, now consistently return ints from the global small integer cache when applicable.bpo-46962: Classes and functions that unconditionally declared their docstrings ignoring the
--without-doc-strings
compilation flag no longer do so.The classes affected are
ctypes.UnionType
,pickle.PickleBuffer
,testcapi.RecursingInfinitelyError
, andtypes.GenericAlias
.The functions affected are 24 methods in
ctypes
.Patch by Oleg Iarygin.
bpo-46942: Use Argument Clinic for the
types.MethodType
constructor. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.bpo-46764: Fix wrapping bound methods with @classmethod
bpo-43464: Optimize
set.intersection()
for non-set arguments.bpo-46721: Optimize
set.issuperset()
for non-set argument.bpo-46509: Add type-specialized versions of the
Py_DECREF()
, and use them forfloat
,int
,str
,bool
, andNone
to avoid pointer-chasing at runtime where types are known at C compile time.bpo-46045: Do not use POSIX semaphores on NetBSD
bpo-36819: Fix crashes in built-in encoders with error handlers that return position less or equal than the starting position of non-encodable characters.
bpo-34093:
marshal.dumps()
usesFLAG_REF
for all interned strings. This makes output more deterministic and helps reproducible build.bpo-26579: Added
object.__getstate__
which provides the default implementation of the__getstate__()
method.Copying and pickling instances of subclasses of builtin types bytearray, set, frozenset, collections.OrderedDict, collections.deque, weakref.WeakSet, and datetime.tzinfo now copies and pickles instance attributes implemented as slots.
Library¶
gh-87901: Add the encoding parameter to
os.popen()
.gh-90997: Fix an issue where
dis
utilities may interpret populated inline cache entries as valid instructions.gh-92332: Deprecate
typing.Text
(removal of the class is currently not planned). Patch by Alex Waygood.Deprecate nested classes in enum definitions becoming members – in 3.13 they will be normal classes; add
member
andnonmember
functions to allow control over results now.gh-92356: Fixed a performance regression in ctypes function calls.
gh-90997: Show the actual named values stored in inline caches when
show_caches=True
is passed todis
utilities.gh-92301: Prefer
close_range()
to iterating over procfs for file descriptor closing insubprocess
for better performance.gh-67248: Sort the miscellaneous topics in Cmd.do_help()
gh-92210: Port
socket.__init__
to Argument Clinic. Patch by Cinder.gh-80010: Add support for generalized ISO 8601 parsing to
datetime.datetime.fromisoformat()
,datetime.date.fromisoformat()
anddatetime.time.fromisoformat()
. Patch by Paul Ganssle.gh-92118: Fix a 3.11 regression in
contextmanager()
, which caused it to propagate exceptions with incorrect tracebacks.gh-90887: Adding
COPYFILE_STAT
,COPYFILE_ACL
andCOPYFILE_XATTR
constants foros.fcopyfile()
available in macOs.gh-91215: For
@dataclass
, add weakref_slot. The new parameter defaults toFalse
. If true, and ifslots=True
, add a slot named"__weakref__"
, which will allow instances to be weakref’d. Contributed by Eric V. Smithgh-85984: New function os.login_tty() for Unix.
gh-92128: Add
__class_getitem__()
tologging.LoggerAdapter
andlogging.StreamHandler
, allowing them to be parameterized at runtime. Patch by Alex Waygood.gh-92049: Forbid pickling constants
re._constants.SUCCESS
etc. Previously, pickling did not fail, but the result could not be unpickled.gh-92062:
inspect.Parameter
now raisesValueError
ifname
is a keyword, in addition to the existing check that it is an identifier.gh-87390: Add an
__unpacked__
attribute totypes.GenericAlias
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-88089: Add support for generic
typing.NamedTuple
.gh-91996: New http.HTTPMethod enum to represent all the available HTTP request methods in a convenient way
gh-91984: Modified test strings in test_argparse.py to not contain trailing spaces before end of line.
gh-91952: Add
encoding="locale"
support toTextIOWrapper.reconfigure()
.gh-91954: Add encoding and errors arguments to
subprocess.getoutput()
andsubprocess.getstatusoutput()
.bpo-47029: Always close the read end of the pipe used by
multiprocessing.Queue
after the last write of buffered data to the write end of the pipe to avoidBrokenPipeError
at garbage collection and atmultiprocessing.Queue.close()
calls. Patch by Géry Ogam.gh-91928: Add
datetime.UTC
alias fordatetime.timezone.utc
.Patch by Kabir Kwatra.
gh-68966: The
mailcap
module is now deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.13. See PEP 594 for the rationale and themimetypes
module for an alternative. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91401: Provide a way to disable
subprocess
use ofvfork()
just in case it is ever needed and document the existing mechanism forposix_spawn()
.gh-64783: Fix
signal.NSIG
value on FreeBSD to accept signal numbers greater than 32, likesignal.SIGRTMIN
andsignal.SIGRTMAX
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91910: Add missing f prefix to f-strings in error messages from the
multiprocessing
andasyncio
modules.gh-91860: Add
typing.dataclass_transform()
, implementing PEP 681. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-91832: Add
required
attribute toargparse.Action
repr output.gh-91827: In the
tkinter
module add methodinfo_patchlevel()
which returns the exact version of the Tcl library as a named tuple similar tosys.version_info
.gh-84461: Add
--enable-wasm-pthreads
to enable pthreads support for WASM builds.Emscripten/node
no longer has threading enabled by default. Include additional file systems.gh-91821: Fix unstable
test_from_tuple
test intest_decimal.py
.gh-91217: Deprecate the xdrlib module.
gh-91217: Deprecate the uu module.
gh-91760: More strict rules will be applied for numerical group references and group names in regular expressions. For now, a deprecation warning is emitted for group references and group names which will be errors in future Python versions.
gh-84461: Add provisional
sys._emscripten_info
named tuple with build-time and run-time information about Emscripten platform.gh-90623:
signal.raise_signal()
andos.kill()
now check immediately for pending signals. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91734: Fix OSS audio support on Solaris.
gh-90633: Include the passed value in the exception thrown by
typing.assert_never()
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.gh-91700: Compilation of regular expression containing a conditional expression
(?(group)...)
now raises an appropriatere.error
if the group number refers to not defined group. Previously an internal RuntimeError was raised.gh-91231: Add an optional keyword shutdown_timeout parameter to the
multiprocessing.BaseManager
constructor. Kill the process if terminate() takes longer than the timeout. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91621: Fix
typing.get_type_hints()
forcollections.abc.Callable
. Patch by Shantanu Jain.gh-90568: Parsing
\N
escapes of Unicode Named Character Sequences in aregular expression
raises nowre.error
instead ofTypeError
.gh-91670: Remove deprecated
SO
config variable insysconfig
.gh-91217: Deprecate the telnetlib module.
gh-91217: Deprecate the sunau module.
gh-91217: Deprecate the spwd module.
gh-91217: Deprecate the sndhdr module, as well as inline needed functionality for
email.mime.MIMEAudio
.gh-91616:
re
module, fixfullmatch()
mismatch when using Atomic Grouping or Possessive Quantifiers.gh-91217: Deprecate the ‘pipes’ module.
gh-91217: Deprecate the ossaudiodev module.
bpo-47256:
re
module, limit the maximum capturing group to 1,073,741,823 in 64-bit build, this increases the depth of backtracking.gh-91217: Deprecate the nis module.
gh-91595: Fix the comparison of character and integer inside
Tools.gdb.libpython.write_repr()
. Patch by Yu Liu.gh-74166: Add option to raise all errors from
create_connection()
in anExceptionGroup
when it fails to create a connection. The default remains to raise only the last error that had occurred when multiple addresses were tried.gh-91487: Optimize asyncio UDP speed, over 100 times faster when transferring a large file.
gh-91575: Update case-insensitive matching in the
re
module to the latest Unicode version.gh-90622: In
concurrent.futures.process.ProcessPoolExecutor
disallow the “fork” multiprocessing start method when the newmax_tasks_per_child
feature is used as the mix of threads+fork can hang the child processes. Default to using the safe “spawn” start method in that circumstance if nomp_context
was supplied.gh-89022: In
sqlite3
,SQLITE_MISUSE
result codes are now mapped toInterfaceError
instead ofProgrammingError
. Also, more accurate exceptions are raised when binding parameters fail. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.gh-91526: Stop calling
os.device_encoding(file.fileno())
inTextIOWrapper
. It was complex, never documented, and didn’t work for most cases. (Patch by Inada Naoki.)gh-88116: Change the frame-related functions in the
inspect
module to return a regular object (that is backwards compatible with the old tuple-like interface) that include the extended PEP 657 position information (end line number, column and end column). The affected functions are:inspect.getframeinfo()
,inspect.getouterframes()
,inspect.getinnerframes()
,inspect.stack()
andinspect.trace()
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.gh-69093: Add indexing and slicing support to
sqlite3.Blob
. Patch by Aviv Palivoda and Erlend E. Aasland.gh-69093: Add context manager support to
sqlite3.Blob
. Patch by Aviv Palivoda and Erlend E. Aasland.gh-91217: Deprecate nntplib.
gh-91217: Deprecate msilib.
gh-91404: Improve the performance of
re
matching by using computed gotos (or “threaded code”) on supported platforms and removing expensive pointer indirections.gh-91217: Deprecate the imghdr module.
gh-91217: Deprecate the crypt module.
bpo-47000: Make
TextIOWrapper
uses locale encoding whenencoding="locale"
is specified even in UTF-8 mode.gh-91230:
warnings.catch_warnings()
now accepts arguments forwarnings.simplefilter()
, providing a more concise way to locally ignore warnings or convert them to errors.gh-91217: Deprecate the chunk module.
Add the
TCP_CONNECTION_INFO
option (available on macOS) tosocket
.bpo-47260: Fix
os.closerange()
potentially being a no-op in a Linux seccomp sandbox.bpo-47087: Implement
typing.Required
andtyping.NotRequired
(PEP 655). Patch by David Foster and Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-47061: Deprecate cgi and cgitb.
bpo-47061: Deprecate audioop.
bpo-47000: Add
locale.getencoding()
to get the current locale encoding. It is similar tolocale.getpreferredencoding(False)
but ignores the Python UTF-8 Mode.bpo-42012: Add
wsgiref.types
, containing WSGI-specific types for static type checking.bpo-47227: Suppress expression chaining for more
re
parsing errors.bpo-47211: Remove undocumented and never working function
re.template()
and flagre.TEMPLATE
. This was later reverted in 3.11.0b2 and deprecated instead.bpo-47135:
decimal.localcontext()
now accepts context attributes via keyword argumentsbpo-43323: Fix errors in the
email
module if the charset itself contains undecodable/unencodable characters.bpo-46841: Disassembly of quickened code.
bpo-46681: Forward gzip.compress() compresslevel to zlib.
bpo-45100: Add
typing.get_overloads()
andtyping.clear_overloads()
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-44807:
typing.Protocol
no longer silently replaces__init__()
methods defined on subclasses. Patch by Adrian Garcia Badaracco.bpo-46787: Fix
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
exception memory leakbpo-46720: Add support for path-like objects to
multiprocessing.set_executable()
for Windows to be on a par with Unix-like systems. Patch by Géry Ogam.bpo-46053: Fix OSS audio support on NetBSD.
bpo-45639:
image/avif
andimage/webp
were added tomimetypes
.bpo-46285: Add command-line option
-p
/--protocol
to modulehttp.server
which specifies the HTTP version to which the server is conformant (HTTP/1.1 conformant servers can now be run from the command-line interface of modulehttp.server
). Patch by Géry Ogam.bpo-44791: Accept ellipsis as the last argument of
typing.Concatenate
.bpo-46547: Remove variables leaking into
pydoc.Helper
class namespace.bpo-46415: Fix ipaddress.ip_{address,interface,network} raising TypeError instead of ValueError if given invalid tuple as address parameter.
bpo-46075:
CookieJar
withDefaultCookiePolicy
now can process cookies from localhost with domain=localhost explicitly specified in Set-Cookie header.bpo-45995: Add a “z” option to the string formatting specification that coerces negative zero floating-point values to positive zero after rounding to the format precision. Contributed by John Belmonte.
bpo-26175: Fully implement the
io.BufferedIOBase
orio.TextIOBase
interface fortempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile
objects. This lets them work correctly with higher-level layers (like compression modules). Patch by Carey Metcalfe.bpo-45138: Fix a regression in the
sqlite3
trace callback where bound parameters were not expanded in the passed statement string. The regression was introduced in Python 3.10 by bpo-40318. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-44863: Allow
TypedDict
subclasses to also includeGeneric
as a base class in class based syntax. Thereby allowing the user to define a genericTypedDict
, just like a user-defined generic but withTypedDict
semantics.bpo-44587: Fix BooleanOptionalAction to not automatically add a default string. If a default string is desired, use a formatter to add it.
bpo-43827: All positional-or-keyword parameters to
ABCMeta.__new__
are now positional-only to avoid conflicts with keyword arguments to be passed to__init_subclass__()
.bpo-43218: Prevent creation of a venv whose path contains the PATH separator. This could affect the usage of the activate script. Patch by Dustin Rodrigues.
bpo-38435: Add a
process_group
parameter tosubprocess.Popen
to help move more things off of the unsafepreexec_fn
parameter.bpo-42066: Fix cookies getting sorted in
CookieJar.__iter__()
which is an extra behavior and not mentioned in RFC 2965 or Netscape cookie protocol. Now the cookies inCookieJar
follows the order of theSet-Cookie
header. Patch by Iman Kermani.bpo-40617: Add
create_window_function()
tosqlite3.Connection
for creating aggregate window functions. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-40676: Convert
csv
to use Argument Clinic forcsv.field_size_limit()
,csv.get_dialect()
,csv.unregister_dialect()
andcsv.list_dialects()
.bpo-39716: Raise an
ArgumentError
when the same subparser name is added twice to anargparse.ArgumentParser
. This is consistent with the (default) behavior when the same option string is added twice to anArgumentParser
.bpo-36073: Raise
ProgrammingError
instead of segfaulting on recursive usage of cursors insqlite3
converters. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-34975: Adds a
start_tls()
method toStreamWriter
, which upgrades the connection with TLS using the givenSSLContext
.bpo-22276:
Path
methodsglob()
andrglob()
return only directories if pattern ends with a pathname components separator (/
orsep
). Patch by Eisuke Kawashima.bpo-24905: Add
blobopen()
tosqlite3.Connection
.sqlite3.Blob
allows incremental I/O operations on blobs. Patch by Aviv Palivoda and Erlend E. Aasland.
Documentation¶
gh-91888: Add a new
gh
role to the documentation to link to GitHub issues.gh-91783: Document security issues concerning the use of the function
shutil.unpack_archive()
gh-91547: Remove “Undocumented modules” page.
gh-91298: In
importlib.resources.abc
, refined the documentation of the Traversable Protocol, applying changes from importlib_resources 5.7.1.bpo-44347: Clarify the meaning of dirs_exist_ok, a kwarg of
shutil.copytree()
.bpo-36329: Remove ‘make -C Doc serve’ in favour of ‘make -C Doc htmlview’
bpo-47189: Add a What’s New in Python 3.11 entry for the Faster CPython project. Documentation by Ken Jin and Kumar Aditya.
bpo-38668: Update the introduction to documentation for
os.path
to remove warnings that became irrelevant after the implementations of PEP 383 and PEP 529.bpo-47115: The documentation now lists which members of C structs are part of the Limited API/Stable ABI.
bpo-46962: All docstrings in code snippets are now wrapped into
PyDoc_STR
to follow the guideline of PEP 7’s Documentation Strings paragraph. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.bpo-26792: Improve the docstrings of
runpy.run_module()
andrunpy.run_path()
. Original patch by Andrew Brezovsky.
Tests¶
gh-92169: Use
warnings_helper.import_deprecated()
to import deprecated modules uniformly in tests. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.gh-84461: When multiprocessing is enabled, libregrtest can now use a Python executable other than
sys.executable
via the--python
flag.gh-91904: Fix initialization of
PYTHONREGRTEST_UNICODE_GUARD
which prevented running regression tests on non-UTF-8 locale.gh-91752: Added @requires_zlib to test.test_tools.test_freeze.TestFreeze.
gh-91607: Fix
test_concurrent_futures
to test the correct multiprocessing start method context in several cases where the test logic mixed this up.bpo-40280: Threading tests are now skipped on WASM targets without pthread support.
bpo-47109: Test for
ctypes.macholib.dyld
,ctypes.macholib.dylib
, andctypes.macholib.framework
are brought from manual pre-unittest
times toctypes.test
location and structure. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.bpo-29890: Add tests for
ipaddress.IPv4Interface
andipaddress.IPv6Interface
construction with tuple arguments. Original patch and tests by louisom.
Build¶
gh-89452: gdbm-compat is now preferred over ndbm if both are available on the system. This allows avoiding the problematic ndbm.h on macOS.
gh-91731: Python is now built with
-std=c11
compiler option, rather than-std=c99
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-47152: Add script and make target for generating
sre_constants.h
.bpo-47103: Windows
PGInstrument
builds now copy a required DLL into the output directory, making it easier to run the profile stage of a PGO build.
Windows¶
bpo-46907: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.38.3.
bpo-47239: Fixed –list and –list-paths output for Inicializador Python para Windows when used in an active virtual environment.
bpo-46907: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.38.2.
bpo-46785: Fix race condition between
os.stat()
and unlinking a file on Windows, by using errors codes returned byFindFirstFileW()
when appropriate inwin32_xstat_impl
.bpo-40859: Update Windows build to use xz-5.2.5
macOS¶
bpo-46907: Update macOS installer to SQLite 3.38.4.
Tools/Demos¶
gh-91583: Fix regression in the code generated by Argument Clinic for functions with the
defining_class
parameter.gh-91575: Add script
Tools/scripts/generate_re_casefix.py
and the make targetregen-re
for generating additional data for case-insensitive matching according to the current Unicode version.gh-91551: Remove the ancient Pynche color editor. It has moved to https://gitlab.com/warsaw/pynche
C API¶
gh-88279: Deprecate the C functions:
PySys_SetArgv()
,PySys_SetArgvEx()
,PySys_SetPath()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-92154: Added the
PyCode_GetCode()
function. This function does the equivalent of the Python codegetattr(code_object, 'co_code')
.gh-92173: Fix the
closure
argument toPyEval_EvalCodeEx()
.gh-91320: Fix C++ compiler warnings about “old-style cast” (
g++ -Wold-style-cast
) in the Python C API. Use C++reinterpret_cast<>
andstatic_cast<>
casts when the Python C API is used in C++. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-80527: Mark functions as deprecated by PEP 623:
PyUnicode_AS_DATA()
,PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE()
,PyUnicode_GET_DATA_SIZE()
,PyUnicode_GET_SIZE()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91768:
Py_REFCNT()
,Py_TYPE()
,Py_SIZE()
andPy_IS_TYPE()
functions argument type is nowPyObject*
, rather thanconst PyObject*
. Patch by Victor Stinner.gh-91020: Add
PyBytes_Type.tp_alloc
to initializePyBytesObject.ob_shash
for bytes subclasses.bpo-40421: Add
PyFrame_GetLasti
C-API function to access frame object’sf_lasti
attribute safely from C code.bpo-35134: Remove the
Include/code.h
header file. C extensions should only include the main<Python.h>
header file. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-47169:
PyOS_CheckStack()
is now exported in the Stable ABI on Windows.bpo-47169:
PyThread_get_thread_native_id()
is excluded from the stable ABI on platforms where it doesn’t exist (like Solaris).bpo-46343: Added
PyErr_GetHandledException()
andPyErr_SetHandledException()
as simpler alternatives toPyErr_GetExcInfo()
andPyErr_SetExcInfo()
.They are included in the stable ABI.
Python 3.11.0 alpha 7¶
Release date: 2022-04-05
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-47212: Raise
IndentationError
instead ofSyntaxError
for a bareexcept
with no following indent. ImproveSyntaxError
locations for an un-parenthesized generator used as arguments. Patch by Matthieu Dartiailh.bpo-47186: Replace
JUMP_IF_NOT_EG_MATCH
byCHECK_EG_MATCH
+ jump.bpo-47176: Emscripten builds cannot handle signals in the usual way due to platform limitations. Python can now handle signals. To use, set Module.Py_EmscriptenSignalBuffer to be a single byte SharedArrayBuffer and set Py_EMSCRIPTEN_SIGNAL_HANDLING to 1. Writing a number into the SharedArrayBuffer will cause the corresponding signal to be raised into the Python thread.
bpo-47186: Replace
JUMP_IF_NOT_EXC_MATCH
byCHECK_EXC_MATCH
+ jump.bpo-47120: Replace the absolute jump opcode
JUMP_NO_INTERRUPT
by the relativeJUMP_BACKWARD_NO_INTERRUPT
.bpo-46841: Avoid unnecessary allocations when comparing code objects.
bpo-47182: Fix a crash when using a named unicode character like
"\N{digit nine}"
after the main interpreter has been initialized a second time.bpo-47162: WebAssembly cannot deal with bad function pointer casts (different count or types of arguments). Python can now use call trampolines to mitigate the problem. Define
PY_CALL_TRAMPOLINE
to enable call trampolines.bpo-46775: Some Windows system error codes(>= 10000) are now mapped into the correct errno and may now raise a subclass of
OSError
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-47129: Improve error messages in f-string syntax errors concerning empty expressions.
bpo-47117: Fix a crash if we fail to decode characters in interactive mode if the tokenizer buffers are uninitialized. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-47127: Speed up calls to c functions with keyword arguments by 25% with specialization. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
bpo-47120: Replaced
JUMP_ABSOLUTE
by the relative jumpJUMP_BACKWARD
.bpo-42197:
PyFrame_FastToLocalsWithError()
andPyFrame_LocalsToFast()
are no longer called during profiling nor tracing. C code can access thef_locals
attribute ofPyFrameObject
by callingPyFrame_GetLocals()
.bpo-47070: Improve performance of
array_inplace_repeat
by reducing the number of invocations ofmemcpy
. Refactor therepeat
and inplacerepeat
methods ofarray
,bytes
,bytearray
andunicodeobject
to use the common_PyBytes_Repeat
.bpo-47053: Reduce de-optimization in the specialized
BINARY_OP_INPLACE_ADD_UNICODE
opcode.bpo-47045: Remove the
f_state
field from the _PyInterpreterFrame struct. Add theowner
field to the _PyInterpreterFrame struct to make ownership explicit to simplify clearing and deallocing frames and generators.bpo-46968: Check for the existence of the “sys/auxv.h” header in
faulthandler
to avoid compilation problems in systems where this header doesn’t exist. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-46329: Use low bit of
LOAD_GLOBAL
to indicate whether to push aNULL
before the global. Helps streamline the call sequence a bit.bpo-46841: Quicken bytecode in-place by storing it as part of the corresponding
PyCodeObject
.bpo-47012: Speed up iteration of
bytes
andbytearray
by 30%. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-47009: Improved the performance of
list.append()
and list comprehensions by optimizing for the common case, where no resize is needed. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.bpo-47005: Improve performance of
bytearray_repeat
andbytearray_irepeat
by reducing the number of invocations ofmemcpy
.bpo-46829: Deprecate passing a message into
asyncio.Future.cancel()
andasyncio.Task.cancel()
bpo-46993: Speed up
bytearray
creation fromlist
andtuple
by 40%. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-39829: Removed the
__len__()
call when initializing a list and moved initializing tolist_extend
. Patch by Jeremiah Pascual.bpo-46944: Speed up throwing exception in generator with
METH_FASTCALL
calling convention. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-46841: Modify
STORE_SUBSCR
to use an inline cache entry (rather than its oparg) as an adaptive counter.bpo-46841: Use inline caching for
PRECALL
andCALL
, and remove the internal machinery for managing the (now unused) non-inline caches.bpo-46881: Statically allocate and initialize the latin1 characters.
bpo-46838: Improve syntax errors for incorrect function definitions. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-43721: Fix docstrings of
getter
,setter
, anddeleter
to clarify that they create a new copy of the property.bpo-43224: Make grammar changes required for PEP 646.
Library¶
bpo-47208: Allow vendors to override
CTYPES_MAX_ARGCOUNT
.bpo-23689:
re
module: fix memory leak when a match is terminated by a signal or memory allocation failure. Patch by Ma Lin.bpo-47167: Allow overriding a future compliance check in
asyncio.Task
.bpo-47151: When subprocess tries to use vfork, it now falls back to fork if vfork returns an error. This allows use in situations where vfork isn’t allowed by the OS kernel.
bpo-47152: Convert the
re
module into a package. Deprecate modulessre_compile
,sre_constants
andsre_parse
.bpo-4833: Add
ZipFile.mkdir()
bpo-27929: Fix
asyncio.loop.sock_connect()
to only resolve names forsocket.AF_INET
orsocket.AF_INET6
families. Resolution may not make sense for other families, likesocket.AF_BLUETOOTH
andsocket.AF_UNIX
.bpo-14265: Adds the fully qualified test name to unittest output
bpo-47061: Deprecate the aifc module.
bpo-39622: Handle Ctrl+C in asyncio programs to interrupt the main task.
bpo-47101:
hashlib.algorithms_available
now lists only algorithms that are provided by activated crypto providers on OpenSSL 3.0. Legacy algorithms are not listed unless the legacy provider has been loaded into the default OSSL context.bpo-47099: All
URLError
exception messages raised inurllib.request.URLopener
now contain a colon betweenftp error
and the rest of the message. Previously,open_ftp()
missed the colon. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.bpo-47099: Exception chaining is changed from
Exception.with_traceback()
/sys.exc_info()
to PEP 3134. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.bpo-47095:
hashlib
’s internal_blake2
module now preferslibb2
from https://www.blake2.net/ over Python’s vendored copy of blake2.bpo-47098: The Keccak Code Package for
hashlib
’s internal_sha3
module has been replaced with tiny_sha3. The module is used as fallback when Python is built without OpenSSL.bpo-47088: Implement
typing.LiteralString
, part of PEP 675. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-42885: Optimize
re.search()
,re.split()
,re.findall()
,re.finditer()
andre.sub()
for regular expressions starting with\A
or^
.bpo-23691: Protect the
re.finditer()
iterator from re-entering.bpo-47067: Optimize calling
GenericAlias
objects by using PEP 590vectorcall
and by replacingPyObject_SetAttrString
withPyObject_SetAttr
.bpo-28080: Add the metadata_encoding parameter in the
zipfile.ZipFile
constructor and the--metadata-encoding
option in thezipfile
CLI to allow reading zipfiles using non-standard codecs to encode the filenames within the archive.bpo-47000: Make
io.text_encoding()
returns “utf-8” when UTF-8 mode is enabled.bpo-42369: Fix thread safety of
zipfile._SharedFile.tell()
to avoid a “zipfile.BadZipFile: Bad CRC-32 for file” exception when reading aZipFile
from multiple threads.bpo-38256: Fix
binascii.crc32()
when it is compiled to use zlib’c crc32 to work properly on inputs 4+GiB in length instead of returning the wrong result. The workaround prior to this was to always feed the function data in increments smaller than 4GiB or to just call the zlib module function.We also have
binascii.crc32()
release the GIL when computing on larger inputs aszlib.crc32()
andhashlib
do.This also boosts performance on Windows as it now uses the zlib crc32 implementation for
binascii.crc32()
for a 2-3x speedup.That the stdlib has a crc32 API in two modules is a known historical oddity. This moves us closer to a single implementation behind them.
bpo-47066: Global inline flags (e.g.
(?i)
) can now only be used at the start of the regular expressions. Using them not at the start of expression was deprecated since Python 3.6.bpo-39394: A warning about inline flags not at the start of the regular expression now contains the position of the flag.
bpo-433030: Add support of atomic grouping (
(?>...)
) and possessive quantifiers (*+
,++
,?+
,{m,n}+
) inregular expressions
.bpo-47062: Implement
asyncio.Runner
context manager.bpo-46382:
dataclass()
slots=True
now correctly omits slots already defined in base classes. Patch by Arie Bovenberg.bpo-47057: Use FASTCALL convention for
FutureIter.throw()
bpo-47061: Deprecate the various modules listed by PEP 594:
aifc, asynchat, asyncore, audioop, cgi, cgitb, chunk, crypt, imghdr, msilib, nntplib, nis, ossaudiodev, pipes, smtpd, sndhdr, spwd, sunau, telnetlib, uu, xdrlib
bpo-34790: Remove passing coroutine objects to
asyncio.wait()
.bpo-47039: Normalize
repr()
of asyncio future and task objects.bpo-2604: Fix bug where doctests using globals would fail when run multiple times.
bpo-45150: Add
hashlib.file_digest()
helper for efficient hashing of file object.bpo-34861: Made cumtime the default sorting key for cProfile
bpo-45997: Fix
asyncio.Semaphore
re-aquiring FIFO order.bpo-47022: The
asynchat
,asyncore
andsmtpd
modules have been deprecated since at least Python 3.6. Their documentation and deprecation warnings and have now been updated to note they will removed in Python 3.12 (PEP 594).bpo-43253: Fix a crash when closing transports where the underlying socket handle is already invalid on the Proactor event loop.
bpo-40280:
select.select()
now passesNULL
toselect
for each empty fdset.bpo-47004: Apply bugfixes from importlib_metadata 4.11.3, including bugfix for EntryPoint.extras, which was returning match objects and not the extras strings.
bpo-46998: Allow subclassing of
typing.Any
. Patch by Shantanu Jain.bpo-46995: Deprecate missing
asyncio.Task.set_name()
for third-party task implementations, schedule making it mandatory in Python 3.13.bpo-46994: Accept explicit contextvars.Context in
asyncio.create_task()
andasyncio.loop.create_task()
.bpo-46981:
typing.get_args(typing.Tuple[()])
now returns()
instead of((),)
.bpo-46968: Add
os.sysconf_names['SC_MINSIGSTKSZ']
.bpo-46985: Upgrade pip wheel bundled with ensurepip (pip 22.0.4)
bpo-46968:
faulthandler
: On Linux 5.14 and newer, dynamically determine size of signal handler stack size CPython allocates usinggetauxval(AT_MINSIGSTKSZ)
. This changes allows for Python extension’s request to Linux kernel to use AMX_TILE instruction set on Sapphire Rapids Xeon processor to succeed, unblocking use of the ISA in frameworks.bpo-46917: The
math.nan
value is now always available. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46955: Expose
asyncio.base_events.Server
asasyncio.Server
. Patch by Stefan Zabka.bpo-23325: The
signal
module no longer assumes thatSIG_IGN
andSIG_DFL
are small int singletons.bpo-46932: Update bundled libexpat to 2.4.7
bpo-46933: The
pwd
module is now optional.os.path.expanduser()
returns the path when thepwd
module is not available.bpo-40059: PEP 680, the
tomllib
module. Adds support for parsing TOML.bpo-464471:
asyncio.timeout()
andasyncio.timeout_at()
context managers added. Patch by Tin Tvrtković and Andrew Svetlov.bpo-46805: Added raw datagram socket functions for asyncio:
sock_sendto()
,sock_recvfrom()
andsock_recvfrom_into()
.bpo-46644: No longer require valid typeforms to be callable. This allows
typing.Annotated
to wraptyping.ParamSpecArgs
anddataclasses.InitVar
. Patch by Gregory Beauregard.bpo-46581: Brings
ParamSpec
propagation forGenericAlias
in line withConcatenate
(and others).bpo-45413: Define posix_venv and nt_venv sysconfig installation schemes to be used for bootstrapping new virtual environments. Add venv sysconfig installation scheme to get the appropriate one of the above. The schemes are identical to the pre-existing posix_prefix and nt install schemes. The
venv
module now uses the venv scheme to create new virtual environments instead of hardcoding the paths depending only on the platform. Downstream Python distributors customizing the posix_prefix or nt install scheme in a way that is not compatible with the install scheme used in virtual environments are encouraged not to customize the venv schemes. When Python itself runs in a virtual environment,sysconfig.get_default_scheme()
andsysconfig.get_preferred_scheme()
withkey="prefix"
returns venv.bpo-43224: Implement support for PEP 646 in typing.py.
bpo-43224: Allow unpacking types.GenericAlias objects, e.g.
*tuple[int, str]
.bpo-46557: Warnings captured by the logging module are now logged without a format string to prevent systems that group logs by the msg argument from grouping captured warnings together.
bpo-41370:
typing.get_type_hints()
now supports evaluating strings as forward references in PEP 585 generic aliases.bpo-46607: Add
DeprecationWarning
toLegacyInterpolation
, deprecated in the docstring since Python 3.2. Will be removed in Python 3.13. UseBasicInterpolation
orExtendedInterpolation
instead.bpo-26120:
pydoc
now excludes __future__ imports from the module’s data items.bpo-46480: Add
typing.assert_type()
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-46421: Fix a unittest issue where if the command was invoked as
python -m unittest
and the filename(s) began with a dot (.), aValueError
is returned.bpo-46245: Add optional parameter dir_fd in
shutil.rmtree()
.bpo-22859:
unittest.TestProgram.usageExit()
is marked as deprecated, to be removed in Python 3.13.bpo-46170: Improve the error message when you try to subclass an instance of
typing.NewType
.bpo-20392: Fix inconsistency with uppercase file extensions in
MimeTypes.guess_type()
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-46030: Add
LOCAL_CREDS
,LOCAL_CREDS_PERSISTENT
andSCM_CREDS2
FreeBSD constants to the socket module.bpo-44439: Fix
.write()
method of a member file inZipFile
, when the input data is an object that supports the buffer protocol, the file length may be wrong.bpo-45171: Fix handling of the
stacklevel
argument to logging functions in thelogging
module so that it is consistent across all logging functions and, as advertised, similar to thestacklevel
argument used inwarn()
.bpo-24959: Fix bug where
unittest
sometimes drops frames from tracebacks of exceptions raised in tests.bpo-44859: Raise more accurate and PEP 249 compatible exceptions in
sqlite3
.Raise
InterfaceError
instead ofProgrammingError
forSQLITE_MISUSE
errors.Don’t overwrite
BufferError
withValueError
when conversion to BLOB fails.Raise
ProgrammingError
instead ofWarning
if user tries toexecute()
more than one SQL statement.Raise
ProgrammingError
instead ofValueError
if an SQL query contains null characters.
bpo-44493: Add missing terminated NUL in sockaddr_un’s length
This was potentially observable when using non-abstract AF_UNIX datagram sockets to processes written in another programming language.
bpo-41930: Add
serialize()
anddeserialize()
support tosqlite3
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-33178: Added
ctypes.BigEndianUnion
andctypes.LittleEndianUnion
classes, as originally documented in the library docs but not yet implemented.bpo-43352: Add an Barrier object in synchronization primitives of asyncio Lib in order to be consistent with Barrier from threading and multiprocessing libs*
bpo-35859:
re
module, fix a few bugs about capturing group. In rare cases, capturing group gets an incorrect string. Patch by Ma Lin.
Documentation¶
bpo-47040: Clarified the old Python versions compatibility note of
binascii.crc32()
/zlib.adler32()
/zlib.crc32()
functions.bpo-46033: Clarify
for
statement execution in its doc.bpo-45790: Adjust inaccurate phrasing in Definindo Tipos de Extensão: Tutorial about the
ob_base
field and the macros used to access its contents.bpo-42340: Document that in some circumstances
KeyboardInterrupt
may cause the code to enter an inconsistent state. Provided a sample workaround to avoid it if needed.bpo-41233: Link the errnos referenced in
Doc/library/exceptions.rst
to their respective section inDoc/library/errno.rst
, and vice versa. Previously this was only done for EINTR and InterruptedError. Patch by Yan “yyyyyyyan” Orestes.
Tests¶
bpo-47205: Skip test for
sched_getaffinity()
andsched_setaffinity()
error case on FreeBSD.bpo-46126: Restore ‘descriptions’ when running tests internally.
bpo-47104: Rewrite
asyncio.to_thread()
tests to useunittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
.bpo-40280: The test suite is now passing on the Emscripten platform. All fork, socket, and subprocess-based tests are skipped.
bpo-47037: Skip
strftime("%4Y")
feature test on Windows. It can cause an assertion error in debug builds.bpo-46587: Skip tests if platform’s
strftime
does not support non-portable glibc extensions.bpo-47015: A test case for
os.sendfile()
is converted from deprecatedasyncore
(see PEP 594) toasyncio
. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.
Build¶
bpo-40280: Add configure option
--enable-wasm-dynamic-linking
to enabledlopen
and MAIN_MODULE / SIDE_MODULE onwasm32-emscripten
.bpo-46023:
makesetup
now detects and skips all duplicated module definitions. The first entry wins.bpo-40280: Add SOABI
wasm32-emscripten
for Emscripten andwasm32-wasi
for WASI on 32bit WASM as well aswasm64
counter parts.bpo-47032: Ensure Windows install builds fail correctly with a non-zero exit code when part of the build fails.
bpo-47024: Update OpenSSL to 1.1.1n for macOS installers and all Windows builds.
bpo-46996: The
tkinter
package now requires Tcl/Tk version 8.5.12 or newer.bpo-46973: Add
regen-configure
make target to regenerate configure script with Christian’s container imagequay.io/tiran/cpython_autoconf:269
.bpo-46917: Building Python now requires support of IEEE 754 floating-point numbers. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-45774:
configure
now verifies that all SQLite C APIs needed for thesqlite3
extension module are found.
Windows¶
bpo-47194: Update
zlib
to v1.2.12 to resolve CVE 2018-25032.bpo-47171: Enables installing the
py.exe
launcher on Windows ARM64.bpo-46566: Upgraded Inicializador Python para Windows to support a new
-V:company/tag
argument for full PEP 514 support and to detect ARM64 installs. The-64
suffix on arguments is deprecated, but still selects any non-32-bit install. SettingPYLAUNCHER_ALLOW_INSTALL
and specifying a version that is not installed will attempt to install the requested version from the Microsoft Store.bpo-47086: The installer for Windows now includes documentation as loose HTML files rather than a single compiled
.chm
file.bpo-46907: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.38.1.
bpo-44549: Update bzip2 to 1.0.8 in Windows builds to mitigate CVE 2016-3189 and CVE 2019-12900.
bpo-46948: Prevent CVE 2022-26488 by ensuring the Add to PATH option in the Windows installer uses the correct path when being repaired.
macOS¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-40280: Replace Emscripten’s limited shell with Katie Bell’s browser-ui REPL from python-wasm project.
C API¶
bpo-40421: Add
PyFrame_GetBuiltins
,PyFrame_GetGenerator
andPyFrame_GetGlobals
C-API functions to access frame object attributes safely from C code.bpo-46850: Move the private
_PyFrameEvalFunction
type, and private_PyInterpreterState_GetEvalFrameFunc()
and_PyInterpreterState_SetEvalFrameFunc()
functions to the internal C API. The_PyFrameEvalFunction
callback function type now uses the_PyInterpreterFrame
type which is part of the internal C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46850: Move the private undocumented
_PyEval_EvalFrameDefault()
function to the internal C API. The function now uses the_PyInterpreterFrame
type which is part of the internal C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46850: Remove the private undocumented function
_PyEval_CallTracing()
from the C API. Call the publicsys.call_tracing()
function instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46850: Remove the private undocumented function
_PyEval_GetCoroutineOriginTrackingDepth()
from the C API. Call the publicsys.get_coroutine_origin_tracking_depth()
function instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46850: Remove the following private undocumented functions from the C API:
_PyEval_GetAsyncGenFirstiter()
_PyEval_GetAsyncGenFinalizer()
_PyEval_SetAsyncGenFirstiter()
_PyEval_SetAsyncGenFinalizer()
Call the public
sys.get_asyncgen_hooks()
andsys.set_asyncgen_hooks()
functions instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46987: Remove private functions
_PySys_GetObjectId()
and_PySys_SetObjectId()
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-46906: Add new functions to pack and unpack C double (serialize and deserialize):
PyFloat_Pack2()
,PyFloat_Pack4()
,PyFloat_Pack8()
,PyFloat_Unpack2()
,PyFloat_Unpack4()
andPyFloat_Unpack8()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Python 3.11.0 alpha 6¶
Release date: 2022-03-07
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-46940: Avoid overriding
AttributeError
metadata information for nested attribute access calls. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-46927: Include the type’s name in the error message for subscripting non-generic types.
bpo-46921: Support vectorcall for
super()
. Patch by Ken Jin.bpo-46841: Fix incorrect handling of inline cache entries when specializing
BINARY_OP
.bpo-46841: Use an oparg to simplify the construction of helpful error messages in
GET_AWAITABLE
.bpo-46903: Make sure that str subclasses can be used as attribute names for instances with virtual dictionaries. Fixes regression in 3.11alpha
bpo-46841: Add more detailed specialization failure stats for
COMPARE_OP
followed byEXTENDED_ARG
.bpo-46891: Fix bug introduced during 3.11alpha where subclasses of
types.ModuleType
with__slots__
were not initialized correctly, resulting in an interpreter crash.bpo-46841: Use inline caching for
LOAD_ATTR
,LOAD_METHOD
, andSTORE_ATTR
.bpo-46841: Use inline cache for
BINARY_SUBSCR
.bpo-46841: Use inline caching for
COMPARE_OP
.bpo-46864: Deprecate
PyBytesObject.ob_shash
. It will be removed in Python 3.13.bpo-46841: Use inline caching for
UNPACK_SEQUENCE
.bpo-46845: Reduces dict size by removing hash value from hash table when all inserted keys are Unicode. For example,
sys.getsizeof(dict.fromkeys("abcdefg"))
becomes 272 bytes from 352 bytes on 64bit platform.bpo-46841: Use inline cache for
LOAD_GLOBAL
.bpo-46852: Rename the private undocumented
float.__set_format__()
method tofloat.__setformat__()
to fix a typo introduced in Python 3.7. The method is only used by test_float. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46852: Remove the undocumented private
float.__set_format__()
method, previously known asfloat.__setformat__()
in Python 3.7. Its docstring said: “You probably don’t want to use this function. It exists mainly to be used in Python’s test suite.” Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-40116: Fix regression that dict.update(other) may don’t respect iterate order of other when other is key sharing dict.
bpo-46712: Share global string identifiers in deep-frozen modules.
bpo-46430: Fix memory leak in interned strings of deep-frozen modules.
bpo-46841: Store
BINARY_OP
caches inline using a newCACHE
instruction.bpo-45107: Specialize
LOAD_METHOD
for instances with a dict.bpo-44337: Reduce the memory usage of specialized
LOAD_ATTR
andSTORE_ATTR
instructions.bpo-46729: Add number of sub-exceptions to
BaseException.__str__()
.bpo-45885: Don’t un-adapt
COMPARE_OP
when collecting specialization stats.bpo-46329: Fix specialization stats gathering for
PRECALL
instructions.bpo-46794: Bump up the libexpat version into 2.4.6
bpo-46823: Implement a specialized combined opcode
LOAD_FAST__LOAD_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE
. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.bpo-46820: Fix parsing a numeric literal immediately (without spaces) followed by “not in” keywords, like in
1not in x
. Now the parser only emits a warning, not a syntax error.bpo-46329: Move
KW_NAMES
beforePRECALL
instruction in call sequence. Changeoperand
ofCALL
to matchPRECALL
for easier specialization.bpo-46808: Remove the
NEXT_BLOCK
macro from compile.c, and make the compiler automatically generate implicit blocks when they are needed.bpo-46329: Add
PUSH_NULL
instruction. This is used as a prefix when evaluating a callable, so that the stack has the same shape for methods and other calls.PRECALL_FUNCTION
andPRECALL_METHOD
are merged into a singlePRECALL
instruction.There is no change in semantics.
bpo-46762: Fix an assert failure in debug builds when a ‘<’, ‘>’, or ‘=’ is the last character in an f-string that’s missing a closing right brace.
bpo-46730: Message of AttributeError caused by getting, setting or deleting a property without the corresponding function now mentions that the attribute is in fact a property and also specifies type of the class that it belongs to.
bpo-46724: Make sure that all backwards jumps use the
JUMP_ABSOLUTE
instruction, rather thanJUMP_FORWARD
with an argument of(2**32)+offset
.bpo-46732: Correct the docstring for the
__bool__()
method. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-46072: Add more detailed specialization failure statistics for
BINARY_OP
.bpo-46707: Avoid potential exponential backtracking when producing some syntax errors involving lots of brackets. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-46323:
ctypes
now allocates memory on the stack instead of on the heap to pass arguments while calling a Python callback function. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-45923: Add a quickened form of
RESUME
that skips quickening checks.bpo-46702: Specialize
UNPACK_SEQUENCE
fortuple
andlist
unpackings.bpo-46072: Opcode pair stats are now gathered with
--enable-pystats
. DefiningDYNAMIC_EXECUTION_PROFILE
orDXPAIRS
no longer has any effect.bpo-46675: Allow more than 16 items in a split dict before it is combined. The limit is now 254.
bpo-40479: Add a missing call to
va_end()
inModules/_hashopenssl.c
.bpo-46323: Use
PyObject_Vectorcall()
while calling ctypes callback function. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-46615: When iterating over sets internally in
setobject.c
, acquire strong references to the resulting items from the set. This prevents crashes in corner-cases of various set operations where the set gets mutated.bpo-45828: The bytecode compiler now attempts to apply runtime stack manipulations at compile-time (whenever it is feasible to do so).
bpo-30496: Fixed a minor portability issue in the implementation of
PyLong_FromLong()
, and added a fast path for single-digit integers toPyLong_FromLongLong()
.
Library¶
bpo-25707: Fixed a file leak in
xml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse()
when the iterator is not exhausted. Patch by Jacob Walls.bpo-46877: Export
unittest.doModuleCleanups()
inunittest
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-46848: For performance, use the optimized string-searching implementations from
find()
andrfind()
forfind()
andrfind()
.bpo-46736:
SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
now uses HTML5 grammar. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-44886: Inherit asyncio proactor datagram transport from
asyncio.DatagramTransport
.bpo-46827: Support UDP sockets in
asyncio.loop.sock_connect()
for selector-based event loops. Patch by Thomas Grainger.bpo-46811: Make test suite support Expat >=2.4.5
bpo-46252: Raise
TypeError
ifssl.SSLSocket
is passed to transport-based APIs.bpo-46784: Fix libexpat symbols collisions with user dynamically loaded or statically linked libexpat in embedded Python.
bpo-46786: The HTML serialisation in xml.etree.ElementTree now writes
embed
,source
,track
andwbr
as empty tags, as defined in HTML 5.bpo-39327:
shutil.rmtree()
can now work with VirtualBox shared folders when running from the guest operating-system.bpo-45390: Propagate
asyncio.CancelledError
message from inner task to outer awaiter.bpo-46756: Fix a bug in
urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgr.find_user_password()
andurllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth.is_authenticated()
which allowed to bypass authorization. For example, access to URIexample.org/foobar
was allowed if the user was authorized for URIexample.org/foo
.bpo-46737:
random.gauss()
andrandom.normalvariate()
now have default arguments.bpo-46752: Add task groups to asyncio (structured concurrency, inspired by Trio’s nurseries). This also introduces a change to task cancellation, where a cancelled task can’t be cancelled again until it calls .uncancel().
bpo-46333: The
__repr__()
method oftyping.ForwardRef
now includes themodule
parameter oftyping.ForwardRef
when it is set.bpo-46643: In
typing.get_type_hints()
, support evaluating stringifiedParamSpecArgs
andParamSpecKwargs
annotations. Patch by Gregory Beauregard.bpo-45863: When the
tarfile
module creates a pax format archive, it will put an integer representation of timestamps in the ustar header (if possible) for the benefit of older unarchivers, in addition to the existing full-precision timestamps in the pax extended header.bpo-46066: Deprecate kwargs-based syntax for
typing.TypedDict
definitions. It had confusing semantics when specifying totality, and was largely unused. Patch by Jingchen Ye.bpo-46676: Make
typing.ParamSpec
args and kwargs equal to themselves. Patch by Gregory Beauregard.bpo-46323:
ctypes.CFUNCTYPE()
andctypes.WINFUNCTYPE()
now fail to create the type if its_argtypes_
member contains too many arguments. Previously, the error was only raised when calling a function. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46672: Fix
NameError
inasyncio.gather()
when initial type check fails.bpo-46659: The
calendar.LocaleTextCalendar
andcalendar.LocaleHTMLCalendar
classes now uselocale.getlocale()
, instead of usinglocale.getdefaultlocale()
, if no locale is specified. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46659: The
locale.getdefaultlocale()
function is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.13. Uselocale.setlocale()
,locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
andlocale.getlocale()
functions instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46655: In
typing.get_type_hints()
, support evaluating bare stringifiedTypeAlias
annotations. Patch by Gregory Beauregard.bpo-45948: Fixed a discrepancy in the C implementation of the
xml.etree.ElementTree
module. Now, instantiating anxml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser
with atarget=None
keyword provides a defaultxml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder
target as the Python implementation does.bpo-46626: Expose Linux’s
IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT
option insocket
.bpo-46521: Fix a bug in the
codeop
module that was incorrectly identifying invalid code involving string quotes as valid code.bpo-46571: Improve
typing.no_type_check()
.Now it does not modify external classes and functions. We also now correctly mark classmethods as not to be type checked.
bpo-46400: expat: Update libexpat from 2.4.1 to 2.4.4
bpo-46556: Deprecate undocumented support for using a
pathlib.Path
object as a context manager.bpo-46534: Implement PEP 673
typing.Self
. Patch by James Hilton-Balfe.bpo-46522: Make various module
__getattr__
AttributeErrors more closely match a typical AttributeErrorbpo-46475: Add
typing.Never
andtyping.assert_never()
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-46333: The
__eq__()
and__hash__()
methods oftyping.ForwardRef
now honor themodule
parameter oftyping.ForwardRef
. Forward references from different modules are now differentiated.bpo-46246: Add missing
__slots__
toimportlib.metadata.DeprecatedList
. Patch by Arie Bovenberg.bpo-46232: The
ssl
module now handles certificates with bit strings in DN correctly.bpo-46195:
typing.get_type_hints()
no longer addsOptional
to parameters withNone
as a default. This aligns to changes to PEP 484 in https://github.com/python/peps/pull/689bpo-31369: Add
RegexFlag
tore.__all__
and documented it. AddNOFLAG
to indicate no flags being set.bpo-45898:
ctypes
no longer definesffi_type_*
symbols incfield.c
. The symbols have been provided by libffi for over a decade.bpo-44953: Calling
operator.itemgetter
objects andoperator.attrgetter
objects is now faster due to use of the vectorcall calling convention.bpo-44289: Fix an issue with
is_tarfile()
method when using fileobj argument: position in the fileobj was advanced forward which made it unreadable withtarfile.TarFile.open()
.bpo-44011: Reimplement SSL/TLS support in asyncio, borrow the implementation from uvloop library.
bpo-41086: Make the
configparser.ConfigParser
constructor raiseTypeError
if theinterpolation
parameter is not of typeconfigparser.Interpolation
bpo-29418: Implement
inspect.ismethodwrapper()
and fixinspect.isroutine()
for cases where methodwrapper is given. Patch by Hakan Çelik.bpo-14156: argparse.FileType now supports an argument of ‘-’ in binary mode, returning the .buffer attribute of sys.stdin/sys.stdout as appropriate. Modes including ‘x’ and ‘a’ are treated equivalently to ‘w’ when argument is ‘-’. Patch contributed by Josh Rosenberg
Documentation¶
bpo-42238:
Doc/tools/rstlint.py
has moved to its own repository and is now packaged on PyPI assphinx-lint
.
Tests¶
bpo-46913: Fix test_faulthandler.test_sigfpe() if Python is built with undefined behavior sanitizer (UBSAN): disable UBSAN on the faulthandler_sigfpe() function. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-46760: Remove bytecode offsets from expected values in test.test_dis module. Reduces the obstacles to modifying the VM or compiler.
bpo-46708: Prevent default asyncio event loop policy modification warning after
test_asyncio
execution.bpo-46678: The function
make_legacy_pyc
inLib/test/support/import_helper.py
no longer fails whenPYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX
is set to a directory on a different device from where tempfiles are stored.bpo-46623: Skip test_pair() and test_speech128() of test_zlib on s390x since they fail if zlib uses the s390x hardware accelerator. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Build¶
bpo-46860: Respect
--with-suffix
when building on case-insensitive file systems.bpo-46656: Building Python now requires a C11 compiler. Optional C11 features are not required. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-46656: Building Python now requires support for floating-point Not-a-Number (NaN): remove the
Py_NO_NAN
macro. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46640: Building Python now requires a C99
<math.h>
header file providing aNAN
constant, or the__builtin_nan()
built-in function. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46608: Exclude marshalled-frozen data if deep-freezing to save 300 KB disk space. This includes adding a new
is_package
field to_frozen
. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-40280: Fix wasm32-emscripten test failures and platform issues. - Disable syscalls that are not supported or don’t work, e.g. wait, getrusage, prlimit, mkfifo, mknod, setres[gu]id, setgroups. - Use fd_count to count open fds. - Add more checks for subprocess and fork. - Add workarounds for missing _multiprocessing and failing socket.accept(). - Enable bzip2. - Disable large file support. - Disable signal.alarm.
bpo-46430: Intern strings in deep-frozen modules. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
Windows¶
bpo-46744: The default all users install directory for ARM64 is now under the native
Program Files
folder, rather thanProgram Files (Arm)
which is intended for ARM (32-bit) files.bpo-46567: Adds Tcl and Tk support for Windows ARM64. This also adds IDLE to the installation.
bpo-46638: Ensures registry virtualization is consistently disabled. For 3.10 and earlier, it remains enabled (some registry writes are protected), while for 3.11 and later it is disabled (registry modifications affect all applications).
IDLE¶
C API¶
bpo-46748: Python’s public headers no longer import
<stdbool.h>
, leaving code that embeds/extends Python free to definebool
,true
andfalse
.bpo-46836: Move the
PyFrameObject
type definition (struct _frame
) to the internal C APIpycore_frame.h
header file. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45459: Rename
Include/buffer.h
header file toInclude/pybuffer.h
to avoid conflicts with projects having an existingbuffer.h
header file. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45412: Remove the
HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION
macro (moved to the internal C API). Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46613: Added function
PyType_GetModuleByDef()
, which allows access to module state when a method’s defining class is not available.
Python 3.11.0 alpha 5¶
Release date: 2022-02-03
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-45773: Remove two invalid “peephole” optimizations from the bytecode compiler.
bpo-46564: Do not create frame objects when creating
super
object. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-45885: Added more fined-grained specialization failure stats regarding the
COMPARE_OP
bytecode.bpo-44977: The delegation of
int()
to__trunc__()
is now deprecated. Callingint(a)
whentype(a)
implements__trunc__()
but not__int__()
or__index__()
now raises aDeprecationWarning
.bpo-46458: Reorder code emitted by the compiler for a
try
-except
block so that theelse
block’s code immediately follows thetry
body (without a jump). This is more optimal for the happy path.bpo-46527: Allow passing
iterable
as a keyword argument toenumerate()
again. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-46528: Replace several stack manipulation instructions (
DUP_TOP
,DUP_TOP_TWO
,ROT_TWO
,ROT_THREE
,ROT_FOUR
, andROT_N
) with newCOPY
andSWAP
instructions.bpo-46329: Use two or three bytecodes to implement most calls.
Calls without named arguments are implemented as a sequence of two instructions:
PRECALL; CALL
. Calls with named arguments are implemented as a sequence of three instructions:PRECALL; KW_NAMES; CALL
. There are two differentPRECALL
instructions:PRECALL_FUNTION
andPRECALL_METHOD
. The latter pairs withLOAD_METHOD
.This partition into pre-call and call allows better specialization, and thus better performance ultimately.
There is no change in semantics.
bpo-46503: Fix an assert when parsing some invalid N escape sequences in f-strings.
bpo-46431: Improve error message on invalid calls to
BaseExceptionGroup.__new__()
.bpo-46476: Fix memory leak in code objects generated by deepfreeze. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
bpo-46481: Speed up calls to
weakref.ref.__call__()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-46417: Fix a race condition on setting a type
__bases__
attribute: the internal functionadd_subclass()
now gets thePyTypeObject.tp_subclasses
member after callingPyWeakref_NewRef()
which can trigger a garbage collection which can indirectly modifyPyTypeObject.tp_subclasses
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46417:
python -X showrefcount
now shows the total reference count after clearing and destroyed the main Python interpreter. Previously, it was shown before. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43683: Add ASYNC_GEN_WRAP opcode to wrap the value to be yielded in async generators. Removes the need to special case async generators in the
YIELD_VALUE
instruction.bpo-46407: Optimize some modulo operations in
Objects/longobject.c
. Patch by Jeremiah Vivian.bpo-46409: Add new
RETURN_GENERATOR
bytecode to make generators. Simplifies calling Python functions in the VM, as they no longer any need to special case generator functions.Also add
JUMP_NO_INTERRUPT
bytecode that acts likeJUMP_ABSOLUTE
, but does not check for interrupts.bpo-46406: The integer division
//
implementation has been optimized to better let the compiler understand its constraints. It can be 20% faster on the amd64 platform when dividing an int by a value smaller than2**30
.bpo-46383: Fix invalid signature of
_zoneinfo
’smodule_free
function to resolve a crash on wasm32-emscripten platform.bpo-46361: Ensure that “small” integers created by
int.from_bytes()
anddecimal.Decimal
are properly cached.bpo-46161: Fix the class building error when the arguments are constants and CALL_FUNCTION_EX is used.
bpo-46028: Fixes calculation of
sys._base_executable
when inside a virtual environment that uses symlinks with different binary names than the base environment provides.bpo-46091: Correctly calculate indentation levels for lines with whitespace character that are ended by line continuation characters. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-30512: Add CAN Socket support for NetBSD.
bpo-46045: Do not use POSIX semaphores on NetBSD
bpo-44024: Improve the
TypeError
message for non-string second arguments passed to the built-in functionsgetattr()
andhasattr()
. Patch by Géry Ogam.
Library¶
bpo-46624: Restore support for non-integer arguments of
random.randrange()
andrandom.randint()
.bpo-46591: Make the IDLE doc URL on the About IDLE dialog clickable.
bpo-46565: Remove loop variables that are leaking into modules’ namespaces.
bpo-46553: In
typing.get_type_hints()
, support evaluating bare stringifiedClassVar
annotations. Patch by Gregory Beauregard.bpo-46544: Don’t leak
x
&uspace
intermediate vars intextwrap.TextWrapper
.bpo-46487: Add the
get_write_buffer_limits
method toasyncio.transports.WriteTransport
and to the SSL transport.bpo-45173: Note the configparser deprecations will be removed in Python 3.12.
bpo-45162: The deprecated
unittest
APIs removed in 3.11a1 have been temporarily restored to be removed in 3.12 while cleanups in external projects go in.bpo-46539: In
typing.get_type_hints()
, support evaluating stringifiedClassVar
andFinal
annotations insideAnnotated
. Patch by Gregory Beauregard.bpo-46510: Add missing test for
types.TracebackType
andtypes.FrameType
. Calculate them directly from the caught exception without callingsys.exc_info()
.bpo-46491: Allow
typing.Annotated
to wraptyping.Final
andtyping.ClassVar
. Patch by Gregory Beauregard.bpo-46483: Remove
__class_getitem__()
frompathlib.PurePath
as this class was not supposed to be generic.bpo-46436: Fix command-line option
-d
/--directory
in modulehttp.server
which is ignored when combined with command-line option--cgi
. Patch by Géry Ogam.bpo-41403: Make
mock.patch()
raise aTypeError
with a relevant error message on invalid arg. Previously it allowed a crypticAttributeError
to escape.bpo-46474: In
importlib.metadata.EntryPoint.pattern
, avoid potential REDoS by limiting ambiguity in consecutive whitespace.bpo-46474: Removed private method from
importlib.metadata.Path
. Sync with importlib_metadata 4.10.0.bpo-46470: Remove unused branch from
typing._remove_dups_flatten
bpo-46469:
asyncio
generic classes now returntypes.GenericAlias
in__class_getitem__
instead of the same class.bpo-41906: Support passing filter instances in the
filters
values ofhandlers
andloggers
in the dictionary passed tologging.config.dictConfig()
.bpo-46422: Use
dis.Positions
indis.Instruction
instead of a regulartuple
.bpo-46434:
pdb
now gracefully handleshelp
when__doc__
is missing, for example when run with pregenerated optimized.pyc
files.bpo-43869: Python uses the same time Epoch on all platforms. Add an explicit unit test to ensure that it’s the case. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-46414: Add
typing.reveal_type()
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-40280:
subprocess
now imports Windows-specific imports whenmsvcrt
module is available, and POSIX-specific imports on all other platforms. This gives a clean exception when_posixsubprocess
is not available (e.g. Emscripten browser target).bpo-40066:
IntEnum
,IntFlag
, andStrEnum
use the mixed-in type for theirstr()
andformat()
output.bpo-46316: Optimize
pathlib.Path.iterdir()
by removing an unnecessary check for special entries.bpo-29688: Document
pathlib.Path.absolute()
(which has always existed).bpo-43012: The pathlib module’s obsolete and internal
_Accessor
class has been removed to prepare the terrain for upcoming enhancements to the module.bpo-46258: Speed up
math.isqrt()
for small positive integers by replacing two division steps with a lookup table.bpo-46242: Improve error message when creating a new
enum.Enum
type subclassing an existingEnum
with_member_names_
usingenum.Enum.__call__()
.bpo-43118: Fix a bug in
inspect.signature()
that was causing it to fail on some subclasses of classes with a__text_signature__
referencing module globals. Patch by Weipeng Hong.bpo-26552: Fixed case where failing
asyncio.ensure_future()
did not close the coroutine. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-21987: Fix an issue with
tarfile.TarFile.getmember()
getting a directory name with a trailing slash.bpo-46124: Update
zoneinfo
to rely on importlib.resources traversable API.bpo-46103: Now
inspect.getmembers()
only gets__bases__
attribute from class type. Patch by Weipeng Hong.bpo-46080: Fix exception in argparse help text generation if a
argparse.BooleanOptionalAction
argument’s default isargparse.SUPPRESS
and it hashelp
specified. Patch by Felix Fontein.bpo-44791: Fix substitution of
ParamSpec
inConcatenate
with different parameter expressions. Substitution with a list of types returns now a tuple of types. Substitution withConcatenate
returns now aConcatenate
with concatenated lists of arguments.
Documentation¶
bpo-46463: Fixes
escape4chm.py
script used when building the CHM documentation file
Tests¶
bpo-43478: Mocks can no longer be provided as the specs for other Mocks. As a result, an already-mocked object cannot be passed to
mock.Mock()
. This can uncover bugs in tests since these Mock-derived Mocks will always pass certain tests (e.g. isinstance) and builtin assert functions (e.g. assert_called_once_with) will unconditionally pass.bpo-46616: Ensures
test_importlib.test_windows
cleans up registry keys after completion.bpo-44359: test_ftplib now silently ignores socket errors to prevent logging unhandled threading exceptions. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-46600: Fix test_gdb.test_pycfunction() for Python built with
clang -Og
. Tolerate inlined functions in the gdb traceback. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46542: Fix a Python crash in test_lib2to3 when using Python built in debug mode: limit the recursion limit. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-46576: test_peg_generator now disables compiler optimization when testing compilation of its own C extensions to significantly speed up the testing on non-debug builds of CPython.
bpo-46542: Fix
test_json
tests checking forRecursionError
: modify these tests to usesupport.infinite_recursion()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-13886: Skip test_builtin PTY tests on non-ASCII characters if the readline module is loaded. The readline module changes input() behavior, but test_builtin is not intended to test the readline module. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-40280: Add
test.support.requires_fork()
decorators to mark tests that require a workingos.fork()
.bpo-40280: Add
test.support.requires_subprocess()
decorator to mark tests which require workingsubprocess
module oros.spawn*
. The wasm32-emscripten platform has no support for processes.bpo-46126: Disable ‘descriptions’ when running tests internally.
Build¶
bpo-46602: Tidied up configure.ac so that conftest.c is truncated rather than appended. This assists in the case where the ‘rm’ of conftest.c fails to happen between tests. Downstream issues such as a clobbered SOABI can result.
bpo-46600: Fix the test checking if the C compiler supports
-Og
option in the./configure
script to also use-Og
on clang which supports it. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-38472: Fix GCC detection in setup.py when cross-compiling. The C compiler is now run with LC_ALL=C. Previously, the detection failed with a German locale.
bpo-46513: configure no longer uses
AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED
macro andpyconfig.h
no longer defines reserved symbol__CHAR_UNSIGNED__
.bpo-46471: Use global singletons for single byte bytes objects in deepfreeze.
bpo-46443: Deepfreeze now uses cached small integers as it saves some space for common small integers.
bpo-46429: Merge all deep-frozen files into one for space savings. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
bpo-45569: The build now defaults to using 30-bit digits for Python integers. Previously either 15-bit or 30-bit digits would be selected, depending on the platform. 15-bit digits may still be selected using the
--enable-big-digits=15
option to theconfigure
script, or by definingPYLONG_BITS_IN_DIGIT
inpyconfig.h
.bpo-45925: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.37.2.
bpo-43112: Detect musl libc as a separate SOABI (tagged as
linux-musl
).
Windows¶
bpo-33125: The traditional EXE/MSI based installer for Windows is now available for ARM64
bpo-46362: os.path.abspath(“C:CON”) is now fixed to return “\.CON”, not the same path. The regression was true of all legacy DOS devices such as COM1, LPT1, or NUL.
bpo-44934: The installer now offers a command-line only option to add the installation directory to the end of
PATH
instead of at the start.
macOS¶
bpo-45925: Update macOS installer to SQLite 3.37.2.
IDLE¶
bpo-45296: Clarify close, quit, and exit in IDLE. In the File menu, ‘Close’ and ‘Exit’ are now ‘Close Window’ (the current one) and ‘Exit’ is now ‘Exit IDLE’ (by closing all windows). In Shell, ‘quit()’ and ‘exit()’ mean ‘close Shell’. If there are no other windows, this also exits IDLE.
C API¶
bpo-40170: Remove the
PyHeapType_GET_MEMBERS()
macro. It was exposed in the public C API by mistake, it must only be used by Python internally. Use thePyTypeObject.tp_members
member instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-40170: Move _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() and _PyObject_DebugMallocStats() private functions to the internal C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-46433: The internal function _PyType_GetModuleByDef now correctly handles inheritance patterns involving static types.
bpo-45459:
Py_buffer
and variousPy_buffer
related functions are now part of the limited API and stable ABI.bpo-14916: Fixed bug in the tokenizer that prevented
PyRun_InteractiveOne
from parsing from the provided FD.
Python 3.11.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2022-01-13
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-46070:
Py_EndInterpreter()
now explicitly untracks all objects currently tracked by the GC. Previously, if an object was used later by another interpreter, callingPyObject_GC_UnTrack()
on the object crashed if the previous or the next object of thePyGC_Head
structure became a dangling pointer. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-46347: Fix memory leak in PyEval_EvalCodeEx.
bpo-46339: Fix a crash in the parser when retrieving the error text for multi-line f-strings expressions that do not start in the first line of the string. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-46331: Do not set line number of instruction storing doc-string. Fixes regression introduced in 3.11 alpha.
bpo-46314: Remove spurious “call” event when creating a lambda function that was accidentally introduced in 3.11a4.
bpo-46289: ASDL declaration of
FormattedValue
has changed to reflectconversion
field is not optional.bpo-46297: Fixed an interpreter crash on bootup with multiple PythonPaths set in the Windows registry. Patch by Derzsi Dániel.
bpo-46237: Fix the line number of tokenizer errors inside f-strings. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-46263: We always expect the “use_frozen_modules” config to be set, now that getpath.c was rewritten in pure Python and the logic improved.
bpo-46006: Fix a regression when a type method like
__init__()
is modified in a subinterpreter. Fix a regression in_PyUnicode_EqualToASCIIId()
and typeupdate_slot()
. Revert the change which made the Unicode dictionary of interned strings compatible with subinterpreters: the internal interned dictionary is shared again by all interpreters. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45923: Add RESUME opcode. This is a logical no-op. It is emitted by the compiler anywhere a Python function can be entered. It is used by the interpreter to perform tracing and optimizer checks.
bpo-46208: Fix the regression of os.path.normpath(“A/../../B”) not returning expected “../B” but “B”.
bpo-46240: Correct the error message for unclosed parentheses when the tokenizer doesn’t reach the end of the source when the error is reported. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-46009: Remove the
GEN_START
opcode.bpo-46235: Certain sequence multiplication operations like
[0] * 1_000
are now faster due to reference-counting optimizations. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.bpo-46221:
PREP_RERAISE_STAR
no longer pusheslasti
to the stack.bpo-46202: Remove
POP_EXCEPT_AND_RERAISE
and replace it by an equivalent sequence of other opcodes.bpo-46085: Fix iterator cache mechanism of
OrderedDict
.bpo-46055: Speed up shifting operation involving integers less than
PyLong_BASE
. Patch by Xinhang Xu.bpo-46110: Add a maximum recursion check to the PEG parser to avoid stack overflow. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-46107: Fix bug where
ExceptionGroup.split()
andExceptionGroup.subgroup()
did not copy the exception group’s__note__
field to the parts.bpo-45711: The interpreter state’s representation of handled exceptions (a.k.a exc_info, or _PyErr_StackItem) now has only the
exc_value
field,exc_type
andexc_traceback
have been removed as their values can be derived fromexc_value
.bpo-44525: Replace the four call bytecode instructions which one pre-call instruction and two call instructions.
Removes
CALL_FUNCTION
,CALL_FUNCTION_KW
,CALL_METHOD
andCALL_METHOD_KW
.Adds
CALL_NO_KW
andCALL_KW
call instructions, andPRECALL_METHOD
prefix for pairing withLOAD_METHOD
.bpo-46039: Remove the
YIELD_FROM
instruction and replace it with theSEND
instruction which performs the same operation, but without the loop.bpo-45635: The code called from
_PyErr_Display()
was refactored to improve error handling. It now exits immediately upon an unrecoverable error.bpo-46054: Fix parser error when parsing non-utf8 characters in source files. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-46042: Improve the location of the caret in
SyntaxError
exceptions emitted by the symbol table. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-46049: Ensure
._pth
files work as intended on platforms other than Windows.bpo-46048: Fixes parsing of
._pth
files on startup so that single-character paths are correctly read.bpo-37971: Fix a bug where the line numbers given in a traceback when a decorator application raised an exception were wrong.
bpo-46031: Add
POP_JUMP_IF_NOT_NONE
andPOP_JUMP_IF_NONE
opcodes to speed up conditional jumps.bpo-46025: Fix a crash in the
atexit
module involving functions that unregister themselves before raising exceptions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-46000: Improve compatibility of the
curses
module with NetBSD curses.bpo-44525: Specialize the CALL_FUNCTION instruction for calls to builtin types with a single argument. Speeds up
range(x)
,list(x)
, and specificallytype(obj)
.bpo-42918: Fix bug where the built-in
compile()
function did not always raise aSyntaxError
when passed multiple statements in ‘single’ mode. Patch by Weipeng Hong.bpo-45953: The main interpreter in _PyRuntimeState.interpreters is now statically allocated (as part of _PyRuntime). Likewise for the initial thread state of each interpreter. This means less allocation during runtime init, as well as better memory locality for these key state objects.
bpo-45292: Complete the PEP 654 implementation: add
except*
.bpo-43413: Revert changes in
set.__init__
. Subclass ofset
needs to define a__init__()
method if it defines a__new__()
method with additional keyword parameters.bpo-43931: Added the
Py_Version
constant which bears the same value asPY_VERSION_HEX
. Patch by Gabriele N. Tornetta.
Library¶
bpo-46342: The
@typing.final
decorator now sets the__final__
attribute on the decorated object to allow runtime introspection. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-46328: Added the
sys.exception()
method which returns the active exception instance.bpo-46307: Add
string.Template.is_valid()
andstring.Template.get_identifiers()
methods.bpo-46306: Assume that
types.CodeType
always hastypes.CodeType.co_firstlineno
indoctest
.bpo-40479: Fix
hashlib
usedforsecurity option to work correctly with OpenSSL 3.0.0 in FIPS mode.bpo-46070: Fix possible segfault when importing the
asyncio
module from different sub-interpreters in parallel. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-46244: Removed
__slots__
fromtyping.ParamSpec
andtyping.TypeVar
. They served no purpose. Patch by Arie Bovenberg.bpo-46278: Reflect
context
argument inAbstractEventLoop.call_*()
methods. Loop implementations already support it.bpo-46269: Remove special-casing of
__new__
inenum.Enum.__dir__()
.bpo-46266: Improve day constants in
calendar
.Now all constants (
MONDAY
…SUNDAY
) are documented, tested, and added to__all__
.bpo-46257: Optimized the mean, variance, and stdev functions in the statistics module. If the input is an iterator, it is consumed in a single pass rather than eating memory by conversion to a list. The single pass algorithm is about twice as fast as the previous two pass code.
bpo-41011: Added two new variables to pyvenv.cfg which is generated by
venv
module: executable for the executable and command for the command line used to create the environment.bpo-46239: Improve error message when importing
asyncio.windows_events
on non-Windows.bpo-46238: Reuse
_winapi
constants inasyncio.windows_events
.bpo-46222: Adding
SF_NOCACHE
sendfile constant for FreeBSD for the posixmodule.bpo-37295: Add fast path for
0 <= k <= n <= 67
formath.comb()
.bpo-46176: Adding the
MAP_STACK
constant for the mmap module.bpo-43424: Deprecate
webbrowser.MacOSXOSAScript._name
and usename
instead.bpo-45321: Added missing error codes to module
xml.parsers.expat.errors
.bpo-46125: Refactor tests to test traversable API directly. Includes changes from importlib 5.4.0.
bpo-46118: Moved importlib.resources and its related functionality to a package.
bpo-37578: Add include_hidden parameter to
glob()
andiglob()
to match hidden files and directories when using special characters like*
,**
,?
and[]
.bpo-20369:
concurrent.futures.wait()
no longer blocks forever when given duplicate Futures. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-46105: Honor spec when generating requirement specs with urls and extras (importlib_metadata 4.8.3).
bpo-44893: EntryPoint objects are no longer tuples. Recommended means to access is by attribute (‘.name’, ‘.group’) or accessor (‘.load()’). Access by index is deprecated and will raise deprecation warning.
bpo-22815: Print unexpected successes together with failures and errors in summary in
unittest.TextTestResult
.bpo-22047: Calling
add_argument_group()
on an argument group is deprecated. Callingadd_argument_group()
oradd_mutually_exclusive_group()
on a mutually exclusive group is deprecated.These features were never supported and do not always work correctly. The functions exist on the API by accident through inheritance and will be removed in the future.
bpo-26952:
argparse
raisesValueError
with clear message when trying to render usage for an empty mutually exclusive group. Previously it raised a crypticIndexError
.bpo-45615: Functions in the
traceback
module raiseTypeError
rather thanAttributeError
when an exception argument is not of typeBaseException
.bpo-16594: Add allow allow_reuse_port flag in socketserver.
bpo-27718: Fix help for the
signal
module. Some functions (e.g.signal()
andgetsignal()
) were omitted.bpo-46032: The
registry()
method offunctools.singledispatch()
functions checks now the first argument or the first parameter annotation and raises a TypeError if it is not supported. Previously unsupported “types” were ignored (e.g.typing.List[int]
) or caused an error at calling time (e.g.list[int]
).bpo-46014: Add ability to use
typing.Union
andtypes.UnionType
as dispatch argument tofunctools.singledispatch
. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-46018: Ensure that
math.expm1()
does not raise on underflow.bpo-46016: Adding
F_DUP2FD
andF_DUP2FD_CLOEXEC
constants from FreeBSD into the fcntl module.bpo-45755:
typing
generic aliases now reveal the class attributes of the original generic class when passed todir()
. This was the behavior up to Python 3.6, but was changed in 3.7-3.9.bpo-45874: The empty query string, consisting of no query arguments, is now handled correctly in
urllib.parse.parse_qsl
. This caused problems before when strict parsing was enabled.bpo-44674: Change how dataclasses disallows mutable default values. It used to use a list of known types (list, dict, set). Now it disallows unhashable objects to be defaults. It’s using unhashability as a proxy for mutability. Patch by Eric V. Smith, idea by Raymond Hettinger.
bpo-23882: Remove namespace package (PEP 420) support from unittest discovery. It was introduced in Python 3.4 but has been broken since Python 3.7.
bpo-25066: Added a
__repr__()
method tomultiprocessing.Event
objects, patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-45643: Added
signal.SIGSTKFLT
on platforms where this signal is defined.bpo-44092: Fetch across rollback no longer raises
InterfaceError
. Instead we leave it to the SQLite library to handle these cases. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-42413: Replace
concurrent.futures.TimeoutError
andasyncio.TimeoutError
with builtinTimeoutError
, keep these names as deprecated aliases.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
bpo-46296: Add a test case for
enum
with_use_args_ == True
and_member_type_ == object
.bpo-46205: Fix hang in runtest_mp due to race condition
bpo-46263: Fix test_capi on FreeBSD 14-dev: instruct jemalloc to not fill freed memory with junk byte.
bpo-46262: Cover
ValueError
path in tests forenum.Flag._missing_()
.bpo-46150: Now
fakename
intest_pathlib.PosixPathTest.test_expanduser
is checked to be non-existent.bpo-46129: Rewrite
asyncio.locks
tests withunittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
usage.bpo-23819: Fixed
asyncio
tests in python optimized mode. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-46114: Fix test case for OpenSSL 3.0.1 version. OpenSSL 3.0 uses
0xMNN00PP0L
.
Build¶
bpo-44133: When Python is configured with
--without-static-libpython
, the Python static library (libpython.a) is no longer built. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44133: When Python is built without
--enable-shared
, thepython
program is now linked to object files, rather than being linked to the Python static library (libpython.a), to make sure that all symbols are exported. Previously, the linker omitted some symbols like thePy_FrozenMain()
function. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-40280: The
configure
script has a new option--with-emscripten-target
to select browser or node as Emscripten build target.bpo-46315: Added and fixed
#ifdef HAVE_FEATURE
checks for functionality that is not available on WASI platform.bpo-45723: Fixed a regression in
configure
check forselect.epoll()
.bpo-46263:
configure
no longer setsMULTIARCH
on FreeBSD platforms.bpo-46106: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1m in Windows builds, macOS installer builds, and CI. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
bpo-46088: Automatically detect or install bootstrap Python runtime when building from Visual Studio.
bpo-46072: Add a –with-pystats configure option to turn on internal statistics gathering.
bpo-40280: A new directory
Tools/wasm
contains WebAssembly-related helpers likeconfig.site
override for wasm32-emscripten, wasm assets generator to bundle the stdlib, and a README.bpo-46023: makesetup no longer builds extensions that have been marked as disabled. This allows users to disable modules in
Modules/Setup.local
.bpo-45949: Use pure Python
freeze_module
for all but importlib bootstrap files.--with-freeze-module
configure option is no longer needed for cross builds.
Windows¶
bpo-46217: Removed parameter that is unsupported on Windows 8.1 and early Windows 10 and may have caused build or runtime failures.
macOS¶
bpo-40477: The Python Launcher app for macOS now properly launches scripts and, if necessary, the Terminal app when running on recent macOS releases.
C API¶
bpo-46236: Fix a bug in
PyFunction_GetAnnotations()
that caused it to return atuple
instead of adict
.bpo-46140:
PyBuffer_GetPointer()
,PyBuffer_FromContiguous()
,PyBuffer_ToContiguous()
andPyMemoryView_FromBuffer()
now take buffer info byconst Py_buffer *
instead ofPy_buffer *
, as they do not need mutability.PyBuffer_FromContiguous()
also now takes the source buffer asconst void *
, and similarlyPyBuffer_GetPointer()
takes the strides asconst Py_ssize_t *
.bpo-45855: Document that the no_block argument to
PyCapsule_Import()
is a no-op now.bpo-45855: Replaced deprecated usage of
PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock()
withPyImport_ImportModule()
in stdlib modules. Patch by Kumar Aditya.bpo-46007: The
PyUnicode_CHECK_INTERNED()
macro has been excluded from the limited C API. It was never usable there, because it used internal structures which are not available in the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Python 3.11.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2021-12-08
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-46009: Restore behavior from 3.9 and earlier when sending non-None to newly started generator. In 3.9 this did not affect the state of the generator. In 3.10.0 and 3.10.1
gen_func().send(0)
is equivalent togen_func().throw(TypeError(...)
which exhausts the generator. In 3.10.2 onward, the behavior has been reverted to that of 3.9.bpo-46004: Fix the
SyntaxError
location for errors involving for loops with invalid targets. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-45711:
_PyErr_ChainStackItem()
no longer normalizesexc_info
(including setting the traceback on the exception instance) becauseexc_info
is always normalized.bpo-45607: The
__note__
field was added toBaseException
. It isNone
by default but can be set to a string which is added to the exception’s traceback.bpo-45947: Place pointers to dict and values immediately before GC header. This reduces number of dependent memory loads to access either dict or values from 3 to 1.
bpo-45915:
is_valid_fd
now uses fasterfcntl(fd, F_GETFD)
on Linux, macOS, and Windows.bpo-44530: Reverts a change to the
code.__new__
audit event from an earlier prerelease.bpo-42268: Fail the configure step if the selected compiler doesn’t support memory sanitizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-45711: The three values of
exc_info
are now always consistent with each other. In particular, thetype
andtraceback
fields are now derived from the exception instance. This impacts the return values ofsys.exc_info()
andPyErr_GetExcInfo()
if the exception instance is modified while the exception is handled, as well asPyErr_SetExcInfo()
, which now ignores thetype
andtraceback
arguments provided to it.bpo-45727: Refine the custom syntax error that suggests that a comma may be missing to trigger only when the expressions are detected between parentheses or brackets. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-45885: Specialized the
COMPARE_OP
opcode using the PEP 659 machinery.bpo-45786: Allocate space for the interpreter frame in the frame object, to avoid an additional allocation when the frame object outlives the frame activation.
bpo-45614: Fix
traceback
display for exceptions with invalid module name.bpo-45813: Fix crash when calling coro.cr_frame.clear() after coroutine has been freed.
bpo-45811: Improve the tokenizer errors when encountering invisible control characters in the parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-45848: Allow the parser to obtain error lines directly from encoded files. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-45709: Restore behavior from 3.10 when tracing an exception raised within a with statement.
bpo-44525: Adds new
COPY_FREE_VARS
opcode, to make copying of free variables from function to frame explicit. Helps optimization of calls to Python function.bpo-45829: Specialize
BINARY_SUBSCR
for classes with a__getitem__
method implemented in Pythonbpo-45826: Fixed a crash when calling
.with_traceback(None)
onNameError
. This occurs internally inunittest.TestCase.assertRaises()
.bpo-45822: Fixed a bug in the parser that was causing it to not respect PEP 263 coding cookies when no flags are provided. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-45820: Fix a segfault when the parser fails without reading any input. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-45636: Simplify the implementation of
BINARY_OP
by indexing into an array of function pointers (rather than switching on the oparg).bpo-42540: Fix crash when
os.fork()
is called with an active non-default memory allocator.bpo-45738: Fix computation of error location for invalid continuation characters in the parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-45636: Remove an existing “fast path” for old-style string formatting, since it no longer appears to have any measurable impact.
bpo-45753: Make recursion checks a bit more efficient by tracking amount of calls left before overflow.
bpo-45773: Fix a compiler hang when attempting to optimize certain jump patterns.
bpo-45764: The parser now gives a better error message when leaving out the opening parenthesis
(
after adef
-statement:>>> def f: File "<stdin>", line 1 def f: ^ SyntaxError: expected '('
bpo-45609: Specialized the
STORE_SUBSCR
opcode using the PEP 659 machinery.bpo-45636: Replace all numeric
BINARY_*
andINPLACE_*
instructions with a singleBINARY_OP
implementation.bpo-45582: Path calculation (known as
getpath
) has been reimplemented as a frozen Python module. This should have no visible impact, but may affect calculation of all paths referenced insys
andsysconfig
.bpo-45450: Improve the syntax error message for parenthesized arguments. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
Library¶
bpo-27946: Fix possible crash when getting an attribute of
xml.etree.ElementTree.Element
simultaneously with replacing theattrib
dict.bpo-45711: Make
asyncio
normalize exceptions as soon as they are captured withPyErr_Fetch()
, and before they are stored as an exc_info triplet. This bringsasyncio
in line with the rest of the codebase, where an exc_info triplet is always normalized.bpo-23819: Replaced asserts with exceptions in asyncio, patch by Kumar Aditya.
bpo-13236:
unittest.TextTestResult
andunittest.TextTestRunner
flush now the output stream more often.bpo-45917: Added
math.exp2()
:, which returns 2 raised to the power of x.bpo-37658: Fix issue when on certain conditions
asyncio.wait_for()
may allow a coroutine to complete successfully, but fail to return the result, potentially causing memory leaks or other issues.bpo-45876: Improve the accuracy of stdev() and pstdev() in the statistics module. When the inputs are floats or fractions, the output is a correctly rounded float
bpo-44649: Handle dataclass(slots=True) with a field that has default a default value, but for which init=False.
bpo-45803: Added missing kw_only parameter to dataclasses.make_dataclass().
bpo-45837: The
turtle.RawTurtle.settiltangle()
is deprecated since Python 3.1, it now emits a deprecation warning and will be removed in Python 3.13.Use
turtle.RawTurtle.tiltangle()
instead.turtle.RawTurtle.tiltangle()
was earlier incorrectly marked as deprecated, its docstring has been corrected.Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
bpo-45831:
faulthandler
can now write ASCII-only strings (like filenames and function names) with a single write() syscall when dumping a traceback. It reduces the risk of getting an unreadable dump when two threads or two processes dump a traceback to the same file (like stderr) at the same time. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45828:
sqlite
C callbacks now use unraisable exceptions if callback tracebacks are enabled. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-41735: Fix thread lock in
zlib.Decompress.flush()
method beforePyObject_GetBuffer
.bpo-45235: Reverted an argparse bugfix that caused regression in the handling of default arguments for subparsers. This prevented leaf level arguments from taking precedence over root level arguments.
bpo-45754: Fix a regression in Python 3.11a1 and 3.11a2 where
sqlite3
incorrectly would useSQLITE_LIMIT_LENGTH
when checking SQL statement lengths. Now,SQLITE_LIMIT_SQL_LENGTH
is used. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-45766: Added proportional option to
statistics.linear_regression()
.bpo-45765: In importlib.metadata, fix distribution discovery for an empty path.
bpo-45757: Fix bug where
dis
produced an incorrect oparg whenEXTENDED_ARG
is followed by an opcode that does not use its argument.bpo-45644: In-place JSON file formatting using
python3 -m json.tool infile infile
now works correctly, previously it left the file empty. Patch by Chris Wesseling.bpo-45703: When a namespace package is imported before another module from the same namespace is created/installed in a different
sys.path
location while the program is running, calling theimportlib.invalidate_caches()
function will now also guarantee the new module is noticed.bpo-45535: Improve output of
dir()
with Enums.bpo-45664: Fix
types.resolve_bases()
andtypes.new_class()
fortypes.GenericAlias
instance as a base.bpo-45663: Fix
dataclasses.is_dataclass()
for dataclasses which are subclasses oftypes.GenericAlias
.bpo-45662: Fix the repr of
dataclasses.InitVar
with a type alias to the built-in class, e.g.InitVar[list[int]]
.bpo-43137: Launch GNOME web browsers via gio tool instead of obsolete gvfs-open
bpo-45429: On Windows,
time.sleep()
now uses a waitable timer which supports high-resolution timers. Patch by Donghee Na and Eryk Sun.bpo-37295: Optimize
math.comb()
andmath.perm()
.bpo-45514: Deprecated legacy functions in
importlib.resources
.bpo-45507: Add tests for truncated/missing trailers in gzip.decompress implementation.
bpo-45359: Implement PEP 585 for
graphlib.TopologicalSorter
.bpo-44733: Add
max_tasks_per_child
toconcurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
. This allows users to specify the maximum number of tasks a single process should execute before the process needs to be restarted.bpo-28806: Improve netrc library. netrc file no longer needs to contain all tokens. And if the login name is anonymous, security check is no longer need.
bpo-43498: Avoid a possible “RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration” when adjusting the process count of
ProcessPoolExecutor
.bpo-42158: Add MIME types for N-quads, N-triples, Notation3 and TriG to
mimetypes
.bpo-30533: Add
inspect.getmembers_static()
, it return all members without triggering dynamic lookup via the descriptor protocol. Patch by Weipeng Hong.
Documentation¶
bpo-42238:
make -C Doc suspicious
will be removed soon in favor ofmake -C Doc check
, mark it as deprecated.bpo-45840: Improve cross-references in the documentation for the data model.
bpo-45640: Properly marked-up grammar tokens in the documentation are now clickable and take you to the definition of a given piece of grammar. Patch by Arthur Milchior.
bpo-45788: Link doc for sys.prefix to sysconfig doc on installation paths.
bpo-45772:
socket.socket
documentation is corrected to a class from a function.bpo-45392: Update the docstring of the
type
built-in to remove a redundant line and to mention keyword arguments for the constructor.bpo-45250: Update the documentation to note that CPython does not consistently require iterators to define
__iter__
.bpo-25381: In the extending chapter of the extending doc, update a paragraph about the global variables containing exception information.
bpo-43905: Expanded
astuple()
andasdict()
docs, warning about deepcopy being applied and providing a workaround.
Tests¶
bpo-45695: Out-of-tree builds with a read-only source directory are now tested by CI.
bpo-19460: Add new Test for
Lib/email/mime/nonmultipart.py::MIMENonMultipart
.bpo-45835: Fix race condition in test_queue tests with multiple “feeder” threads.
bpo-45783: The test for the freeze tool now handles file moves and deletions.
bpo-45745: Remove the
--findleaks
command line option of regrtest: use the--fail-env-changed
option instead. Since Python 3.7, it was a deprecated alias to the--fail-env-changed
option.bpo-45701: Add tests with
tuple
type withfunctools.lru_cache()
totest_functools
.
Build¶
bpo-44035: CI now verifies that autoconf files have been regenerated with a current and unpatched autoconf package.
bpo-45950: The build system now uses a _bootstrap_python interpreter for freezing and deepfreezing again. To speed up build process the build tools _bootstrap_python and _freeze_module are no longer build with LTO.
bpo-45881: The configure script now accepts
--with-build-python
and--with-freeze-module
options to make cross compiling easier.bpo-40280: Emscripten platform now uses
.wasm
suffix by default.bpo-40280: Disable unusable core extension modules on WASM/Emscripten targets.
bpo-40280:
configure
now checks for socketshutdown
function. The check makes it possible to disableSYS_shutdown
withac_cv_func_shutdown=no
in CONFIG_SITE.bpo-40280:
configure
now checks for functionsfork1, getegid, geteuid, getgid, getppid, getuid, opendir, pipe, system, wait, ttyname
.bpo-33393: Update
config.guess
to 2021-06-03 andconfig.sub
to 2021-08-14.Makefile
now has anupdate-config
target to make updating more convenient.bpo-45866:
make regen-all
now produces the same output when run from a directory other than the source tree: when building Python out of the source tree. pegen now strips directory of the “generated by pygen from <FILENAME>” header Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-40280:
configure
now accepts machinewasm32
orwasm64
and OSwasi
oremscripten
for cross building, e.g.wasm32-unknown-emscripten
,wasm32-wasi
, orwasm32-unknown-wasi
.bpo-41498: Python now compiles on platforms without
sigset_t
. Several functions insignal
are not available whensigset_t
is missing.Based on patch by Roman Yurchak for pyodide.
bpo-45881:
setup.py
now usesCC
from environment first to discover multiarch and cross compile paths.bpo-45886: The
_freeze_module
program path can now be overridden on the command line, e.g.make FREEZE_MODULE=../x86_64/Program/_freeze_module
.bpo-45873: Get rid of the
_bootstrap_python
build step. The deepfreeze.py script is now run using$(PYTHON_FOR_REGEN)
which can be Python 3.7 or newer (on Windows, 3.8 or newer).bpo-45847: Port builtin hashlib extensions to
PY_STDLIB_MOD
macro andaddext()
.bpo-45723: Add
autoconf
helpers for saving and restoring environment variables:SAVE_ENV
: Save$CFLAGS
,$LDFLAGS
,$LIBS
, and$CPPFLAGS
.RESTORE_ENV
: Restore$CFLAGS
,$LDFLAGS
,$LIBS
, and$CPPFLAGS
.WITH_SAVE_ENV([SCRIPT])
: RunSCRIPT
wrapped withSAVE_ENV
andRESTORE_ENV
.
Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
bpo-45573: Mandatory core modules, that are required to bootstrap Python, are now in
Modules/Setup.bootstrap
.bpo-45573:
configure
now createsModules/Setup.stdlib
with conditionally enabled/disabled extension module lines. The file is not used, yet.bpo-45573:
configure
now uses a unified format to set state, compiler flags, and linker flags in Makefile. The new macroPY_STDLIB_MOD
sets three variables that are consumed byModules/Setup
andsetup.py
.bpo-45816: Python now supports building with Visual Studio 2022 (MSVC v143, VS Version 17.0). Patch by Jeremiah Vivian.
bpo-45800: Settings for
pyexpat
C extension are now detected byconfigure
. The bundledexpat
library is built inMakefile
.bpo-45798: Settings for
decimal
internal C extension are now detected byconfigure
. The bundledlibmpdec
library is built inMakefile
.bpo-45723: configure has a new option
--with-pkg-config
to disable or require pkg-config.bpo-45774: The build dependencies for
sqlite3
are now detected byconfigure
andpkg-config
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-45763: The build dependencies for
zlib
,bz2
, andlzma
are now detected byconfigure
.bpo-45747: gdbm and dbm build dependencies are now detected by
configure
.bpo-45743: On macOS, the build system no longer passes
search_paths_first
to the linker. The flag has been the default since Xcode 4 / macOS 10.6.bpo-45723:
configure.ac
is now compatible with autoconf 2.71. Deprecated checksSTDC_HEADERS
andAC_HEADER_TIME
have been removed.bpo-45723:
configure
now prints a warning when pkg-config is missing.bpo-45731:
configure --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions
is now handled by newPY_SQLITE_ENABLE_LOAD_EXTENSION
macro instead of logic in setup.py.bpo-45723: configure.ac now uses custom helper macros and
AC_CACHE_CHECK
to simplify and speed up configure runs.bpo-45696: Skip the marshal step for frozen modules by generating C code that produces a set of ready-to-use code objects. This speeds up startup time by another 10% or more.
bpo-45561: Run smelly.py tool from $(srcdir).
Windows¶
bpo-46105: Fixed calculation of
sys.path
in a venv on Windows.bpo-45901: When installed through the Microsoft Store and set as the default app for
*.py
files, command line arguments will now be passed to Python when invoking a script without explicitly launching Python (that is,script.py args
rather thanpython script.py args
).bpo-45616: Fix Python Launcher’s ability to distinguish between versions 3.1 and 3.10 when either one is explicitly requested. Previously, 3.1 would be used if 3.10 was requested but not installed, and 3.10 would be used if 3.1 was requested but 3.10 was installed.
bpo-45850: Implement changes to build with deep-frozen modules on Windows. Note that we now require Python 3.10 as the “bootstrap” or “host” Python.
bpo-45732: Updates bundled Tcl/Tk to 8.6.12.
bpo-45720: Internal reference to
shlwapi.dll
was dropped to help improve startup time. This DLL will no longer be loaded at the start of every Python process.
macOS¶
bpo-45732: Update python.org macOS installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.6.12.
C API¶
bpo-39026: Fix Python.h to build C extensions with Xcode: remove a relative include from
Include/cpython/pystate.h
.
Python 3.11.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2021-11-05
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-45716: Improve the
SyntaxError
message when usingTrue
,None
orFalse
as keywords in a function call. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-45688:
sys.stdlib_module_names
now contains the macOS-specific module_scproxy
.bpo-45379: Clarify
ImportError
message when we try to explicitly import a frozen module but frozen modules are disabled.bpo-44525: Specialize simple calls to Python functions (no starargs, keyword dict, or closure)
bpo-45530: Cases of sorting using tuples as keys may now be significantly faster in some cases. Patch by Tim Peters.
The order of the result may differ from earlier releases if the tuple elements don’t define a total ordering (see Comparações de valor for information on total ordering). It’s generally true that the result of sorting simply isn’t well-defined in the absence of a total ordering on list elements.
bpo-45526: In obmalloc, set ADDRESS_BITS to not ignore any bits (ignored 16 before). That is safer in the case that the kernel gives user-space virtual addresses that span a range greater than 48 bits.
bpo-30570: Fixed a crash in
issubclass()
from infinite recursion when searching pathological__bases__
tuples.bpo-45521: Fix a bug in the obmalloc radix tree code. On 64-bit machines, the bug causes the tree to hold 46-bits of virtual addresses, rather than the intended 48-bits.
bpo-45494: Fix parser crash when reporting errors involving invalid continuation characters. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-45445: Python now fails to initialize if it finds an invalid
-X
option in the command line. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-45340: Object attributes are held in an array instead of a dictionary. An object’s dictionary are created lazily, only when needed. Reduces the memory consumption of a typical Python object by about 30%. Patch by Mark Shannon.
bpo-45408: Fix a crash in the parser when reporting tokenizer errors that occur at the same time unclosed parentheses are detected. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-29410: Add SipHash13 for string hash algorithm and use it by default.
bpo-45385: Fix reference leak from descr_check. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-45367: Specialized the
BINARY_MULTIPLY
opcode toBINARY_MULTIPLY_INT
andBINARY_MULTIPLY_FLOAT
using the PEP 659 machinery.bpo-21736: Frozen stdlib modules now have
__file__
to the .py file they would otherwise be loaded from, if possible. For packages,__path__
now has the correct entry instead of being an empty list, which allows unfrozen submodules to be imported. These are set only if the stdlib directory is known when the runtime is initialized. Note that the file at__file__
is not guaranteed to exist. None of this affects non-stdlib frozen modules nor, for now, frozen modules imported usingPyImport_ImportFrozenModule()
. Also, at the momentco_filename
is not updated for the module.bpo-45020: For frozen stdlib modules, record the original module name as
module.__spec__.loader_state.origname
. If the value is different thanmodule.__spec__.name
then the module was defined as an alias in Tools/scripts/freeze_modules.py. If it isNone
then the module comes from a source file outside the stdlib.bpo-45324: In FrozenImporter.find_spec(), we now preserve the information needed in exec_module() to load the module. This change mostly impacts internal details, rather than changing the importer’s behavior.
bpo-45292: Implement PEP 654. Add
ExceptionGroup
andBaseExceptionGroup
. Update traceback display code.bpo-40116: Change to the implementation of split dictionaries. Classes where the instances differ either in the exact set of attributes, or in the order in which those attributes are set, can still share keys. This should have no observable effect on users of Python or the C-API. Patch by Mark Shannon.
bpo-44050: Extensions that indicate they use global state (by setting
m_size
to -1) can again be used in multiple interpreters. This reverts to behavior of Python 3.8.bpo-44525: Setup initial specialization infrastructure for the
CALL_FUNCTION
opcode. Implemented initial specializations for C function calls:CALL_FUNCTION_BUILTIN_O
forMETH_O
flag.CALL_FUNCTION_BUILTIN_FAST
forMETH_FASTCALL
flag without keywords.CALL_FUNCTION_LEN
forlen(o)
.CALL_FUNCTION_ISINSTANCE
forisinstance(o, t)
.
bpo-44511: Improve the generated bytecode for class and mapping patterns.
bpo-43706: Speed up calls to
enumerate()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.
Library¶
bpo-45679: Fix caching of multi-value
typing.Literal
.Literal[True, 2]
is no longer equal toLiteral[1, 2]
.bpo-42064: Convert
sqlite3
to multi-phase initialisation (PEP 489). Patches by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-45438: Fix typing.Signature string representation for generic builtin types.
bpo-45613:
sqlite3
now setssqlite3.threadsafety
based on the default threading mode the underlying SQLite library has been compiled with. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-45574: Fix warning about
print_escape
being unused.bpo-45581:
sqlite3.connect()
now correctly raisesMemoryError
if the underlying SQLite API signals memory error. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-45557:
pprint.pprint()
now handles underscore_numbers correctly. Previously it was always setting it toFalse
.bpo-44019: Add
operator.call()
tooperator.__all__
. Patch by Kreusada.bpo-42174:
shutil.get_terminal_size()
now falls back to sane values if the column or line count are 0.bpo-35673: Improve the introspectability of the
__loader__
attribute for namespace packages.importlib.machinery.NamespaceLoader
is now public, and implements theimportlib.abc.InspectLoader
interface._NamespaceLoader
is kept for backward compatibility.bpo-45515: Add references to
zoneinfo
in thedatetime
documentation, mostly replacing outdated references todateutil.tz
. Change by Paul Ganssle.bpo-45475: Reverted optimization of iterating
gzip.GzipFile
,bz2.BZ2File
, andlzma.LZMAFile
(see bpo-43787) because it caused regression when user iterate them without having reference of them. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-45489: Update
ForwardRef
to support|
operator. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-42222: Removed deprecated support for float arguments in randrange().
bpo-45428: Fix a regression in py_compile when reading filenames from standard input.
bpo-45467: Fix incremental decoder and stream reader in the “raw-unicode-escape” codec. Previously they failed if the escape sequence was split.
bpo-45461: Fix incremental decoder and stream reader in the “unicode-escape” codec. Previously they failed if the escape sequence was split.
bpo-45239: Fixed
email.utils.parsedate_tz()
crashing withUnboundLocalError
on certain invalid input instead of returningNone
. Patch by Ben Hoyt.bpo-45417: Fix quadratic behaviour in the enum module: Creation of enum classes with a lot of entries was quadratic.
bpo-45249: Fix the behaviour of
traceback.print_exc()
when displaying the caret when theend_offset
in the exception is set to 0. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-45416: Fix use of
asyncio.Condition
with explicitasyncio.Lock
objects, which was a regression due to removal of explicit loop arguments. Patch by Joongi Kim.bpo-20028: Empty escapechar/quotechar is not allowed when initializing
csv.Dialect
. Patch by Vajrasky Kok and Donghee Na.bpo-44904: Fix bug in the
doctest
module that caused it to fail if a docstring included an example with aclassmethod
property
. Patch by Alex Waygood.bpo-45406: Make
inspect.getmodule()
catchFileNotFoundError
raised byinspect.getabsfile()
, and returnNone
to indicate that the module could not be determined.bpo-45411: Add extensions for files containing subtitles - .srt & .vtt - to the mimetypes.py module.
bpo-10716: Migrated pydoc to HTML5 (without changing the look of it). Side effect is to update xmlrpc’s
ServerHTMLDoc
which now uses the CSS too. cgitb now relies less on pydoc (as it can’t use the CSS file).bpo-45262: Prevent use-after-free in asyncio. Make sure the cached running loop holder gets cleared on dealloc to prevent use-after-free in get_running_loop
bpo-45386: Make
xmlrpc.client
more robust to C runtimes where the underlying Cstrftime
function results in aValueError
when testing for year formatting options.bpo-20028: Improve error message of
csv.Dialect
when initializing. Patch by Vajrasky Kok and Donghee Na.bpo-45343: Update bundled pip to 21.2.4 and setuptools to 58.1.0
bpo-45328: Fixed
http.client.HTTPConnection
to work properly in OSs that don’t support theTCP_NODELAY
socket option.bpo-45243: Add
setlimit()
andgetlimit()
tosqlite3.Connection
for setting and getting SQLite limits by connection basis. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-45320: Removed from the
inspect
module:- the
getargspec
function, deprecated since Python 3.0; use
inspect.signature()
orinspect.getfullargspec()
instead.
- the
the
formatargspec
function, deprecated since Python 3.5; use theinspect.signature()
function andSignature
object directly.the undocumented
Signature.from_builtin
andSignature.from_function
functions, deprecated since Python 3.5; use theSignature.from_callable()
method instead.
Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
bpo-45192: Fix the
tempfile._infer_return_type
function so that thedir
argument of thetempfile
functions accepts an object implementing theos.PathLike
protocol.Patch by Kyungmin Lee.
bpo-45160: When tracing a tkinter variable used by a ttk OptionMenu, callbacks are no longer made twice.
bpo-25625: Added non parallel-safe
chdir()
context manager to change the current working directory and then restore it on exit. Simple wrapper aroundchdir()
.bpo-24139: Add support for SQLite extended result codes in
sqlite3.Error
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-24444: Fixed an error raised in
argparse
help display when help for an option is set to 1+ blank spaces or when choices arg is an empty container.bpo-44547: Implement
Fraction.__int__
, so that afractions.Fraction
instancef
passes anisinstance(f, typing.SupportsInt)
check.bpo-40321: Adds support for HTTP 308 redirects to
urllib
. See RFC 7538 for details. Patch by Jochem Schulenklopper.bpo-41374: Ensure that
socket.TCP_*
constants are exposed on Cygwin 3.1.6 and greater.bpo-35970: Add help flag to the base64 module’s command line interface. Patch contributed by Robert Kuska.
Documentation¶
bpo-45726: Improve documentation for
functools.singledispatch()
andfunctools.singledispatchmethod
.bpo-45680: Amend the docs on
GenericAlias
objects to clarify that non-container classes can also implement__class_getitem__
. Patch contributed by Alex Waygood.bpo-45618: Update Sphinx version used to build the documentation to 4.2.0. Patch by Maciej Olko.
bpo-45655: Add a new “relevant PEPs” section to the top of the documentation for the
typing
module. Patch by Alex Waygood.bpo-45604: Add
level
argument tomultiprocessing.log_to_stderr
function docs.bpo-45516: Add protocol description to the
importlib.abc.TraversableResources
documentation.bpo-45464: Mention in the documentation of Built-in Exceptions that inheriting from multiple exception types in a single subclass is not recommended due to possible memory layout incompatibility.
bpo-45449: Add note about PEP 585 in
collections.abc
.bpo-45516: Add protocol description to the
importlib.abc.Traversable
documentation.bpo-20692: Add Programming FAQ entry explaining that int literal attribute access requires either a space after or parentheses around the literal.
Tests¶
bpo-45678: Add tests for scenarios in which
functools.singledispatchmethod
is stacked on top of a method that has already been wrapped by two other decorators. Patch by Alex Waygood.bpo-45578: Add tests for
dis.distb()
bpo-45678: Add tests to ensure that
functools.singledispatchmethod
correctly wraps the attributes of the target function.bpo-45668: PGO tests now pass when Python is built without test extension modules.
bpo-45577: Add subtests for all
pickle
protocols intest_zoneinfo
.bpo-45566: Fix
test_frozen_pickle
intest_dataclasses
to check allpickle
versions.bpo-43592:
test.libregrtest
now raises the soft resource limit for the maximum number of file descriptors when the default is too low for our test suite as was often the case on macOS.bpo-39679: Add more test cases for
@functools.singledispatchmethod
when combined with@classmethod
or@staticmethod
.bpo-45410: When libregrtest spawns a worker process, stderr is now written into stdout to keep messages order. Use a single pipe for stdout and stderr, rather than two pipes. Previously, messages were out of order which made analysis of buildbot logs harder Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-45402: Fix test_tools.test_sundry() when Python is built out of tree: fix how the freeze_modules.py tool locates the _freeze_module program. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-45403: Fix test_sys.test_stdlib_dir() when Python is built outside the source tree: compare normalized paths. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-45400: Fix test_name_error_suggestions_do_not_trigger_for_too_many_locals() of test_exceptions if a directory name contains “a1” (like “Python-3.11.0a1”): use a stricter regular expression. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-10572: Rename
sqlite3
tests fromtest_sqlite
totest_sqlite3
, and relocate them toLib/test/test_sqlite3
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
Build¶
bpo-43158:
setup.py
now uses values from configure script to build the_uuid
extension module. Configure now detects util-linux’slibuuid
, too.bpo-45666: Fix warning of
swprintf
and%s
usage in_testembed.c
bpo-45548:
Modules/Setup
andModules/makesetup
have been improved. TheSetup
file now contains working rules for all extensions. Outdated comments have been removed. Rules defined bymakesetup
track dependencies correctly.bpo-45548: The
math
andcmath
implementation now require a C99 compatiblelibm
and no longer ship with workarounds for missing acosh, asinh, atanh, expm1, and log1p functions.bpo-45595:
setup.py
andmakesetup
now track build dependencies on all Python header files and module specific header files.bpo-45571:
Modules/Setup
now usePY_CFLAGS_NODIST
instead ofPY_CFLAGS
to compile shared modules.bpo-45570:
pyexpat
and_elementtree
no longer define obsolete macrosHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H
andUSE_PYEXPAT_CAPI
.XML_POOR_ENTROPY
is now defined inexpat_config.h
.bpo-43974:
setup.py
no longer definesPy_BUILD_CORE_MODULE
. Instead every module, that uses the internal API, defines the macro.bpo-45548: Fill in missing entries in Modules/Setup.
bpo-45532: Update
sys.version
to usemain
as fallback information. Patch by Jeong YunWon.bpo-45536: The
configure
script now checks whether OpenSSL headers and libraries provide required APIs. Most common APIs are verified. The check detects outdated or missing OpenSSL. Failures do not stop configure.bpo-45221: Fixed regression in handling of
LDFLAGS
andCPPFLAGS
options whereargparse.parse_known_args()
could interpret an option as one of the built-in command line argument, for example-h
for help.bpo-45440: Building Python now requires a C99
<math.h>
header file providing the following functions:copysign()
,hypot()
,isfinite()
,isinf()
,isnan()
,round()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45405: Prevent
internal configure error
when runningconfigure
with recent versions of non-Apple clang. Patch by David Bohman.bpo-45433: Avoid linking libpython with libcrypt.
Windows¶
bpo-43652: Update Tcl/Tk to 8.6.11, actually this time. The previous update incorrectly included 8.6.10.
bpo-45337: venv now warns when the created environment may need to be accessed at a different path, due to redirections, links or junctions. It also now correctly installs or upgrades components when the alternate path is required.
bpo-43851: Build SQLite
SQLITE_OMIT_AUTOINIT
on Windows. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
macOS¶
bpo-44828: Avoid tkinter file dialog failure on macOS 12 Monterey when using the Tk 8.6.11 provided by python.org macOS installers. Patch by Marc Culler of the Tk project.
IDLE¶
bpo-45495: Add context keywords ‘case’ and ‘match’ to completions list.
C API¶
bpo-29103:
PyType_FromSpec*
now copies the class name from the spec to a buffer owned by the class, so the original can be safely deallocated. Patch by Petr Viktorin.bpo-45522: The internal freelists for frame, float, list, dict, async generators, and context objects can now be disabled.
bpo-35134: Exclude
PyWeakref_GET_OBJECT()
from the limited C API. It never worked since thePyWeakReference
structure is opaque in the limited C API.bpo-35081: Move the
interpreteridobject.h
header file fromInclude/
toInclude/internal/
. It only provides private functions. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-35134: The non-limited API files
cellobject.h
,classobject.h
,context.h
,funcobject.h
,genobject.h
andlongintrepr.h
have been moved to theInclude/cpython
directory. Moreover, theeval.h
header file was removed. These files must not be included directly, as they are already included inPython.h
: Include Files. If they have been included directly, consider includingPython.h
instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45474: The following items are no longer available when
Py_LIMITED_API
is defined:the
Py_MARSHAL_VERSION
macro
These are not part of the limited API.
Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-45434: Remove the
pystrhex.h
header file. It only contains private functions. C extensions should only include the main<Python.h>
header file. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45440: Remove the
Py_FORCE_DOUBLE()
macro. It was used by thePy_IS_INFINITY()
macro. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45434:
<Python.h>
no longer includes the header files<stdlib.h>
,<stdio.h>
,<errno.h>
and<string.h>
when thePy_LIMITED_API
macro is set to0x030b0000
(Python 3.11) or higher. C extensions should explicitly include the header files after#include <Python.h>
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-41123: Remove
Py_UNICODE_COPY()
andPy_UNICODE_FILL()
macros, deprecated since Python 3.3. UsePyUnicode_CopyCharacters()
ormemcpy()
(wchar_t*
string), andPyUnicode_Fill()
functions instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45412: Remove the following math macros using the
errno
variable:Py_ADJUST_ERANGE1()
Py_ADJUST_ERANGE2()
Py_OVERFLOWED()
Py_SET_ERANGE_IF_OVERFLOW()
Py_SET_ERRNO_ON_MATH_ERROR()
Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-45395: Custom frozen modules (the array set to
PyImport_FrozenModules
) are now treated as additions, rather than replacing all the default frozen modules. Frozen stdlib modules can still be disabled by setting the “code” field of the custom array entry to NULL.bpo-43760: Add new
PyThreadState_EnterTracing()
, andPyThreadState_LeaveTracing()
functions to the limited C API to suspend and resume tracing and profiling. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44220:
PyStructSequence_UnnamedField
is added to the Stable ABI.
Python 3.11.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2021-10-05
Security¶
bpo-42278: Replaced usage of
tempfile.mktemp()
withTemporaryDirectory
to avoid a potential race condition.bpo-44600: Fix incorrect line numbers while tracing some failed patterns in match statements. Patch by Charles Burkland.
bpo-41180: Add auditing events to the
marshal
module, and stop raisingcode.__init__
events for every unmarshalled code object. Directly instantiated code objects will continue to raise an event, and audit event handlers should inspect or collect the raw marshal data. This reduces a significant performance overhead when loading from.pyc
files.bpo-44394: Update the vendored copy of libexpat to 2.4.1 (from 2.2.8) to get the fix for the CVE 2013-0340 “Billion Laughs” vulnerability. This copy is most used on Windows and macOS.
bpo-43124: Made the internal
putcmd
function insmtplib
sanitize input for presence of\r
and\n
characters to avoid (unlikely) command injection.bpo-44022:
http.client
now avoids infinitely reading potential HTTP headers after a100 Continue
status response from the server.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-43760: The number of hardware branches per instruction dispatch is reduced from two to one by adding a special instruction for tracing. Patch by Mark Shannon.
bpo-45061: Add a deallocator to the bool type to detect refcount bugs in C extensions which call Py_DECREF(Py_True) or Py_DECREF(Py_False) by mistake. Detect also refcount bugs when the empty tuple singleton or the Unicode empty string singleton is destroyed by mistake. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-24076: sum() was further optimised for summing up single digit integers.
bpo-45190: Update Unicode databases to Unicode 14.0.0.
bpo-45167: Fix deepcopying of
types.GenericAlias
objects.bpo-45155:
int.to_bytes()
andint.from_bytes()
now take a default value of"big"
for thebyteorder
argument.int.to_bytes()
also takes a default value of1
for thelength
argument.bpo-44219: Release the GIL while performing
isatty
system calls on arbitrary file descriptors. In particular, this affectsos.isatty()
,os.device_encoding()
andio.TextIOWrapper
. By extension,io.open()
in text mode is also affected. This change solves a deadlock inos.isatty()
. Patch by Vincent Michel in bpo-44219.bpo-44959: Added fallback to extension modules with ‘.sl’ suffix on HP-UX
bpo-45121: Fix issue where
Protocol.__init__
raisesRecursionError
when it’s called directly or viasuper()
. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-44348: The deallocator function of the
BaseException
type now uses the trashcan mechanism to prevent stack overflow. For example, when aRecursionError
instance is raised, it can be linked to another RecursionError through the__context__
attribute or the__traceback__
attribute, and then a chain of exceptions is created. When the chain is destroyed, nested deallocator function calls can crash with a stack overflow if the chain is too long compared to the available stack memory. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45123: Fix PyAiter_Check to only check for the __anext__ presence (not for __aiter__). Rename PyAiter_Check to PyAIter_Check, PyObject_GetAiter -> PyObject_GetAIter.
bpo-1514420: Interpreter no longer attempts to open files with names in angle brackets (like “<string>” or “<stdin>”) when formatting an exception.
bpo-41031: Match C and Python code formatting of unprintable exceptions and exceptions in the
__main__
module.bpo-37330:
open()
,io.open()
,codecs.open()
andfileinput.FileInput
no longer accept'U'
(“universal newline”) in the file mode. This flag was deprecated since Python 3.3. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45083: When the interpreter renders an exception, its name now has a complete qualname. Previously only the class name was concatenated to the module name, which sometimes resulted in an incorrect full name being displayed.
(This issue impacted only the C code exception rendering, the
traceback
module was using qualname already).bpo-34561: List sorting now uses the merge-ordering strategy from Munro and Wild’s
powersort()
. Unlike the former strategy, this is provably near-optimal in the entropy of the distribution of run lengths. Most uses oflist.sort()
probably won’t see a significant time difference, but may see significant improvements in cases where the former strategy was exceptionally poor. However, as these are all fast linear-time approximations to a problem that’s inherently at best quadratic-time to solve truly optimally, it’s also possible to contrive cases where the former strategy did better.bpo-45056: Compiler now removes trailing unused constants from co_consts.
bpo-45020: Add a new command line option, “-X frozen_modules=[on|off]” to opt out of (or into) using optional frozen modules. This defaults to “on” (or “off” if it’s running out of the source tree).
bpo-45012: In
posix
, release GIL duringstat()
,lstat()
, andfstatat()
syscalls made byos.DirEntry.stat()
. Patch by Stanisław Skonieczny.bpo-45018: Fixed pickling of range iterators that iterated for over
2**32
times.bpo-45000: A
SyntaxError
is now raised when trying to delete__debug__
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-44963: Implement
send()
andthrow()
methods foranext_awaitable
objects. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-44962: Fix a race in WeakKeyDictionary, WeakValueDictionary and WeakSet when two threads attempt to commit the last pending removal. This fixes asyncio.create_task and fixes a data loss in asyncio.run where shutdown_asyncgens is not run
bpo-24234: Implement the
__bytes__()
special method on thebytes
type, so a bytes objectb
passes anisinstance(b, typing.SupportsBytes)
check.bpo-24234: Implement the
__complex__()
special method on thecomplex
type, so a complex numberz
passes anisinstance(z, typing.SupportsComplex)
check.bpo-44954: Fixed a corner case bug where the result of
float.fromhex('0x.8p-1074')
was rounded the wrong way.bpo-44947: Refine the syntax error for trailing commas in import statements. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-44945: Specialize the BINARY_ADD instruction using the PEP 659 machinery. Adds five new instructions:
BINARY_ADD_ADAPTIVE
BINARY_ADD_FLOAT
BINARY_ADD_INT
BINARY_ADD_UNICODE
BINARY_ADD_UNICODE_INPLACE_FAST
bpo-44929: Fix some edge cases of
enum.Flag
string representation in the REPL. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-44914: Class version tags are no longer recycled.
This means that a version tag serves as a unique identifier for the state of a class. We rely on this for effective specialization of the LOAD_ATTR and other instructions.
bpo-44698: Restore behaviour of complex exponentiation with integer-valued exponent of type
float
orcomplex
.bpo-44895: A debug variable
PYTHONDUMPREFSFILE
is added for creating a dump file which is generated by--with-trace-refs
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-44900: Add five superinstructions for PEP 659 quickening:
LOAD_FAST LOAD_FAST
STORE_FAST LOAD_FAST
LOAD_FAST LOAD_CONST
LOAD_CONST LOAD_FAST
STORE_FAST STORE_FAST
bpo-44889: Initial implementation of adaptive specialization of
LOAD_METHOD
. The following specialized forms were added:LOAD_METHOD_CACHED
LOAD_METHOD_MODULE
LOAD_METHOD_CLASS
bpo-44890: Specialization stats are always collected in debug builds.
bpo-44885: Correct the ast locations of f-strings with format specs and repeated expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-44878: Remove the loop from the bytecode interpreter. All instructions end with a DISPATCH macro, so the loop is now redundant.
bpo-44878: Remove switch statement for interpreter loop when using computed gotos. This makes sure that we only have one dispatch table in the interpreter.
bpo-44874: Deprecate the old trashcan macros (
Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN
/Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END
). They should be replaced by the new macrosPy_TRASHCAN_BEGIN
andPy_TRASHCAN_END
.bpo-44872: Use new trashcan macros (Py_TRASHCAN_BEGIN/END) in frameobject.c instead of the old ones (Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN/END).
bpo-33930: Fix segmentation fault with deep recursion when cleaning method objects. Patch by Augusto Goulart and Pablo Galindo.
bpo-25782: Fix bug where
PyErr_SetObject
hangs when the current exception has a cycle in its context chain.bpo-44856: Fix reference leaks in the error paths of
update_bases()
and__build_class__
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-44826: Initial implementation of adaptive specialization of STORE_ATTR
Three specialized forms of STORE_ATTR are added:
STORE_ATTR_SLOT
STORE_ATTR_SPLIT_KEYS
STORE_ATTR_WITH_HINT
bpo-44838: Fixed a bug that was causing the parser to raise an incorrect custom
SyntaxError
for invalid ‘if’ expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-44821: Create instance dictionaries (__dict__) eagerly, to improve regularity of object layout and assist specialization.
bpo-44792: Improve syntax errors for if expressions. Patch by Miguel Brito
bpo-34013: Generalize the invalid legacy statement custom error message (like the one generated when “print” is called without parentheses) to include more generic expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-44732: Rename
types.Union
totypes.UnionType
.bpo-44725: Expose specialization stats in python via
_opcode.get_specialization_stats()
.bpo-44717: Improve AttributeError on circular imports of submodules.
bpo-44698: Fix undefined behaviour in complex object exponentiation.
bpo-44653: Support
typing
types in parameter substitution in the union type.bpo-44676: Add ability to serialise
types.Union
objects. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-44633: Parameter substitution of the union type with wrong types now raises
TypeError
instead of returningNotImplemented
.bpo-44661: Update
property_descr_set
to use vectorcall if possible. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-44662: Add
__module__
totypes.Union
. This also fixestypes.Union
issues withtyping.Annotated
. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-44655: Include the name of the type in unset __slots__ attribute errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-44655: Don’t include a missing attribute with the same name as the failing one when offering suggestions for missing attributes. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-44646: Fix the hash of the union type: it no longer depends on the order of arguments.
bpo-44636: Collapse union of equal types. E.g. the result of
int | int
is nowint
. Fix comparison of the union type with non-hashable objects. E.g.int | str == {}
no longer raises a TypeError.bpo-44611: On Windows,
os.urandom()
: uses BCryptGenRandom API instead of CryptGenRandom API which is deprecated from Microsoft Windows API. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-44635: Convert
None
totype(None)
in the union type constructor.bpo-26280: Implement adaptive specialization for BINARY_SUBSCR
Three specialized forms of BINARY_SUBSCR are added:
BINARY_SUBSCR_LIST_INT
BINARY_SUBSCR_TUPLE_INT
BINARY_SUBSCR_DICT
bpo-44589: Mapping patterns in
match
statements with two or more equal literal keys will now raise aSyntaxError
at compile-time.bpo-44606: Fix
__instancecheck__
and__subclasscheck__
for the union type.bpo-42073: The
@classmethod
decorator can now wrap other classmethod-like descriptors.bpo-41972: Tuned the string-searching algorithm of fastsearch.h to have a shorter inner loop for most cases.
bpo-44590: All necessary data for executing a Python function (local variables, stack, etc) is now kept in a per-thread stack. Frame objects are lazily allocated on demand. This increases performance by about 7% on the standard benchmark suite. Introspection and debugging are unaffected as frame objects are always available when needed. Patch by Mark Shannon.
bpo-44584: The threading debug (
PYTHONTHREADDEBUG
environment variable) is deprecated in Python 3.10 and will be removed in Python 3.12. This feature requires a debug build of Python. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43895: An obsolete internal cache of shared object file handles added in 1995 that attempted, but did not guarantee, that a .so would not be dlopen’ed twice to work around flaws in mid-1990s posix-ish operating systems has been removed from dynload_shlib.c.
bpo-44490:
typing
now searches for type parameters intypes.Union
objects.get_type_hints
will also properly resolve annotations with nestedtypes.Union
objects. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-43950: Code objects can now provide the column information for instructions when available. This is levaraged during traceback printing to show the expressions responsible for errors.
Contributed by Pablo Galindo, Batuhan Taskaya and Ammar Askar as part of PEP 657.
bpo-44562: Remove uses of
PyObject_GC_Del()
in error path when initializingtypes.GenericAlias
.bpo-41486: Fix a memory consumption and copying performance regression in earlier 3.10 beta releases if someone used an output buffer larger than 4GiB with zlib.decompress on input data that expands that large.
bpo-43908: Heap types with the
Py_TPFLAGS_IMMUTABLETYPE
flag can now inherit the PEP 590 vectorcall protocol. Previously, this was only possible for static types. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-44553: Implement GC methods for
types.Union
to break reference cycles and prevent memory leaks.bpo-44490: Add
__parameters__
attribute and__getitem__
operator totypes.Union
. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-44523: Remove the pass-through for
hash()
ofweakref.proxy
objects to prevent unintended consequences when the original referred object dies while the proxy is part of a hashable object. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-44483: Fix a crash in
types.Union
objects when creating a union of an object with bad__module__
field.bpo-44486: Modules will always have a dictionary, even when created by
types.ModuleType.__new__()
bpo-44472: Fix ltrace functionality when exceptions are raised. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-12022: A
TypeError
is now raised instead of anAttributeError
inwith
andasync with
statements for objects which do not support the context manager or asynchronous context manager protocols correspondingly.bpo-44297: Make sure that the line number is set when entering a comprehension scope. This ensures that backtraces including generator expressions show the correct line number.
bpo-44456: Improve the syntax error when mixing positional and keyword patterns. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-44409: Fix error location information for tokenizer errors raised on initialization of the tokenizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-44396: Fix a possible crash in the tokenizer when raising syntax errors for unclosed strings. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-44376: Exact integer exponentiation (like
i**2
orpow(i, 2)
) with a small exponent is much faster, due to reducing overhead in such cases.bpo-44313: Directly imported objects and modules (through import and from import statements) don’t generate
LOAD_METHOD
/CALL_METHOD
for directly accessed objects on their namespace. They now use the regularLOAD_ATTR
/CALL_FUNCTION
.bpo-44338: Implement adaptive specialization for LOAD_GLOBAL
Two specialized forms of LOAD_GLOBAL are added:
LOAD_GLOBAL_MODULE
LOAD_GLOBAL_BUILTIN
bpo-44368: Improve syntax errors for invalid “as” targets. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-44349: Fix an edge case when displaying text from files with encoding in syntax errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-44337: Initial implementation of adaptive specialization of LOAD_ATTR
Four specialized forms of LOAD_ATTR are added:
LOAD_ATTR_SLOT
LOAD_ATTR_SPLIT_KEYS
LOAD_ATTR_WITH_HINT
LOAD_ATTR_MODULE
bpo-44335: Fix a regression when identifying incorrect characters in syntax errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-43693: Computation of the offsets of cell variables is done in the compiler instead of at runtime. This reduces the overhead of handling cell and free variables, especially in the case where a variable is both an argument and cell variable.
bpo-44317: Improve tokenizer error with improved locations. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-44304: Fix a crash in the
sqlite3
module that happened when the garbage collector clearssqlite.Statement
objects. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-44305: Improve error message for
try
blocks withoutexcept
orfinally
blocks. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-43413: Constructors of subclasses of some builtin classes (e.g.
tuple
,list
,frozenset
) no longer accept arbitrary keyword arguments. [reverted in 3.11a4] Subclass ofset
can now define a__new__()
method with additional keyword parameters without overriding also__init__()
.bpo-43667: Improve Unicode support in non-UTF locales on Oracle Solaris. This issue does not affect other Solaris systems.
bpo-43693: A new opcode MAKE_CELL has been added that effectively moves some of the work done on function entry into the compiler and into the eval loop. In addition to creating the required cell objects, the new opcode converts relevant arguments (and other locals) to cell variables on function entry.
bpo-44232: Fix a regression in
type()
when a metaclass raises an exception. The C functiontype_new()
must properly report the exception when a metaclass constructor raises an exception and the winner class is not the metaclass. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44201: Avoid side effects of checking for specialized syntax errors in the REPL that was causing it to ask for extra tokens after a syntax error had been detected. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-43693:
PyCodeObject
gainedco_fastlocalnames
andco_fastlocalkinds
as the authoritative source of fast locals info. Marshaled code objects have changed accordingly.bpo-44184: Fix a crash at Python exit when a deallocator function removes the last strong reference to a heap type. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-44187: Implement quickening in the interpreter. This offers no advantages as yet, but is an enabler of future optimizations. See PEP 659 for full explanation.
bpo-44180: The parser doesn’t report generic syntax errors that happen in a position further away that the one it reached in the first pass. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-44168: Fix error message in the parser involving keyword arguments with invalid expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-44156: String caches in
compile.c
are now subinterpreter compatible.bpo-44143: Fixed a crash in the parser that manifest when raising tokenizer errors when an existing exception was present. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-44032: Move ‘fast’ locals and other variables from the frame object to a per-thread datastack.
bpo-44114: Fix incorrect dictkeys_reversed and dictitems_reversed function signatures in C code, which broke webassembly builds.
bpo-44110: Improve
str.__getitem__()
error messagebpo-26110: Add
CALL_METHOD_KW
opcode to speed up method calls with keyword arguments. Idea originated from PyPy. A side effect is executingCALL_METHOD
is now branchless in the evaluation loop.bpo-28307: Compiler now optimizes simple C-style formatting with literal format containing only format codes %s, %r and %a by converting them to f-string expressions.
bpo-43149: Correct the syntax error message regarding multiple exception types to not refer to “exception groups”. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-43822: The parser will prioritize tokenizer errors over custom syntax errors when raising exceptions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-40222: “Zero cost” exception handling.
Uses a lookup table to determine how to handle exceptions.
Removes SETUP_FINALLY and POP_TOP block instructions, eliminating the runtime overhead of try statements.
Reduces the size of the frame object by about 60%.
Patch by Mark Shannon
bpo-43918: Document the signature and
default
argument in the docstring of the newanext
builtin.bpo-43833: Emit a deprecation warning if the numeric literal is immediately followed by one of keywords: and, else, for, if, in, is, or. Raise a syntax error with more informative message if it is immediately followed by other keyword or identifier.
bpo-43879: Add native_thread_id to PyThreadState. Patch by Gabriele N. Tornetta.
bpo-43693: Compute cell offsets relative to locals in compiler. Allows the interpreter to treats locals and cells a single array, which is slightly more efficient. Also make the LOAD_CLOSURE opcode an alias for LOAD_FAST. Preserving LOAD_CLOSURE helps keep bytecode a bit more readable.
bpo-17792: More accurate error messages for access of unbound locals or free vars.
bpo-28146: Fix a confusing error message in
str.format()
.bpo-11105: When compiling
ast.AST
objects with recursive references throughcompile()
, the interpreter doesn’t crash anymore instead it raises aRecursionError
.bpo-39091: Fix crash when using passing a non-exception to a generator’s
throw()
method. Patch by Noah Oxerbpo-33346: Asynchronous comprehensions are now allowed inside comprehensions in asynchronous functions. Outer comprehensions implicitly become asynchronous.
Library¶
bpo-45371: Fix clang rpath issue in
distutils
. The UnixCCompiler now uses correct clang option to add a runtime library directory (rpath) to a shared library.bpo-45329: Fix freed memory access in
pyexpat.xmlparser
when building it with an installed expat library <= 2.2.0.bpo-41710: On Unix, if the
sem_clockwait()
function is available in the C library (glibc 2.30 and newer), thethreading.Lock.acquire()
method now uses the monotonic clock (time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC
) for the timeout, rather than using the system clock (time.CLOCK_REALTIME
), to not be affected by system clock changes. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-1596321: Fix the
threading._shutdown()
function when thethreading
module was imported first from a thread different than the main thread: no longer log an error at Python exit.bpo-45274: Fix a race condition in the
Thread.join()
method of thethreading
module. If the function is interrupted by a signal and the signal handler raises an exception, make sure that the thread remains in a consistent state to prevent a deadlock. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-21302: In Unix operating systems,
time.sleep()
now uses thenanosleep()
function, ifclock_nanosleep()
is not available butnanosleep()
is available.nanosleep()
allows to sleep with nanosecond precision.bpo-21302: On Windows,
time.sleep()
now uses a waitable timer which has a resolution of 100 nanoseconds (10-7 seconds). Previously, it had a resolution of 1 millisecond (10-3 seconds). Patch by Benjamin Szőke and Victor Stinner.bpo-45238: Fix
unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase.debug()
: it runs now asynchronous methods and callbacks.bpo-36674:
unittest.TestCase.debug()
raises now aunittest.SkipTest
if the class or the test method are decorated with the skipping decorator.bpo-45235: Fix an issue where argparse would not preserve values in a provided namespace when using a subparser with defaults.
bpo-45183: Have zipimport.zipimporter.find_spec() not raise an exception when the underlying zip file has been deleted and the internal cache has been reset via invalidate_cache().
bpo-45234: Fixed a regression in
copyfile()
,copy()
,copy2()
raisingFileNotFoundError
when source is a directory, which should raiseIsADirectoryError
bpo-45228: Fix stack buffer overflow in parsing J1939 network address.
bpo-45225: use map function instead of genexpr in capwords.
bpo-42135: Fix typo:
importlib.find_loader
is really slated for removal in Python 3.12 not 3.10, like the others in PR 25169.Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
bpo-20524: Improves error messages on
.format()
operation forstr
,float
,int
, andcomplex
. New format now shows the problematic pattern and the object type.bpo-45168: Change
dis.dis()
output to omit op arg values that cannot be resolved due toco_consts
,co_names
etc not being provided. Previously the oparg itself was repeated in the value field, which is not useful and can be confusing.bpo-21302: In Unix operating systems,
time.sleep()
now uses theclock_nanosleep()
function, if available, which allows to sleep for an interval specified with nanosecond precision.bpo-45173: Remove from the
configparser
module: theSafeConfigParser
class, thefilename
property of theParsingError
class, thereadfp()
method of theConfigParser
class, deprecated since Python 3.2.Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
bpo-44987: Pure ASCII strings are now normalized in constant time by
unicodedata.normalize()
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-35474: Calling
mimetypes.guess_all_extensions()
withstrict=False
no longer affects the result of the following call withstrict=True
. Also, mutating the returned list no longer affects the global state.bpo-45166:
typing.get_type_hints()
now works withFinal
wrapped inForwardRef
.bpo-45162: Remove many old deprecated
unittest
features:“
fail*
” and “assert*
” aliases ofTestCase
methods.Broken from start
TestCase
methodassertDictContainsSubset()
.Ignored
<unittest.TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule> TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule()
parameter use_load_tests.Old alias
_TextTestResult
ofTextTestResult
.
bpo-38371: Remove the deprecated
split()
method of_tkinter.TkappType
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-20499: Improve the speed and accuracy of statistics.pvariance().
bpo-45132: Remove
__getitem__()
methods ofxml.dom.pulldom.DOMEventStream
,wsgiref.util.FileWrapper
andfileinput.FileInput
, deprecated since Python 3.9.Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
bpo-45129: Due to significant security concerns, the reuse_address parameter of
asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint()
, disabled in Python 3.9, is now entirely removed. This is because of the behavior of the socket optionSO_REUSEADDR
in UDP.Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
bpo-45124: The
bdist_msi
command, deprecated in Python 3.9, is now removed.Use
bdist_wheel
(wheel packages) instead.Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
bpo-30856:
unittest.TestResult
methodsaddFailure()
,addError()
,addSkip()
andaddSubTest()
are now called immediately after raising an exception in test or finishing a subtest. Previously they were called only after finishing the test clean up.bpo-45034: Changes how error is formatted for
struct.pack
with'H'
and'h'
modes and too large / small numbers. Now it shows the actual numeric limits, while previously it was showing arithmetic expressions.bpo-25894:
unittest
now always reports skipped and failed subtests separately: separate characters in default mode and separate lines in verbose mode. Also the test description is now output for errors in test method, class and module cleanups.bpo-45081: Fix issue when dataclasses that inherit from
typing.Protocol
subclasses have wrong__init__
. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-45085: The
binhex
module, deprecated in Python 3.9, is now removed. The followingbinascii
functions, deprecated in Python 3.9, are now also removed:a2b_hqx()
,b2a_hqx()
;rlecode_hqx()
,rledecode_hqx()
.
The
binascii.crc_hqx()
function remains available.Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-40360: The
lib2to3
package is now deprecated and may not be able to parse Python 3.10 or newer. See the PEP 617 (New PEG parser for CPython). Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45075: Rename
traceback.StackSummary.format_frame()
totraceback.StackSummary.format_frame_summary()
. This method was added for 3.11 so it was not released yet.Updated code and docs to better distinguish frame and FrameSummary.
bpo-31299: Add option to completely drop frames from a traceback by returning
None
from aformat_frame()
override.bpo-41620:
run()
now always return aTestResult
instance. Previously it returnedNone
if the test class or method was decorated with a skipping decorator.bpo-45021: Fix a potential deadlock at shutdown of forked children when using
concurrent.futures
modulebpo-43913: Fix bugs in cleaning up classes and modules in
unittest
:Functions registered with
addModuleCleanup()
were not called unless the user definestearDownModule()
in their test module.Functions registered with
addClassCleanup()
were not called iftearDownClass
is set toNone
.Buffering in
TestResult
did not work with functions registered withaddClassCleanup()
andaddModuleCleanup()
.Errors in functions registered with
addClassCleanup()
andaddModuleCleanup()
were not handled correctly in buffered and debug modes.Errors in
setUpModule()
and functions registered withaddModuleCleanup()
were reported in wrong order.And several lesser bugs.
bpo-45030: Fix integer overflow in pickling and copying the range iterator.
bpo-45001: Made email date parsing more robust against malformed input, namely a whitespace-only
Date:
header. Patch by Wouter Bolsterlee.bpo-45010: Remove support of special method
__div__
inunittest.mock
. It is not used in Python 3.bpo-39218: Improve accuracy of variance calculations by using
x*x
instead ofx**2
.bpo-43613: Improve the speed of
gzip.compress()
andgzip.decompress()
by compressing and decompressing at once in memory instead of in a streamed fashion.bpo-37596: Ensure that
set
andfrozenset
objects are alwaysmarshalled
reproducibly.bpo-44019: A new function
operator.call
has been added, such thatoperator.call(obj, *args, **kwargs) == obj(*args, **kwargs)
.bpo-42255:
webbrowser.MacOSX
is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.13. It is untested and undocumented and also not used bywebbrowser
itself. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-44955: Method
stopTestRun()
is now always called in pair with methodstartTestRun()
forTestResult
objects implicitly created inrun()
. Previously it was not called for test methods and classes decorated with a skipping decorator.bpo-39039: tarfile.open raises
ReadError
when a zlib error occurs during file extraction.bpo-44935:
subprocess
on Solaris now also usesos.posix_spawn()
for better performance.bpo-44911:
IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
will no longer throw an exception while cancelling leaked tasks. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-41322: Added
DeprecationWarning
for tests and async tests that return a value!=None (as this may indicate an improperly written test, for example a test written as a generator function).bpo-44524: Make exception message more useful when subclass from typing special form alias. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.
bpo-38956:
argparse.BooleanOptionalAction
’s default value is no longer printed twice when used withargparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
.bpo-44860: Fix the
posix_user
scheme insysconfig
to not depend onsys.platlibdir
.bpo-44859: Improve error handling in
sqlite3
and raise more accurate exceptions.MemoryError
is now raised instead ofsqlite3.Warning
when memory is not enough for encoding a statement to UTF-8 inConnection.__call__()
andCursor.execute()
.UnicodEncodeError
is now raised instead ofsqlite3.Warning
when the statement contains surrogate characters inConnection.__call__()
andCursor.execute()
.TypeError
is now raised instead ofValueError
for non-string script argument inCursor.executescript()
.ValueError
is now raised for script containing the null character instead of truncating it inCursor.executescript()
.Correctly handle exceptions raised when getting boolean value of the result of the progress handler.
Add many tests covering different corner cases.
bpo-44581: Upgrade bundled pip to 21.2.3 and setuptools to 57.4.0
bpo-44849: Fix the
os.set_inheritable()
function on FreeBSD 14 for file descriptor opened with theO_PATH
flag: ignore theEBADF
error onioctl()
, fallback on thefcntl()
implementation. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44605: The @functools.total_ordering() decorator now works with metaclasses.
bpo-44524: Fixed an issue wherein the
__name__
and__qualname__
attributes of subscribed specialforms could beNone
.bpo-44839:
MemoryError
raised in user-defined functions will now produce aMemoryError
insqlite3
.OverflowError
will now be converted toDataError
. PreviouslyOperationalError
was produced in these cases.bpo-44822:
sqlite3
user-defined functions and aggregators returningstrings
with embedded NUL characters are no longer truncated. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-44801: Ensure that the
ParamSpec
variable in Callable can only be substituted with a parameters expression (a list of types, an ellipsis, ParamSpec or Concatenate).bpo-44806: Non-protocol subclasses of
typing.Protocol
ignore now the__init__
method inherited from protocol base classes.bpo-27275:
collections.OrderedDict.popitem()
andcollections.OrderedDict.pop()
no longer call__getitem__
and__delitem__
methods of the OrderedDict subclasses.bpo-44793: Fix checking the number of arguments when subscribe a generic type with
ParamSpec
parameter.bpo-44784: In importlib.metadata tests, override warnings behavior under expected DeprecationWarnings (importlib_metadata 4.6.3).
bpo-44667: The
tokenize.tokenize()
doesn’t incorrectly generate aNEWLINE
token if the source doesn’t end with a new line character but the last line is a comment, as the function is already generating aNL
token. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-44771: Added
importlib.simple
module implementing adapters from a low-level resources reader interface to aTraversableResources
interface. Legacy API (path
,contents
, …) is now supported entirely by the.files()
API with a compatibility shim supplied for resource loaders without that functionality. Feature parity withimportlib_resources
5.2.bpo-44752:
rcompleter
does not callgetattr()
onproperty
objects to avoid the side-effect of evaluating the corresponding method.bpo-44747: Refactor usage of
sys._getframe
intyping
module. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-42378: Fixes the issue with log file being overwritten when
logging.FileHandler
is used inatexit
with filemode set to'w'
. Note this will cause the message in atexit not being logged if the log stream is already closed due to shutdown of logging.bpo-44720:
weakref.proxy
objects referencing non-iterators now raiseTypeError
rather than dereferencing the nulltp_iternext
slot and crashing.bpo-44704: The implementation of
collections.abc.Set._hash()
now matches that offrozenset.__hash__()
.bpo-44666: Fixed issue in
compileall.compile_file()
whensys.stdout
is redirected. Patch by Stefan Hölzl.bpo-44688:
sqlite3.Connection.create_collation()
now accepts non-ASCII collation names. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-44690: Adopt binacii.a2b_base64’s strict mode in base64.b64decode.
bpo-42854: Fixed a bug in the
_ssl
module that was throwingOverflowError
when using_ssl._SSLSocket.write()
and_ssl._SSLSocket.read()
for a big value of thelen
parameter. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-44686: Replace
unittest.mock._importer
withpkgutil.resolve_name
.bpo-44353: Make
NewType.__call__
faster by implementing it in C. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-44682: Change the
pdb
commands directive to disallow setting commands for an invalid breakpoint and to display an appropriate error.bpo-44353: Refactor
typing.NewType
from function into callable class. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-44678: Added a separate error message for discontinuous padding in binascii.a2b_base64 strict mode.
bpo-44524: Add missing
__name__
and__qualname__
attributes totyping
module classes. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-40897: Give priority to using the current class constructor in
inspect.signature()
. Patch by Weipeng Hong.bpo-44638: Add a reference to the zipp project and hint as to how to use it.
bpo-44648: Fixed wrong error being thrown by
inspect.getsource()
when examining a class in the interactive session. Instead ofTypeError
, it should beOSError
with appropriate error message.bpo-44608: Fix memory leak in
_tkinter._flatten()
if it is called with a sequence or set, but not list or tuple.bpo-44594: Fix an edge case of
ExitStack
andAsyncExitStack
exception chaining. They will now matchwith
block behavior when__context__
is explicitly set toNone
when the exception is in flight.bpo-42799: In
fnmatch
, the cache size for compiled regex patterns (functools.lru_cache()
) was bumped up from 256 to 32768, affecting functions:fnmatch.fnmatch()
,fnmatch.fnmatchcase()
,fnmatch.filter()
.bpo-41928: Update
shutil.copyfile()
to raiseFileNotFoundError
instead of confusingIsADirectoryError
when a path ending with aos.path.sep
does not exist;shutil.copy()
andshutil.copy2()
are also affected.bpo-44569: Added the
StackSummary.format_frame()
function intraceback
. This allows users to customize the way individual lines are formatted in tracebacks without re-implementing logic to handle recursive tracebacks.bpo-44566: handle StopIteration subclass raised from @contextlib.contextmanager generator
bpo-44558: Make the implementation consistency of
indexOf()
between C and Python versions. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-41249: Fixes
TypedDict
to work withtyping.get_type_hints()
and postponed evaluation of annotations across modules.bpo-44554: Refactor argument processing in
pdb.main()
to simplify detection of errors in input loading and clarify behavior around module or script invocation.bpo-34798: Break up paragraph about
pprint.PrettyPrinter
construction parameters to make it easier to read.bpo-44539: Added support for recognizing JPEG files without JFIF or Exif markers.
bpo-44461: Fix bug with
pdb
’s handling of import error due to a package which does not have a__main__
modulebpo-43625: Fix a bug in the detection of CSV file headers by
csv.Sniffer.has_header()
and improve documentation of same.bpo-44516: Update vendored pip to 21.1.3
bpo-42892: Fixed an exception thrown while parsing a malformed multipart email by
email.message.EmailMessage
.bpo-44468:
typing.get_type_hints()
now finds annotations in classes and base classes with unexpected__module__
. Previously, it skipped those MRO elements.bpo-44491: Allow clearing the
sqlite3
authorizer callback by passingNone
toset_authorizer()
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43977: Set the proper
Py_TPFLAGS_MAPPING
andPy_TPFLAGS_SEQUENCE
flags for subclasses created before a parent has been registered as acollections.abc.Mapping
orcollections.abc.Sequence
.bpo-44482: Fix very unlikely resource leak in
glob
in alternate Python implementations.bpo-44466: The
faulthandler
module now detects if a fatal error occurs during a garbage collector collection. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44471: A
TypeError
is now raised instead of anAttributeError
incontextlib.ExitStack.enter_context()
andcontextlib.AsyncExitStack.enter_async_context()
for objects which do not support the context manager or asynchronous context manager protocols correspondingly.bpo-44404:
tkinter
’safter()
method now supports callables without the__name__
attribute.bpo-41546: Make
pprint
(like the builtinprint
) not attempt to write tostdout
when it isNone
.bpo-44458:
BUFFER_BLOCK_SIZE
is now declared static, to avoid linking collisions when bz2, lmza or zlib are statically linked.bpo-44464: Remove exception for flake8 in deprecated importlib.metadata interfaces. Sync with importlib_metadata 4.6.
bpo-44446: Take into account that
lineno
might beNone
intraceback.FrameSummary
.bpo-44439: Fix in
bz2.BZ2File.write()
/lzma.LZMAFile.write()
methods, when the input data is an object that supports the buffer protocol, the file length may be wrong.bpo-44434: _thread.start_new_thread() no longer calls PyThread_exit_thread() explicitly at the thread exit, the call was redundant. On Linux with the glibc, pthread_exit() aborts the whole process if dlopen() fails to open libgcc_s.so file (ex: EMFILE error). Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-42972: The _thread.RLock type now fully implement the GC protocol: add a traverse function and the
Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC
flag. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44422: The
threading.enumerate()
function now uses a reentrant lock to prevent a hang on reentrant call. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-38291: Importing typing.io or typing.re now prints a
DeprecationWarning
.bpo-37880: argparse actions store_const and append_const each receive a default value of
None
when theconst
kwarg is not provided. Previously, this raised aTypeError
.bpo-44389: Fix deprecation of
ssl.OP_NO_TLSv1_3
bpo-27827:
pathlib.PureWindowsPath.is_reserved()
now identifies a greater range of reserved filenames, including those with trailing spaces or colons.bpo-44395: Fix
as_string()
to pass unixfrom properly. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-34266: Handle exceptions from parsing the arg of
pdb
’s run/restart command.bpo-44362: Improve
ssl
module’s deprecation messages, error reporting, and documentation for deprecations.bpo-44342: [Enum] Change pickling from by-value to by-name.
bpo-44356: [Enum] Allow multiple data-type mixins if they are all the same.
bpo-44351: Restore back
parse_makefile()
indistutils.sysconfig
because it behaves differently than the similar implementation insysconfig
.bpo-35800:
smtpd.MailmanProxy
is now removed as it is unusable without an external module,mailman
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-44357: Added a function that returns cube root of the given number
math.cbrt()
bpo-44339: Change
math.pow(±0.0, -math.inf)
to returninf
instead of raisingValueError
. This brings the special-case handling ofmath.pow
into compliance with the IEEE 754 standard.bpo-44242: Remove missing flag check from Enum creation and move into a
verify
decorator.bpo-44246: In
importlib.metadata
, restore compatibility in the result fromDistribution.entry_points
(EntryPoints
) to honor expectations in older implementations and issuing deprecation warnings for these cases: A.EntryPoints
objects are once again mutable, allowing forsort()
and other list-based mutation operations. Avoid deprecation warnings by casting to a mutable sequence (e.g.list(dist.entry_points).sort()
). B.EntryPoints
results once again allow for access by index. To avoid deprecation warnings, cast the result to a Sequence first (e.g.tuple(dist.entry_points)[0]
).bpo-44246: In importlib.metadata.entry_points, de-duplication of distributions no longer requires loading the full metadata for PathDistribution objects, improving entry point loading performance by ~10x.
bpo-43858: Added a function that returns a copy of a dict of logging levels:
logging.getLevelNamesMapping()
bpo-44260: The
random.Random
constructor no longer reads system entropy without need.bpo-44254: On Mac, give turtledemo button text a color that works on both light or dark background. Programmers cannot control the latter.
bpo-44258: Support PEP 515 for Fraction’s initialization from string.
bpo-44235: Remove deprecated functions in the
gettext
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-38693: Prefer f-strings to
.format
in importlib.resources.bpo-33693: Importlib.metadata now prefers f-strings to .format.
bpo-44241: Incorporate minor tweaks from importlib_metadata 4.1: SimplePath protocol, support for Metadata 2.2.
bpo-43216: Remove the
@asyncio.coroutine
decorator enabling legacy generator-based coroutines to be compatible with async/await code; removeasyncio.coroutines.CoroWrapper
used for wrapping legacy coroutine objects in the debug mode. The decorator has been deprecated since Python 3.8 and the removal was initially scheduled for Python 3.10. Patch by Illia Volochii.bpo-44210: Make importlib.metadata._meta.PackageMetadata public.
bpo-43643: Declare readers.MultiplexedPath.name as a property per the spec.
bpo-27334: The
sqlite3
context manager now performs a rollback (thus releasing the database lock) if commit failed. Patch by Luca Citi and Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-4928: Documented existing behavior on POSIX: NamedTemporaryFiles are not deleted when creating process is killed with SIGKILL
bpo-44154: Optimize
fractions.Fraction
pickling for large components.bpo-33433: For IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses (RFC 4291 Section 2.5.5.2), the
ipaddress.IPv6Address.is_private
check is deferred to the mapped IPv4 address. This solves a bug where public mapped IPv4 addresses were considered private by the IPv6 check.bpo-44150: Add optional weights argument to statistics.fmean().
bpo-44142:
ast.unparse()
will now drop the redundant parentheses when tuples used as assignment targets (e.g in for loops).bpo-44145:
hmac
computations were not releasing the GIL while calling the OpenSSLHMAC_Update
C API (a new feature in 3.9). This unintentionally prevented parallel computation as otherhashlib
algorithms support.bpo-44095:
zipfile.Path
now supportszipfile.Path.stem
,zipfile.Path.suffixes
, andzipfile.Path.suffix
attributes.bpo-44077: It’s now possible to receive the type of service (ToS), a.k.a. differentiated services (DS), a.k.a. differentiated services code point (DSCP) and explicit congestion notification (ECN) IP header fields with
socket.IP_RECVTOS
.bpo-37788: Fix a reference leak when a Thread object is never joined.
bpo-38908: Subclasses of
typing.Protocol
which only have data variables declared will now raise aTypeError
when checked withisinstance
unless they are decorated withruntime_checkable()
. Previously, these checks passed silently. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-44098:
typing.ParamSpec
will no longer be found in the__parameters__
of mosttyping
generics except in valid use locations specified by PEP 612. This prevents incorrect usage liketyping.List[P][int]
. This change means incorrect usage which may have passed silently in 3.10 beta 1 and earlier will now error.bpo-44089: Allow subclassing
csv.Error
in 3.10 (it was allowed in 3.9 and earlier but was disallowed in early versions of 3.10).bpo-44081:
ast.unparse()
now doesn’t use redundant spaces to separatelambda
and the:
if there are no parameters.bpo-44061: Fix regression in previous release when calling
pkgutil.iter_modules()
with a list ofpathlib.Path
objectsbpo-44059: Register the SerenityOS Browser in the
webbrowser
module.bpo-36515: The
hashlib
module no longer does unaligned memory accesses when compiled for ARM platforms.bpo-40465: Remove random module features deprecated in Python 3.9.
bpo-44018: random.seed() no longer mutates bytearray inputs.
bpo-38352: Add
IO
,BinaryIO
,TextIO
,Match
, andPattern
totyping.__all__
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-44002:
urllib.parse
now usesfunctool.lru_cache()
for its internal URL splitting and quoting caches instead of rolling its own like its the ‘90s.The undocumented internal
urllib.parse
Quoted
class API is now deprecated, for removal in 3.14.bpo-43972: When
http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
sends a301 (Moved Permanently)
for a directory path not ending with/
, add aContent-Length: 0
header. This improves the behavior for certain clients.bpo-28528: Fix a bug in
pdb
wherecheckline()
raisesAttributeError
if it is called afterreset()
.bpo-43853: Improved string handling for
sqlite3
user-defined functions and aggregates:It is now possible to pass strings with embedded null characters to UDFs
Conversion failures now correctly raise
MemoryError
Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
bpo-43666: AIX:
Lib/_aix_support.get_platform()
may fail in an AIX WPAR. The fileset bos.rte appears to have a builddate in both LPAR and WPAR so this fileset is queried rather than bos.mp64. To prevent a similar situation (no builddate in ODM) a value (9988) sufficient for completing a build is provided. Patch by M Felt.bpo-43650: Fix
MemoryError
inshutil.unpack_archive()
which fails insideshutil._unpack_zipfile()
on large files. Patch by Igor Bolshakov.bpo-43612:
zlib.compress()
now accepts a wbits parameter which allows users to compress data as a raw deflate block without zlib headers and trailers in one go. Previously this required instantiating azlib.compressobj
. It also provides a faster alternative togzip.compress
when wbits=31 is used.bpo-43392:
importlib._bootstrap._find_and_load()
now implements a two-step check to avoid locking when modules have been already imported and are ready. This improves performance of repeated calls toimportlib.import_module()
andimportlib.__import__()
.bpo-43318: Fix a bug where
pdb
does not always echo cleared breakpoints.bpo-43234: Prohibit passing non-
concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor
executors toloop.set_default_executor()
following a deprecation in Python 3.8. Patch by Illia Volochii.bpo-43232: Prohibit previously deprecated potentially disruptive operations on
asyncio.trsock.TransportSocket
. Patch by Illia Volochii.bpo-30077: Added support for Apple’s aifc/sowt pseudo-compression
bpo-42971: Add definition of
errno.EQFULL
for platforms that define this constant (such as macOS).bpo-43086: Added a new optional
strict_mode
parameter to binascii.a2b_base64. Whenscrict_mode
is set toTrue
, the a2b_base64 function will accept only valid base64 content. More details about what “valid base64 content” is, can be found in the function’s documentation.bpo-43024: Improve the help signature of
traceback.print_exception()
,traceback.format_exception()
andtraceback.format_exception_only()
.bpo-33809: Add the
traceback.TracebackException.print()
method which prints the formatted exception information.bpo-42862:
sqlite3
now utilizesfunctools.lru_cache()
to implement the connection statement cache. As a small optimisation, the default statement cache size has been increased from 100 to 128. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-41818: Soumendra Ganguly: add termios.tcgetwinsize(), termios.tcsetwinsize().
bpo-40497:
subprocess.check_output()
now raisesValueError
when the invalid keyword argument check is passed by user code. Previously such use would fail later with aTypeError
. Patch by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-37449:
ensurepip
now usesimportlib.resources.files()
traversable APIsbpo-40956: Use Argument Clinic in
sqlite3
. Patches by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-41730:
DeprecationWarning
is now raised when importingtkinter.tix
, which has been deprecated in documentation since Python 3.6.bpo-20684: Remove unused
_signature_get_bound_param
function frominspect
- by Anthony Sottile.bpo-41402: Fix
email.message.EmailMessage.set_content()
when called with binary data and7bit
content transfer encoding.bpo-32695: The compresslevel and preset keyword arguments of
tarfile.open()
are now both documented and tested.bpo-41137: Use utf-8 encoding while reading .pdbrc files. Patch by Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy
bpo-24391: Improved reprs of
threading
synchronization objects:Semaphore
,BoundedSemaphore
,Event
andBarrier
.bpo-5846: Deprecated the following
unittest
functions, scheduled for removal in Python 3.13:findTestCases()
makeSuite()
getTestCaseNames()
Use
TestLoader
methods instead:Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
bpo-40563: Support pathlike objects on dbm/shelve. Patch by Hakan Çelik and Henry-Joseph Audéoud.
bpo-34990: Fixed a Y2k38 bug in the compileall module where it would fail to compile files with a modification time after the year 2038.
bpo-39549: Whereas the code for reprlib.Repr had previously used a hardcoded string value of ‘…’, this PR updates it to use of a “fillvalue” attribute, whose value defaults to ‘…’ and can be reset in either individual reprlib.Repr instances or in subclasses thereof.
bpo-37022:
pdb
now displays exceptions fromrepr()
with itsp
andpp
commands.bpo-38840: Fix
test___all__
on platforms lacking a shared memory implementation.bpo-39359: Add one missing check that the password is a bytes object for an encrypted zipfile.
bpo-38741:
configparser
: using ‘]’ inside a section header will no longer cut the section name short at the ‘]’bpo-38415: Added missing behavior to
contextlib.asynccontextmanager()
to matchcontextlib.contextmanager()
so decorated functions can themselves be decorators.bpo-30256: Pass multiprocessing BaseProxy argument
manager_owned
through AutoProxy.bpo-27513:
email.utils.getaddresses()
now acceptsemail.header.Header
objects along with string values. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-16379: Add SQLite error code and name to
sqlite3
exceptions. Patch by Aviv Palivoda, Daniel Shahaf, and Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-26228: pty.spawn no longer hangs on FreeBSD, macOS, and Solaris.
bpo-33349: lib2to3 now recognizes async generators everywhere.
bpo-29298: Fix
TypeError
when required subparsers withoutdest
do not receive arguments. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
Documentation¶
bpo-45216: Remove extra documentation listing methods in
difflib
. It was rendering twice in pydoc and was outdated in some places.bpo-45024:
collections.abc
documentation has been expanded to explicitly cover how instance and subclass checks work, with additional doctest examples and an exhaustive list of ABCs which test membership purely by presence of the right special methods. Patch by Raymond Hettinger.bpo-44957: Promote PEP 604 union syntax by using it where possible. Also, mention
X | Y
more prominently in section aboutUnion
and mentionX | None
at all in section aboutOptional
.bpo-16580: Added code equivalents for the
int.to_bytes()
andint.from_bytes()
methods, as well as tests ensuring that these code equivalents are valid.bpo-44903: Removed the
othergui.rst
file, any references to it, and the list of GUI frameworks in the FAQ. In their place I’ve added links to the Python Wiki page on GUI frameworks.bpo-33479: Tkinter documentation has been greatly expanded with new “Architecture” and “Threading model” sections.
bpo-36700:
base64
RFC references were updated to point to RFC 4648; a section was added to point users to the new “security considerations” section of the RFC.bpo-44740: Replaced occurrences of uppercase “Web” and “Internet” with lowercase versions per the 2016 revised Associated Press Style Book.
bpo-44693: Update the definition of __future__ in the glossary by replacing the confusing word “pseudo-module” with a more accurate description.
bpo-35183: Add typical examples to os.path.splitext docs
bpo-30511: Clarify that
shutil.make_archive()
is not thread-safe due to reliance on changing the current working directory.bpo-44561: Update of three expired hyperlinks in Doc/distributing/index.rst: “Project structure”, “Building and packaging the project”, and “Uploading the project to the Python Packaging Index”.
bpo-44651: Delete entry “coercion” in Doc/glossary.rst for its outdated definition.
bpo-42958: Updated the docstring and docs of
filecmp.cmp()
to be more accurate and less confusing especially in respect to shallow arg.bpo-44631: Refactored the
repr()
code of the_Environ
(os module).bpo-44613: importlib.metadata is no longer provisional.
bpo-44558: Match the docstring and python implementation of
countOf()
to the behavior of its c implementation.bpo-44544: List all kwargs for
textwrap.wrap()
,textwrap.fill()
, andtextwrap.shorten()
. Now, there are nav links to attributes ofTextWrap
, which makes navigation much easier while minimizing duplication in the documentation.bpo-38062: Clarify that atexit uses equality comparisons internally.
bpo-40620: Convert examples in tutorial controlflow.rst section 4.3 to be interpreter-demo style.
bpo-43066: Added a warning to
zipfile
docs: filename arg with a leading slash may cause archive to be un-openable on Windows systems.bpo-39452: Rewrote
Doc/library/__main__.rst
. Broadened scope of the document to explicitly discuss and differentiate between__main__.py
in packages versus the__name__ == '__main__'
expression (and the idioms that surround it).bpo-13814: In the Design FAQ, answer “Why don’t generators support the with statement?”
bpo-27752: Documentation of csv.Dialect is more descriptive.
bpo-44453: Fix documentation for the return type of
sysconfig.get_path()
.bpo-44392: Added a new section in the C API documentation for types used in type hinting. Documented
Py_GenericAlias
andPy_GenericAliasType
.bpo-38291: Mark
typing.io
andtyping.re
as deprecated since Python 3.8 in the documentation. They were never properly supported by type checkers.bpo-44322: Document that SyntaxError args have a details tuple and that details are adjusted for errors in f-string field replacement expressions.
bpo-42392: Document the deprecation and removal of the
loop
parameter for many functions and classes inasyncio
.bpo-44195: Corrected references to
TraversableResources
in docs. There is noTraversableReader
.bpo-41963: Document that
ConfigParser
strips off comments when reading configuration files.bpo-44072: Correct where in the numeric ABC hierarchy
**
support is added, i.e., in numbers.Complex, not numbers.Integral.bpo-43558: Add the remark to
dataclasses
documentation that the__init__()
of any base class has to be called in__post_init__()
, along with a code example.bpo-44025: Clarify when ‘_’ in match statements is a keyword, and when not.
bpo-41706: Fix docs about how methods like
__add__
are invoked when evaluating operator expressions.bpo-41621: Document that
collections.defaultdict
parameterdefault_factory
defaults toNone
and is positional-only.bpo-41576: document BaseException in favor of bare except
bpo-21760: The description for __file__ fixed. Patch by Furkan Onder
bpo-39498: Add a “Security Considerations” index which links to standard library modules that have explicitly documented security considerations.
bpo-33479: Remove the unqualified claim that tkinter is threadsafe. It has not been true for several years and likely never was. An explanation of what is true may be added later, after more discussion, and possibly after patching _tkinter.c,
Tests¶
bpo-40173: Fix
test.support.import_helper.import_fresh_module()
.bpo-45280: Add a test case for empty
typing.NamedTuple
.bpo-45269: Cover case when invalid
markers
type is supplied toc_make_encoder
.bpo-45128: Fix
test_multiprocessing_fork
failure due totest_logging
andsys.modules
manipulation.bpo-45209: Fix
UserWarning: resource_tracker
warning in_test_multiprocessing._TestSharedMemory.test_shared_memory_cleaned_after_process_termination
bpo-45185: Enables
TestEnumerations
test cases intest_ssl
suite.bpo-45195: Fix test_readline.test_nonascii(): sometimes, the newline character is not written at the end, so don’t expect it in the output. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-45156: Fixes infinite loop on
unittest.mock.seal()
of mocks created bycreate_autospec()
.bpo-45125: Improves pickling tests and docs of
SharedMemory
andSharableList
objects.bpo-44860: Update
test_sysconfig.test_user_similar()
for the posix_user scheme:platlib
doesn’t usesys.platlibdir
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45052:
WithProcessesTestSharedMemory.test_shared_memory_basics
test was ignored, becauseself.assertEqual(sms.size, sms2.size)
line was failing. It is now removed and test is unskipped.The main motivation for this line to be removed from the test is that the
size
ofSharedMemory
is not ever guaranteed to be the same. It is decided by the platform.bpo-44895: libregrtest now clears the type cache later to reduce the risk of false alarm when checking for reference leaks. Previously, the type cache was cleared too early and libregrtest raised a false alarm about reference leaks under very specific conditions. Patch by Irit Katriel and Victor Stinner.
bpo-45042: Fixes that test classes decorated with
@hashlib_helper.requires_hashdigest
were skipped all the time.bpo-25130: Add calls of
gc.collect()
in tests to support PyPy.bpo-45011: Made tests relying on the
_asyncio
C extension module optional to allow running on alternative Python implementations. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-44949: Fix auto history tests of test_readline: sometimes, the newline character is not written at the end, so don’t expect it in the output.
bpo-44891: Tests were added to clarify
id()
is preserved whenobj * 1
is used onstr
andbytes
objects. Patch by Nikita Sobolev.bpo-44852: Add ability to wholesale silence DeprecationWarnings while running the regression test suite.
bpo-40928: Notify users running test_decimal regression tests on macOS of potential harmless “malloc can’t allocate region” messages spewed by test_decimal.
bpo-44734: Fixed floating-point precision issue in turtle tests.
bpo-44708: Regression tests, when run with -w, are now re-running only the affected test methods instead of re-running the entire test file.
bpo-42095: Added interop tests for Apple plists: generate plist files with Python plistlib and parse with Apple plutil; and the other way round.
bpo-44647: Added a permanent Unicode-valued environment variable to regression tests to ensure they handle this use case in the future. If your test environment breaks because of that, report a bug to us, and temporarily set PYTHONREGRTEST_UNICODE_GUARD=0 in your test environment.
bpo-44515: Adjust recently added contextlib tests to avoid assuming the use of a refcounted GC
bpo-44287: Fix asyncio test_popen() of test_windows_utils by using a longer timeout. Use military grade battle-tested
test.support.SHORT_TIMEOUT
timeout rather than a hardcoded timeout of 10 seconds: it’s 30 seconds by default, but it is made longer on slow buildbots. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44451: Reset
DeprecationWarning
filters intest.test_importlib.test_metadata_api.APITests.test_entry_points_by_index
to avoidStopIteration
error ifDeprecationWarnings
are ignored.bpo-44363: Account for address sanitizer in test_capi. test_capi now passes when run GCC address sanitizer.
bpo-44364: Add non integral tests for
math.sqrt()
function.bpo-43921: Fix test_ssl.test_wrong_cert_tls13(): use
suppress_ragged_eofs=False
, sinceread()
can raisessl.SSLEOFError
on Windows. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43921: Fix test_pha_required_nocert() of test_ssl: catch two more EOF cases (when the
recv()
method returns an empty string). Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44131: Add test_frozenmain to test_embed to test the
Py_FrozenMain()
C function. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-31904: Ignore error string case in test_file_not_exists().
bpo-42083: Add test to check that
PyStructSequence_NewType
accepts aPyStructSequence_Desc
withdoc
field set toNULL
.bpo-35753: Fix crash in doctest when doctest parses modules that include unwrappable functions by skipping those functions.
bpo-30256: Add test for nested queues when using
multiprocessing
shared objectsAutoProxy[Queue]
insideListProxy
andDictProxy
Build¶
bpo-45220: Avoid building with the Windows 11 SDK previews automatically. This may be overridden by setting the
DefaultWindowsSDKVersion
environment variable before building.bpo-45020: Freeze stdlib modules that are imported during startup. This provides significant performance improvements to startup. If necessary, use the previously added “-X frozen_modules=off” commandline option to force importing the source modules.
bpo-45188: Windows builds now regenerate frozen modules as the first part of the build. Previously the regeneration was later in the build, which would require it to be restarted if any modules had changed.
bpo-45163: Fixes Haiku platform build.
bpo-45067: The ncurses function extended_color_content was introduced in 2017
(https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20170401). The
ncurses-devel package in CentOS 7 had a older version ncurses resulted in compilation error. For compiling ncurses with extended color support, we verify the version of the ncurses library >= 20170401.
bpo-45019: Generate lines in relevant files for frozen modules. Up until now each of the files had to be edited manually. This change makes it easier to add to and modify the frozen modules.
bpo-44340: Add support for building with clang thin lto via –with-lto=thin/full. Patch by Donghee Na and Brett Holman.
bpo-44535: Enable building using a Visual Studio 2022 install on Windows.
bpo-43298: Improved error message when building without a Windows SDK installed.
bpo-44381: The Windows build now accepts
EnableControlFlowGuard
set toguard
to enable CFG.bpo-41282: Fix broken
make install
that caused standard library extension modules to be unnecessarily and incorrectly rebuilt during the install phase of cpython.
Windows¶
bpo-45375: Fixes an assertion failure due to searching for the standard library in unnormalised paths.
bpo-45022: Update Windows release to include libffi 3.4.2
bpo-45007: Update to OpenSSL 1.1.1l in Windows build
bpo-44848: Upgrade Windows installer to use SQLite 3.36.0.
bpo-44572: Avoid consuming standard input in the
platform
modulebpo-44582: Accelerate speed of
mimetypes
initialization using a native implementation of the registry scan.bpo-41299: Fix 16 milliseconds jitter when using timeouts in
threading
, such as withthreading.Lock.acquire()
orthreading.Condition.wait()
.bpo-42686: Build
sqlite3
with math functions enabled. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-40263: This is a follow-on bug from https://bugs.python.org/issue26903. Once that is applied we run into an off-by-one assertion problem. The assert was not correct.
macOS¶
bpo-45007: Update macOS installer builds to use OpenSSL 1.1.1l.
bpo-34602: When building CPython on macOS with
./configure --with-undefined-behavior-sanitizer --with-pydebug
, the stack size is now quadrupled to allow for the entire test suite to pass.bpo-44848: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.36.0.
bpo-44689:
ctypes.util.find_library()
now works correctly on macOS 11 Big Sur even if Python is built on an older version of macOS. Previously, when built on older macOS systems,find_library
was not able to find macOS system libraries when running on Big Sur due to changes in how system libraries are stored.bpo-41972: The framework build’s user header path in sysconfig is changed to add a ‘pythonX.Y’ component to match distutils’s behavior.
bpo-43109: Allow –with-lto configure option to work with Apple-supplied Xcode or Command Line Tools.
bpo-34932: Add socket.TCP_KEEPALIVE support for macOS. Patch by Shane Harvey.
IDLE¶
bpo-45296: On Windows, change exit/quit message to suggest Ctrl-D, which works, instead of <Ctrl-Z Return>, which does not work in IDLE.
bpo-45193: Make completion boxes appear on Ubuntu again.
bpo-40128: Mostly fix completions on macOS when not using tcl/tk 8.6.11 (as with 3.9). The added update_idletask call should be harmless and possibly helpful otherwise.
bpo-33962: Move the indent space setting from the Font tab to the new Windows tab. Patch by Mark Roseman and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-40468: Split the settings dialog General tab into Windows and Shell/ED tabs. Move help sources, which extend the Help menu, to the Extensions tab. Make space for new options and shorten the dialog. The latter makes the dialog better fit small screens.
bpo-41611: Avoid uncaught exceptions in
AutoCompleteWindow.winconfig_event()
.bpo-41611: Fix IDLE sometimes freezing upon tab-completion on macOS.
bpo-44010: Highlight the new match statement’s soft keywords:
match
,case
, and_
. However, this highlighting is not perfect and will be incorrect in some rare cases, including some_
-s incase
patterns.bpo-44026: Include interpreter’s typo fix suggestions in message line for NameErrors and AttributeErrors. Patch by E. Paine.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-44786: Fix a warning in regular expression in the c-analyzer script.
bpo-44967: pydoc now returns a non-zero status code when a module cannot be found.
bpo-44978: Allow the Argument Clinic tool to handle
__complex__
special methods.bpo-43425: Removed the ‘test2to3’ demo project that demonstrated using lib2to3 to support Python 2.x and Python 3.x from a single source in a distutils package. Patch by Donghee Na
bpo-44074: Make patchcheck automatically detect the correct base branch name (previously it was hardcoded to ‘master’)
bpo-20291: Added support for variadic positional parameters in Argument Clinic.
C API¶
bpo-41710: The PyThread_acquire_lock_timed() function now clamps the timeout if it is too large, rather than aborting the process. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-44687:
BufferedReader.peek()
no longer raisesValueError
when the entire file has already been buffered.bpo-45116: Add the
Py_ALWAYS_INLINE
macro to ask the compiler to always inline a static inline function. The compiler can ignore it and decides to not inline the function. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45094: Add the
Py_NO_INLINE
macro to disable inlining on a function. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-45061: Add a deallocator to the
bool
type to detect refcount bugs in C extensions which callPy_DECREF(Py_True);
orPy_DECREF(Py_False);
by mistake. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42035: Add a new
PyType_GetQualName()
function to get type’s qualified name.bpo-41103: Reverts removal of the old buffer protocol because they are part of stable ABI.
bpo-44751: Remove
crypt.h
include from the publicPython.h
header.bpo-42747: The
Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
type flag now does nothing. ThePy_TPFLAGS_HAVE_AM_SEND
flag (which was added in 3.10) is removed. Both were unnecessary because it is not possible to have type objects with the relevant fields missing.bpo-44530: Added the
co_qualname
to thePyCodeObject
structure to propagate the qualified name from the compiler to code objects.Patch by Gabriele N. Tornetta
bpo-44441:
Py_RunMain()
now resetsPyImport_Inittab
to its initial value at exit. It must be possible to callPyImport_AppendInittab()
orPyImport_ExtendInittab()
at each Python initialization. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-39947: Remove 4 private trashcan C API functions which were only kept for the backward compatibility of the stable ABI with Python 3.8 and older, since the trashcan API was not usable with the limited C API on Python 3.8 and older. The trashcan API was excluded from the limited C API in Python 3.9.
Removed functions:
_PyTrash_deposit_object()
_PyTrash_destroy_chain()
_PyTrash_thread_deposit_object()
_PyTrash_thread_destroy_chain()
The trashcan C API was never usable with the limited C API, since old trashcan macros accessed directly
PyThreadState
members like_tstate->trash_delete_nesting
, whereas thePyThreadState
structure is opaque in the limited C API.Exclude also the
PyTrash_UNWIND_LEVEL
constant from the C API.Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-40939: Removed documentation for the removed
PyParser_*
C API.bpo-43795: The list in Conteúdo da API Limitada now shows the public name
PyFrameObject
rather than_frame
. The non-existing entry_node
no longer appears in the list.bpo-44378:
Py_IS_TYPE()
no longer usesPy_TYPE()
to avoid a compiler warning: no longer castconst PyObject*
toPyObject*
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-39573: Convert the
Py_TYPE()
andPy_SIZE()
macros to static inline functions. ThePy_SET_TYPE()
andPy_SET_SIZE()
functions must now be used to set an object type and size. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-44263: The
PyType_Ready()
function now raises an error if a type is defined with thePy_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC
flag set but has no traverse function (PyTypeObject.tp_traverse
). Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43795: The undocumented function
Py_FrozenMain()
is removed from the Limited API.bpo-44113: Deprecate the following functions to configure the Python initialization:
PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode()
PySys_AddWarnOption()
PySys_AddXOption()
PySys_HasWarnOptions()
Py_SetPath()
Py_SetProgramName()
Py_SetPythonHome()
Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding()
_Py_SetProgramFullPath()
Use the new
PyConfig
API of the Python Initialization Configuration instead (PEP 587).bpo-44094: Remove
PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithUnicodeFilename()
,PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithUnicodeFilename()
, andPyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithUnicodeFilename()
. They are not documented and have been deprecated since Python 3.3.bpo-43795:
PyCodec_Unregister()
is now properly exported as a function in the Windows Stable ABI DLL.bpo-44029: Remove deprecated
Py_UNICODE
APIs:PyUnicode_Encode
,PyUnicode_EncodeUTF7
,PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8
,PyUnicode_EncodeUTF16
,PyUnicode_EncodeUTF32
,PyUnicode_EncodeLatin1
,PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS
,PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal
,PyUnicode_EncodeRawUnicodeEscape
,PyUnicode_EncodeCharmap
,PyUnicode_EncodeUnicodeEscape
,PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII
,PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap
,PyUnicodeEncodeError_Create
,PyUnicodeTranslateError_Create
. See PEP 393 and PEP 624 for reference.bpo-42035: Add a new
PyType_GetName()
function to get type’s short name.
Python 3.10.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2021-05-03
Security¶
bpo-43434: Creating
sqlite3.Connection
objects now also producessqlite3.connect
andsqlite3.connect/handle
auditing events. Previously these events were only produced bysqlite3.connect()
calls. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43998: The
ssl
module sets more secure cipher suites defaults. Ciphers without forward secrecy and with SHA-1 MAC are disabled by default. Security level 2 prohibits weak RSA, DH, and ECC keys with less than 112 bits of security.SSLContext
defaults to minimum protocol version TLS 1.2. Settings are based on Hynek Schlawack’s research.bpo-43882: The presence of newline or tab characters in parts of a URL could allow some forms of attacks.
Following the controlling specification for URLs defined by WHATWG
urllib.parse()
now removes ASCII newlines and tabs from URLs, preventing such attacks.bpo-43472: Ensures interpreter-level audit hooks receive the
cpython.PyInterpreterState_New
event when called through the_xxsubinterpreters
module.bpo-43362: Fix invalid free in _sha3 module. The issue was introduced in 3.10.0a1. Python 3.9 and earlier are not affected.
bpo-43762: Add audit events for
sqlite3.connect/handle()
,sqlite3.Connection.enable_load_extension()
, andsqlite3.Connection.load_extension()
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43756: Add new audit event
glob.glob/2
to incorporate the new root_dir and dir_fd arguments added toglob.glob()
andglob.iglob()
.bpo-36384:
ipaddress
module no longer accepts any leading zeros in IPv4 address strings. Leading zeros are ambiguous and interpreted as octal notation by some libraries. For example the legacy functionsocket.inet_aton()
treats leading zeros as octal notation. glibc implementation of moderninet_pton()
does not accept any leading zeros. For a while theipaddress
module used to accept ambiguous leading zeros.bpo-43075: Fix Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in
urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler
. The ReDoS-vulnerable regex has quadratic worst-case complexity and it allows cause a denial of service when identifying crafted invalid RFCs. This ReDoS issue is on the client side and needs remote attackers to control the HTTP server.bpo-42800: Audit hooks are now fired for frame.f_code, traceback.tb_frame, and generator code/frame attribute access.
bpo-37363: Add audit events to the
http.client
module.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-43977: Prevent classes being both a sequence and a mapping when pattern matching.
bpo-43977: Use
tp_flags
on the class object to determine if the subject is a sequence or mapping when pattern matching. Avoids the need to importcollections.abc
when pattern matching.bpo-43892: Restore proper validation of complex literal value patterns when parsing
match
blocks.bpo-43933: Set frame.f_lineno to the line number of the ‘with’ kweyword when executing the call to
__exit__
.bpo-43933: If the current position in a frame has no line number then set the f_lineno attribute to None, instead of -1, to conform to PEP 626. This should not normally be possible, but might occur in some unusual circumstances.
bpo-43963: Importing the
_signal
module in a subinterpreter has no longer side effects.bpo-42739: The internal representation of line number tables is changed to not use sentinels, and an explicit length parameter is added to the out of process API function
PyLineTable_InitAddressRange
. This makes the handling of line number tables more robust in some circumstances.bpo-43908: Make
re
types immutable. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43908: Make the
array.array
type immutable. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43901: Change class and module objects to lazy-create empty annotations dicts on demand. The annotations dicts are stored in the object’s __dict__ for backwards compatibility.
bpo-43892: Match patterns now use new dedicated AST nodes (
MatchValue
,MatchSingleton
,MatchSequence
,MatchStar
,MatchMapping
,MatchClass
) rather than reusing expression AST nodes.MatchAs
andMatchOr
are now defined as pattern nodes rather than as expression nodes. Patch by Nick Coghlan.bpo-42725: Usage of
await
/yield
/yield from
and named expressions within an annotation is now forbidden when PEP 563 is activated.bpo-43754: When performing structural pattern matching (PEP 634), captured names are now left unbound until the entire pattern has matched successfully.
bpo-42737: Annotations for complex targets (everything beside simple names) no longer cause any runtime effects with
from __future__ import annotations
.bpo-43914:
SyntaxError
exceptions raised by the interpreter will highlight the full error range of the expression that constitutes the syntax error itself, instead of just where the problem is detected. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-38605: Revert making
from __future__ import annotations
the default. This follows the Steering Council decision to postpone PEP 563 changes to at least Python 3.11. See the original email for more information regarding the decision: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/CLVXXPQ2T2LQ5MP2Y53VVQFCXYWQJHKZ/. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-43475: Hashes of NaN values now depend on object identity. Formerly, they always hashed to 0 even though NaN values are not equal to one another. Having the same hash for unequal values caused pile-ups in hash tables.
bpo-43859: Improve the error message for
IndentationError
exceptions. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-41323: Constant tuple folding in bytecode optimizer now reuses tuple in constant table.
bpo-43846: Data stack usage is much reduced for large literal and call expressions.
bpo-38530: When printing
NameError
raised by the interpreter,PyErr_Display()
will offer suggestions of similar variable names in the function that the exception was raised from. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-43823: Improve syntax errors for invalid dictionary literals. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-43822: Improve syntax errors in the parser for missing commas between expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-43798:
ast.alias
nodes now include source location metadata attributes e.g. lineno, col_offset.bpo-43797: Improve
SyntaxError
error messages for invalid comparisons. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-43760: Move the flag for checking whether tracing is enabled to the C stack, from the heap. Should speed up dispatch in the interpreter.
bpo-43682: Static methods (
@staticmethod
) and class methods (@classmethod
) now inherit the method attributes (__module__
,__name__
,__qualname__
,__doc__
,__annotations__
) and have a new__wrapped__
attribute. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43751: Fixed a bug where
anext(ait, default)
would erroneously return None.bpo-42128:
__match_args__
is no longer allowed to be a list.bpo-43683: Add GEN_START opcode. Marks start of generator, including async, or coroutine and handles sending values to a newly created generator or coroutine.
bpo-43105: Importlib now resolves relative paths when creating module spec objects from file locations.
bpo-43682: Static methods (
@staticmethod
) are now callable as regular functions. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42609: Prevented crashes in the AST validator and optimizer when compiling some absurdly long expressions like
"+0"*1000000
.RecursionError
is now raised instead.bpo-38530: When printing
AttributeError
,PyErr_Display()
will offer suggestions of similar attribute names in the object that the exception was raised from. Patch by Pablo Galindo
Library¶
bpo-44015: In @dataclass(), raise a TypeError if KW_ONLY is specified more than once.
bpo-25478: Added a total() method to collections.Counter() to compute the sum of the counts.
bpo-43733: Change
netrc.netrc
to use UTF-8 encoding before using locale encoding.bpo-43979: Removed an unnecessary list comprehension before looping from
urllib.parse.parse_qsl()
. Patch by Christoph Zwerschke and Donghee Na.bpo-43993: Update bundled pip to 21.1.1.
bpo-43957: [Enum] Deprecate
TypeError
when non-member is used in a containment check; In 3.12True
orFalse
will be returned instead, and containment will returnTrue
if the value is either a member of that enum or one of its members’ value.bpo-42904: For backwards compatibility with previous minor versions of Python, if
typing.get_type_hints()
receives no namespace dictionary arguments,typing.get_type_hints()
will search through the global then local namespaces during evaluation of stringized type annotations (string forward references) inside a class.bpo-43945: [Enum] Deprecate non-standard mixin format() behavior: in 3.12 the enum member, not the member’s value, will be used for format() calls.
bpo-41139: Deprecate undocumented
cgi.log()
API.bpo-43937: Fixed the
turtle
module working with non-default root window.bpo-43930: Update bundled pip to 21.1 and setuptools to 56.0.0
bpo-43907: Fix a bug in the pure-Python pickle implementation when using protocol 5, where bytearray instances that occur several time in the pickled object graph would incorrectly unpickle into repeated copies of the bytearray object.
bpo-43926: In
importlib.metadata
, provide a uniform interface toDescription
, allow for any field to be encoded with multiline values, remove continuation lines from multiline values, and add a.json
property for easy access to the PEP 566 JSON-compatible form. Sync withimportlib_metadata 4.0
.bpo-43920: OpenSSL 3.0.0:
load_verify_locations()
now returns a consistent error message when cadata contains no valid certificate.bpo-43607:
urllib
can now convert Windows paths with\\?\
prefixes into URL paths.bpo-43817: Add
inspect.get_annotations()
, which safely computes the annotations defined on an object. It works around the quirks of accessing the annotations from various types of objects, and makes very few assumptions about the object passed in.inspect.get_annotations()
can also correctly un-stringize stringized annotations.inspect.signature()
,inspect.from_callable()
, andinspect.from_function()
now callinspect.get_annotations()
to retrieve annotations. This meansinspect.signature()
andinspect.from_callable()
can now un-stringize stringized annotations, too.bpo-43284: platform.win32_ver derives the windows version from sys.getwindowsversion().platform_version which in turn derives the version from kernel32.dll (which can be of a different version than Windows itself). Therefore change the platform.win32_ver to determine the version using the platform module’s _syscmd_ver private function to return an accurate version.
bpo-42854: The
ssl
module now usesSSL_read_ex
andSSL_write_ex
internally. The functions support reading and writing of data larger than 2 GB. Writing zero-length data no longer fails with a protocol violation error.bpo-42333: Port
_ssl
extension module to multiphase initialization.bpo-43880:
ssl
now raises DeprecationWarning for OP_NO_SSL/TLS* options, old TLS versions, old protocols, and other features that have been deprecated since Python 3.6, 3.7, or OpenSSL 1.1.0.bpo-41559: PEP 612 is now implemented purely in Python; builtin
types.GenericAlias
objects no longer includetyping.ParamSpec
in__parameters__
(with the exception ofcollections.abc.Callable
‘sGenericAlias
). This means previously invalid uses ofParamSpec
(such aslist[P]
) which worked in earlier versions of Python 3.10 alpha, will now raiseTypeError
during substitution.bpo-43867: The
multiprocessing
Server
class now explicitly catchesSystemExit
and closes the client connection in this case. It happens when theServer.serve_client()
method reaches the end of file (EOF).bpo-40443: Remove unused imports: pyclbr no longer uses copy, and typing no longer uses ast. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-43820: Remove an unneeded copy of the namespace passed to dataclasses.make_dataclass().
bpo-43787: Add
__iter__()
method tobz2.BZ2File
,gzip.GzipFile
, andlzma.LZMAFile
. It makes iterating them about 2x faster. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-43680: Deprecate io.OpenWrapper and _pyio.OpenWrapper: use io.open and _pyio.open instead. Until Python 3.9, _pyio.open was not a static method and builtins.open was set to OpenWrapper to not become a bound method when set to a class variable. _io.open is a built-in function whereas _pyio.open is a Python function. In Python 3.10, _pyio.open() is now a static method, and builtins.open() is now io.open().
bpo-43680: The Python
_pyio.open()
function becomes a static method to behave asio.open()
built-in function: don’t become a bound method when stored as a class variable. It becomes possible since static methods are now callable in Python 3.10. Moreover,_pyio.OpenWrapper()
becomes a simple alias to_pyio.open()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-41515: Fix
KeyError
raised intyping.get_type_hints()
due to synthetic modules that don’t appear insys.modules
.bpo-43776: When
subprocess.Popen
args are provided as a string or aspathlib.Path
, the Popen instance repr now shows the right thing.bpo-42248: [Enum] ensure exceptions raised in
_missing__
are releasedbpo-43744: fix issue with enum member name matching the start of a private variable name
bpo-43772: Fixed the return value of
TypeVar.__ror__
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-43764: Add match_args parameter to @dataclass decorator to allow suppression of __match_args__ generation.
bpo-43799: OpenSSL 3.0.0: define
OPENSSL_API_COMPAT
1.1.1 to suppress deprecation warnings. Python requires OpenSSL 1.1.1 APIs.bpo-43478: Mocks can no longer be used as the specs for other Mocks. As a result, an already-mocked object cannot have an attribute mocked using
autospec=True
or be the subject of acreate_autospec(...)
call. This can uncover bugs in tests since these Mock-derived Mocks will always pass certain tests (e.g.isinstance()
) and builtin assert functions (e.g. assert_called_once_with) will unconditionally pass.bpo-43794: Add
ssl.OP_IGNORE_UNEXPECTED_EOF
constants (OpenSSL 3.0.0)bpo-43785: Improve
bz2.BZ2File
performance by removing the RLock from BZ2File. This makes BZ2File thread unsafe in the face of multiple simultaneous readers or writers, just like its equivalent classes ingzip
andlzma
have always been. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-43789: OpenSSL 3.0.0: Don’t call the password callback function a second time when first call has signaled an error condition.
bpo-43788: The header files for
ssl
error codes are now OpenSSL version-specific. Exceptions will now show correct reason and library codes. Themake_ssl_data.py
script has been rewritten to use OpenSSL’s text file with error codes.bpo-43766: Implement PEP 647 in the
typing
module by addingTypeGuard
.bpo-25264:
os.path.realpath()
now accepts a strict keyword-only argument. When set toTrue
,OSError
is raised if a path doesn’t exist or a symlink loop is encountered.bpo-43780: In
importlib.metadata
, incorporate changes from importlib_metadata 3.10: Add mtime-based caching during distribution discovery. Flagged use of dict result fromentry_points()
as deprecated.The
P.args
andP.kwargs
attributes oftyping.ParamSpec
are now instances of the new classestyping.ParamSpecArgs
andtyping.ParamSpecKwargs
, which enables a more usefulrepr()
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-43731: Add an
encoding
parameterlogging.fileConfig()
.bpo-43712: Add
encoding
anderrors
parameters tofileinput.input()
andfileinput.FileInput
.bpo-38659: A
simple_enum
decorator is added to theenum
module to convert a normal class into an Enum.test_simple_enum
added to test simple enums against a corresponding normal Enum. Standard library modules updated to usesimple_enum
.bpo-43764: Fix an issue where
__match_args__
generation could fail for somedataclasses
.bpo-43752: Fix
sqlite3
regression for zero-sized blobs with converters, whereb""
was returned instead ofNone
. The regression was introduced by PR 24723. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43655:
tkinter
dialog windows are now recognized as dialogs by window managers on macOS and X Window.bpo-43723: The following
threading
methods are now deprecated and should be replaced:currentThread
=>threading.current_thread()
activeCount
=>threading.active_count()
Condition.notifyAll
=>threading.Condition.notify_all()
Event.isSet
=>threading.Event.is_set()
Thread.setName
=>threading.Thread.name
thread.getName
=>threading.Thread.name
Thread.isDaemon
=>threading.Thread.daemon
Thread.setDaemon
=>threading.Thread.daemon
Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-2135: Deprecate find_module() and find_loader() implementations in importlib and zipimport.
bpo-43534:
turtle.textinput()
andturtle.numinput()
create now a transient window working on behalf of the canvas window.bpo-43532: Add the ability to specify keyword-only fields to dataclasses. These fields will become keyword-only arguments to the generated __init__.
bpo-43522: Fix problem with
hostname_checks_common_name
. OpenSSL does not copy hostflags from struct SSL_CTX to struct SSL.bpo-8978: Improve error message for
tarfile.open()
whenlzma
/bz2
are unavailable. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-42967: Allow
bytes
separator
argument inurllib.parse.parse_qs
andurllib.parse.parse_qsl
when parsingstr
query strings. Previously, this raised aTypeError
.bpo-43296: Improve
sqlite3
error handling:sqlite3_value_blob()
errors that setSQLITE_NOMEM
now raiseMemoryError
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43312: New functions
sysconfig.get_preferred_scheme()
andsysconfig.get_default_scheme()
are added to query a platform for its preferred “user”, “home”, and “prefix” (default) scheme names.bpo-43265: Improve
sqlite3.Connection.backup()
error handling. The error message for non-existent target database names is nowunknown database <database name>
instead ofSQL logic error
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-41282: Install schemes in
distutils.command.install
are now loaded fromsysconfig
.bpo-41282:
distutils.sysconfig
has been merged tosysconfig
.bpo-43176: Fixed processing of a dataclass that inherits from a frozen dataclass with no fields. It is now correctly detected as an error.
bpo-43080:
pprint
now has support fordataclasses.dataclass
. Patch by Lewis Gaul.bpo-39950: Add
pathlib.Path.hardlink_to()
method that supersedeslink_to()
. The new method has the same argument order assymlink_to()
.bpo-42904:
typing.get_type_hints()
now checks the local namespace of a class when evaluating PEP 563 annotations inside said class.bpo-42269: Add
slots
parameter todataclasses.dataclass
decorator to automatically generate__slots__
for class. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-39529: Deprecated use of
asyncio.get_event_loop()
without running event loop. Emit deprecation warning forasyncio
functions which implicitly create aFuture
orTask
objects if there is no running event loop and no explicit loop argument is passed:ensure_future()
,wrap_future()
,gather()
,shield()
,as_completed()
and constructors ofFuture
,Task
,StreamReader
,StreamReaderProtocol
.bpo-18369: Certificate and PrivateKey classes were added to the ssl module. Certificates and keys can now be loaded from memory buffer, too.
bpo-41486: Use a new output buffer management code for
bz2
/lzma
/zlib
modules, and add.readall()
function to_compression.DecompressReader
class. These bring some performance improvements. Patch by Ma Lin.bpo-31870: The
ssl.get_server_certificate()
function now has a timeout parameter.bpo-41735: Fix thread locks in zlib module may go wrong in rare case. Patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-36470: Fix dataclasses with
InitVar
s andreplace()
. Patch by Claudiu Popa.bpo-40849: Expose X509_V_FLAG_PARTIAL_CHAIN ssl flag
bpo-35114:
ssl.RAND_status()
now returns a boolean value (as documented) instead of1
or0
.bpo-39906:
pathlib.Path.stat()
andchmod()
now accept a follow_symlinks keyword-only argument for consistency with corresponding functions in theos
module.bpo-39899:
os.path.expanduser()
now refuses to guess Windows home directories if the basename of current user’s home directory does not match their username.pathlib.Path.expanduser()
andhome()
now consistently raiseRuntimeError
exception when a home directory cannot be resolved. Previously aKeyError
exception could be raised on Windows when the"USERNAME"
environment variable was unset.bpo-36076: Added SNI support to
ssl.get_server_certificate()
.bpo-38490: Covariance, Pearson’s correlation, and simple linear regression functionality was added to statistics module. Patch by Tymoteusz Wołodźko.
bpo-33731: Provide a locale.localize() function, which converts a normalized number string into a locale format.
bpo-32745: Fix a regression in the handling of ctypes’
ctypes.c_wchar_p
type: embedded null characters would cause aValueError
to be raised. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
Documentation¶
bpo-43987: Add “Annotations Best Practices” document as a new HOWTO.
bpo-43977: Document the new
Py_TPFLAGS_MAPPING
andPy_TPFLAGS_SEQUENCE
type flags.bpo-43959: The documentation on the PyContextVar C-API was clarified.
bpo-43938: Update dataclasses documentation to express that FrozenInstanceError is derived from AttributeError.
bpo-43778: Fix the Sphinx glossary_search extension: create the _static/ sub-directory if it doesn’t exist.
bpo-43755: Update documentation to reflect that unparenthesized lambda expressions can no longer be the expression part in an
if
clause in comprehensions and generator expressions since Python 3.9.bpo-43739: Fixing the example code in Doc/extending/extending.rst to declare and initialize the pmodule variable to be of the right type.
Tests¶
bpo-43961: Fix test_logging.test_namer_rotator_inheritance() on Windows: use
os.replace()
rather thanos.rename()
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43842: Fix a race condition in the SMTP test of test_logging. Don’t close a file descriptor (socket) from a different thread while asyncore.loop() is polling the file descriptor. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-43843:
test.libregrtest
now marks a test as ENV_CHANGED (altered the execution environment) if a thread raises an exception but does not catch it. It sets a hook onthreading.excepthook()
. Use--fail-env-changed
option to mark the test as failed. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43811: Tests multiple OpenSSL versions on GitHub Actions. Use ccache to speed up testing.
bpo-43791: OpenSSL 3.0.0: Disable testing of legacy protocols TLS 1.0 and 1.1. Tests are failing with TLSV1_ALERT_INTERNAL_ERROR.
Build¶
Windows¶
bpo-35306: Adds additional arguments to
os.startfile()
function.bpo-43538: Avoid raising errors from
pathlib.Path.exists()
when passed an invalid filename.bpo-38822: Fixed
os.stat()
failing on inaccessible directories with a trailing slash, rather than falling back to the parent directory’s metadata. This implicitly affectedos.path.exists()
andos.path.isdir()
.bpo-26227: Fixed decoding of host names in
socket.gethostbyaddr()
andsocket.gethostbyname_ex()
.bpo-40432: Updated pegen regeneration script on Windows to find and use Python 3.8 or higher. Prior to this, pegen regeneration already required 3.8 or higher, but the script may have used lower versions of Python.
bpo-43745: Actually updates Windows release to OpenSSL 1.1.1k. Earlier releases were mislabelled and actually included 1.1.1i again.
bpo-43652: Update Tcl and Tk to 8.6.11 in Windows installer.
bpo-43492: Upgrade Windows installer to use SQLite 3.35.5.
bpo-30555: Fix
WindowsConsoleIO
errors in the presence of fd redirection. Patch by Segev Finer.
macOS¶
bpo-42119: Fix check for macOS SDK paths when building Python. Narrow search to match contents of SDKs, namely only files in
/System/Library
,/System/IOSSupport
, and/usr
other than/usr/local
. Previously, anything under/System
was assumed to be in an SDK which causes problems with the new file system layout in 10.15+ where user file systems may appear to be mounted under/System
. Paths in/Library
were also incorrectly treated as SDK locations.bpo-43568: Drop support for MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET < 10.3
bpo-44009: Provide “python3.x-intel64” executable to allow reliably forcing macOS universal2 framework builds to run under Rosetta 2 Intel-64 emulation on Apple Silicon Macs. This can be useful for testing or when universal2 wheels are not yet available.
bpo-43851: Build SQLite with
SQLITE_OMIT_AUTOINIT
on macOS. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43492: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.35.4.
bpo-42235:
Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py
will now use “–enable-optimizations” and--with-lto
when building on macOS 10.15 or later.
IDLE¶
bpo-37903: Add mouse actions to the shell sidebar. Left click and optional drag selects one or more lines, as with the editor line number sidebar. Right click after selecting raises a context menu with ‘copy with prompts’. This zips together prompts from the sidebar with lines from the selected text.
bpo-43981: Fix reference leak in test_sidebar and test_squeezer. Patches by Terry Jan Reedy and Pablo Galindo
bpo-37892: Indent IDLE Shell input with spaces instead of tabs
bpo-43655: IDLE dialog windows are now recognized as dialogs by window managers on macOS and X Window.
bpo-37903: IDLE’s shell now shows prompts in a separate side-bar.
C API¶
bpo-43916: Add a new
Py_TPFLAGS_DISALLOW_INSTANTIATION
type flag to disallow creating type instances. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43774: Remove the now unused
PYMALLOC_DEBUG
macro. Debug hooks on memory allocators are now installed by default if Python is built in debug mode (ifPy_DEBUG
macro is defined). Moreover, they can now be used on Python build in release mode (ex: usingPYTHONMALLOC=debug
environment variable).bpo-43962: _PyInterpreterState_IDIncref() now calls _PyInterpreterState_IDInitref() and always increments id_refcount. Previously, calling _xxsubinterpreters.get_current() could create an id_refcount inconsistency when a _xxsubinterpreters.InterpreterID object was deallocated. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-28254: Add new C-API functions to control the state of the garbage collector:
PyGC_Enable()
,PyGC_Disable()
,PyGC_IsEnabled()
, corresponding to the functions in thegc
module.bpo-43908: Introduce
Py_TPFLAGS_IMMUTABLETYPE
flag for immutable type objects, and modifyPyType_Ready()
to set it for static types. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43795:
PyMem_Calloc()
is now available in the limited C API (Py_LIMITED_API
).bpo-43868:
PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer()
is no longer exported by limited C API headers and bypython3.dll
on Windows. Like any function that takesFILE*
, it is not part of the stable ABI.bpo-43795: Stable ABI and limited API definitions are generated from a central manifest (PEP 652).
bpo-43753: Add the
Py_Is(x, y)
function to test if the x object is the y object, the same asx is y
in Python. Add also thePy_IsNone()
,Py_IsTrue()
,Py_IsFalse()
functions to test if an object is, respectively, theNone
singleton, theTrue
singleton or theFalse
singleton. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Python 3.10.0 alpha 7¶
Release date: 2021-04-05
Security¶
bpo-42988: CVE 2021-3426: Remove the
getfile
feature of thepydoc
module which could be abused to read arbitrary files on the disk (directory traversal vulnerability). Moreover, even source code of Python modules can contain sensitive data like passwords. Vulnerability reported by David Schwörer.bpo-43285:
ftplib
no longer trusts the IP address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command by default. This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.Code that requires the former vulnerable behavior may set a
trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address
attribute on theirftplib.FTP
instances toTrue
to re-enable it.bpo-43439: Add audit hooks for
gc.get_objects()
,gc.get_referrers()
andgc.get_referents()
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27129: Update CPython bytecode magic number.
bpo-43672: Raise ImportWarning when calling find_loader().
bpo-43660: Fix crash that happens when replacing
sys.stderr
with a callable that can remove the object while an exception is being printed. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-27129: The bytecode interpreter uses instruction, rather byte, offsets internally. This reduces the number of EXTENDED_ARG instructions needed and streamlines instruction dispatch a bit.
bpo-40645: Fix reference leak in the
_hashopenssl
extension. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-42134: Calls to find_module() by the import system now raise ImportWarning.
bpo-41064: Improve the syntax error for invalid usage of double starred elements (‘**’) in f-strings. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-43575: Speed up calls to
map()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-42137: The import system now prefers using
__spec__
forModuleType.__repr__
overmodule_repr()
.bpo-43452: Added micro-optimizations to
_PyType_Lookup()
to improve cache lookup performance in the common case of cache hits.bpo-43555: Report the column offset for
SyntaxError
for invalid line continuation characters. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-43517: Fix misdetection of circular imports when using
from pkg.mod import attr
, which caused false positives in non-trivial multi-threaded code.bpo-43497: Emit SyntaxWarnings for assertions with tuple constants, this is a regression introduced in python3.7
bpo-39316: Tracing now has correct line numbers for attribute accesses when the attribute is on a different line from the object. Improves debugging and profiling for multi-line method chains.
bpo-35883: Python no longer fails at startup with a fatal error if a command line argument contains an invalid Unicode character. The
Py_DecodeLocale()
function now escapes byte sequences which would be decoded as Unicode characters outside the [U+0000; U+10ffff] range.bpo-43410: Fix a bug that was causing the parser to crash when emitting syntax errors when reading input from stdin. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-43406: Fix a possible race condition where
PyErr_CheckSignals
tries to execute a non-Python signal handler.bpo-42128: Add
__match_args__
to struct sequence objects. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-43390: CPython now sets the
SA_ONSTACK
flag inPyOS_setsig
for the VM’s default signal handlers. This is friendlier to other in-process code that an extension module or embedding use could pull in (such as Golang’s cgo) where tiny thread stacks are the norm andsigaltstack()
has been used to provide for signal handlers. This is a no-op change for the vast majority of processes that don’t use sigaltstack.bpo-43287: Speed up calls to
filter()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-37448: Add a radix tree based memory map to track in-use obmalloc arenas. Use to replace the old implementation of address_in_range(). The radix tree approach makes it easy to increase pool sizes beyond the OS page size. Boosting the pool and arena size allows obmalloc to handle a significantly higher percentage of requests from its ultra-fast paths.
It also has the advantage of eliminating the memory unsanitary behavior of the previous address_in_range(). The old address_in_range() was marked with the annotations _Py_NO_SANITIZE_ADDRESS, _Py_NO_SANITIZE_THREAD, and _Py_NO_SANITIZE_MEMORY. Those annotations are no longer needed.
To disable the radix tree map, set a preprocessor flag as follows:
-DWITH_PYMALLOC_RADIX_TREE=0
.Co-authored-by: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
bpo-29988: Only handle asynchronous exceptions and requests to drop the GIL when returning from a call or on the back edges of loops. Makes sure that
__exit__()
is always called in with statements, even for interrupts.
Library¶
bpo-43720: Document various stdlib deprecations in imp, pkgutil, and importlib.util for removal in Python 3.12.
bpo-43433:
xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy
no longer ignores query and fragment in the URL of the server.bpo-31956: The
index()
method ofarray.array
now has optional start and stop parameters.bpo-40066: Enum: adjust
repr()
to show only enum and member name (not value, nor angle brackets) andstr()
to show only member name. Update and improve documentation to match.bpo-42136: Deprecate all module_repr() methods found in importlib as their use is being phased out by Python 3.12.
bpo-35930: Raising an exception raised in a “future” instance will create reference cycles.
bpo-41369: Finish updating the vendored libmpdec to version 2.5.1. Patch by Stefan Krah.
bpo-43422: Revert the _decimal C API which was added in bpo-41324.
bpo-43577: Fix deadlock when using
ssl.SSLContext
debug callback withssl.SSLContext.sni_callback()
.bpo-43571: It’s now possible to create MPTCP sockets with IPPROTO_MPTCP
bpo-43542:
image/heic
andimage/heif
were added tomimetypes
.bpo-40645: The
hmac
module now uses OpenSSL’s HMAC implementation when digestmod argument is a hash name or builtin hash function.bpo-43510: Implement PEP 597: Add
EncodingWarning
warning,-X warn_default_encoding
option,PYTHONWARNDEFAULTENCODING
environment variable andencoding="locale"
argument value.bpo-43521:
ast.unparse
can now render NaNs and empty sets.bpo-42914:
pprint.pprint()
gains a new booleanunderscore_numbers
optional argument to emit integers with thousands separated by an underscore character for improved readability (for example1_000_000
instead of1000000
).bpo-41361:
rotate()
calls are now slightly faster due to faster argument parsing.bpo-43423:
subprocess.communicate()
no longer raises an IndexError when there is an empty stdout or stderr IO buffer during a timeout on Windows.bpo-27820: Fixed long-standing bug of smtplib.SMTP where doing AUTH LOGIN with initial_response_ok=False will fail.
The cause is that SMTP.auth_login _always_ returns a password if provided with a challenge string, thus non-compliant with the standard for AUTH LOGIN.
Also fixes bug with the test for smtpd.
bpo-43445: Add frozen modules to
sys.stdlib_module_names
. For example, add"_frozen_importlib"
and"_frozen_importlib_external"
names.bpo-43245: Add keyword arguments support to
ChainMap.new_child()
.bpo-29982: Add optional parameter ignore_cleanup_errors to
tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
and allow multiplecleanup()
attempts. Contributed by C.A.M. Gerlach.bpo-43428: Include changes from importlib_metadata 3.7:
Performance enhancements to distribution discovery.
entry_points
only returns unique distributions.Introduces new
EntryPoints
object for containing a set of entry points with convenience methods for selecting entry points by group or name.entry_points
now returns this object if selection parameters are supplied but continues to return a dict object for compatibility. Users are encouraged to rely on the selection interface. The dict object result is likely to be deprecated in the future.Added packages_distributions function to return a mapping of packages to the distributions that provide them.
bpo-43332: Improves the networking efficiency of
http.client
when using a proxy viaset_tunnel()
. Fewer small send calls are made during connection setup.bpo-43420: Improve performance of
fractions.Fraction
arithmetics for large components. Contributed by Sergey B. Kirpichev.bpo-43356: Allow passing a signal number to
_thread.interrupt_main()
.bpo-43399: Fix
ElementTree.extend
not working on iterators when using the Python implementationbpo-43369: Improve
sqlite3
error handling: Ifsqlite3_column_text()
andsqlite3_column_blob()
setSQLITE_NOMEM
,MemoryError
is now raised. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43368: Fix a regression introduced in PR 24562, where an empty bytestring was fetched as
None
instead ofb''
insqlite3
. Patch by Mariusz Felisiak.bpo-41282: Fixed stacklevel of
DeprecationWarning
emitted fromimport distutils
.bpo-42129:
importlib.resources
now honors namespace packages, merging resources from each location in the namespace as introduced inimportlib_resources
3.2 and including incidental changes through 5.0.3.bpo-43295:
datetime.datetime.strptime()
now raisesValueError
instead ofIndexError
when matching'z'
with the%z
format specifier.bpo-43125: Return empty string if base64mime.body_encode receive empty bytes
bpo-43084:
curses.window.enclose()
returns nowTrue
orFalse
(as was documented) instead of1
or0
.bpo-42994: Add MIME types for opus, AAC, 3gpp and 3gpp2
bpo-14678: Add an invalidate_caches() method to the zipimport.zipimporter class to support importlib.invalidate_caches(). Patch by Desmond Cheong.
bpo-42782: Fail fast in
shutil.move()
to avoid creating destination directories on failure.bpo-40066: Enum’s
repr()
andstr()
have changed:repr()
is now EnumClass.MemberName andstr()
is MemberName. Additionally, stdlib Enum’s whose contents are available as module attributes, such asRegexFlag.IGNORECASE
, have theirrepr()
as module.name, e.g.re.IGNORECASE
.bpo-26053: Fixed bug where the
pdb
interactive run command echoed the args from the shell command line, even if those have been overridden at the pdb prompt.bpo-24160: Fixed bug where breakpoints did not persist across multiple debugger sessions in
pdb
’s interactive mode.bpo-40701: When the
tempfile.tempdir
global variable is set to a value of type bytes, it is now handled consistently. Previously exceptions could be raised from some tempfile APIs when the directory did not already exist in this situation. Also ensures that thetempfile.gettempdir()
andtempfile.gettempdirb()
functions always returnstr
andbytes
respectively.bpo-39342: Expose
X509_V_FLAG_ALLOW_PROXY_CERTS
asVERIFY_ALLOW_PROXY_CERTS
to allow proxy certificate validation as explained in https://docs.openssl.org/1.1.1/man7/proxy-certificates/.bpo-31861: Add builtins.aiter and builtins.anext. Patch by Joshua Bronson (@jab), Daniel Pope (@lordmauve), and Justin Wang (@justin39).
Documentation¶
bpo-43199: Answer “Why is there no goto?” in the Design and History FAQ.
bpo-43407: Clarified that a result from
time.monotonic()
,time.perf_counter()
,time.process_time()
, ortime.thread_time()
can be compared with the result from any following call to the same function - not just the next immediate call.bpo-43354: Fix type documentation for
Fault.faultCode
; the type has to beint
instead ofstr
.bpo-41933: Clarified wording of s * n in the Common Sequence Operations
Tests¶
Build¶
bpo-43179: Introduce and correctly use ALIGNOF_X in place of SIZEOF_X for alignment-related code in optimized string routines. Patch by Jessica Clarke.
bpo-43631: Update macOS, Windows, and CI to OpenSSL 1.1.1k.
bpo-43617: Improve configure.ac: Check for presence of autoconf-archive package and remove our copies of M4 macros.
bpo-43466: The
configure
script now supports--with-openssl-rpath
option.bpo-43372: Use
_freeze_importlib
to generate code for the__hello__
module. This approach ensures the code matches the interpreter version. Previously, PYTHON_FOR_REGEN was used to generate the code, which might be wrong. The marshal format for code objects has changed with bpo-42246, commit 877df851. Update the code and the expected code sizes in ctypes test_frozentable.
Windows¶
IDLE¶
bpo-42225: Document that IDLE can fail on Unix either from misconfigured IP masquerade rules or failure displaying complex colored (non-ascii) characters.
C API¶
bpo-43688: The limited C API is now supported if Python is built in debug mode (if the
Py_DEBUG
macro is defined). In the limited C API, thePy_INCREF()
andPy_DECREF()
functions are now implemented as opaque function calls, rather than accessing directly thePyObject.ob_refcnt
member, if Python is built in debug mode and thePy_LIMITED_API
macro targets Python 3.10 or newer. It became possible to support the limited C API in debug mode because thePyObject
structure is the same in release and debug mode since Python 3.8 (see bpo-36465).The limited C API is still not supported in the
--with-trace-refs
special build (Py_TRACE_REFS
macro).Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-43244: Remove the
pyarena.h
header file with functions:PyArena_New()
PyArena_Free()
PyArena_Malloc()
PyArena_AddPyObject()
These functions were undocumented, excluded from the limited C API, and were only used internally by the compiler. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-43244: Remove the compiler and parser functions using
struct _mod
type, because the public AST C API was removed:PyAST_Compile()
PyAST_CompileEx()
PyAST_CompileObject()
PyFuture_FromAST()
PyFuture_FromASTObject()
PyParser_ASTFromFile()
PyParser_ASTFromFileObject()
PyParser_ASTFromFilename()
PyParser_ASTFromString()
PyParser_ASTFromStringObject()
These functions were undocumented and excluded from the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-43244: Remove
ast.h
,asdl.h
, andPython-ast.h
header files. These functions were undocumented and excluded from the limited C API. Most names defined by these header files were not prefixed byPy
and so could create names conflicts. For example,Python-ast.h
defined aYield
macro which was conflict with theYield
name used by the Windows<winbase.h>
header. Use the Pythonast
module instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43541: Fix a
PyEval_EvalCodeEx()
regression: fix reference counting on builtins. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43244: Remove the
symtable.h
header file and the undocumented functions:PyST_GetScope()
PySymtable_Build()
PySymtable_BuildObject()
PySymtable_Free()
Py_SymtableString()
Py_SymtableStringObject()
The
Py_SymtableString()
function was part the stable ABI by mistake but it could not be used, because thesymtable.h
header file was excluded from the limited C API.The Python
symtable
module remains available and is unchanged.Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-43244: Remove the
PyAST_Validate()
function. It is no longer possible to build a AST object (mod_ty
type) with the public C API. The function was already excluded from the limited C API (PEP 384). Patch by Victor Stinner.
Python 3.10.0 alpha 6¶
Release date: 2021-03-01
Security¶
bpo-42967: Fix web cache poisoning vulnerability by defaulting the query args separator to
&
, and allowing the user to choose a custom separator.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-43321: Fix
SystemError
raised whenPyArg_Parse*()
is used with#
but withoutPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
defined.bpo-36346:
PyArg_Parse*()
functions now emitsDeprecationWarning
whenu
orZ
format is used. See PEP 623 for detail.bpo-43277: Add a new
PySet_CheckExact()
function to the C-API to check if an object is an instance ofset
but not an instance of a subtype. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-42990: The
types.FunctionType
constructor now inherits the current builtins if the globals dictionary has no"__builtins__"
key, rather than using{"None": None}
as builtins: same behavior aseval()
andexec()
functions. Defining a function withdef function(...): ...
in Python is not affected, globals cannot be overridden with this syntax: it also inherits the current builtins. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42990: Functions have a new
__builtins__
attribute which is used to look for builtin symbols when a function is executed, instead of looking into__globals__['__builtins__']
. Patch by Mark Shannon and Victor Stinner.bpo-43149: Improve the error message in the parser for exception groups without parentheses. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-43121: Fixed an incorrect
SyntaxError
message for missing comma in literals. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-42819:
readline
: Explicitly disable bracketed paste in the interactive interpreter, even if it’s set in the inputrc, is enabled by default (eg GNU Readline 8.1), or a user callsreadline.read_init_file()
. The Python REPL has not implemented bracketed paste support. Also, bracketed mode writes the"\x1b[?2004h"
escape sequence into stdout which causes test failures in applications that don’t support it. It can still be explicitly enabled by callingreadline.parse_and_bind("set enable-bracketed-paste on")
. Patch by Dustin Rodrigues.bpo-42808: Simple calls to
type(object)
are now faster due to thevectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.bpo-42217: Make the compiler merges same co_code and co_linetable objects in a module like already did for co_consts.
bpo-41972: Substring search functions such as
str1 in str2
andstr2.find(str1)
now sometimes use the “Two-Way” string comparison algorithm to avoid quadratic behavior on long strings.bpo-42128: Implement PEP 634 (structural pattern matching). Patch by Brandt Bucher.
bpo-40692: In the
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
, validate thatmultiprocess.synchronize()
is available on a given platform and rely on that check in theconcurrent.futures
test suite so we can run tests that are unrelated toProcessPoolExecutor
on those platforms.bpo-38302: If
object.__ipow__()
returnsNotImplemented
, the operator will correctly fall back toobject.__pow__()
andobject.__rpow__()
as expected.
Library¶
bpo-43316: The
python -m gzip
command line application now properly fails when detecting an unsupported extension. It exits with a non-zero exit code and prints an error message to stderr.bpo-43317: Set the chunk size for the
gzip
module main function to io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE. This is slightly faster than the 1024 bytes constant that was used previously.bpo-43146: Handle None in single-arg versions of
print_exception()
andformat_exception()
.bpo-43260: Fix TextIOWrapper can not flush internal buffer forever after very large text is written.
bpo-43258: Prevent needless allocation of
sqlite3
aggregate function context when no rows match an aggregate query. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43251: Improve
sqlite3
error handling:sqlite3_column_name()
failures now result inMemoryError
. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-40956: Fix segfault in
sqlite3.Connection.backup()
if no argument was provided. The regression was introduced by PR 23838. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43172: The readline module now passes its tests when built directly against libedit. Existing irreconcilable API differences remain in
readline.get_begidx()
andreadline.get_endidx()
behavior based on libreadline vs libedit use.bpo-43163: Fix a bug in
codeop
that was causing it to not ask for more input when multi-line snippets have unclosed parentheses. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-43162: deprecate unsupported ability to access enum members as attributes of other enum members
bpo-43146: Fix recent regression in None argument handling in
traceback
module functions.bpo-43102: The namedtuple __new__ method had its __builtins__ set to None instead of an actual dictionary. This created problems for introspection tools.
bpo-43106: Added
O_EVTONLY
,O_FSYNC
,O_SYMLINK
andO_NOFOLLOW_ANY
for macOS. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-42960: Adds
resource.RLIMIT_KQUEUES
constant from FreeBSD to theresource
module.bpo-42151: Make the pure Python implementation of
xml.etree.ElementTree
behave the same as the C implementation (_elementree
) regarding default attribute values (by not settingspecified_attributes=1
).bpo-29753: In ctypes, now packed bitfields are calculated properly and the first item of packed bitfields is now shrank correctly.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
bpo-43288: Fix test_importlib to correctly skip Unicode file tests if the filesystem does not support them.
Build¶
bpo-43174: Windows build now uses
/utf-8
compiler option.bpo-43103: Add a new configure
--without-static-libpython
option to not build thelibpythonMAJOR.MINOR.a
static library and not install thepython.o
object file.bpo-13501: The configure script can now use libedit instead of readline with the command line option
--with-readline=editline
.bpo-42603: Make configure script use pkg-config to detect the location of Tcl/Tk headers and libraries, used to build tkinter.
On macOS, a Tcl/Tk configuration provided by pkg-config will be preferred over Tcl/Tk frameworks installed in
/{System/,}Library/Frameworks
. If both exist and the latter is preferred, the appropriate--with-tcltk-*
configuration options need to be explicitly set.bpo-39448: Add the “regen-frozen” makefile target that regenerates the code for the frozen
__hello__
module.
Windows¶
bpo-43155:
PyCMethod_New()
is now present inpython3.lib
.
macOS¶
bpo-41837: Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.1.1j.
IDLE¶
bpo-43283: Document why printing to IDLE’s Shell is often slower than printing to a system terminal and that it can be made faster by pre-formatting a single string before printing.
C API¶
bpo-43278: Always put compiler and system information on the first line of the REPL welcome message.
bpo-43270: Remove the private
_PyErr_OCCURRED()
macro: use the publicPyErr_Occurred()
function instead.bpo-35134: Move odictobject.h, parser_interface.h, picklebufobject.h, pydebug.h, and pyfpe.h into the cpython/ directory. They must not be included directly, as they are already included by Python.h: Include Files.
bpo-35134: Move pyarena.h, pyctype.h, and pytime.h into the cpython/ directory. They must not be included directly, as they are already included by Python.h: Include Files.
bpo-40170:
PyExceptionClass_Name()
is now always declared as a function, in order to hide implementation details. The macro accessedPyTypeObject.tp_name
directly. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43239: The
PyCFunction_New()
function is now exported in the ABI when compiled with-fvisibility=hidden
.bpo-40170:
PyIter_Check()
is now always declared as a function, in order to hide implementation details. The macro accessedPyTypeObject.tp_iternext
directly. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-40170: Convert
PyDescr_IsData()
macro to a function to hide implementation details: The macro accessedPyTypeObject.tp_descr_set
directly. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-43181: Convert
PyObject_TypeCheck()
macro to a static inline function. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
Python 3.10.0 alpha 5¶
Release date: 2021-02-02
Security¶
bpo-42938: Avoid static buffers when computing the repr of
ctypes.c_double
andctypes.c_longdouble
values.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-42990: Refactor the
PyEval_
family of functions.An new function
_PyEval_Vector
is added to simplify calls to Python from C._PyEval_EvalCodeWithName
is removedPyEval_EvalCodeEx
is retained as part of the API, but is not used internally
bpo-38631: Replace
Py_FatalError()
calls in the compiler with regularSystemError
exceptions. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42997: Improve error message for missing “:” before blocks. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-43017: Improve error message in the parser when using un-parenthesised tuples in comprehensions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-42986: Fix parser crash when reporting syntax errors in f-string with newlines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-40176: Syntax errors for unterminated string literals now point to the start of the string instead of reporting EOF/EOL.
bpo-42927: The inline cache for
LOAD_ATTR
now also optimizes access to attributes defined by__slots__
. This makes reading such attribute up to 30% faster.bpo-42864: Improve error messages in the parser when parentheses are not closed. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-42924: Fix
bytearray
repetition incorrectly copying data from the start of the buffer, even if the data is offset within the buffer (e.g. after reassigning a slice at the start of thebytearray
to a shorter byte string).bpo-42882: Fix the
_PyUnicode_FromId()
function (_Py_IDENTIFIER(var) API) whenPy_Initialize()
/Py_Finalize()
is called multiple times: preserve_PyRuntime.unicode_ids.next_index
value.bpo-42827: Fix a crash when working out the error line of a
SyntaxError
in some multi-line expressions.bpo-42823: frame.f_lineno is correct even if frame.f_trace is set to True
bpo-37324: Remove deprecated aliases to Classes Base Abstratas de Coleções from the
collections
module.bpo-41994: Fixed possible leak in
import
whensys.modules
is not adict
.bpo-27772: In string formatting, preceding the width field by
'0'
no longer affects the default alignment for strings.
Library¶
bpo-43108: Fixed a reference leak in the
curses
module. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-43077: Update the bundled pip to 21.0.1 and setuptools to 52.0.0.
bpo-41282: Deprecate
distutils
in documentation and add warning on import.bpo-43014: Improve performance of
tokenize
by 20-30%. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-42323: Fix
math.nextafter()
for NaN on AIX.bpo-42955: Add
sys.stdlib_module_names
, containing the list of the standard library module names. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42944: Fix
random.Random.sample
whencounts
argument is notNone
.bpo-42934: Use
TracebackException
’s newcompact
param inTestResult
to reduce time and memory consumed by traceback formatting.bpo-42931: Add
randbytes()
torandom.__all__
.bpo-38250: [Enum] Flags consisting of a single bit are now considered canonical, and will be the only flags returned from listing and iterating over a Flag class or a Flag member. Multi-bit flags are considered aliases; they will be returned from lookups and operations that result in their value. Iteration for both Flag and Flag members is in definition order.
bpo-42877: Added the
compact
parameter to the constructor oftraceback.TracebackException
to reduce time and memory for use cases that only need to callTracebackException.format()
andTracebackException.format_exception_only()
.bpo-42923: The
Py_FatalError()
function and thefaulthandler
module now dump the list of extension modules on a fatal error.bpo-42848: Removed recursion from
TracebackException
to allow it to handle long exception chains.bpo-42901: [Enum] move member creation from
EnumMeta.__new__
to_proto_member.__set_name__
, allowing members to be created and visible in__init_subclass__
.bpo-42780: Fix os.set_inheritable() for O_PATH file descriptors on Linux.
bpo-42866: Fix a reference leak in the
getcodec()
function of CJK codecs. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42846: Convert the 6 CJK codec extension modules (_codecs_cn, _codecs_hk, _codecs_iso2022, _codecs_jp, _codecs_kr and _codecs_tw) to the multiphase initialization API (PEP 489). Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-42851: remove __init_subclass__ support for Enum members
bpo-42834: Make internal caches of the
_json
module compatible with subinterpreters.bpo-41748: Fix HTMLParser parsing rules for element attributes containing commas with spaces. Patch by Karl Dubost.
bpo-40810: Require SQLite 3.7.15 or newer. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
bpo-1635741: Convert the _multibytecodec extension module (CJK codecs) to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489). Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
bpo-42802: The distutils
bdist_wininst
command deprecated in Python 3.8 has been removed. The distutilsbdist_wheel
command is now recommended to distribute binary packages on Windows.bpo-24464: The undocumented built-in function
sqlite3.enable_shared_cache
is now deprecated, scheduled for removal in Python 3.12. Its use is strongly discouraged by the SQLite3 documentation. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-42384: Make pdb populate sys.path[0] exactly the same as regular python execution.
bpo-42383: Fix pdb: previously pdb would fail to restart the debugging target if it was specified using a relative path and the current directory changed.
bpo-42005: Fix CLI of
cProfile
andprofile
to catchBrokenPipeError
.bpo-41604: Don’t decrement the reference count of the previous user_ptr when set_panel_userptr fails.
bpo-41149: Allow executing callables that have a boolean value of
False
when passed toThreading.thread
as the target. Patch contributed by Barney Stratford.bpo-38307: Add an ‘end_lineno’ attribute to the Class and Function objects that appear in the tree returned by pyclbr functions. This and the existing ‘lineno’ attribute define the extent of class and def statements. Patch by Aviral Srivastava.
bpo-39273: The
BUTTON5_*
constants are now exposed in thecurses
module if available.bpo-33289: Correct call to
tkinter.colorchooser
to return RGB triplet of ints instead of floats. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
Build¶
bpo-43031: Pass
--timeout=$(TESTTIMEOUT)
option to the default profile task./python -m test --pgo
command.bpo-36143:
make regen-all
now also runsregen-keyword
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42874: Removed the grep -q and -E flags in the tzpath validation section of the configure script to better accommodate users of some platforms (specifically Solaris 10).
bpo-31904: Add library search path by wr-cc in add_cross_compiling_paths() for VxWorks.
bpo-42856: Add
--with-wheel-pkg-dir=PATH
option to the./configure
script. If specified, theensurepip
module looks forsetuptools
andpip
wheel packages in this directory: if both are present, these wheel packages are used instead of ensurepip bundled wheel packages.Some Linux distribution packaging policies recommend against bundling dependencies. For example, Fedora installs wheel packages in the
/usr/share/python-wheels/
directory and don’t install theensurepip._bundled
package.
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-42504: Ensure that the value of sysconfig.get_config_var(‘MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET’) is always a string, even in when the value is parsable as an integer.
IDLE¶
bpo-43008: Make IDLE invoke
sys.excepthook()
in normal, 2-process mode. Patch by Ken Hilton.bpo-33065: Fix problem debugging user classes with __repr__ method.
bpo-23544: Disable Debug=>Stack Viewer when user code is running or Debugger is active, to prevent hang or crash. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-32631: Finish zzdummy example extension module: make menu entries work; add docstrings and tests with 100% coverage.
C API¶
bpo-42979: When Python is built in debug mode (with C assertions), calling a type slot like
sq_length
(__len__()
in Python) now fails with a fatal error if the slot succeeded with an exception set, or failed with no exception set. The error message contains the slot, the type name, and the current exception (if an exception is set). Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-43030: Fixed a compiler warning in
Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE()
on platforms with signedwchar_t
.
Python 3.10.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2021-01-04
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-42814: Fix undefined behavior in
Objects/genericaliasobject.c
.bpo-42806: Fix the column offsets for f-strings
ast
nodes surrounded by parentheses and for nodes that spawn multiple lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-40631: Fix regression where a single parenthesized starred expression was a valid assignment target.
bpo-27794: Improve the error message for failed writes/deletes to property objects. When possible, the attribute name is now shown. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.
bpo-42745: Make the type attribute lookup cache per-interpreter. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-42246: Jumps to jumps are not eliminated when it would break PEP 626.
bpo-42246: Make sure that the
f_lasti
andf_lineno
attributes of a frame are set correctly when an exception is raised or re-raised. Required for PEP 626.bpo-32381: The coding cookie (ex:
# coding: latin1
) is now ignored in the command passed to the-c
command line option. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-30858: Improve error location in expressions that contain assignments. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Lysandros Nikolaou.
bpo-42615: Remove jump commands made redundant by the deletion of unreachable bytecode blocks
bpo-42639: Make the
atexit
module state per-interpreter. It is now safe have more than oneatexit
module instance. Patch by Donghee Na and Victor Stinner.bpo-32381: Fix encoding name when running a
.pyc
file on Windows:PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()
now uses the correct encoding to decode the filename.bpo-42195: The
__args__
of the parameterized generics fortyping.Callable
andcollections.abc.Callable
are now consistent. The__args__
forcollections.abc.Callable
are now flattened whiletyping.Callable
’s have not changed. To allow this change,types.GenericAlias
can now be subclassed andcollections.abc.Callable
’s__class_getitem__
will now return a subclass oftypes.GenericAlias
. Tests for typing were also updated to not subclass things likeCallable[..., T]
as that is not a valid base class. Finally, bothCallable
s no longer validate theirargtypes
, inCallable[[argtypes], resulttype]
to prepare for PEP 612. Patch by Ken Jin.bpo-40137: Convert functools module to use
PyType_FromModuleAndSpec()
.bpo-40077: Convert
array
to use heap types, and establish module state for these.bpo-42008: Fix _random.Random() seeding.
bpo-1635741: Port the
pyexpat
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-40521: Make the Unicode dictionary of interned strings compatible with subinterpreters. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-39465: Make
_PyUnicode_FromId()
function compatible with subinterpreters. Each interpreter now has an array of identifier objects (interned strings decoded from UTF-8). Patch by Victor Stinner.
Library¶
bpo-42257: Handle empty string in variable executable in platform.libc_ver()
bpo-42772: randrange() now raises a TypeError when step is specified without a stop argument. Formerly, it silently ignored the step argument.
bpo-42759: Fixed equality comparison of
tkinter.Variable
andtkinter.font.Font
. Objects which belong to different Tcl interpreters are now always different, even if they have the same name.bpo-42756: Configure LMTP Unix-domain socket to use socket global default timeout when a timeout is not explicitly provided.
bpo-23328: Allow / character in username, password fields on _PROXY envars.
bpo-42740:
typing.get_args()
andtyping.get_origin()
now support PEP 604 union types and PEP 612 additions toCallable
.bpo-42655:
subprocess
extra_groups is now correctly passed into setgroups() system call.bpo-42727:
EnumMeta.__prepare__
now accepts**kwds
to properly support__init_subclass__
bpo-38308: Add optional weights to statistics.harmonic_mean().
bpo-42721: When simple query dialogs (
tkinter.simpledialog
), message boxes (tkinter.messagebox
) or color choose dialog (tkinter.colorchooser
) are created without arguments master and parent, and the default root window is not yet created, andNoDefaultRoot()
was not called, a new temporal hidden root window will be created automatically. It will not be set as the default root window and will be destroyed right after closing the dialog window. It will help to use these simple dialog windows in programs which do not need other GUI.bpo-25246: Optimized
collections.deque.remove()
.bpo-35728: Added a root parameter to
tkinter.font.nametofont()
.bpo-15303:
tkinter
supports now widgets with boolean value False.bpo-42681: Fixed range checks for color and pair numbers in
curses
.bpo-42685: Improved placing of simple query windows in Tkinter (such as
tkinter.simpledialog.askinteger()
). They are now centered at the center of the parent window if it is specified and shown, otherwise at the center of the screen.bpo-9694: Argparse help no longer uses the confusing phrase, “optional arguments”. It uses “options” instead.
bpo-1635741: Port the
_thread
extension module to the multiphase initialization API (PEP 489) and convert its static types to heap types.bpo-37961: Fix crash in
tracemalloc.Traceback.__repr__()
(regressed in Python 3.9).bpo-42630:
tkinter
functions and constructors which need a default root window raise nowRuntimeError
with descriptive message instead of obscureAttributeError
orNameError
if it is not created yet or cannot be created automatically.bpo-42639:
atexit._run_exitfuncs()
now logs callback exceptions usingsys.unraisablehook
, rather than logging them directly intosys.stderr
and raise the last exception.bpo-42644:
logging.disable
will now validate the types and value of its parameter. It also now accepts strings representing the levels (as doeslogging.setLevel
) instead of only the numerical values.bpo-42639: At Python exit, if a callback registered with
atexit.register()
fails, its exception is now logged. Previously, only some exceptions were logged, and the last exception was always silently ignored.bpo-36541: Fixed lib2to3.pgen2 to be able to parse PEP-570 positional only argument syntax.
bpo-42382: In
importlib.metadata
: -EntryPoint
objects now expose a.dist
object referencing theDistribution
when constructed from aDistribution
. - Add support for package discovery under package normalization rules. - The object returned bymetadata()
now has a formally defined protocol calledPackageMetadata
with declared support for the.get_all()
method. - Synced with importlib_metadata 3.3.bpo-41877: A check is added against misspellings of autospect, auto_spec and set_spec being passed as arguments to patch, patch.object and create_autospec.
bpo-39717: [tarfile] update nested exception raising to use
from None
orfrom e
bpo-41877: AttributeError for suspected misspellings of assertions on mocks are now pointing out that the cause are misspelled assertions and also what to do if the misspelling is actually an intended attribute name. The unittest.mock document is also updated to reflect the current set of recognised misspellings.
bpo-41559: Implemented PEP 612: added
ParamSpec
andConcatenate
totyping
. Patch by Ken Jin.bpo-42385: StrEnum: fix _generate_next_value_ to return a str
bpo-31904: Define THREAD_STACK_SIZE for VxWorks.
bpo-34750: [Enum]
_EnumDict.update()
is now supported.bpo-42517: Enum: private names do not become members / do not generate errors – they remain normal attributes
bpo-42678:
Enum
: call__init_subclass__
after members have been addedbpo-28964:
ast.literal_eval()
adds line number information (if available) in error message for malformed nodes.bpo-42470:
random.sample()
no longer warns on a sequence which is also a set.bpo-31904:
posixpath.expanduser()
returns the input path unchanged if user home directory is None on VxWorks.bpo-42388: Fix subprocess.check_output(…, input=None) behavior when text=True to be consistent with that of the documentation and universal_newlines=True.
bpo-34463: Fixed discrepancy between
traceback
and the interpreter in formatting of SyntaxError with lineno not set (traceback
was changed to match interpreter).bpo-42393: Raise
OverflowError
instead of silent truncation insocket.ntohs()
andsocket.htons()
. Silent truncation was deprecated in Python 3.7. Patch by Erlend E. Aaslandbpo-42222: Harmonized
random.randrange()
argument handling to matchrange()
.The integer test and conversion in
randrange()
now usesoperator.index()
.Non-integer arguments to
randrange()
are deprecated.The
ValueError
is deprecated in favor of aTypeError
.It now runs a little faster than before.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger and Serhiy Storchaka.)
bpo-42163: Restore compatibility for
uname_result
around deepcopy and _replace.bpo-42090:
zipfile.Path.joinpath
now accepts arbitrary arguments, same aspathlib.Path.joinpath
.bpo-1635741: Port the _csv module to the multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489).
bpo-42059:
typing.TypedDict
types created using the alternative call-style syntax now correctly respect thetotal
keyword argument when setting their__required_keys__
and__optional_keys__
class attributes.bpo-41960: Add
globalns
andlocalns
parameters to theinspect.signature()
andinspect.Signature.from_callable()
.bpo-41907: fix
format()
behavior forIntFlag
bpo-41891: Ensure asyncio.wait_for waits for task completion
bpo-24792: Fixed bug where
zipimporter
sometimes reports an incorrect cause of import errors.bpo-31904: Fix site and sysconfig modules for VxWorks RTOS which has no home directories.
bpo-41462: Add
os.set_blocking()
support for VxWorks RTOS.bpo-40219: Lowered
tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale
dummy widget to prevent hiding part of the content label.bpo-37193: Fixed memory leak in
socketserver.ThreadingMixIn
introduced in Python 3.7.bpo-39068: Fix initialization race condition in
a85encode()
andb85encode()
inbase64
. Patch by Brandon Stansbury.
Documentation¶
bpo-17140: Add documentation for the
multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool
class.bpo-34398: Prominently feature listings from the glossary in documentation search results. Patch by Ammar Askar.
Tests¶
bpo-42794: Update test_nntplib to use official group name of news.aioe.org for testing. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-31904: Skip some asyncio tests on VxWorks.
bpo-42641: Enhance
test_select.test_select()
: it now takes 500 milliseconds rather than 10 seconds. Use Python rather than a shell to make the test more portable.bpo-31904: Skip some tests in _test_all_chown_common() on VxWorks.
bpo-42199: Fix bytecode helper assertNotInBytecode.
bpo-41443: Add more attribute checking in test_posix.py
bpo-31904: Disable os.popen and impacted tests on VxWorks
bpo-41439: Port test_ssl and test_uuid to VxWorks RTOS.
Build¶
bpo-42692: Fix __builtin_available check on older compilers. Patch by Joshua Root.
bpo-27640: Added
--disable-test-modules
option to theconfigure
script: don’t build nor install test modules. Patch by Xavier de Gaye, Thomas Petazzoni and Peixing Xin.bpo-42604: Now all platforms use a value for the “EXT_SUFFIX” build variable derived from SOABI (for instance in freeBSD, “EXT_SUFFIX” is now “.cpython-310d.so” instead of “.so”). Previously only Linux, Mac and VxWorks were using a value for “EXT_SUFFIX” that included “SOABI”.
bpo-42598: Fix implicit function declarations in configure which could have resulted in incorrect configuration checks. Patch contributed by Joshua Root.
bpo-31904: Enable libpython3.so for VxWorks.
bpo-29076: Add fish shell support to macOS installer.
macOS¶
Tools/Demos¶
C API¶
bpo-42591: Export the
Py_FrozenMain()
function: fix a Python 3.9.0 regression. Python 3.9 uses-fvisibility=hidden
and the function was not exported explicitly and so not exported.bpo-32381: Remove the private
_Py_fopen()
function which is no longer needed. Use_Py_wfopen()
or_Py_fopen_obj()
instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-1635741: Port
resource
extension module to module statebpo-42111: Update the
xxlimited
module to be a better example of how to use the limited C API.bpo-40052: Fix an alignment build warning/error in function
PyVectorcall_Function()
. Patch by Andreas Schneider, Antoine Pitrou and Petr Viktorin.
Python 3.10.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2020-12-07
Security¶
bpo-40791: Add
volatile
to the accumulator variable inhmac.compare_digest
, making constant-time-defeating optimizations less likely.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-42576:
types.GenericAlias
will now raise aTypeError
when attempting to initialize with a keyword argument. Previously, this would cause the interpreter to crash if the interpreter was compiled with debug symbols. This does not affect interpreters compiled for release. Patch by Ken Jin.bpo-42536: Several built-in and standard library types now ensure that their internal result tuples are always tracked by the garbage collector:
Previously, they could have become untracked by a prior garbage collection. Patch by Brandt Bucher.
bpo-42500: Improve handling of exceptions near recursion limit. Converts a number of Fatal Errors in RecursionErrors.
bpo-42246: PEP 626: After a return, the f_lineno attribute of a frame is always the last line executed.
bpo-42435: Speed up comparison of bytes objects with non-bytes objects when option
-b
is specified. Speed up comparison of bytarray objects with non-buffer object.bpo-1635741: Port the
_warnings
extension module to the multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489). Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-41686: On Windows, the
SIGINT
event,_PyOS_SigintEvent()
, is now created even if Python is configured to not install signal handlers (ifPyConfig.install_signal_handlers
equals to 0, orPy_InitializeEx(0)
).bpo-42381: Allow assignment expressions in set literals and set comprehensions as per PEP 572. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-42202: Change function parameters annotations internal representation to tuple of strings. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.
bpo-42374: Fix a regression introduced by the new parser, where an unparenthesized walrus operator was not allowed within generator expressions.
bpo-42316: Allow an unparenthesized walrus in subscript indexes.
bpo-42349: Make sure that the compiler front-end produces a well-formed control flow graph. Be more aggressive in the compiler back-end, as it is now safe to do so.
bpo-42296: On Windows, fix a regression in signal handling which prevented to interrupt a program using CTRL+C. The signal handler can be run in a thread different than the Python thread, in which case the test deciding if the thread can handle signals is wrong.
bpo-42332:
types.GenericAlias
objects can now be the targets of weakrefs.bpo-42282: Optimise constant subexpressions that appear as part of named expressions (previously the AST optimiser did not descend into named expressions). Patch by Nick Coghlan.
bpo-42266: Fixed a bug with the LOAD_ATTR opcode cache that was not respecting monkey-patching a class-level attribute to make it a descriptor. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-42246: Improved accuracy of line tracing events and f_lineno attribute of Frame objects. See PEP 626 for details.
bpo-42233: Allow
GenericAlias
objects to use union type expressions. This allows expressions likelist[int] | dict[float, str]
where previously aTypeError
would have been thrown. This also fixes union type expressions not de-duplicatingGenericAlias
objects. (Contributed by Ken Jin in bpo-42233.)bpo-26131: The import system triggers a
ImportWarning
when it falls back to usingload_module()
.
Library¶
bpo-5054: CGIHTTPRequestHandler.run_cgi() HTTP_ACCEPT improperly parsed. Replace the special purpose getallmatchingheaders with generic get_all method and add relevant tests.
Original Patch by Martin Panter. Modified by Senthil Kumaran.
bpo-42562: Fix issue when dis failed to parse function that has no line numbers. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.
bpo-17735:
inspect.findsource()
now raisesOSError
instead ofIndexError
whenco_lineno
of a code object is greater than the file length. This can happen, for example, when a file is edited after it was imported. PR by Irit Katriel.bpo-42116: Fix handling of trailing comments by
inspect.getsource()
.bpo-42532: Remove unexpected call of
__bool__
when passing aspec_arg
argument to a Mock.bpo-38200: Added itertools.pairwise()
bpo-41818: Fix test_master_read() so that it succeeds on all platforms that either raise OSError or return b”” upon reading from master.
bpo-42487: ChainMap.__iter__ no longer calls __getitem__ on underlying maps
bpo-42482:
TracebackException
no longer holds a reference to the exception’s traceback object. Consequently, instances of TracebackException for equivalent but non-equal exceptions now compare as equal.bpo-41818: Make test_openpty() avoid unexpected success due to number of rows and/or number of columns being == 0.
bpo-42392: Remove loop parameter from
asyncio.subprocess
andasyncio.tasks
functions. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-42392: Remove loop parameter from
asyncio.open_connection
andasyncio.start_server
functions. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-28468: Add
platform.freedesktop_os_release()
function to parse freedesktop.orgos-release
files.bpo-42299: Removed the
formatter
module, which was deprecated in Python 3.4. It is somewhat obsolete, little used, and not tested. It was originally scheduled to be removed in Python 3.6, but such removals were delayed until after Python 2.7 EOL. Existing users should copy whatever classes they use into their code. Patch by Donghee Na and and Terry J. Reedy.bpo-26131: Deprecate zipimport.zipimporter.load_module() in favour of exec_module().
bpo-41818: Updated tests for the pty library. test_basic() has been changed to test_openpty(); this additionally checks if slave termios and slave winsize are being set properly by pty.openpty(). In order to add support for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin, this also adds test_master_read(), which demonstrates that pty.spawn() should not depend on an OSError to exit from its copy loop.
bpo-42392: Remove loop parameter from
__init__
in allasyncio.locks
andasyncio.Queue
classes. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-15450: Make
filecmp.dircmp
respect subclassing. Now thefilecmp.dircmp.subdirs
behaves as expected when subclassing dircmp.bpo-42413: The exception
socket.timeout
is now an alias ofTimeoutError
.bpo-31904: Support signal module on VxWorks.
bpo-42406: We fixed an issue in
pickle.whichmodule
in which importingmultiprocessing
could change the how pickle identifies which module an object belongs to, potentially breaking the unpickling of those objects.bpo-42403: Simplify the
importlib
external bootstrap code:importlib._bootstrap_external
now uses regular imports to import builtin modules. When it is imported, the builtin__import__()
function is already fully working and so can be used to import builtin modules likesys
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-1635741: Convert _sre module types to heap types (PEP 384). Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
bpo-42375: subprocess module update for DragonFlyBSD support.
bpo-41713: Port the
_signal
extension module to the multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489). Patch by Victor Stinner and Mohamed Koubaa.bpo-37205:
time.time()
,time.perf_counter()
andtime.monotonic()
functions can no longer fail with a Python fatal error, instead raise a regular Python exception on failure.bpo-42328: Fixed
tkinter.ttk.Style.map()
. The function accepts now the representation of the default state as empty sequence (as returned byStyle.map()
). The structure of the result is now the same on all platform and does not depend on the value ofwantobjects
.bpo-42345: Fix various issues with
typing.Literal
parameter handling (flatten, deduplicate, use type to cache key). Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.bpo-37205:
time.perf_counter()
on Windows andtime.monotonic()
on macOS are now system-wide. Previously, they used an offset computed at startup to reduce the precision loss caused by the float type. Usetime.perf_counter_ns()
andtime.monotonic_ns()
added in Python 3.7 to avoid this precision loss.bpo-42318: Fixed support of non-BMP characters in
tkinter
on macOS.bpo-42350: Fix the
threading.Thread
class at fork: do nothing if the thread is already stopped (ex: fork called at Python exit). Previously, an error was logged in the child process.bpo-42333: Port _ssl extension module to heap types.
bpo-42014: The
onerror
callback fromshutil.rmtree
now receives correct function whenos.open
fails.bpo-42237: Fix
os.sendfile()
on illumos.bpo-42308: Add
threading.__excepthook__
to allow retrieving the original value ofthreading.excepthook()
in case it is set to a broken or a different value. Patch by Mario Corchero.bpo-42131: Implement PEP 451/spec methods on zipimport.zipimporter: find_spec(), create_module(), and exec_module().
This also allows for the documented deprecation of find_loader(), find_module(), and load_module().
bpo-41877: Mock objects which are not unsafe will now raise an AttributeError if an attribute with the prefix asert, aseert, or assrt is accessed, in addition to this already happening for the prefixes assert or assret.
bpo-42264:
sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode
has been undocumented and obsolete since Python 3.3, when it was made an alias tostr
. It is now deprecated, scheduled for removal in Python 3.12.bpo-42251: Added
threading.gettrace()
andthreading.getprofile()
to retrieve the functions set bythreading.settrace()
andthreading.setprofile()
respectively. Patch by Mario Corchero.bpo-42249: Fixed writing binary Plist files larger than 4 GiB.
bpo-42236: On Unix, the
os.device_encoding()
function now returns'UTF-8'
rather than the device encoding if the Python UTF-8 Mode is enabled.bpo-41754: webbrowser: Ignore NotADirectoryError when calling
xdg-settings
.bpo-42183: Fix a stack overflow error for asyncio Task or Future repr().
The overflow occurs under some circumstances when a Task or Future recursively returns itself.
bpo-42140: Improve asyncio.wait function to create the futures set just one time.
bpo-42133: Update various modules in the stdlib to fall back on
__spec__.loader
when__loader__
isn’t defined on a module.bpo-26131: The
load_module()
methods found inimportlib
now trigger aDeprecationWarning
.bpo-39825: Windows: Change
sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX')
to the expected fullplatform_tag.extension
format. Previously it was hard-coded to.pyd
, now it is compatible withdistutils.sysconfig
and will result in something like.cp38-win_amd64.pyd
. This brings windows into conformance with the other platforms.bpo-26389: The
traceback.format_exception()
,traceback.format_exception_only()
, andtraceback.print_exception()
functions can now take an exception object as a positional-only argument.bpo-41889: Enum: fix regression involving inheriting a multiply inherited enum
bpo-41861: Convert
sqlite3
to use heap types (PEP 384). Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-40624: Added support for the XPath
!=
operator in xml.etreebpo-28850: Fix
pprint.PrettyPrinter.format()
overrides being ignored for contents of small containers. Thepprint._safe_repr()
function was removed.bpo-41625: Expose the
splice()
asos.splice()
in theos
module. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-34215: Clarify the error message for
asyncio.IncompleteReadError
whenexpected
isNone
.bpo-41543: Add async context manager support for contextlib.nullcontext.
bpo-21041:
pathlib.PurePath.parents
now supports negative indexing. Patch contributed by Yaroslav Pankovych.bpo-41332: Added missing connect_accepted_socket() method to
asyncio.AbstractEventLoop
.bpo-12800: Extracting a symlink from a tarball should succeed and overwrite the symlink if it already exists. The fix is to remove the existing file or symlink before extraction. Based on patch by Chris AtLee, Jeffrey Kintscher, and Senthil Kumaran.
bpo-40968:
urllib.request
andhttp.client
now sendhttp/1.1
ALPN extension during TLS handshake when no custom context is supplied.bpo-41001: Add
os.eventfd()
to provide a low level interface for Linux’s event notification file descriptor.bpo-40816: Add AsyncContextDecorator to contextlib to support async context manager as a decorator.
bpo-40550: Fix time-of-check/time-of-action issue in subprocess.Popen.send_signal.
bpo-39411: Add an
is_async
identifier topyclbr
’sFunction
objects. Patch by Batuhan Taskayabpo-35498: Add slice support to
pathlib.PurePath.parents
.
Documentation¶
bpo-42238: Tentative to deprecate
make suspicious
by first removing it from the CI and documentation builds, but keeping it around for manual uses.bpo-42153: Fix the URL for the IMAP protocol documents.
bpo-41028: Language and version switchers, previously maintained in every cpython branches, are now handled by docsbuild-script.
Tests¶
bpo-41473: Re-enable test_gdb on gdb 9.2 and newer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866884 bug is fixed in gdb 10.1.
bpo-42553: Fix
test_asyncio.test_call_later()
race condition: don’t measure asyncio performance in thecall_later()
unit test. The test failed randomly on the CI.bpo-31904: Fix test_netrc on VxWorks: create temporary directories using temp_cwd().
bpo-31904: skip test_getaddrinfo_ipv6_scopeid_symbolic and test_getnameinfo_ipv6_scopeid_symbolic on VxWorks
bpo-31904: skip test_test of test_mailcap on VxWorks
bpo-31904: add shell requirement for test_pipes
bpo-31904: skip some tests related to fifo on VxWorks
bpo-31904: Fix test_doctest.py failures for VxWorks.
bpo-40754: Include
_testinternalcapi
module in Windows installer for test suitebpo-41561: test_ssl: skip test_min_max_version_mismatch when TLS 1.0 is not available
bpo-31904: Fix os module failures for VxWorks RTOS.
bpo-31904: Fix fifo test cases for VxWorks RTOS.
Build¶
bpo-31904: remove libnet dependency from detect_socket() for VxWorks
bpo-42398: Fix a race condition in “make regen-all” when make -jN option is used to run jobs in parallel. The clinic.py script now only use atomic write to write files. Moveover, generated files are now left unchanged if the content does not change, to not change the file modification time.
bpo-41617: Fix building
pycore_bitutils.h
internal header on old clang version without__builtin_bswap16()
(ex: Xcode 4.6.3 on Mac OS X 10.7). Patch by Joshua Root and Victor Stinner.bpo-38823: It is no longer possible to build the
_ctypes
extension module withoutwchar_t
type: removeCTYPES_UNICODE
macro. Anyway, thewchar_t
type is required to build Python. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42087: Support was removed for AIX 5.3 and below. See bpo-40680.
bpo-40998: Addressed three compiler warnings found by undefined behavior sanitizer (ubsan).
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-42504: Fix build on macOS Big Sur when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11
bpo-41116: Ensure distutils.unixxcompiler.find_library_file can find system provided libraries on macOS 11.
bpo-41100: Add support for macOS 11 and Apple Silicon systems.
It is now possible to build “Universal 2” binaries using “–enable-universalsdk –with-universal-archs=universal2”.
Binaries build on later macOS versions can be deployed back to older versions (tested up to macOS 10.9), when using the correct deployment target. This is tested using Xcode 11 and later.
bpo-42232: Added Darwin specific madvise options to mmap module.
bpo-38443: The
--enable-universalsdk
and--with-universal-archs
options for the configure script now check that the specified architectures can be used.
IDLE¶
bpo-42508: Keep IDLE running on macOS. Remove obsolete workaround that prevented running files with shortcuts when using new universal2 installers built on macOS 11.
bpo-42426: Fix reporting offset of the RE error in searchengine.
bpo-42415: Get docstrings for IDLE calltips more often by using inspect.getdoc.
Tools/Demos¶
C API¶
bpo-42423: The
PyType_FromSpecWithBases()
andPyType_FromModuleAndSpec()
functions now accept a single class as the bases argument.bpo-1635741: Port
select
extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port _posixsubprocess extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-1635741: Port _posixshmem extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)
bpo-1635741: Port _struct extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)
bpo-1635741: Port
spwd
extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)bpo-1635741: Port
gc
extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)bpo-1635741: Port _queue extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)
bpo-39573: Convert
Py_TYPE()
andPy_SIZE()
back to macros to allow using them as an l-value. Many third party C extension modules rely on the ability of using Py_TYPE() and Py_SIZE() to set an object type and size:Py_TYPE(obj) = type;
andPy_SIZE(obj) = size;
.bpo-1635741: Port
symtable
extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)bpo-1635741: Port
grp
andpwd
extension modules to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)bpo-1635741: Port _random extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)
bpo-1635741: Port _hashlib extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489)
bpo-41713: Removed the undocumented
PyOS_InitInterrupts()
function. Initializing Python already implicitly installs signal handlers: seePyConfig.install_signal_handlers
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-40170: The
Py_TRASHCAN_BEGIN
macro no longer accesses PyTypeObject attributes, but now can get the condition by calling the new private_PyTrash_cond()
function which hides implementation details.bpo-42260:
Py_GetPath()
,Py_GetPrefix()
,Py_GetExecPrefix()
,Py_GetProgramFullPath()
,Py_GetPythonHome()
andPy_GetProgramName()
functions now returnNULL
if called beforePy_Initialize()
(before Python is initialized). Use the new Python Initialization Configuration API to get the Python Path Configuration.. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42260: The
PyConfig_Read()
function now only parsesPyConfig.argv
arguments once:PyConfig.parse_argv
is set to2
after arguments are parsed. Since Python arguments are strippped fromPyConfig.argv
, parsing arguments twice would parse the application options as Python options.bpo-42262: Added
Py_NewRef()
andPy_XNewRef()
functions to increment the reference count of an object and return the object. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42260: When
Py_Initialize()
is called twice, the second call now updates moresys
attributes for the configuration, rather than onlysys.argv
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-41832: The
PyType_FromModuleAndSpec()
function now accepts NULLtp_doc
slot.bpo-1635741: Added
PyModule_AddObjectRef()
function: similar toPyModule_AddObject()
but don’t steal a reference to the value on success. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42171: The
METH_FASTCALL
calling convention is added to the limited API. The functionsPyModule_AddType()
,PyType_FromModuleAndSpec()
,PyType_GetModule()
andPyType_GetModuleState()
are added to the limited API on Windows.bpo-42085: Add dedicated entry to PyAsyncMethods for sending values
bpo-41073:
PyType_GetSlot()
can now accept static types.bpo-30459:
PyList_SET_ITEM()
,PyTuple_SET_ITEM()
andPyCell_SET()
macros can no longer be used as l-value or r-value. For example,x = PyList_SET_ITEM(a, b, c)
andPyList_SET_ITEM(a, b, c) = x
now fail with a compiler error. It prevents bugs likeif (PyList_SET_ITEM (a, b, c) < 0) ...
test. Patch by Zackery Spytz and Victor Stinner.
Python 3.10.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2020-11-03
Security¶
bpo-42103: Prevented potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.
bpo-42051: The
plistlib
module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-42236: If the
nl_langinfo(CODESET)
function returns an empty string, Python now uses UTF-8 as the filesystem encoding. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42218: Fixed a bug in the PEG parser that was causing crashes in debug mode. Now errors are checked in left-recursive rules to avoid cases where such errors do not get handled in time and appear as long-distance crashes in other places.
bpo-42214: Fixed a possible crash in the PEG parser when checking for the ‘!=’ token in the
barry_as_flufl
rule. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-42206: Propagate and raise the errors caused by
PyAST_Validate()
in the parser.bpo-41796: The
ast
module internal state is now per interpreter. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42143: Fix handling of errors during creation of
PyFunctionObject
, which resulted in operations on uninitialized memory. Patch by Yonatan Goldschmidt.bpo-41659: Fix a bug in the parser, where a curly brace following a
primary
didn’t fail immediately. This led to invalid expressions likea {b}
to throw aSyntaxError
with a wrong offset, or invalid expressions ending with a curly brace likea {
to not fail immediately in the REPL.bpo-42150: Fix possible buffer overflow in the new parser when checking for continuation lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-42123: Run the parser two times. On the first run, disable all the rules that only generate better error messages to gain performance. If there’s a parse failure, run the parser a second time with those enabled.
bpo-42093: The
LOAD_ATTR
instruction now uses new “per opcode cache” mechanism and it is about 36% faster now. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Yury Selivanov.bpo-42030: Support for the legacy AIX-specific shared library loading support has been removed. All versions of AIX since 4.3 have supported and defaulted to using the common Unix mechanism instead.
bpo-41984: The garbage collector now tracks all user-defined classes. Patch by Brandt Bucher.
bpo-41993: Fixed potential issues with removing not completely initialized module from
sys.modules
when import fails.bpo-41979: Star-unpacking is now allowed for with item’s targets in the PEG parser.
bpo-41974: Removed special methods
__int__
,__float__
,__floordiv__
,__mod__
,__divmod__
,__rfloordiv__
,__rmod__
and__rdivmod__
of thecomplex
class. They always raised aTypeError
.bpo-41902: Micro optimization when compute
sq_item
andmp_subscript
ofrange
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-41894: When loading a native module and a load failure occurs, prevent a possible UnicodeDecodeError when not running in a UTF-8 locale by decoding the load error message using the current locale’s encoding.
bpo-41902: Micro optimization for range.index if step is 1. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-41435: Add
sys._current_exceptions()
function to retrieve a dictionary mapping each thread’s identifier to the topmost exception currently active in that thread at the time the function is called.bpo-38605: Enable
from __future__ import annotations
(PEP 563) by default. The values found in__annotations__
dicts are now strings, for example{"x": "int"}
instead of{"x": int}
.
Library¶
bpo-35455: On Solaris,
thread_time()
is now implemented withgethrvtime()
becauseclock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)
is not always available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.bpo-42233: The
repr()
oftyping
types containing Generic Alias Types previously did not show the parameterized types in theGenericAlias
. They have now been changed to do so.bpo-29566:
binhex.binhex()
consistently writes macOS 9 line endings.bpo-26789: The
logging.FileHandler
class now keeps a reference to the builtinopen()
function to be able to open or reopen the file during Python finalization. Fix errors like:NameError: name 'open' is not defined
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42157: Removed the
unicodedata.ucnhash_CAPI
attribute which was an internal PyCapsule object. The related private_PyUnicode_Name_CAPI
structure was moved to the internal C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42157: Convert the
unicodedata
extension module to the multiphase initialization API (PEP 489) and convert theunicodedata.UCD
static type to a heap type. Patch by Mohamed Koubaa and Victor Stinner.bpo-42146: Fix memory leak in
subprocess.Popen()
in case an uid (gid) specified inuser
(group
,extra_groups
) overflowsuid_t
(gid_t
).bpo-42103:
InvalidFileException
andRecursionError
are now the only errors caused by loading malformed binary Plist file (previously ValueError and TypeError could be raised in some specific cases).bpo-41490: In
importlib.resources
,.path
method is more aggressive about releasing handles to zipfile objects early, enabling use-cases like certifi to leave the context open but delete the underlying zip file.bpo-41052: Pickling heap types implemented in C with protocols 0 and 1 raises now an error instead of producing incorrect data.
bpo-42089: In
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError
, make reference to the package metadata being missing to improve the user experience.bpo-41491: plistlib: fix parsing XML plists with hexadecimal integer values
bpo-42065: Fix an incorrectly formatted error from
_codecs.charmap_decode()
when called with a mapped value outside the range of valid Unicode code points. PR by Max Bernstein.bpo-41966: Fix pickling pure Python
datetime.time
subclasses. Patch by Dean Inwood.bpo-19270:
sched.scheduler.cancel()
will now cancel the correct event, if two events with same priority are scheduled for the same time. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-28660:
textwrap.wrap()
now attempts to break long words after hyphens whenbreak_long_words=True
andbreak_on_hyphens=True
.bpo-35823: Use
vfork()
instead offork()
forsubprocess.Popen()
on Linux to improve performance in cases where it is deemed safe.bpo-42043: Add support for
zipfile.Path
inheritance.zipfile.Path.is_file()
now returns False for non-existent names.zipfile.Path
objects now expose a.filename
attribute and rely on that to resolve.name
and.parent
when thePath
object is at the root of the zipfile.bpo-39101: Fixed tests using IsolatedAsyncioTestCase from hanging on BaseExceptions.
bpo-41976: Fixed a bug that was causing
ctypes.util.find_library()
to returnNone
when triying to locate a library in an environment when gcc>=9 is available andldconfig
is not. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-41943: Fix bug where TestCase.assertLogs doesn’t correctly filter messages by level.
bpo-41923: Implement PEP 613, introducing
typing.TypeAlias
annotation.bpo-41905: A new function in abc: update_abstractmethods to re-calculate an abstract class’s abstract status. In addition, dataclass has been changed to call this function.
bpo-23706: Added newline parameter to
pathlib.Path.write_text()
.bpo-41876: Tkinter font class repr uses font name
bpo-41831:
str()
for thetype
attribute of thetkinter.Event
object always returns now the numeric code returned by Tk instead of the name of the event type.bpo-39337:
encodings.normalize_encoding()
now ignores non-ASCII characters.bpo-41747: Ensure all methods that generated from
dataclasses.dataclass()
objects now have the proper__qualname__
attribute referring to the class they belong to. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-30681: Handle exceptions caused by unparsable date headers when using email “default” policy. Patch by Tim Bell, Georges Toth
bpo-41586: Add F_SETPIPE_SZ and F_GETPIPE_SZ to fcntl module. Allow setting pipesize on subprocess.Popen.
bpo-41229: Add
contextlib.aclosing
for deterministic cleanup of async generators which is analogous tocontextlib.closing
for non-async generators. Patch by Joongi Kim and John Belmonte.bpo-16396: Allow
ctypes.wintypes
to be imported on non-Windows systems.bpo-4356: Add a key function to the bisect module.
bpo-40592:
shutil.which()
now ignores empty entries inPATHEXT
instead of treating them as a match.bpo-40492: Fix
--outfile
forcProfile
/profile
not writing the output file in the original directory when the program being profiled changes the working directory. PR by Anthony Sottile.bpo-34204: The
shelve
module now usespickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL
by default instead ofpickle
protocol3
.bpo-27321: Fixed KeyError exception when flattening an email to a string attempts to replace a non-existent Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
bpo-38976: The
http.cookiejar
module now supports the parsing of cookies in CURL-style cookiejar files through MozillaCookieJar on all platforms. Previously, such cookie entries would be silently ignored when loading a cookiejar with such entries.Additionally, the HTTP Only attribute is persisted in the object, and will be correctly written to file if the MozillaCookieJar object is subsequently dumped.
Documentation¶
bpo-42061: Document __format__ functionality for IP addresses.
bpo-41910: Document the default implementation of
object.__eq__
.bpo-42010: Clarify that subscription expressions are also valid for certain classes and types in the standard library, and for user-defined classes and types if the classmethod
__class_getitem__()
is provided.bpo-41805: Documented generic alias type and
types.GenericAlias
. Also added an entry in glossary for generic types.bpo-39693: Fix tarfile’s extractfile documentation
bpo-39416: Document some restrictions on the default string representations of numeric classes.
Tests¶
bpo-41739: Fix test_logging.test_race_between_set_target_and_flush(): the test now waits until all threads complete to avoid leaking running threads.
bpo-41970: Avoid a test failure in
test_lib2to3
if the module has already imported at the time the test executes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-41944: Tests for CJK codecs no longer call
eval()
on content received via HTTP.bpo-41306: Fixed a failure in
test_tk.test_widgets.ScaleTest
happening when executing the test with Tk 8.6.10.
Build¶
bpo-38980: Add
-fno-semantic-interposition
to both the compile and link line when building with--enable-optimizations
. Patch by Victor Stinner and Pablo Galindo.
Windows¶
bpo-38439: Updates the icons for IDLE in the Windows Store package.
bpo-38252: Use 8-byte step to detect ASCII sequence in 64-bit Windows build.
bpo-39107: Update Tcl and Tk to 8.6.10 in Windows installer.
bpo-41557: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
bpo-38324: Avoid Unicode errors when accessing certain locale data on Windows.
macOS¶
bpo-41471: Ignore invalid prefix lengths in system proxy excludes.
IDLE¶
bpo-33987: Mostly finish using ttk widgets, mainly for editor, settings, and searches. Some patches by Mark Roseman.
bpo-40511: Typing opening and closing parentheses inside the parentheses of a function call will no longer cause unnecessary “flashing” off and on of an existing open call-tip, e.g. when typed in a string literal.
bpo-38439: Add a 256×256 pixel IDLE icon to the Windows .ico file. Created by Andrew Clover. Remove the low-color gif variations from the .ico file.
C API¶
bpo-42157: The private
_PyUnicode_Name_CAPI
structure of the PyCapsule APIunicodedata.ucnhash_CAPI
has been moved to the internal C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-42015: Fix potential crash in deallocating method objects when dynamically allocated
PyMethodDef
’s lifetime is managed through theself
argument of aPyCFunction
.bpo-40423: The
subprocess
module andos.closerange
will now use theclose_range(low, high, flags)
syscall when it is available for more efficient closing of ranges of descriptors.bpo-41845:
PyObject_GenericGetDict()
is available again in the limited API when targeting 3.10 or later.bpo-40422: Add
_Py_closerange
function to provide performant closing of a range of file descriptors.bpo-41986:
Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors
andPy_UTF8Mode
are available again in limited API.bpo-41756: Add
PyIter_Send
function to allow sending value into generator/coroutine/iterator without raising StopIteration exception to signal return.bpo-41784: Added
PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize
to the limited C API.
Python 3.10.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2020-10-05
Security¶
bpo-41304: Fixes
python3x._pth
being ignored on Windows, caused by the fix for bpo-29778 (CVE 2020-15801).bpo-41162: Audit hooks are now cleared later during finalization to avoid missing events.
bpo-29778: Ensure
python3.dll
is loaded from correct locations when Python is embedded (CVE 2020-15523).bpo-41004: The __hash__() methods of ipaddress.IPv4Interface and ipaddress.IPv6Interface incorrectly generated constant hash values of 32 and 128 respectively. This resulted in always causing hash collisions. The fix uses hash() to generate hash values for the tuple of (address, mask length, network address).
bpo-39603: Prevent http header injection by rejecting control characters in http.client.putrequest(…).
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-41909: Fixed stack overflow in
issubclass()
andisinstance()
when getting the__bases__
attribute leads to infinite recursion.bpo-41922: Speed up calls to
reversed()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-41873: Calls to
float()
are now faster due to thevectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.bpo-41870: Speed up calls to
bool()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-1635741: Port the
_bisect
module to the multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489).bpo-39934: Correctly count control blocks in ‘except’ in compiler. Ensures that a syntax error, rather a fatal error, occurs for deeply nested, named exception handlers.
bpo-41780: Fix
__dir__()
oftypes.GenericAlias
. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-1635741: Port the
_lsprof
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port the
cmath
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port the
_scproxy
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port the
termios
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Convert the
_sha256
extension module types to heap types.bpo-41690: Fix a possible stack overflow in the parser when parsing functions and classes with a huge amount of arguments. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-1635741: Port the
_overlapped
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port the
_curses_panel
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port the
_opcode
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-41681: Fixes the wrong error description in the error raised by using 2
,
in format string in f-string andstr.format()
.bpo-41675: The implementation of
signal.siginterrupt()
now usessigaction()
(if it is available in the system) instead of the deprecatedsiginterrupt()
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-41670: Prevent line trace being skipped on platforms not compiled with
USE_COMPUTED_GOTOS
. Fixes issue where some lines nested within a try-except block were not being traced on Windows.bpo-41654: Fix a crash that occurred when destroying subclasses of
MemoryError
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-1635741: Port the
zlib
extension module to multi-phase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-41631: The
_ast
module uses again a global state. Using a module state per module instance is causing subtle practical problems. For example, the Mercurial project replaces the__import__()
function to implement lazy import, whereas Python expected thatimport _ast
always return a fully initialized_ast
module.bpo-40077: Convert
_operator
to usePyType_FromSpec()
.bpo-1653741: Port
_sha3
to multi-phase init. Convert static types to heap types.bpo-1635741: Port the
_blake2
extension module to the multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489).bpo-41533: Free the stack allocated in
va_build_stack
ifdo_mkstack
fails and the stack is not asmall_stack
.bpo-41531: Fix a bug that was dropping keys when compiling dict literals with more than 0xFFFF elements. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-41525: The output of
python --help
contains now only ASCII characters.bpo-1635741: Port the
_sha1
,_sha512
, and_md5
extension modules to multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489).bpo-41431: Optimize
dict_merge()
for copying dict (e.g.dict(d)
and{}.update(d)
).bpo-41428: Implement PEP 604. This supports (int | str) etc. in place of Union[str, int].
bpo-41340: Removed fallback implementation for
strdup
.bpo-38156: Handle interrupts that come after EOF correctly in
PyOS_StdioReadline
.bpo-41342:
round()
with integer argument is now faster (9–60%).bpo-41334: Constructors
str()
,bytes()
andbytearray()
are now faster (around 30–40% for small objects).bpo-41295: Resolve a regression in CPython 3.8.4 where defining “__setattr__” in a multi-inheritance setup and calling up the hierarchy chain could fail if builtins/extension types were involved in the base types.
bpo-41323: Bytecode optimizations are performed directly on the control flow graph. This will result in slightly more compact code objects in some circumstances.
bpo-41247: Always cache the running loop holder when running
asyncio.set_running_loop
.bpo-41252: Fix incorrect refcounting in _ssl.c’s
_servername_callback()
.bpo-1635741: Port
multiprocessing
to multi-phase initializationbpo-1635741: Port
winapi
to multiphase initializationbpo-41215: Use non-NULL default values in the PEG parser keyword list to overcome a bug that was preventing Python from being properly compiled when using the XLC compiler. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-41218: Python 3.8.3 had a regression where compiling with ast.PyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT would aggressively mark list comprehension with CO_COROUTINE. Now only list comprehension making use of async/await will tagged as so.
bpo-1635741: Port
faulthandler
to multiphase initialization.bpo-1635741: Port
sha256
to multiphase initializationbpo-41175: Guard against a NULL pointer dereference within bytearrayobject triggered by the
bytearray() + bytearray()
operation.bpo-41100: add arm64 to the allowable Mac OS arches in mpdecimal.h
bpo-41094: Fix decoding errors with audit when open files with non-ASCII names on non-UTF-8 locale.
bpo-39960: The “hackcheck” that prevents sneaking around a type’s __setattr__() by calling the superclass method was rewritten to allow C implemented heap types.
bpo-41084: Prefix the error message with ‘f-string: ‘, when parsing an f-string expression which throws a
SyntaxError
.bpo-40521: Empty frozensets are no longer singletons.
bpo-41076: Pre-feed the parser with the location of the f-string expression, not the f-string itself, which allows us to skip the shifting of the AST node locations after the parsing is completed.
bpo-41056: Fixes a reference to deallocated stack space during startup when constructing sys.path involving a relative symlink when code was supplied via -c. (discovered via Coverity)
bpo-41061: Fix incorrect expressions and asserts in hashtable code and tests.
bpo-41052: Opt out serialization/deserialization for _random.Random
bpo-40939: Rename
PyPegen*
functions toPyParser*
, so that we can remove the old set ofPyParser*
functions that were using the old parser, but keep everything backwards-compatible.bpo-35975: Stefan Behnel reported that cf_feature_version is used even when PyCF_ONLY_AST is not set. This is against the intention and against the documented behavior, so it’s been fixed.
bpo-40939: Remove the remaining files from the old parser and the
symbol
module.bpo-40077: Convert
_bz2
to usePyType_FromSpec()
.bpo-41006: The
encodings.latin_1
module is no longer imported at startup. Now it is only imported when it is the filesystem encoding or the stdio encoding.bpo-40636:
zip()
now supports PEP 618’sstrict
parameter, which raises aValueError
if the arguments are exhausted at different lengths. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-1635741: Port
_gdbm
to multiphase initialization.bpo-40985: Fix a bug that caused the
SyntaxError
text to be empty when a file ends with a line ending in a line continuation character (i.e. backslash). The error text should contain the text of the last line.bpo-40958: Fix a possible buffer overflow in the PEG parser when gathering information for emitting syntax errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-1635741: Port
_dbm
to multiphase initialization.bpo-40957: Fix refleak in _Py_fopen_obj() when PySys_Audit() fails
bpo-40950: Add a state to the
nis
module (PEP 3121) and apply the multiphase initialization. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-40947: The Python Path Configuration now takes
PyConfig.platlibdir
in account.bpo-40939: Remove the old parser, the
parser
module and all associated support code, command-line options and environment variables. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-40847: Fix a bug where a line with only a line continuation character is not considered a blank line at tokenizer level. In such cases, more than a single
NEWLINE
token was emitted. The old parser was working around the issue, but the new parser threw aSyntaxError
for valid input due to this. For example, an empty line following a line continuation character was interpreted as aSyntaxError
.bpo-40890: Each dictionary view now has a
mapping
attribute that provides atypes.MappingProxyType
wrapping the original dictionary. Patch contributed by Dennis Sweeney.bpo-40889: Improved the performance of symmetric difference operations on dictionary item views. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.
bpo-40904: Fix possible segfault in the new PEG parser when parsing f-string containing yield statements with no value (
f"{yield}"
). Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-40903: Fixed a possible segfault in the new PEG parser when producing error messages for invalid assignments of the form
p=p=
. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-40880: Fix invalid memory read in the new parser when checking newlines in string literals. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-40883: Fix memory leak in when parsing f-strings in the new parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-40870: Raise
ValueError
when validating custom AST’s where the constantsTrue
,False
andNone
are used within aast.Name
node.bpo-40854: Allow overriding
sys.platlibdir
via a newPYTHONPLATLIBDIR
environment variable.bpo-40826: Fix GIL usage in
PyOS_Readline()
: lock the GIL to set an exception and pass the Python thread state when checking if there is a pending signal.bpo-1635741: Port
fcntl
to multiphase initialization.bpo-19468: Delete unnecessary instance check in importlib.reload(). Patch by Furkan Önder.
bpo-40824: Unexpected errors in calling the
__iter__
method are no longer masked byTypeError
in thein
operator and functionscontains()
,indexOf()
andcountOf()
of theoperator
module.bpo-40792: Attributes
start
,stop
andstep
of therange
object now always has exact typeint
. Previously, they could have been an instance of a subclass ofint
.bpo-40780: Fix a corner case where g-style string formatting of a float failed to remove trailing zeros.
bpo-38964: When there’s a
SyntaxError
in the expression part of an fstring, the filename attribute of theSyntaxError
gets correctly set to the name of the file the fstring resides in.bpo-40750: Support the “-d” debug flag in the new PEG parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-40217: Instances of types created with
PyType_FromSpecWithBases()
will no longer automatically visit their class object when traversing references in the garbage collector. The user is expected to manually visit the object’s class. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39573:
Py_TYPE()
is changed to the inline static function. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-40696: Fix a hang that can arise after
generator.throw()
due to a cycle in the exception context chain.bpo-40521: Each interpreter now its has own free lists, singletons and caches:
Free lists: float, tuple, list, dict, frame, context, asynchronous generator, MemoryError.
Singletons: empty tuple, empty bytes string, empty Unicode string, single byte character, single Unicode (latin1) character.
Slice cache.
They are no longer shared by all interpreters.
bpo-40679: Certain
TypeError
messages about missing or extra arguments now include the function’s qualified name. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.bpo-29590: Make the stack trace correct after calling
generator.throw()
on a generator that has yielded from ayield from
.bpo-4022: Improve performance of generators by not raising internal StopIteration.
bpo-1635741: Port
mmap
to multiphase initialization.bpo-1635741: Port
_lzma
to multiphase initialization.bpo-37999: Builtin and extension functions that take integer arguments no longer accept
Decimal
s,Fraction
s and other objects that can be converted to integers only with a loss (e.g. that have the__int__()
method but do not have the__index__()
method).bpo-29882: Add
int.bit_count()
, counting the number of ones in the binary representation of an integer. Patch by Niklas Fiekas.bpo-36982: Use ncurses extended color functions when available to support terminals with 256 colors, and add the new function
curses.has_extended_color_support()
to indicate whether extended color support is provided by the underlying ncurses library.bpo-19569: Add the private macros
_Py_COMP_DIAG_PUSH
,_Py_COMP_DIAG_IGNORE_DEPR_DECLS
, and_Py_COMP_DIAG_POP
.bpo-26680: The int type now supports the x.is_integer() method for compatibility with float.
Library¶
bpo-41900: C14N 2.0 serialisation in xml.etree.ElementTree failed for unprefixed attributes when a default namespace was defined.
bpo-41887: Strip leading spaces and tabs on
ast.literal_eval()
. Also document stripping of spaces and tabs foreval()
.bpo-41773: Note in documentation that
random.choices()
doesn’t support non-finite weights, raiseValueError
when given non-finite weights.bpo-41840: Fix a bug in the
symtable
module that was causing module-scope global variables to not be reported as both local and global. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-41842: Add
codecs.unregister()
function to unregister a codec search function.bpo-40564: In
zipfile.Path
, mutate the passed ZipFile object type instead of making a copy. Prevents issues when both the local copy and the caller’s copy attempt to close the same file handle.bpo-40670: More reliable validation of statements in
timeit.Timer
. It now accepts “empty” statements (only whitespaces and comments) and rejects misindentent statements.bpo-41833: The
threading.Thread
constructor now uses the target name if the target argument is specified but the name argument is omitted.bpo-41817: fix
tkinter.EventType
Enum so all members are strings, and none are tuplesbpo-41810:
types.EllipsisType
,types.NotImplementedType
andtypes.NoneType
have been reintroduced, providing a new set of types readily interpretable by static type checkers.bpo-41815: Fix SQLite3 segfault when backing up closed database. Patch contributed by Peter David McCormick.
bpo-41816: StrEnum added: it ensures that all members are already strings or string candidates
bpo-41517: fix bug allowing Enums to be extended via multiple inheritance
bpo-39587: use the correct mix-in data type when constructing Enums
bpo-41792: Add is_typeddict function to typing.py to check if a type is a TypedDict class
Previously there was no way to check that without using private API. See the relevant issue in python/typing.
bpo-41789: Honor
object
overrides inEnum
class creation (specifically,__str__
,__repr__
,__format__
, and__reduce_ex__
).bpo-32218:
enum.Flag
andenum.IntFlag
members are now iterable.bpo-39651: Fix a race condition in the
call_soon_threadsafe()
method ofasyncio.ProactorEventLoop
: do nothing if the self-pipe socket has been closed.bpo-1635741: Port the
mashal
extension module to the multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port the
_string
extension module to the multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489).bpo-41732: Added an iterator to
memoryview
.bpo-41720: Fixed
turtle.Vec2D.__rmul__()
for arguments which are not int or float.bpo-41696: Fix handling of debug mode in
asyncio.run()
. This allows settingPYTHONASYNCIODEBUG
or-X dev
to enable asyncio debug mode when usingasyncio.run()
.bpo-41687: Fix implementation of sendfile to be compatible with Solaris.
bpo-41662: No longer override exceptions raised in
__len__()
of a sequence of parameters insqlite3
withProgrammingError
.bpo-39010: Restarting a
ProactorEventLoop
on Windows no longer logs spuriousConnectionResetErrors
.bpo-41638:
ProgrammingError
message for absent parameter insqlite3
contains now the name of the parameter instead of its index when parameters are supplied as a dict.bpo-41662: Fixed crash when mutate list of parameters during iteration in
sqlite3
.bpo-41513: Improved the accuracy of math.hypot(). Internally, each step is computed with extra precision so that the result is now almost always correctly rounded.
bpo-41609: The pdb whatis command correctly reports instance methods as ‘Method’ rather than ‘Function’.
bpo-39994: Fixed pprint’s handling of dict subclasses that override __repr__.
bpo-32751: When cancelling the task due to a timeout,
asyncio.wait_for()
will now wait until the cancellation is complete also in the case when timeout is <= 0, like it does with positive timeouts.bpo-37658:
asyncio.wait_for()
now properly handles races between cancellation of itself and the completion of the wrapped awaitable.bpo-40782: Change the method asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.run_in_executor to not be a coroutine.
bpo-41520: Fix
codeop
regression that prevented turning compile warnings into errors.bpo-41528: turtle uses math module functions to convert degrees to radians and vice versa and to calculate vector norm
bpo-41513: Minor algorithmic improvement to math.hypot() and math.dist() giving small gains in speed and accuracy.
bpo-41503: Fixed a race between setTarget and flush in logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.
bpo-41497: Fix potential UnicodeDecodeError in dis module.
bpo-41467: On Windows, fix asyncio
recv_into()
return value when the socket/pipe is closed (BrokenPipeError
): return0
rather than an empty byte string (b''
).bpo-41425: Make tkinter doc example runnable.
bpo-41421: Make an algebraic simplification to random.paretovariate(). It now is slightly less subject to round-off error and is slightly faster. Inputs that used to cause ZeroDivisionError now cause an OverflowError instead.
bpo-41440: Add
os.cpu_count()
support for VxWorks RTOS.bpo-41316: Fix the
tarfile
module to write only basename of TAR file to GZIP compression header.bpo-41384: Raise TclError instead of TypeError when an unknown option is passed to tkinter.OptionMenu.
bpo-41317: Use add_done_callback() in asyncio.loop.sock_accept() to unsubscribe reader early on cancellation.
bpo-35328: Set the environment variable
VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT
atvenv
activation.bpo-41341: Recursive evaluation of
typing.ForwardRef
inget_type_hints
.bpo-41344: Prevent creating
shared_memory.SharedMemory
objects withsize=0
.bpo-41333:
collections.OrderedDict.pop()
is now 2 times faster.bpo-41288: Unpickling invalid NEWOBJ_EX opcode with the C implementation raises now UnpicklingError instead of crashing.
bpo-39017: Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files using the tarfile module (CVE 2019-20907).
bpo-41273: Speed up any transport using
_ProactorReadPipeTransport
by callingrecv_into
instead ofrecv
, thus not creating a new buffer for eachrecv
call in the transport’s read loop.bpo-41235: Fix the error handling in
ssl.SSLContext.load_dh_params()
.bpo-41207: In distutils.spawn, restore expectation that DistutilsExecError is raised when the command is not found.
bpo-29727: Register
array.array
as aMutableSequence
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39168: Remove the
__new__
method oftyping.Generic
.bpo-41194: Fix a crash in the
_ast
module: it can no longer be loaded more than once. It now uses a global state rather than a module state.bpo-41195: Add read-only ssl.SSLContext.security_level attribute to retrieve the context’s security level.
bpo-41193: The
write_history()
atexit function of the readline completer now ignores anyOSError
to ignore error if the filesystem is read-only, instead of only ignoringFileNotFoundError
andPermissionError
.bpo-41182: selector: use DefaultSelector based upon implementation
bpo-41161: The decimal module now requires libmpdec-2.5.0. Users of –with-system-libmpdec should update their system library.
bpo-40874: The decimal module now requires libmpdec-2.5.0.
bpo-41138: Fixed the
trace
module CLI for Python source files with non-UTF-8 encoding.bpo-31082: Use the term “iterable” in the docstring for
functools.reduce()
.bpo-40521: Remove freelist from collections.deque().
bpo-31938: Fix default-value signatures of several functions in the
select
module - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-41068: Fixed reading files with non-ASCII names from ZIP archive directly after writing them.
bpo-41058:
pdb.find_function()
now correctly determines the source file encoding.bpo-41056: Invalid file descriptor values are now prevented from being passed to os.fpathconf. (discovered by Coverity)
bpo-41056: Fix a NULL pointer dereference within the ssl module during a MemoryError in the keylog callback. (discovered by Coverity)
bpo-41056: Fixed an instance where a MemoryError within the zoneinfo module might not be reported or not reported at its source. (found by Coverity)
bpo-41048:
mimetypes.read_mime_types()
function reads the rule file using UTF-8 encoding, not the locale encoding. Patch by Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy.bpo-41043: Fixed the use of
glob()
in the stdlib: literal part of the path is now always correctly escaped.bpo-41025: Fixed an issue preventing the C implementation of
zoneinfo.ZoneInfo
from being subclassed.bpo-35018: Add the
xml.sax.handler.LexicalHandler
class that is present in other SAX XML implementations.bpo-41002: Improve performance of HTTPResponse.read with a given amount. Patch by Bruce Merry.
bpo-40448:
ensurepip
now disables the use ofpip
cache when installing the bundled versions ofpip
andsetuptools
. Patch by Krzysztof Konopko.bpo-40967: Removed
asyncio.Task.current_task()
andasyncio.Task.all_tasks()
. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-40924: Ensure
importlib.resources.path
returns an extant path for the SourceFileLoader’s resource reader. Avoids the regression identified in master while a long-term solution is devised.bpo-40955: Fix a minor memory leak in
subprocess
module when extra_groups was specified.bpo-40855: The standard deviation and variance functions in the statistics module were ignoring their mu and xbar arguments.
bpo-40939: Use the new PEG parser when generating the stdlib
keyword
module.bpo-23427: Add
sys.orig_argv
attribute: the list of the original command line arguments passed to the Python executable.bpo-33689: Ignore empty or whitespace-only lines in .pth files. This matches the documentated behavior. Before, empty lines caused the site-packages dir to appear multiple times in sys.path. By Ido Michael, contributors Malcolm Smith and Tal Einat.
bpo-40884: Added a
defaults
parameter tologging.Formatter
, to allow specifying default values for custom fields. Patch by Asaf Alon and Bar Harel.bpo-39791: Refresh importlib.metadata from importlib_metadata 1.6.1.
bpo-40807: Stop codeop._maybe_compile, used by code.InteractiveInterpreter (and IDLE). from emitting each warning three times.
bpo-32604: Fix reference leak in the
select
module when the module is imported in a subinterpreter.bpo-39791: Built-in loaders (SourceFileLoader and ZipImporter) now supply
TraversableResources
implementations forResourceReader
, and the fallback function has been removed.bpo-39314:
rlcompleter.Completer
and the standard Python shell now close the parenthesis for functions that take no arguments. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-17005: The topological sort functionality that was introduced initially in the
functools
module has been moved to a newgraphlib
module to better accommodate the new tools and keep the original scope of thefunctools
module. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-40834: Fix truncate when sending str object with_xxsubinterpreters.channel_send.
bpo-40755: Add rich comparisons to collections.Counter().
bpo-26407: Unexpected errors in calling the
__iter__
method are no longer masked byTypeError
incsv.reader()
,csv.writer.writerow()
andcsv.writer.writerows()
.bpo-39384: Fixed email.contentmanager to allow set_content() to set a null string.
bpo-40744: The
sqlite3
module uses SQLite API functions that require SQLite v3.7.3 or higher. This patch removes support for older SQLite versions, and explicitly requires SQLite 3.7.3 both at build, compile and runtime. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev and Erlend E. Aasland.bpo-40777: Initialize PyDateTime_IsoCalendarDateType.tp_base at run-time to avoid errors on some compilers.
bpo-38488: Update ensurepip to install pip 20.1.1 and setuptools 47.1.0.
bpo-40792: The result of
operator.index()
now always has exact typeint
. Previously, the result could have been an instance of a subclass ofint
.bpo-40767:
webbrowser
now properly finds the default browser in pure Wayland systems by checking the WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable. Patch contributed by Jérémy Attali.bpo-40791:
hashlib.compare_digest()
uses OpenSSL’sCRYPTO_memcmp()
function when OpenSSL is available.bpo-40795:
ctypes
module: If ctypes fails to convert the result of a callback or if a ctypes callback function raises an exception, sys.unraisablehook is now called with an exception set. Previously, the error was logged into stderr byPyErr_Print()
.bpo-16995: Add
base64.b32hexencode()
andbase64.b32hexdecode()
to support the Base32 Encoding with Extended Hex Alphabet.bpo-30008: Fix
ssl
code to be compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.x builds that useno-deprecated
and--api=1.1.0
.bpo-30064: Fix asyncio
loop.sock_*
race condition issuebpo-40759: Deprecate the
symbol
module.bpo-40756: The second argument (extra) of
LoggerAdapter.__init__
now defaults to None.bpo-37129: Add a new
os.RWF_APPEND
flag foros.pwritev()
.bpo-40737: Fix possible reference leak for
sqlite3
initialization.bpo-40726: Handle cases where the
end_lineno
isNone
onast.increment_lineno()
.bpo-40698:
distutils
upload creates SHA2-256 and Blake2b-256 digests. MD5 digests is skipped if platform blocks MD5.bpo-40695:
hashlib
no longer falls back to builtin hash implementations when OpenSSL provides a hash digest and the algorithm is blocked by security policy.bpo-9216:
hashlib.new()
passedusedforsecurity
to OpenSSL EVP constructor_hashlib.new()
. test_hashlib and test_smtplib handle strict security policy better.bpo-40614:
ast.parse()
will not parse self documenting expressions in f-strings when passedfeature_version
is less than(3, 8)
.bpo-40626: Add h5 file extension as MIME Type application/x-hdf5, as per HDF Group recommendation for HDF5 formatted data files. Patch contributed by Mark Schwab.
bpo-25920: On macOS, when building Python for macOS 10.4 and older, which wasn’t the case for python.org macOS installer,
socket.getaddrinfo()
no longer uses an internal lock to prevent race conditions when callinggetaddrinfo()
which is thread-safe since macOS 10.5. Python 3.9 requires macOS 10.6 or newer. The internal lock caused random hang on fork when another thread was callingsocket.getaddrinfo()
. The lock was also used on FreeBSD older than 5.3, OpenBSD older than 201311 and NetBSD older than 4.bpo-40671: Prepare
_hashlib
for PEP 489 and usePyModule_AddType()
.bpo-32309: Added a new coroutine
asyncio.to_thread()
. It is mainly used for running IO-bound functions in a separate thread to avoid blocking the event loop, and essentially works as a high-level version ofrun_in_executor()
that can directly take keyword arguments.bpo-36543: Restored the deprecated
xml.etree.cElementTree
module.bpo-40611:
MAP_POPULATE
constant has now been added to the list of exportedmmap
module flags.bpo-39881: PEP 554 for use in the test suite. (Patch By Joannah Nanjekye)
bpo-13097:
ctypes
now raises anArgumentError
when a callback is invoked with more than 1024 arguments.bpo-39385: A new test assertion context-manager,
unittest.assertNoLogs()
will ensure a given block of code emits no log messages using the logging module. Contributed by Kit Yan Choi.bpo-23082: Updated the error message and docs of PurePath.relative_to() to better reflect the function behaviour.
bpo-40318: Use SQLite3 trace v2 API, if it is available.
bpo-40105: ZipFile truncates files to avoid corruption when a shorter comment is provided in append (“a”) mode. Patch by Jan Mazur.
bpo-40084: Fix
Enum.__dir__
: dir(Enum.member) now includes attributes as well as methods.bpo-31122: ssl.wrap_socket() now raises ssl.SSLEOFError rather than OSError when peer closes connection during TLS negotiation
bpo-39728: fix default
_missing_
so a duplicateValueError
is not set as the__context__
of the originalValueError
.bpo-39244: Fixed
multiprocessing.context.get_all_start_methods
to properly return the default method first on macOS.bpo-39040: Fix parsing of invalid mime headers parameters by collapsing whitespace between encoded words in a bare-quote-string.
bpo-38731: Add
--quiet
option to command-line interface ofpy_compile
. Patch by Gregory Schevchenko.bpo-35714:
struct.error
is now raised if there is a null character in astruct
format string.bpo-38144: Added the root_dir and dir_fd parameters in
glob.glob()
.bpo-26543: Fix
IMAP4.noop()
when debug mode is enabled (ex:imaplib.Debug = 3
).bpo-12178:
csv.writer()
now correctly escapes escapechar when input contains escapechar. Patch by Catalin Iacob, Berker Peksag, and Itay Elbirt.bpo-36290: AST nodes are now raising
TypeError
on conflicting keyword arguments. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-33944: Added site.py site-packages tracing in verbose mode.
bpo-35078: Refactor formatweekday, formatmonthname methods in LocaleHTMLCalendar and LocaleTextCalendar classes in calendar module to call the base class methods.This enables customizable CSS classes for LocaleHTMLCalendar. Patch by Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy
bpo-29620:
assertWarns()
no longer raises aRuntimeException
when accessing a module’s__warningregistry__
causes importation of a new module, or when a new module is imported in another thread. Patch by Kernc.bpo-31844: Remove
ParserBase.error()
method from the private and undocumented_markupbase
module.html.parser.HTMLParser
is the only subclass ofParserBase
and itserror()
implementation was deprecated in Python 3.4 and removed in Python 3.5.bpo-34226: Fix
cgi.parse_multipart
without content_length. Patch by Roger Duranbpo-33660: Fix pathlib.PosixPath to resolve a relative path located on the root directory properly.
bpo-28557: Improve the error message for a misbehaving
rawio.readinto
bpo-26680: The d.is_integer() method is added to the Decimal type, for compatibility with other number types.
bpo-26680: The x.is_integer() method is incorporated into the abstract types of the numeric tower, Real, Rational and Integral, with appropriate default implementations.
Documentation¶
bpo-41428: Add documentation for PEP 604 (Allow writing union types as
X | Y
).bpo-41774: In Programming FAQ “Sequences (Tuples/Lists)” section, add “How do you remove multiple items from a list”.
bpo-35293: Fix RemovedInSphinx40Warning when building the documentation. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-37149: Change Shipman tkinter doc link from archive.org to TkDocs. (The doc has been removed from the NMT server.) The new link responds much faster and includes a short explanatory note.
bpo-41726: Update the refcounts info of
PyType_FromModuleAndSpec
.bpo-41624: Fix the signature of
typing.Coroutine
.bpo-40204: Enable Sphinx 3.2
c_allow_pre_v3
option and disablec_warn_on_allowed_pre_v3
option to make the documentation compatible with Sphinx 2 and Sphinx 3.bpo-41045: Add documentation for debug feature of f-strings.
bpo-41314: Changed the release when
from __future__ import annotations
becomes the default from4.0
to3.10
(following a change in PEP 563).bpo-40979: Refactored typing.rst, arranging more than 70 classes, functions, and decorators into new sub-sections.
bpo-40552: Fix in tutorial section 4.2. Code snippet is now correct.
bpo-39883: Make code, examples, and recipes in the Python documentation be licensed under the more permissive BSD0 license in addition to the existing Python 2.0 license.
bpo-37703: Updated Documentation to comprehensively elaborate on the behaviour of gather.cancel()
Tests¶
bpo-41939: Fix test_site.test_license_exists_at_url(): call
urllib.request.urlcleanup()
to reset the globalurllib.request._opener
. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-41731: Make test_cmd_line_script pass with option ‘-vv’.
bpo-41602: Add tests for SIGINT handling in the runpy module.
bpo-41521:
test.support
: Renameblacklist
parameter ofcheck__all__()
tonot_exported
.bpo-41477: Make ctypes optional in test_genericalias.
bpo-41085: Fix integer overflow in the
array.array.index()
method on 64-bit Windows for index larger than2**31
.bpo-41069:
test.support.TESTFN
and the current directory for tests when run viatest.regrtest
contain now non-ascii characters if possible.bpo-38377: On Linux, skip tests using multiprocessing if the current user cannot create a file in
/dev/shm/
directory. Add theskip_if_broken_multiprocessing_synchronize()
function to thetest.support
module.bpo-41009: Fix use of
support.require_{linux|mac|freebsd}_version()
decorators as class decorator.bpo-41003: Fix
test_copyreg
whennumpy
is installed:test.pickletester
now saves/restores warnings filters when importingnumpy
, to ignore filters installed bynumpy
.bpo-40964: Disable remote
imaplib
tests, host cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu is blocking incoming connections.bpo-40927: Fix test_binhex when run twice: it now uses import_fresh_module() to ensure that it raises DeprecationWarning each time.
bpo-17258: Skip some
multiprocessing
tests when MD5 hash digest is blocked.bpo-31904: Increase LOOPBACK_TIMEOUT to 10 for VxWorks RTOS.
bpo-38169: Increase code coverage for SharedMemory and ShareableList
bpo-34401: Make test_gdb properly run on HP-UX. Patch by Michael Osipov.
Build¶
bpo-38249: Update
Py_UNREACHABLE
to use __builtin_unreachable() if only the compiler is able to use it. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-41617: Fix
pycore_bitutils.h
header file to support old clang versions:__builtin_bswap16()
is not available in LLVM clang 3.0.bpo-40204: Pin Sphinx version to 2.3.1 in
Doc/Makefile
.bpo-36020: The C99 functions
snprintf()
andvsnprintf()
are now required to build Python.bpo-40684:
make install
now uses thePLATLIBDIR
variable for the destinationlib-dynload/
directory when./configure --with-platlibdir
is used.bpo-40683: Fixed an issue where the
zoneinfo
module and its tests were not included when Python is installed withmake
.
Windows¶
bpo-41744: Fixes automatic import of props file when using the Nuget package.
bpo-41627: The user site directory for 32-bit now includes a
-32
suffix to distinguish it from the 64-bit interpreter’s directory.bpo-41526: Fixed layout of final page of the installer by removing the special thanks to Mark Hammond (with his permission).
bpo-41492: Fixes the description that appears in UAC prompts.
bpo-40948: Improve post-install message to direct people to the “py” command.
bpo-41412: The installer will now fail to install on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Further, the UCRT dependency is now always downloaded on demand.
bpo-40741: Update Windows release to include SQLite 3.32.3.
bpo-41142:
msilib
now supports creating CAB files with non-ASCII file path and adding files with non-ASCII file path to them.bpo-41074: Fixed support of non-ASCII names in functions
msilib.OpenDatabase()
andmsilib.init_database()
and non-ASCII SQL in methodmsilib.Database.OpenView()
.bpo-41039: Stable ABI redirection DLL (python3.dll) now uses
#pragma comment(linker)
for re-exporting.bpo-40164: Updates Windows OpenSSL to 1.1.1g
bpo-39631: Changes the registered MIME type for
.py
files on Windows totext/x-python
instead oftext/plain
.bpo-40677: Manually define IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK in case some old Windows SDK doesn’t have it.
bpo-37556: Extend py.exe help to mention overrides via venv, shebang, environmental variables & ini files.
macOS¶
bpo-41557: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
bpo-39580: Avoid opening Finder window if running installer from the command line. Patch contributed by Rick Heil.
bpo-41100: Fix configure error when building on macOS 11. Note that the current Python release was released shortly after the first developer preview of macOS 11 (Big Sur); there are other known issues with building and running on the developer preview. Big Sur is expected to be fully supported in a future bugfix release of Python 3.8.x and with 3.9.0.
bpo-40741: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.32.3.
bpo-41005: fixed an XDG settings issue not allowing macos to open browser in webbrowser.py
bpo-40741: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.32.2.
IDLE¶
bpo-41775: Use ‘IDLE Shell’ as shell title
bpo-35764: Rewrite the Calltips doc section.
bpo-40181: In calltips, stop reminding that ‘/’ marks the end of positional-only arguments.
bpo-41468: Improve IDLE run crash error message (which users should never see).
bpo-41373: Save files loaded with no line ending, as when blank, or different line endings, by setting its line ending to the system default. Fix regression in 3.8.4 and 3.9.0b4.
bpo-41300: Save files with non-ascii chars. Fix regression released in 3.9.0b4 and 3.8.4.
bpo-37765: Add keywords to module name completion list. Rewrite Completions section of IDLE doc.
bpo-41152: The encoding of
stdin
,stdout
andstderr
in IDLE is now always UTF-8.bpo-41144: Make Open Module open a special module such as os.path.
bpo-39885: Make context menu Cut and Copy work again when right-clicking within a selection.
bpo-40723: Make test_idle pass when run after import.
C API¶
bpo-41936: Removed undocumented macros
Py_ALLOW_RECURSION
andPy_END_ALLOW_RECURSION
and therecursion_critical
field of thePyInterpreterState
structure.bpo-41692: The
PyUnicode_InternImmortal()
function is now deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.12: usePyUnicode_InternInPlace()
instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-41842: Add
PyCodec_Unregister()
function to unregister a codec search function.bpo-41834: Remove the
_Py_CheckRecursionLimit
variable: it has been replaced byceval.recursion_limit
of thePyInterpreterState
structure. Patch by Victor Stinner.bpo-41689: Types created with
PyType_FromSpec()
now make any signature in theirtp_doc
slot accessible from__text_signature__
.bpo-41524: Fix bug in PyOS_mystrnicmp and PyOS_mystricmp that incremented pointers beyond the end of a string.
bpo-41324: Add a minimal decimal capsule API. The API supports fast conversions between Decimals up to 38 digits and their triple representation as a C struct.
bpo-30155: Add
PyDateTime_DATE_GET_TZINFO()
andPyDateTime_TIME_GET_TZINFO()
macros for accessing thetzinfo
attributes ofdatetime.datetime
anddatetime.time
objects.bpo-40170: Revert
PyType_HasFeature()
change: it reads again directly thePyTypeObject.tp_flags
member when the limited C API is not used, rather than always callingPyType_GetFlags()
which hides implementation details.bpo-41123: Remove
PyUnicode_AsUnicodeCopy
.bpo-41123: Removed
PyLong_FromUnicode()
.bpo-41123: Removed
PyUnicode_GetMax()
.bpo-41123: Removed
Py_UNICODE_str*
functions manipulatingPy_UNICODE*
strings.bpo-41103:
PyObject_AsCharBuffer()
,PyObject_AsReadBuffer()
,PyObject_CheckReadBuffer()
, andPyObject_AsWriteBuffer()
are removed. Please migrate to new buffer protocol;PyObject_GetBuffer()
andPyBuffer_Release()
.bpo-36346: Raises DeprecationWarning for
PyUnicode_FromUnicode(NULL, size)
andPyUnicode_FromStringAndSize(NULL, size)
withsize > 0
.bpo-36346: Mark
Py_UNICODE_COPY
,Py_UNICODE_FILL
,PyUnicode_WSTR_LENGTH
,PyUnicode_FromUnicode
,PyUnicode_AsUnicode
, andPyUnicode_AsUnicodeAndSize
as deprecated in C. RemovePy_UNICODE_MATCH
which was deprecated and broken since Python 3.3.bpo-40989: The
PyObject_INIT()
andPyObject_INIT_VAR()
macros become aliases to, respectively,PyObject_Init()
andPyObject_InitVar()
functions.bpo-36020: On Windows,
#include "pyerrors.h"
no longer definessnprintf
andvsnprintf
macros.bpo-40943: The
PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
macro must now be defined to usePyArg_ParseTuple()
andPy_BuildValue()
formats which use#
:es#
,et#
,s#
,u#
,y#
,z#
,U#
andZ#
. See Parsing arguments and building values and the PEP 353.bpo-40910: Export explicitly the
Py_GetArgcArgv()
function to the C API and document the function. Previously, it was exported implicitly which no longer works since Python is built with-fvisibility=hidden
.bpo-40724: Allow defining buffer slots in type specs.
bpo-40679: Fix a
_PyEval_EvalCode()
crash if qualname argument is NULL.bpo-40839: Calling
PyDict_GetItem()
without GIL held had been allowed for historical reason. It is no longer allowed.bpo-40826:
PyOS_InterruptOccurred()
now fails with a fatal error if it is called with the GIL released.bpo-40792: The result of
PyNumber_Index()
now always has exact typeint
. Previously, the result could have been an instance of a subclass ofint
.bpo-39573: Convert
Py_REFCNT()
andPy_SIZE()
macros to static inline functions. They cannot be used as l-value anymore: usePy_SET_REFCNT()
andPy_SET_SIZE()
to set an object reference count and size. This change is backward incompatible on purpose, to prepare the C API for an opaquePyObject
structure.bpo-40703: The PyType_FromSpec*() functions no longer overwrite the type’s “__module__” attribute if it is set via “Py_tp_members” or “Py_tp_getset”.
bpo-39583: Remove superfluous “extern C” declarations from
Include/cpython/*.h
.
Python 3.9.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2020-05-19
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-40663: Correctly generate annotations where parentheses are omitted but required (e.g:
Type[(str, int, *other))]
.bpo-40596: Fixed
str.isidentifier()
for non-canonicalized strings containing non-BMP characters on Windows.bpo-40593: Improved syntax errors for invalid characters in source code.
bpo-40585: Fixed a bug when using
codeop.compile_command()
that was causing exceptions to be swallowed with the new parser. Patch by Pablo Galindobpo-40502: Initialize
n->n_col_offset
. (Patch by Joannah Nanjekye)bpo-40527: Fix command line argument parsing: no longer write errors multiple times into stderr.
bpo-1635741: Port
errno
to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-40523: Add pass-throughs for
hash()
andreversed()
toweakref.proxy
objects. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-1635741: Port
syslog
to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-40246: Reporting a specialised error message for invalid string prefixes, which was introduced in bpo-40246, is being reverted due to backwards compatibility concerns for strings that immediately follow a reserved keyword without whitespace between them. Constructs like
bg="#d00" if clear else"#fca"
were failing to parse, which is not an acceptable breakage on such short notice.bpo-40417: Fix imp module deprecation warning when PyImport_ReloadModule is called. Patch by Robert Rouhani.
bpo-40408: Fixed support of nested type variables in GenericAlias (e.g.
list[list[T]]
).bpo-1635741: Port _stat module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-29587: Enable implicit exception chaining when calling
generator.throw()
.bpo-40328: Add tools for generating mappings headers for CJKCodecs.
bpo-40228: Setting frame.f_lineno is now robust w.r.t. changes in the source-to-bytecode compiler
bpo-38880: Added the ability to list interpreters associated with channel ends in the internal subinterpreters module.
bpo-37986: Improve performance of
PyLong_FromDouble()
for values that fit into long.
Library¶
bpo-40662: Fixed
ast.get_source_segment()
for ast nodes that have incomplete location information. Patch by Irit Katriel.bpo-40536: Added the
available_timezones()
function to thezoneinfo
module. Patch by Paul Ganssle.bpo-40645: The
hmac.HMAC
exposes internal implementation details. The attributesdigest_cons
,inner
, andouter
are deprecated and will be removed in the future.bpo-40645: The internal module
_hashlib
wraps and exposes OpenSSL’s HMAC API. The new code will be used in Python 3.10 after the internal implementation details of the pure Python HMAC module are no longer part of the public API.bpo-40637: Builtin hash modules can now be disabled or selectively enabled with
configure --with-builtin-hashlib-hashes=sha3,blake1
or--without-builtin-hashlib-hashes
.bpo-37630: The
hashlib
module can now use SHA3 hashes and SHAKE XOF from OpenSSL when available.bpo-40479: The
hashlib
now compiles with OpenSSL 3.0.0-alpha2.bpo-40257: Revert changes to
inspect.getdoc()
.bpo-40607: When cancelling a task due to timeout,
asyncio.wait_for()
will now propagate the exception if an error happens during cancellation. Patch by Roman Skurikhin.bpo-40612: Fix edge cases in SyntaxError formatting. If the offset is <= 0, no caret is printed. If the offset is > line length, the caret is printed pointing just after the last character.
bpo-40597: If text content lines are longer than policy.max_line_length, always use a content-encoding to make sure they are wrapped.
bpo-40571: Added functools.cache() as a simpler, more discoverable way to access the unbounded cache variant of lru_cache(maxsize=None).
bpo-40503: PEP 615, the
zoneinfo
module. Adds support for the IANA time zone database.bpo-40397: Removed attributes
__args__
and__parameters__
from special generic aliases liketyping.List
(not subscripted).bpo-40549: Convert posixmodule.c (“posix” or “nt” module) to the multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-31033: Add a
msg
argument toFuture.cancel()
andTask.cancel()
.bpo-40541: Added an optional counts parameter to random.sample().
bpo-40515: The
ssl
andhashlib
modules now actively check that OpenSSL is build with thread support. Python 3.7.0 made thread support mandatory and no longer works safely with a no-thread builds.bpo-31033: When a
asyncio.Task
is cancelled, the exception traceback now chains all the way back to where the task was first interrupted.bpo-40504:
functools.lru_cache()
objects can now be the targets of weakrefs.bpo-40559: Fix possible memory leak in the C implementation of
asyncio.Task
.bpo-40480:
fnmatch.fnmatch()
could take exponential time in the presence of multiple*
pattern characters. This was repaired by generating more elaborate regular expressions to avoid futile backtracking.bpo-40495:
compileall
is now able to use hardlinks to prevent duplicates in a case when.pyc
files for different optimization levels have the same content.bpo-40457: The ssl module now support OpenSSL builds without TLS 1.0 and 1.1 methods.
bpo-40355: Improve error reporting in
ast.literal_eval()
in the presence of malformedast.Dict
nodes instead of silently ignoring any non-conforming elements. Patch by Curtis Bucher.bpo-40465: Deprecated the optional random argument to random.shuffle().
bpo-40459:
platform.win32_ver()
now produces correct ptype strings instead of empty strings.bpo-39435: The first argument of
pickle.loads()
is now positional-only.bpo-39305: Update
nntplib
to mergenntplib.NNTP
andnntplib._NNTPBase
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-32494: Update
dbm.gnu
to use gdbm_count if possible when callinglen()
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-40453: Add
isolated=True
keyword-only parameter to_xxsubinterpreters.create()
. An isolated subinterpreter cannot spawn threads, spawn a child process or callos.fork()
.bpo-40286: Remove
_random.Random.randbytes()
: the C implementation ofrandbytes()
. Implement the method in Python to ease subclassing:randbytes()
now directly reusesgetrandbits()
.bpo-40394: Added default arguments to
difflib.SequenceMatcher.find_longest_match()
.bpo-39995: Fix a race condition in concurrent.futures._ThreadWakeup: access to _ThreadWakeup is now protected with the shutdown lock.
bpo-30966:
Process.shutdown(wait=True)
ofconcurrent.futures
now closes explicitly the result queue.bpo-30966: Add a new
close()
method to theSimpleQueue
class to explicitly close the queue.bpo-39966: Revert bpo-25597.
unittest.mock.MagicMock
with wraps’ set uses default return values for magic methods.bpo-39791: Added
files()
function to importlib.resources with support for subdirectories in package data, matching backport in importlib_resources 1.5.bpo-40375:
imaplib.IMAP4.unselect()
is added. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-40389:
repr()
now returnstyping.Optional[T]
when called fortyping.Union
of two types, one of which isNoneType
.bpo-40291: Add support for CAN_J1939 sockets (available on Linux 5.4+)
bpo-40273:
types.MappingProxyType
is now reversible.bpo-39075: The repr for
types.SimpleNamespace
is now insertion ordered rather than alphabetical.bpo-40192: On AIX,
thread_time()
is now implemented withthread_cputime()
which has nanosecond resolution, rather thanclock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)
which has a resolution of 10 milliseconds. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-40025: Raise TypeError when _generate_next_value_ is defined after members. Patch by Ethan Onstott.
bpo-39058: In the argparse module, the repr for Namespace() and other argument holders now displayed in the order attributes were added. Formerly, it displayed in alphabetical order even though argument order is preserved the user visible parts of the module.
bpo-24416: The
isocalendar()
methods ofdatetime.date
anddatetime.datetime
now return a named tuple instead of atuple
.
Documentation¶
bpo-34790: Add version of removal for explicit passing of coros to
asyncio.wait()
’s documentationbpo-40561: Provide docstrings for webbrowser open functions.
bpo-40499: Mention that
asyncio.wait()
requires a non-empty set of awaitables.bpo-39705: Tutorial example for sorted() in the Loop Techniques section is given a better explanation. Also a new example is included to explain sorted()’s basic behavior.
bpo-39435: Fix an incorrect signature for
pickle.loads()
in the docs
Tests¶
Build¶
Windows¶
bpo-40650: Include winsock2.h in pytime.c for timeval.
bpo-40458: Increase reserved stack space to prevent overflow crash on Windows.
bpo-39148: Add IPv6 support to
asyncio
datagram endpoints in ProactorEventLoop. Change the raised exception for unknown address families to ValueError as it’s not coming from Windows API.
macOS¶
bpo-34956: When building Python on macOS from source,
_tkinter
now links with non-system Tcl and Tk frameworks if they are installed in/Library/Frameworks
, as had been the case on older releases of macOS. If a macOS SDK is explicitly configured, by using--enable-universalsdk=
or-isysroot
, only the SDK itself is searched. The default behavior can still be overridden with--with-tcltk-includes
and--with-tcltk-libs
.bpo-35569: Expose RFC 3542 IPv6 socket options.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-40479: Update multissltest helper to test with latest OpenSSL 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, and 3.0.0-alpha.
bpo-40431: Fix a syntax typo in
turtledemo
that now raises aSyntaxError
.bpo-40163: Fix multissltest tool. OpenSSL has changed download URL for old releases. The multissltest tool now tries to download from current and old download URLs.
C API¶
bpo-39465: Remove the
_PyUnicode_ClearStaticStrings()
function from the C API.bpo-38787: Add PyCFunction_CheckExact() macro for exact type checks now that we allow subtypes of PyCFunction, as well as PyCMethod_CheckExact() and PyCMethod_Check() for the new PyCMethod subtype.
bpo-40545: Declare
_PyErr_GetTopmostException()
withPyAPI_FUNC()
to properly export the function in the C API. The function remains private (_Py
) prefix.bpo-40412: Nullify inittab_copy during finalization, preventing future interpreter initializations in an embedded situation from crashing. Patch by Gregory Szorc.
bpo-40429: The
PyThreadState_GetFrame()
function now returns a strong reference to the frame.bpo-40428: Remove the following functions from the C API. Call
PyGC_Collect()
explicitly to free all free lists.PyAsyncGen_ClearFreeLists()
PyContext_ClearFreeList()
PyDict_ClearFreeList()
PyFloat_ClearFreeList()
PyFrame_ClearFreeList()
PyList_ClearFreeList()
PySet_ClearFreeList()
PyTuple_ClearFreeList()
bpo-40421: New
PyFrame_GetBack()
function: get the frame next outer frame.bpo-40421: New
PyFrame_GetCode()
function: return a borrowed reference to the frame code.bpo-40217: Ensure that instances of types created with
PyType_FromSpecWithBases()
will visit its class object when traversing references in the garbage collector (implemented as an extension of the providedtp_traverse
). Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-38787: Module C state is now accessible from C-defined heap type methods (PEP 573). Patch by Marcel Plch and Petr Viktorin.
Python 3.9.0 alpha 6¶
Release date: 2020-04-27
Security¶
bpo-40121: Fixes audit events raised on creating a new socket.
bpo-39073: Disallow CR or LF in email.headerregistry.Address arguments to guard against header injection attacks.
bpo-39503: CVE 2020-8492: The
AbstractBasicAuthHandler
class of theurllib.request
module uses an inefficient regular expression which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service. Fix the regex to prevent the catastrophic backtracking. Vulnerability reported by Ben Caller and Matt Schwager.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-40313: Improve the performance of bytes.hex().
bpo-40334: Switch to a new parser, based on PEG. For more details see PEP 617. To temporarily switch back to the old parser, use
-X oldparser
orPYTHONOLDPARSER=1
. In Python 3.10 we will remove the old parser completely, including theparser
module (already deprecated) and anything that depends on it.bpo-40267: Fix the tokenizer to display the correct error message, when there is a
SyntaxError
on the last input character and no newline follows. It used to beunexpected EOF while parsing
, while it should beinvalid syntax
.bpo-39522: Correctly unparse explicit
u
prefix for strings when postponed evaluation for annotations activated. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-40246: Report a specialized error message,
invalid string prefix
, when the tokenizer encounters a string with an invalid prefix.bpo-40082: Fix the signal handler: it now always uses the main interpreter, rather than trying to get the current Python thread state.
bpo-37388: str.encode() and str.decode() no longer check the encoding and errors in development mode or in debug mode during Python finalization. The codecs machinery can no longer work on very late calls to str.encode() and str.decode().
bpo-40077: Fix possible refleaks in
_json
, memo of PyScannerObject should be traversed.bpo-37207: Speed up calls to
dict()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention.bpo-40141: Add column and line information to
ast.keyword
nodes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-1635741: Port
resource
to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port
math
to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).bpo-1635741: Port _uuid module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-40077: Convert json module to use
PyType_FromSpec()
.bpo-40067: Improve the error message for multiple star expressions in an assignment. Patch by Furkan Onder
bpo-1635741: Port _functools module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489). Patch by Paulo Henrique Silva.
bpo-1635741: Port operator module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489). Patch by Paulo Henrique Silva.
bpo-20526: Fix
PyThreadState_Clear()
.PyThreadState.frame
is a borrowed reference, not a strong reference:PyThreadState_Clear()
must not callPy_CLEAR(tstate->frame)
.bpo-1635741: Port time module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489). Patch by Paulo Henrique Silva.
bpo-1635741: Port _weakref extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-40020: Fix a leak and subsequent crash in parsetok.c caused by realloc misuse on a rare codepath.
bpo-39939: Added str.removeprefix and str.removesuffix methods and corresponding bytes, bytearray, and collections.UserString methods to remove affixes from a string if present. See PEP 616 for a full description. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.
bpo-39481: Implement PEP 585. This supports list[int], tuple[str, …] etc.
bpo-32894: Support unparsing of infinity numbers in postponed annotations. Patch by Batuhan Taşkaya.
bpo-37207: Speed up calls to
list()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Mark Shannon.
Library¶
bpo-40398:
typing.get_args()
now always returns an empty tuple for special generic aliases.bpo-40396: Functions
typing.get_origin()
,typing.get_args()
andtyping.get_type_hints()
support now generic aliases likelist[int]
.bpo-38061: Optimize the
subprocess
module on FreeBSD usingclosefrom()
. A singleclose(fd)
syscall is cheap, but whensysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)
is high, the loop callingclose(fd)
on each file descriptor can take several milliseconds.The workaround on FreeBSD to improve performance was to load and mount the fdescfs kernel module, but this is not enabled by default.
Initial patch by Ed Maste (emaste), Conrad Meyer (cem), Kyle Evans (kevans) and Kubilay Kocak (koobs): https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242274
bpo-38061: On FreeBSD,
os.closerange(fd_low, fd_high)
now callsclosefrom(fd_low)
if fd_high is greater than or equal tosysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)
.Initial patch by Ed Maste (emaste), Conrad Meyer (cem), Kyle Evans (kevans) and Kubilay Kocak (koobs): https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242274
bpo-40360: The
lib2to3
module is pending deprecation due to PEP 617.bpo-40138: Fix the Windows implementation of
os.waitpid()
for exit code larger thanINT_MAX >> 8
. The exit status is now interpreted as an unsigned number.bpo-39942: Set “__main__” as the default module name when “__name__” is missing in
typing.TypeVar
. Patch by Weipeng Hong.bpo-40275: The
logging
package is now imported lazily inunittest
only when theassertLogs()
assertion is used.bpo-40275: The
asyncio
package is now imported lazily inunittest
only when theIsolatedAsyncioTestCase
class is used.bpo-40330: In
ShareableList.__setitem__()
, check the size of a new string item after encoding it to utf-8, not before.bpo-40148: Added
pathlib.Path.with_stem()
to create a new Path with the stem replaced.bpo-40325: Deprecated support for set objects in random.sample().
bpo-40257: Improved help for the
typing
module. Docstrings are now shown for all special forms and special generic aliases (likeUnion
andList
). Usinghelp()
with generic alias likeList[int]
will show the help for the correspondent concrete type (list
in this case).bpo-40257:
inspect.getdoc()
no longer returns docstring inherited from the type of the object or from parent class if it is a class if it is not defined in the object itself. Inpydoc
the documentation string is now shown not only for class, function, method etc, but for any object that has its own__doc__
attribute.bpo-40287: Fixed
SpooledTemporaryFile.seek()
to return the position.bpo-40290: Added zscore() to statistics.NormalDist().
bpo-40282: Allow
random.getrandbits(0)
to succeed and to return 0.bpo-40286: Add
random.randbytes()
function andrandom.Random.randbytes()
method to generate random bytes.bpo-40277:
collections.namedtuple()
now provides a human-readable repr for its field accessors.bpo-40270: The included copy of sqlite3 on Windows is now compiled with the json extension. This allows the use of functions such as
json_object
.bpo-29255: Wait in
KqueueSelector.select
when no fds are registeredbpo-40260: Ensure
modulefinder
usesio.open_code()
and respects coding comments.bpo-40234: Allow again to spawn daemon threads in subinterpreters (revert change which denied them).
bpo-39207: Workers in
ProcessPoolExecutor
are now spawned on demand, only when there are no available idle workers to reuse. This optimizes startup overhead and reduces the amount of lost CPU time to idle workers. Patch by Kyle Stanley.bpo-40091: Fix a hang at fork in the logging module: the new private _at_fork_reinit() method is now used to reinitialize locks at fork in the child process.
bpo-40149: Implement traverse and clear slots in _abc._abc_data type.
bpo-40208: Remove deprecated
symtable.SymbolTable.has_exec()
.bpo-40196: Fix a bug in the
symtable
module that was causing incorrectly report global variables as local. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-40190: Add support for
_SC_AIX_REALMEM
toposix.sysconf()
.bpo-40182: Removed the
_field_types
attribute of thetyping.NamedTuple
class.bpo-36517: Multiple inheritance with
typing.NamedTuple
now raises an error instead of silently ignoring other types.bpo-40126: Fixed reverting multiple patches in unittest.mock. Patcher’s
__exit__()
is now never called if its__enter__()
is failed. Returning true from__exit__()
silences now the exception.bpo-40094: CGIHTTPRequestHandler of http.server now logs the CGI script exit code, rather than the CGI script exit status of os.waitpid(). For example, if the script is killed by signal 11, it now logs: “CGI script exit code -11.”
bpo-40108: Improve the error message when triying to import a module using
runpy
and incorrectly using the “.py” extension at the end of the module name. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-40094: Add
os.waitstatus_to_exitcode()
function: convert a wait status to an exit code.bpo-40089: Fix threading._after_fork(): if fork was not called by a thread spawned by threading.Thread, threading._after_fork() now creates a _MainThread instance for _main_thread, instead of a _DummyThread instance.
bpo-40089: Add a private
_at_fork_reinit()
method to_thread.Lock
,_thread.RLock
,threading.RLock
andthreading.Condition
classes: reinitialize the lock at fork in the child process, reset the lock to the unlocked state. Rename also the private_reset_internal_locks()
method ofthreading.Event
to_at_fork_reinit()
.bpo-25780: Expose
CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS
in thesocket
module.bpo-39503:
AbstractBasicAuthHandler
ofurllib.request
now parses all WWW-Authenticate HTTP headers and accepts multiple challenges per header: use the realm of the first Basic challenge.bpo-39812: Removed daemon threads from
concurrent.futures
by adding an internalthreading._register_atexit()
, which calls registered functions prior to joining all non-daemon threads. This allows for compatibility with subinterpreters, which don’t support daemon threads.bpo-40050: Fix
importlib._bootstrap_external
: avoid creating a newwinreg
builtin module if it’s already available insys.modules
, and remove redundant imports.bpo-40014: Fix
os.getgrouplist()
: ifgetgrouplist()
function fails because the group list is too small, retry with a larger group list. On failure, the glibc implementation ofgetgrouplist()
setsngroups
to the total number of groups. For other implementations, double the group list size.bpo-40017: Add
time.CLOCK_TAI
constant if the operating system support it.bpo-40016: In re docstring, clarify the relationship between inline and argument compile flags.
bpo-39953: Update internal table of OpenSSL error codes in the
ssl
module.bpo-36144: Added PEP 584 operators to
weakref.WeakValueDictionary
.bpo-36144: Added PEP 584 operators to
weakref.WeakKeyDictionary
.bpo-38891: Fix linear runtime behaviour of the
__getitem__
and__setitem__
methods inmultiprocessing.shared_memory.ShareableList
. This avoids quadratic performance when iterating aShareableList
. Patch by Thomas Krennwallner.bpo-39682: Remove undocumented support for closing a
pathlib.Path
object via its context manager. The context manager magic methods remain, but they are now a no-op, makingPath
objects immutable.bpo-36144: Added PEP 584 operators (
|
and|=
) tocollections.ChainMap
.bpo-39011: Normalization of line endings in ElementTree attributes was removed, as line endings which were replaced by entity numbers should be preserved in original form.
bpo-38410: Properly handle
sys.audit()
failures insys.set_asyncgen_hooks()
.bpo-36541: lib2to3 now recognizes named assignment expressions (the walrus operator,
:=
)bpo-35967: In platform, delay the invocation of ‘uname -p’ until the processor attribute is requested.
bpo-35113:
inspect.getsource()
now returns correct source code for inner class with same name as module level class. Decorators are also returned as part of source of the class. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-33262: Deprecate passing None as an argument for
shlex.split()
’ss
parameter. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-31758: Prevent crashes when using an uninitialized
_elementtree.XMLParser
object. Patch by Oren Milman.
Documentation¶
bpo-27635: The pickle documentation incorrectly claimed that
__new__
isn’t called by default when unpickling.bpo-39879: Updated Modelo de dados docs to include
dict()
insertion order preservation. Patch by Furkan Onder and Samy Lahfa.bpo-38387: Document
PyDoc_STRVAR
macro in the C-API reference.bpo-13743: Some methods within xml.dom.minidom.Element class are now better documented.
Tests¶
bpo-31904: Set expected default encoding in test_c_locale_coercion.py for VxWorks RTOS.
bpo-40162: Update Travis CI configuration to OpenSSL 1.1.1f.
bpo-40146: Update OpenSSL to 1.1.1f in Azure Pipelines.
bpo-40094: Add
test.support.wait_process()
function.bpo-40003:
test.bisect_cmd
now copies Python command line options like-O
or-W
. Moreover, emit a warning iftest.bisect_cmd
is used with-w
/--verbose2
option.bpo-39380: Add the encoding in
ftplib.FTP
andftplib.FTP_TLS
to the constructor as keyword-only and change the default fromlatin-1
toutf-8
to follow RFC 2640.bpo-39793: Use the same domain when testing
make_msgid
. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-1812: Fix newline handling in doctest.testfile when loading from a package whose loader has a get_data method. Patch by Peter Donis.
Build¶
bpo-38360: Support single-argument form of macOS -isysroot flag.
bpo-40158: Fix CPython MSBuild Properties in NuGet Package (build/native/python.props)
bpo-38527: Fix configure check on Solaris for “float word ordering”: sometimes, the correct “grep” command was not being used. Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-38329: python.org macOS installers now update the Current version symlink of /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions for 3.9 installs. Previously, Current was only updated for Python 2.x installs. This should make it easier to embed Python 3 into other macOS applications.
bpo-40164: Update macOS installer builds to use OpenSSL 1.1.1g.
IDLE¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-40385: Removed the checkpyc.py tool. Please see compileall without force mode as a potential alternative.
bpo-40179: Fixed translation of
#elif
in Argument Clinic.bpo-40094: Fix
which.py
script exit code: it now usesos.waitstatus_to_exitcode()
to convertos.system()
exit status into an exit code.
C API¶
bpo-40241: Move the
PyGC_Head
structure to the internal C API.bpo-40170: Convert
PyObject_IS_GC()
macro to a function to hide implementation details.bpo-40241: Add the functions
PyObject_GC_IsTracked()
andPyObject_GC_IsFinalized()
to the public API to allow to query if Python objects are being currently tracked or have been already finalized by the garbage collector respectively. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-40170: The
PyObject_NEW()
macro becomes an alias to thePyObject_New()
macro, and thePyObject_NEW_VAR()
macro becomes an alias to thePyObject_NewVar()
macro, to hide implementation details. They no longer access directly thePyTypeObject.tp_basicsize
member.bpo-40170:
PyType_HasFeature()
now always callsPyType_GetFlags()
to hide implementation details. Previously, it accessed directly thePyTypeObject.tp_flags
member when the limited C API was not used.bpo-40170: Convert the
PyObject_GET_WEAKREFS_LISTPTR()
macro to a function to hide implementation details: the macro accessed directly to thePyTypeObject.tp_weaklistoffset
member.bpo-40170: Convert
PyObject_CheckBuffer()
macro to a function to hide implementation details: the macro accessed directly thePyTypeObject.tp_as_buffer
member.bpo-40170: Always declare
PyIndex_Check()
as an opaque function to hide implementation details: removePyIndex_Check()
macro. The macro accessed directly thePyTypeObject.tp_as_number
member.bpo-39947: Add
PyThreadState_GetID()
function: get the unique identifier of a Python thread state.
Python 3.9.0 alpha 5¶
Release date: 2020-03-23
Security¶
bpo-38576: Disallow control characters in hostnames in http.client, addressing CVE 2019-18348. Such potentially malicious header injection URLs now cause a InvalidURL to be raised.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-40010: Optimize pending calls in multithreaded applications. If a thread different than the main thread schedules a pending call (
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: Port _weakref extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-1635741: Port _collections module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-40010: 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: If
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: Port _heapq module to multiphase initialization.
bpo-1635741: Port itertools module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-37207: Speed up calls to
frozenset()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39984: subinterpreters: Move
_PyRuntimeState.ceval.tracing_possible
toPyInterpreterState.ceval.tracing_possible
: each interpreter now has its own variable.bpo-37207: Speed up calls to
set()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-1635741: Port _statistics module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-39968: Use inline function to replace extension modules’ get_module_state macros.
bpo-39965: Correctly raise
SyntaxError
if await is used inside non-async functions andPyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT
is set (like in the asyncio REPL). Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39562: Allow executing asynchronous comprehensions on the top level when the
PyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT
flag is given. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-37207: Speed up calls to
tuple()
by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-38373: 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: Update Unicode database to Unicode version 13.0.0.
bpo-19466: 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: 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: Fix
PyEval_RestoreThread()
random crash at exit with daemon threads. It now accesses the_PyRuntime
variable directly instead of usingtstate->interp->runtime
, sincetstate
can be a dangling pointer afterPy_Finalize()
has been called. Moreover, the daemon thread now exits before trying to take the GIL.bpo-39871: Fix a possible
SystemError
inmath.{atan2,copysign,remainder}()
when the first argument cannot be converted to afloat
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-39776: Fix race condition where threads created by PyGILState_Ensure() could get a duplicate id.
This affects consumers of tstate->id like the contextvar caching machinery, which could return invalid cached objects under heavy thread load (observed in embedded scenarios).
bpo-39778: Fixed a crash due to incorrect handling of weak references in
collections.OrderedDict
classes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-1635741: Port audioop extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-39702: Relax decorator grammar restrictions to allow any valid expression (PEP 614).
bpo-38091: Tweak import deadlock detection code to not deadlock itself.
bpo-1635741: Port _locale extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-39087: Optimize
PyUnicode_AsUTF8()
andPyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize()
slightly when they need to create internal UTF-8 cache.bpo-39520: Fix unparsing of ext slices with no items (
foo[:,]
). Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-39220: Do not optimize annotations if ‘from __future__ import annotations’ is used. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-35712: Using
NotImplemented
in a boolean context has been deprecated. Patch contributed by Josh Rosenberg.bpo-22490: Don’t leak environment variable
__PYVENV_LAUNCHER__
into the interpreter session on macOS.
Library¶
bpo-39830: Add
zipfile.Path
to__all__
in thezipfile
module.bpo-40000: Improved error messages for validation of
ast.Constant
nodes. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-39999:
__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:
uuid.getnode()
now skips IPv6 addresses with the same string length than a MAC address (17 characters): only use MAC addresses.bpo-39988: Deprecated
ast.AugLoad
andast.AugStore
node classes because they are no longer used.bpo-39656: Ensure
bin/python3.#
is always present in virtual environments on POSIX platforms - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-39969: Deprecated
ast.Param
node class because it’s no longer used. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-39360: Ensure all workers exit when finalizing a
multiprocessing.Pool
implicitly via the module finalization handlers of multiprocessing. This fixes a deadlock situation that can be experienced when the Pool is not properly finalized via the context manager or a call tomultiprocessing.Pool.terminate
. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya and Pablo Galindo.bpo-35370: sys.settrace(), sys.setprofile() and _lsprof.Profiler.enable() now properly report
PySys_Audit()
error if “sys.setprofile” or “sys.settrace” audit event is denied.bpo-39936: 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:
collections.OrderedDict
now implements|
and|=
(PEP 584).bpo-39652: The column name found in
sqlite3.Cursor.description
is now truncated on the first ‘[’ only if the PARSE_COLNAMES option is set.bpo-39915: Ensure
unittest.mock.AsyncMock.await_args_list
has call objects in the order of awaited arguments instead of usingunittest.mock.Mock.call_args
which has the last value of the call. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-36144: Updated
os.environ
andos.environb
to support PEP 584’s merge (|
) and update (|=
) operators.bpo-38662: The
ensurepip
module now invokespip
via therunpy
module. Hence it is no longer tightly coupled with the internal API of the bundledpip
version, allowing easier updates to a newerpip
version both internally and for distributors.bpo-38075: Fix the
random.Random.seed()
method when abool
is passed as the seed.bpo-39916: More reliable use of
os.scandir()
inPath.glob()
. It no longer emits a ResourceWarning when interrupted.bpo-39850:
multiprocessing
now supports abstract socket addresses (if abstract sockets are supported in the running platform). When creating arbitrary addresses (like when default-constructingmultiprocessing.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:
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 toNone
).bpo-39889: Fixed
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: Fix
json.tool
to catchBrokenPipeError
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-13487: Avoid a possible “RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration” from
inspect.getmodule()
when it tried to loop throughsys.modules
.bpo-39674: 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: 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: Add getConnection method to logging HTTPHandler to enable custom connections.
bpo-39763: Reimplement
distutils.spawn.spawn
function with thesubprocess
module.bpo-39794: Add –without-decimal-contextvar build option. This enables a thread-local rather than a coroutine local context.
bpo-36144:
collections.defaultdict
now implements|
(PEP 584).bpo-39517: Fix runpy.run_path() when using pathlike objects
bpo-39775: Change
inspect.Signature.parameters
back tocollections.OrderedDict
. This was changed todict
in Python 3.9.0a4.bpo-39678: Refactor queue_manager in
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
to make it easier to maintain.bpo-39764: Fix AttributeError when calling get_stack on a PyAsyncGenObject Task
bpo-39769: The
compileall.compile_dir()
function’s ddir parameter and the compileall command line flag-d
no longer write the wrong pathname to the generated pyc file for submodules beneath the root of the directory tree being compiled. This fixes a regression introduced with Python 3.5.bpo-36144:
types.MappingProxyType
objects now support the merge (|
) operator from PEP 584.bpo-38691: The
importlib
module now ignores thePYTHONCASEOK
environment variable when the-E
or-I
command line options are being used.bpo-39719: Remove
tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile.softspace()
as files no longer have thesoftspace
attribute in Python 3. Patch by Shantanu.bpo-39667: Improve pathlib.Path compatibility on zipfile.Path and correct performance degradation as found in zipp 3.0.
bpo-39638: Keep ASDL signatures in the docstrings for
AST
nodes. Patch by Batuhan Taskayabpo-39639: Deprecated
ast.Suite
node class because it’s no longer used. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-39609: Add thread_name_prefix to default asyncio executor
bpo-39548: Fix handling of header in
urllib.request.AbstractDigestAuthHandler
when the optionalqop
parameter is not present.bpo-39509: HTTP status codes
103 EARLY_HINTS
and425 TOO_EARLY
are added tohttp.HTTPStatus
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39507: Adding HTTP status 418 “I’m a Teapot” to HTTPStatus in http library. Patch by Ross Rhodes.
bpo-39495: Remove default value from attrs parameter of
xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder.start()
for consistency between Python and C implementations.bpo-38971: Open issue in the BPO indicated a desire to make the implementation of codecs.open() at parity with io.open(), which implements a try/except to assure file stream gets closed before an exception is raised.
bpo-38641: Added starred expressions support to
return
andyield
statements forlib2to3
. Patch by Vlad Emelianov.bpo-37534: 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: Add support for scoped IPv6 addresses to
ipaddress
. Patch by Oleksandr Pavliuk.bpo-34822: Simplified AST for subscription. Simple indices are now represented by their value, extended slices are represented as tuples.
ast
classesIndex
andExtSlice
are considered deprecated and will be removed in future Python versions. In the meantime,Index(value)
now returns avalue
itself,ExtSlice(slices)
returnsTuple(slices, Load())
.
Documentation¶
bpo-13790: Change ‘string’ to ‘specification’ in format doc.
bpo-17422: The language reference no longer restricts default class namespaces to dicts only.
bpo-39530: Fix misleading documentation about mixed-type numeric comparisons.
bpo-39718: Update
token
documentation to reflect additions in Python 3.8bpo-39677: Changed operand name of MAKE_FUNCTION from argc to flags for module
dis
Tests¶
bpo-40019: test_gdb now skips tests if it detects that gdb failed to read debug information because the Python binary is optimized.
bpo-27807:
test_site.test_startup_imports()
is now skipped if a path ofsys.path
contains a.pth
file.bpo-26067: Do not fail test_shutil test_chown test when uid or gid of user cannot be resolved to a name.
bpo-39855: 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.
Build¶
bpo-39761: Fix build with DTrace but without additional DFLAGS.
bpo-39763: setup.py now uses a basic implementation of the
subprocess
module if thesubprocess
module is not available: before required C extension modules are built.bpo-1294959: Add
--with-platlibdir
option to the configure script: name of the platform-specific library directory, stored in the newsys.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.
Windows¶
bpo-39930: Ensures the required
vcruntime140.dll
is included in install packages.bpo-39847: Avoid hang when computer is hibernated whilst waiting for a mutex (for lock-related objects from
threading
) around 49-day uptime.bpo-38597:
distutils
will no longer statically linkvcruntime140.dll
when a redistributable version is unavailable. All future releases of CPython will include a copy of this DLL to ensure distributed extensions can continue to load.bpo-38380: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.31.1
bpo-39789: Update Windows release build machines to Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 14.2).
bpo-34803: Package for nuget.org now includes repository reference and bundled icon image.
macOS¶
bpo-38380: Update macOS builds to use SQLite 3.31.1
IDLE¶
bpo-27115: For ‘Go to Line’, use a Query box subclass with IDLE standard behavior and improved error checking.
bpo-39885: Since clicking to get an IDLE context menu moves the cursor, any text selection should be and now is cleared.
bpo-39852: Edit “Go to line” now clears any selection, preventing accidental deletion. It also updates Ln and Col on the status bar.
bpo-39781: Selecting code context lines no longer causes a jump.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-36184: Port python-gdb.py to FreeBSD. python-gdb.py now checks for “take_gil” function name to check if a frame tries to acquire the GIL, instead of checking for “pthread_cond_timedwait” which is specific to Linux and can be a different condition than the GIL.
bpo-38080: Added support to fix
getproxies
in thelib2to3.fixes.fix_urllib
module. Patch by José Roberto Meza Cabrera.
C API¶
bpo-40024: Add
PyModule_AddType()
helper function: add a type to a module. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39946: 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 alsoPyThreadFrameGetter
type.bpo-39947: Add
PyThreadState_GetFrame()
function: get the current frame of a Python thread state.bpo-37207: Add _PyArg_NoKwnames helper function. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-39947: Add
PyThreadState_GetInterpreter()
: get the interpreter of a Python thread state.bpo-39947: Add
PyInterpreterState_Get()
function to the limited C API.bpo-35370: If
PySys_Audit()
fails inPyEval_SetProfile()
orPyEval_SetTrace()
, log the error as an unraisable exception.bpo-39947: 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: 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:
PyDescr_NewMethod()
andPyCFunction_NewEx()
now include the method name in the SystemError “bad call flags” error message to ease debug.bpo-39877: Deprecated
PyEval_InitThreads()
andPyEval_ThreadsInitialized()
. CallingPyEval_InitThreads()
now does nothing.bpo-38249:
Py_UNREACHABLE
is now implemented with__builtin_unreachable()
and analogs in release mode.bpo-38643:
PyNumber_ToBase()
now raises aSystemError
instead of crashing when called with invalid base.bpo-39882: The
Py_FatalError()
function is replaced with a macro which logs automatically the name of the current function, unless thePy_LIMITED_API
macro is defined.bpo-39824: Extension modules:
m_traverse
,m_clear
andm_free
functions ofPyModuleDef
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 (Py_mod_exec
function). More precisely, these functions are not called ifm_size
is greater than 0 and the module state (as returned byPyModule_GetState()
) isNULL
.Extension modules without module state (
m_size <= 0
) are not affected.bpo-38913: Fixed segfault in
Py_BuildValue()
called with a format containing “#” and undefined PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN whwn an exception is set.bpo-38500: Add a private API to get and set the frame evaluation function: add
_PyInterpreterState_GetEvalFrameFunc()
and_PyInterpreterState_SetEvalFrameFunc()
C functions. The_PyFrameEvalFunction
function type now takes a tstate parameter.
Python 3.9.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2020-02-25
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-39382: Fix a use-after-free in the single inheritance path of
issubclass()
, when the__bases__
of an object has a single reference, and so does its first item. Patch by Yonatan Goldschmidt.bpo-39573: Update clinic tool to use
Py_IS_TYPE()
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39619: Enable use of
os.chroot()
on HP-UX systems.bpo-39573: Add
Py_IS_TYPE()
static inline function to check whether the object o type is type.bpo-39606: Fix regression caused by fix for bpo-39386, that prevented calling
aclose
on an async generator that had already been closed or exhausted.bpo-39579: Change the ending column offset of
Attribute
nodes constructed inast_for_dotted_name
to point at the end of the current node and not at the end of the lastNAME
node.bpo-1635741: Port _crypt extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-1635741: Port _contextvars extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-39510: Fix segfault in
readinto()
method on closed BufferedReader.bpo-39502: Fix
time.localtime()
on 64-bit AIX to support years before 1902 and after 2038. Patch by M Felt.bpo-39492: Fix a reference cycle in the C Pickler that was preventing the garbage collection of deleted, pickled objects.
bpo-39453: Fixed a possible crash in
list.__contains__()
when a list is changed during comparing items. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39434: floor division of float operation now has a better performance. Also the message of
ZeroDivisionError
for this operation is updated. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-1635741: Port _codecs extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-1635741: Port _bz2 extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-1635741: Port _abc extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-39320: Replace two complex bytecodes for building dicts with two simpler ones. The new bytecodes
DICT_MERGE
andDICT_UPDATE
have been added The old bytecodesBUILD_MAP_UNPACK
andBUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL
have been removed.bpo-39219: Syntax errors raised in the tokenizer now always set correct “text” and “offset” attributes.
bpo-36051: Drop the GIL during large
bytes.join
operations. Patch by Bruce Merry.bpo-38960: Fix DTrace build issues on FreeBSD. Patch by David Carlier.
bpo-37207: Speed up calls to
range()
by about 30%, by using the PEP 590vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Mark Shannon.bpo-36144:
dict
(andcollections.UserDict
) objects now support PEP 584’s merge (|
) and update (|=
) operators. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-32856: Optimized the idiom for assignment a temporary variable in comprehensions. Now
for y in [expr]
in comprehensions is as fast as a simple assignmenty = expr
.
Library¶
bpo-30566: Fix
IndexError
when trying to decode an invalid string with punycode codec.bpo-39649: Remove obsolete check for
__args__
inbdb.Bdb.format_stack_entry
.bpo-39648: Expanded
math.gcd()
andmath.lcm()
to handle multiple arguments.bpo-39681: Fix a regression where the C pickle module wouldn’t allow unpickling from a file-like object that doesn’t expose a readinto() method.
bpo-35950: Raise
io.UnsupportedOperation
inio.BufferedReader.truncate()
when it is called on a read-onlyio.BufferedReader
instance.bpo-39479: Add
math.lcm()
function: least common multiple.bpo-39674: Revert “Do not expose abstract collection classes in the collections module” change (bpo-25988). Aliases to ABC like collections.Mapping are kept in Python 3.9 to ease transition from Python 2.7, but will be removed in Python 3.10.
bpo-39104: Fix hanging ProcessPoolExcutor on
shutdown(wait=False)
when a task has failed pickling.bpo-39627: Fixed TypedDict totality check for inherited keys.
bpo-39474: Fixed starting position of AST for expressions like
(a)(b)
,(a)[b]
and(a).b
.bpo-21016: The
pydoc
andtrace
modules now use thesysconfig
module to get the path to the Python standard library, to support uncommon installation path like/usr/lib64/python3.9/
on Fedora. Patch by Jan Matějek.bpo-39590: Collections.deque now holds strong references during deque.__contains__ and deque.count, fixing crashes.
bpo-39586: The distutils
bdist_msi
command is deprecated in Python 3.9, usebdist_wheel
(wheel packages) instead.bpo-39595: Improved performance of zipfile.Path for files with a large number of entries. Also improved performance and fixed minor issue as published with importlib_metadata 1.5.
bpo-39350: Fix regression in
fractions.Fraction
if the numerator and/or the denominator is anint
subclass. Themath.gcd()
function is now used to normalize the numerator and denominator.math.gcd()
always return aint
type. Previously, the GCD type depended on numerator and denominator.bpo-39567: Added audit for
os.walk()
,os.fwalk()
,pathlib.Path.glob()
andpathlib.Path.rglob()
.bpo-39559: Remove unused, undocumented argument
getters
fromuuid.getnode()
bpo-38149:
sys.audit()
is now called only once per call ofglob.glob()
andglob.iglob()
.bpo-39546: Fix a regression in
ArgumentParser
whereallow_abbrev=False
was ignored for long options that used a prefix character other than “-“.bpo-39450: Striped whitespace from docstring before returning it from
unittest.case.shortDescription()
.bpo-12915: A new function
resolve_name
has been added to thepkgutil
module. This resolves a string of the form'a.b.c.d'
or'a.b:c.d'
to an object. In the example,a.b
is a package/module andc.d
is an object within that package/module reached via recursive attribute access.bpo-39353: The
binascii.crc_hqx()
function is no longer deprecated.bpo-39493: Mark
typing.IO.closed
as a propertybpo-39491: Add
typing.Annotated
andinclude_extras
parameter totyping.get_type_hints()
as part of PEP 593. Patch by Till Varoquaux, documentation by Till Varoquaux and Konstantin Kashin.bpo-39485: Fix a bug in
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
that would complain about the wrong number of arguments for custom descriptors defined in an extension module returning functions.bpo-38932: Mock fully resets child objects on reset_mock(). Patch by Vegard Stikbakke
bpo-39082: Allow AsyncMock to correctly patch static/class methods
bpo-39432: Implement PEP-489 algorithm for non-ascii “PyInit_…” symbol names in distutils to make it export the correct init symbol also on Windows.
bpo-18819: Omit
devmajor
anddevminor
fields for non-device files intarfile
archives, enabling bit-for-bit compatibility with GNUtar(1)
.bpo-39349: Added a new cancel_futures parameter to
concurrent.futures.Executor.shutdown()
that cancels all pending futures which have not started running, instead of waiting for them to complete before shutting down the executor.bpo-39274:
bool(fraction.Fraction)
now returns a boolean even if (numerator != 0) does not return a boolean (ex: numpy number).bpo-34793: Remove support for
with (await asyncio.lock):
andwith (yield from asyncio.lock):
. The same is correct forasyncio.Condition
andasyncio.Semaphore
.bpo-25597: Ensure, if
wraps
is supplied tounittest.mock.MagicMock
, it is used to calculate return values for the magic methods instead of using the default return values. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-36350:
inspect.Signature.parameters
andinspect.BoundArguments.arguments
are now dicts instead of OrderedDicts. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-35727: Fix sys.exit() and sys.exit(None) exit code propagation when used in multiprocessing.Process.
bpo-32173: * Add
lazycache
function to__all__
. * Usedict.clear
to clear the cache. * Refactoringgetline
function andcheckcache
function.
Documentation¶
bpo-17422: The language reference now specifies restrictions on class namespaces. Adapted from a patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-39572: Updated documentation of
total
flag ofTypedDict
.bpo-39654: In pyclbr doc, update ‘class’ to ‘module’ where appropriate and add readmodule comment. Patch by Hakan Çelik.
bpo-39153: Clarify refcounting semantics for the following functions: - PyObject_SetItem - PyMapping_SetItemString - PyDict_SetItem - PyDict_SetItemString
bpo-39392: Explain that when filling with turtle, overlap regions may be left unfilled.
bpo-39369: Update mmap readline method description. The fact that the readline method does update the file position should not be ignored since this might give the impression for the programmer that it doesn’t update it.
bpo-9056: Include subsection in TOC for PDF version of docs.
Tests¶
bpo-38325: Skip tests on non-BMP characters of test_winconsoleio.
bpo-39502: Skip test_zipfile.test_add_file_after_2107() if
time.localtime()
fails withOverflowError
. It is the case on AIX 6.1 for example.
Build¶
bpo-39489: Remove
COUNT_ALLOCS
special build.
Windows¶
bpo-39553: Delete unused code related to SxS manifests.
bpo-39439: Honor the Python path when a virtualenv is active on Windows.
bpo-39393: Improve the error message when attempting to load a DLL with unresolved dependencies.
bpo-38883:
home()
andexpanduser()
on Windows now preferUSERPROFILE
and no longer useHOME
, which is not normally set for regular user accounts. This makes them again behave likeos.path.expanduser()
, which was changed to ignoreHOME
in 3.8, see bpo-36264.bpo-39185: The build.bat script has additional options for very-quiet output (-q) and very-verbose output (-vv)
IDLE¶
bpo-39663: Add tests for pyparse find_good_parse_start().
bpo-39600: In the font configuration window, remove duplicated font names.
bpo-30780: Add remaining configdialog tests for buttons and highlights and keys tabs.
bpo-39388: IDLE Settings Cancel button now cancels pending changes
bpo-38792: Close an IDLE shell calltip if a
KeyboardInterrupt
or shell restart occurs. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
C API¶
bpo-35081: Move the
bytes_methods.h
header file to the internal C API aspycore_bytes_methods.h
: it only contains private symbols (prefixed by_Py
), except of thePyDoc_STRVAR_shared()
macro.bpo-35081: Move the
dtoa.h
header file to the internal C API aspycore_dtoa.h
: it only contains private functions (prefixed by_Py
). Themath
andcmath
modules must now be compiled with thePy_BUILD_CORE
macro defined.bpo-39573: Add
Py_SET_SIZE()
function to set the size of an object.bpo-39500:
PyUnicode_IsIdentifier()
does not callPy_FatalError()
anymore if the string is not ready.bpo-39573: Add
Py_SET_TYPE()
function to set the type of an object.bpo-39573: Add a
Py_SET_REFCNT()
function to set the reference counter of an object.bpo-39542: Convert
PyType_HasFeature()
,PyType_Check()
andPyType_CheckExact()
macros to static inline functions.bpo-39542: In the limited C API,
PyObject_INIT()
andPyObject_INIT_VAR()
are now defined as aliases toPyObject_Init()
andPyObject_InitVar()
to make their implementation opaque. It avoids to leak implementation details in the limited C API. Exclude the following functions from the limited C API:_Py_NewReference()
,_Py_ForgetReference()
,_PyTraceMalloc_NewReference()
and_Py_GetRefTotal()
.bpo-39542: Exclude trashcan mechanism from the limited C API: it requires access to PyTypeObject and PyThreadState structure fields, whereas these structures are opaque in the limited C API.
bpo-39511: The
PyThreadState_Clear()
function now calls thePyThreadState.on_delete
callback. Previously, that happened inPyThreadState_Delete()
.bpo-38076: Fix to clear the interpreter state only after clearing module globals to guarantee module state access from C Extensions during runtime destruction
bpo-39245: The Vectorcall API (PEP 590) was made public, adding the functions
PyObject_Vectorcall
,PyObject_VectorcallMethod
,PyVectorcall_Function
,PyObject_CallOneArg
,PyObject_CallMethodNoArgs
,PyObject_CallMethodOneArg
,PyObject_FastCallDict
, and the flagPy_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VECTORCALL
.
Python 3.9.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2020-01-24
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-39427: Document all possibilities for the
-X
options in the command line help section. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39421: Fix possible crashes when operating with the functions in the
heapq
module and custom comparison operators.bpo-39386: Prevent double awaiting of async iterator.
bpo-17005: Add
functools.TopologicalSorter
to thefunctools
module to offers functionality to perform topological sorting of graphs. Patch by Pablo Galindo, Tim Peters and Larry Hastings.bpo-39320: Replace four complex bytecodes for building sequences with three simpler ones.
The following four bytecodes have been removed:
BUILD_LIST_UNPACK
BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK
BUILD_SET_UNPACK
BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL
The following three bytecodes have been added:
LIST_TO_TUPLE
LIST_EXTEND
SET_UPDATE
bpo-39336: Import loaders which publish immutable module objects can now publish immutable packages in addition to individual modules.
bpo-39322: Added a new function
gc.is_finalized()
to check if an object has been finalized by the garbage collector. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39048: Improve the displayed error message when incorrect types are passed to
async with
statements by looking up the__aenter__()
special method before the__aexit__()
special method when entering an asynchronous context manager. Patch by Géry Ogam.bpo-39235: Fix AST end location for lone generator expression in function call, e.g. f(i for i in a).
bpo-39209: Correctly handle multi-line tokens in interactive mode. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-1635741: Port _json extension module to multiphase initialization (PEP 489).
bpo-39216: Fix constant folding optimization for positional only arguments - by Anthony Sottile.
bpo-39215: Fix
SystemError
when nested function has annotation on positional-only argument - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-39200: Correct the error message when calling the
min()
ormax()
with no arguments. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39200: Correct the error message when trying to construct
range
objects with no arguments. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-39166: Fix incorrect line execution reporting in trace functions when tracing the last iteration of asynchronous for loops. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-39114: Fix incorrect line execution reporting in trace functions when tracing exception handlers with name binding. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-39156: Split the COMPARE_OP bytecode instruction into four distinct instructions.
COMPARE_OP for rich comparisons
IS_OP for ‘is’ and ‘is not’ tests
CONTAINS_OP for ‘in’ and ‘is not’ tests
JUMP_IF_NOT_EXC_MATCH for checking exceptions in ‘try-except’ statements.
This improves the clarity of the interpreter and should provide a modest speedup.
bpo-38588: Fix possible crashes in dict and list when calling
PyObject_RichCompareBool()
.bpo-13601: By default,
sys.stderr
is line-buffered now, even ifstderr
is redirected to a file. You can still makesys.stderr
unbuffered by passing the-u
command-line option or setting thePYTHONUNBUFFERED
environment variable.(Contributed by Jendrik Seipp in bpo-13601.)
bpo-38610: Fix possible crashes in several list methods by holding strong references to list elements when calling
PyObject_RichCompareBool()
.bpo-32021: Include brotli .br encoding in mimetypes encodings_map
Library¶
bpo-39413: The
os.unsetenv()
function is now also available on Windows.bpo-39390: Fixed a regression with the
ignore
callback ofshutil.copytree()
. The argument types are nowstr
andList[str]
again.bpo-39395: The
os.putenv()
andos.unsetenv()
functions are now always available.bpo-39406: If
setenv()
C function is available,os.putenv()
is now implemented withsetenv()
instead ofputenv()
, so Python doesn’t have to handle the environment variable memory.bpo-39396: Fix
math.nextafter(-0.0, +0.0)
on AIX 7.1.bpo-29435: Allow
tarfile.is_tarfile()
to be used with file and file-like objects, likezipfile.is_zipfile()
. Patch by William Woodruff.bpo-39377: Removed
encoding
option fromjson.loads()
. It has been deprecated since Python 3.1.bpo-39389: Write accurate compression level metadata in
gzip
archives, rather than always signaling maximum compression.bpo-39366: The previously deprecated
xpath()
andxgtitle()
methods ofnntplib.NNTP
have been removed.bpo-39357: Remove the buffering parameter of
bz2.BZ2File
. Since Python 3.0, it was ignored and using it was emittingDeprecationWarning
. Pass an open file object, to control how the file is opened. The compresslevel parameter becomes keyword-only.bpo-39353: Deprecate binhex4 and hexbin4 standards. Deprecate the
binhex
module and the followingbinascii
functions:b2a_hqx()
,a2b_hqx()
,rlecode_hqx()
,rledecode_hqx()
,crc_hqx()
.bpo-39351: Remove
base64.encodestring()
andbase64.decodestring()
, aliases deprecated since Python 3.1: usebase64.encodebytes()
andbase64.decodebytes()
instead.bpo-39350: Remove
fractions.gcd()
function, deprecated since Python 3.5 (bpo-22486): usemath.gcd()
instead.bpo-39329:
LMTP
constructor now has an optional timeout parameter. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39313: Add a new
exec_function
option (–exec-function in the CLI) toRefactoringTool
for makingexec
a function. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-39259:
FTP_TLS
andFTP_TLS
now raise aValueError
if the given timeout for their constructor is zero to prevent the creation of a non-blocking socket. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39259:
SMTP
andSMTP_SSL
now raise aValueError
if the given timeout for their constructor is zero to prevent the creation of a non-blocking socket. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39310: Add
math.ulp()
: return the value of the least significant bit of a float.bpo-39297: Improved performance of importlib.metadata distribution discovery and resilients to inaccessible sys.path entries (importlib_metadata v1.4.0).
bpo-39259:
NNTP
andNNTP_SSL
now raise aValueError
if the given timeout for their constructor is zero to prevent the creation of a non-blocking socket. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-38901: When you specify prompt=’.’ or equivalently python -m venv –prompt . … the basename of the current directory is used to set the created venv’s prompt when it’s activated.
bpo-39288: Add
math.nextafter()
: return the next floating-point value after x towards y.bpo-39259:
POP3
andPOP3_SSL
now raise aValueError
if the given timeout for their constructor is zero to prevent the creation of a non-blocking socket. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39242: Updated the Gmane domain from news.gmane.org to news.gmane.io which is used for examples of
NNTP
news reader server and nntplib tests.bpo-35292: Proxy the
SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.guess_type
tomimetypes.guess_type
so themimetypes.init
is called lazily to avoid unnecessary costs whenhttp.server
module is imported.bpo-39239: The
select.epoll.unregister()
method no longer ignores theEBADF
error.bpo-38907: In http.server script, restore binding to IPv4 on Windows.
bpo-39152: Fix ttk.Scale.configure([name]) to return configuration tuple for name or all options. Giovanni Lombardo contributed part of the patch.
bpo-39198: If an exception were to be thrown in
Logger.isEnabledFor
(say, by asyncio timeouts or stopit) , thelogging
global lock may not be released appropriately, resulting in deadlock. This change wraps that block of code withtry...finally
to ensure the lock is released.bpo-39191: Perform a check for running loop before starting a new task in
loop.run_until_complete()
to fail fast; it prevents the side effect of new task spawning before exception raising.bpo-38871: Correctly parenthesize filter-based statements that contain lambda expressions in
lib2to3
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-39142: A change was made to logging.config.dictConfig to avoid converting instances of named tuples to ConvertingTuple. It’s assumed that named tuples are too specialised to be treated like ordinary tuples; if a user of named tuples requires ConvertingTuple functionality, they will have to implement that themselves in their named tuple class.
bpo-39158: ast.literal_eval() now supports empty sets.
bpo-39129: Fix import path for
asyncio.TimeoutError
bpo-39057:
urllib.request.proxy_bypass_environment()
now ignores leading dots and no longer ignores a trailing newline.bpo-39056: Fixed handling invalid warning category in the -W option. No longer import the re module if it is not needed.
bpo-39055:
base64.b64decode()
withvalidate=True
raises now a binascii.Error if the input ends with a single\n
.bpo-21600: Fix
mock.patch.stopall()
to stop active patches that were created withmock.patch.dict()
.bpo-39019: Implement dummy
__class_getitem__
fortempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile
.bpo-39019: Implement dummy
__class_getitem__
forsubprocess.Popen
,subprocess.CompletedProcess
bpo-38914: Adjusted the wording of the warning issued by distutils’
check
command when theauthor
andmaintainer
fields are supplied but no corresponding e-mail field (author_email
ormaintainer_email
) is found. The wording now reflects the fact that these fields are suggested, but not required. Patch by Juergen Gmach.bpo-38878: Fixed __subclasshook__ of
os.PathLike
to return a correct result upon inheritance. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-38615:
IMAP4
andIMAP4_SSL
now have an optional timeout parameter for their constructors. Also, theopen()
method now has an optional timeout parameter with this change. The overridden methods ofIMAP4_SSL
andIMAP4_stream
were applied to this change. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-35182: Fixed
Popen.communicate()
subsequent call crash when the child process has already closed any piped standard stream, but still continues to be running. Patch by Andriy Maletsky.bpo-38630: On Unix,
subprocess.Popen.send_signal()
now polls the process status. Polling reduces the risk of sending a signal to the wrong process if the process completed, thesubprocess.Popen.returncode
attribute is stillNone
, and the pid has been reassigned (recycled) to a new different process.bpo-38536: Removes trailing space in formatted currency with
international=True
and a locale with symbol following value. E.g.locale.currency(12.34, international=True)
returned'12,34 EUR '
instead of'12,34 EUR'
.bpo-38473: Use signature from inner mock for autospecced methods attached with
unittest.mock.attach_mock()
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-38361: Fixed an issue where
ident
could include a leading path separator whensyslog.openlog()
was called without arguments.bpo-38293: Add
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
support toproperty()
objects.bpo-37958: Added the pstats.Stats.get_profile_dict() method to return the profile data as a StatsProfile instance.
bpo-28367: Termios magic constants for the following baud rates: - B500000 - B576000 - B921600 - B1000000 - B1152000 - B1500000 - B2000000 - B2500000 - B3000000 - B3500000 - B4000000 Patch by Andrey Smirnov
Documentation¶
bpo-39381: Mention in docs that
asyncio.get_event_loop()
implicitly creates new event loop only if called from the main thread.bpo-38918: Add an entry for
__module__
in the “function” & “method” sections of theinspect
docs’ Tipos e membros table.bpo-3530: In the
ast
module documentation, fix a misleadingNodeTransformer
example and add advice on when to use thefix_missing_locations
function.
Build¶
bpo-39395: On non-Windows platforms, the
setenv()
andunsetenv()
functions are now required to build Python.bpo-39160: Updated the documentation in
./configure --help
to show default values, reference documentation where required and add additional explanation where needed.bpo-39144: The ctags and etags build targets both include Modules/_ctypes and Python standard library source files.
IDLE¶
bpo-39050: Make IDLE Settings dialog Help button work again.
bpo-34118: Tag memoryview, range, and tuple as classes, the same as list, etcetera, in the library manual built-in functions list.
bpo-32989: Add tests for editor newline_and_indent_event method. Remove dead code from pyparse find_good_parse_start method.
C API¶
bpo-39372: Clean header files of interfaces defined but with no implementation. The public API symbols being removed are:
_PyBytes_InsertThousandsGroupingLocale
,_PyBytes_InsertThousandsGrouping
,_Py_InitializeFromArgs
,_Py_InitializeFromWideArgs
,_PyFloat_Repr
,_PyFloat_Digits
,_PyFloat_DigitsInit
,PyFrame_ExtendStack
,_PyAIterWrapper_Type
,PyNullImporter_Type
,PyCmpWrapper_Type
,PySortWrapper_Type
,PyNoArgsFunction
.bpo-39164: Add a private
_PyErr_GetExcInfo()
function to retrieve exception information of the specified Python thread state.
Python 3.9.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2019-12-18
Security¶
bpo-38945: Newline characters have been escaped when performing uu encoding to prevent them from overflowing into to content section of the encoded file. This prevents malicious or accidental modification of data during the decoding process.
bpo-37228: Due to significant security concerns, the reuse_address parameter of
asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint()
is no longer supported. This is because of the behavior ofSO_REUSEADDR
in UDP. For more details, see the documentation forloop.create_datagram_endpoint()
. (Contributed by Kyle Stanley, Antoine Pitrou, and Yury Selivanov in bpo-37228.)bpo-38804: Fixes a ReDoS vulnerability in
http.cookiejar
. Patch by Ben Caller.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-39028: Slightly improve the speed of keyword argument parsing with many kwargs by strengthening the assumption that kwargs are interned strings.
bpo-39080: Fix the value of end_col_offset for Starred Expression AST nodes when they are among the elements in the args attribute of Call AST nodes.
bpo-39031: When parsing an “elif” node, lineno and col_offset of the node now point to the “elif” keyword and not to its condition, making it consistent with the “if” node. Patch by Lysandros Nikolaou.
bpo-20443: In Python 3.9.0a1, sys.argv[0] was made an absolute path if a filename was specified on the command line. Revert this change, since most users expect sys.argv to be unmodified.
bpo-39008:
PySys_Audit()
now requiresPy_ssize_t
to be used for size arguments in the format string, regardless of whetherPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
was defined at include time.bpo-38673: In REPL mode, don’t switch to PS2 if the line starts with comment or whitespace. Based on work by Batuhan Taşkaya.
bpo-38922: Calling
replace
on a code object now raises thecode.__new__
audit event.bpo-38920: Add audit hooks for when
sys.excepthook()
andsys.unraisablehook()
are invoked.bpo-38892: Improve documentation for audit events table and functions.
bpo-38852: Set the thread stack size to 8 Mb for debug builds on android platforms.
bpo-38858: Each Python subinterpreter now has its own “small integer singletons”: numbers in [-5; 257] range. It is no longer possible to change the number of small integers at build time by overriding
NSMALLNEGINTS
andNSMALLPOSINTS
macros: macros should now be modified manually inpycore_pystate.h
header file.bpo-36854: The garbage collector state becomes per interpreter (
PyInterpreterState.gc
), rather than being global (_PyRuntimeState.gc
).bpo-38835: The
PyFPE_START_PROTECT()
andPyFPE_END_PROTECT()
macros are empty: they have been doing nothing for the last year, so stop using them.bpo-38328: Sped up the creation time of constant
list
andset
displays. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-38707:
MainThread.native_id
is now correctly reset in child processes spawned usingmultiprocessing.Process
, instead of retaining the parent’s value.bpo-38629: Added
__floor__
and__ceil__
methods to float object. Patch by Batuhan Taşkaya.bpo-27145: int + int and int - int operators can now return small integer singletons. Patch by hongweipeng.
bpo-38021: Provide a platform tag for AIX that is sufficient for PEP425 binary distribution identification. Patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-35409: Ignore GeneratorExit exceptions when throwing an exception into the aclose coroutine of an asynchronous generator.
bpo-33387: Removed WITH_CLEANUP_START, WITH_CLEANUP_FINISH, BEGIN_FINALLY, END_FINALLY, CALL_FINALLY and POP_FINALLY bytecodes. Replaced with RERAISE and WITH_EXCEPT_START bytecodes. The compiler now generates different code for exceptional and non-exceptional branches for ‘with’ and ‘try-except’ statements. For ‘try-finally’ statements the ‘finally’ block is replicated for each exit from the ‘try’ body.
Library¶
bpo-39033: Fix
NameError
inzipimport
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-39022: Update importlib.metadata to include improvements from importlib_metadata 1.3 including better serialization of EntryPoints and improved documentation for custom finders.
bpo-39006: Fix asyncio when the ssl module is missing: only check for ssl.SSLSocket instance if the ssl module is available.
bpo-38708: Fix a potential IndexError in email parser when parsing an empty msg-id.
bpo-38698: Add a new
InvalidMessageID
token to email parser to represent invalid Message-ID headers. Also, add defects when there is remaining value after parsing the header.bpo-38994: Implement
__class_getitem__
foros.PathLike
,pathlib.Path
.bpo-38979: Return class from
ContextVar.__class_getitem__
to simplify subclassing.bpo-38978: Implement
__class_getitem__
on asyncio objects (Future, Task, Queue). Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-38916:
array.array
: Removetostring()
andfromstring()
methods. They were aliases totobytes()
andfrombytes()
, deprecated since Python 3.2.bpo-38986: Make repr of C accelerated TaskWakeupMethWrapper the same as of pure Python version.
bpo-38982: Fix asyncio
PidfdChildWatcher
: handlewaitpid()
error. Ifwaitpid()
is called elsewhere,waitpid()
call fails withChildProcessError
: use return code 255 in this case, and log a warning. It ensures that the pidfd file descriptor is closed if this error occurs.bpo-38529: Drop too noisy asyncio warning about deletion of a stream without explicit
.close()
call.bpo-27413: Added ability to pass through
ensure_ascii
options to json.dumps in thejson.tool
command-line interface.bpo-38634: The
readline
module now detects if Python is linked to libedit at runtime on all platforms. Previously, the check was only done on macOS.bpo-33684: Fix
json.tool
failed to read a JSON file with non-ASCII characters when locale encoding is not UTF-8.bpo-38698: Prevent UnboundLocalError to pop up in parse_message_id.
parse_message_id() was improperly using a token defined inside an exception handler, which was raising
UnboundLocalError
on parsing an invalid value. Patch by Claudiu Popa.bpo-38927: Use
python -m pip
instead ofpip
to upgrade dependencies in venv.bpo-26730: Fix
SpooledTemporaryFile.rollover()
might corrupt the file when it is in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-38881: random.choices() now raises a ValueError when all the weights are zero.
bpo-38876: Raise pickle.UnpicklingError when loading an item from memo for invalid input.
The previous code was raising a
KeyError
for both the Python and C implementation. This was caused by the specified index of an invalid input which did not exist in the memo structure, where the pickle stores what objects it has seen. The malformed input would have caused either aBINGET
orLONG_BINGET
load from the memo, leading to aKeyError
as the determined index was bogus. Patch by Claudiu Popa.bpo-38688: Calling func:
shutil.copytree
to copy a directory tree from one directory to another subdirectory resulted in an endless loop and a RecursionError. A fix was added to consume an iterator and create the list of the entries to be copied, avoiding the recursion for newly created directories. Patch by Bruno P. Kinoshita.bpo-38863: Improve
is_cgi()
function inhttp.server
, which enables processing the case that cgi directory is a child of another directory other than root.bpo-37838:
typing.get_type_hints()
properly handles functions decorated withfunctools.wraps()
.bpo-38870: Expose
ast.unparse()
as a function of theast
module that can be used to unparse anast.AST
object and produce a string with code that would produce an equivalentast.AST
object when parsed. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-38859: AsyncMock now returns StopAsyncIteration on the exhaustion of a side_effects iterable. Since PEP-479 its Impossible to raise a StopIteration exception from a coroutine.
bpo-38857: AsyncMock fix for return values that are awaitable types. This also covers side_effect iterable values that happened to be awaitable, and wraps callables that return an awaitable type. Before these awaitables were being awaited instead of being returned as is.
bpo-38834:
typing.TypedDict
subclasses now track which keys are optional using the__required_keys__
and__optional_keys__
attributes, to enable runtime validation by downstream projects. Patch by Zac Hatfield-Dodds.bpo-38821: Fix unhandled exceptions in
argparse
when internationalizing error messages for arguments withnargs
set to special (non-integer) values. Patch by Federico Bond.bpo-38820: Make Python compatible with OpenSSL 3.0.0.
ssl.SSLSocket.getpeercert()
no longer returns IPv6 addresses with a trailing new line.bpo-38811: Fix an unhandled exception in
pathlib
whenos.link()
is missing. Patch by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.bpo-38686: Added support for multiple
qop
values inurllib.request.AbstractDigestAuthHandler
.bpo-38712: Add the Linux-specific
signal.pidfd_send_signal()
function, which allows sending a signal to a process identified by a file descriptor rather than a pid.bpo-38348: Add
-i
and--indent
(indentation level), and--no-type-comments
(type comments) command line options to ast parsing tool.bpo-37523: Change
zipfile.ZipExtFile
to raiseValueError
when trying to access the underlying file object after it has been closed. This new behavior is consistent with how accessing closed files is handled in other parts of Python.bpo-38045: Improve the performance of
enum._decompose()
inenum
. Patch by hongweipeng.bpo-36820: Break cycle generated when saving an exception in socket.py, codeop.py and dyld.py as they keep alive not only the exception but user objects through the
__traceback__
attribute. Patch by Mario Corchero.bpo-36406: Handle namespace packages in
doctest
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-34776: Fix dataclasses to support forward references in type annotations
bpo-20928: ElementTree supports recursive XInclude processing. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-29636: Add whitespace options for formatting JSON with the
json.tool
CLI. The following mutually exclusive options are now supported:--indent
for setting the indent level in spaces;--tab
for indenting with tabs;--no-indent
for suppressing newlines; and--compact
for suppressing all whitespace. The default behavior remains the same as--indent=4
.
Documentation¶
bpo-38928: Correct when venv’s
upgrade_dependencies()
and--upgrade-deps
are added.bpo-38899: Update documentation to state that to activate virtual environments under fish one should use
source
, not.
as documented at https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/source.html.bpo-22377: Improves documentation of the values that
datetime.datetime.strptime()
accepts for%Z
. Patch by Karl Dubost.
Tests¶
bpo-38546: Fix test_ressources_gced_in_workers() of test_concurrent_futures: explicitly stop the manager to prevent leaking a child process running in the background after the test completes.
bpo-38546: Multiprocessing and concurrent.futures tests now stop the resource tracker process when tests complete.
bpo-38614: Replace hardcoded timeout constants in tests with new
test.support
constants:LOOPBACK_TIMEOUT
,INTERNET_TIMEOUT
,SHORT_TIMEOUT
andLONG_TIMEOUT
. It becomes easier to adjust these four timeout constants for all tests at once, rather than having to adjust every single test file.bpo-38547: Fix test_pty: if the process is the session leader, closing the master file descriptor raises a SIGHUP signal: simply ignore SIGHUP when running the tests.
bpo-38992: Fix a test for
math.fsum()
that was failing due to constant folding.bpo-38991:
test.support
:run_python_until_end()
,assert_python_ok()
andassert_python_failure()
functions no longer strip whitespaces from stderr. Removetest.support.strip_python_stderr()
function.bpo-38965: Fix test_faulthandler on GCC 10. Use the “volatile” keyword in
faulthandler._stack_overflow()
to prevent tail call optimization on any compiler, rather than relying on compiler specific pragma.bpo-38875: test_capi: trashcan tests now require the test “cpu” resource.
bpo-38841: Skip asyncio test_create_datagram_endpoint_existing_sock_unix on platforms lacking a functional bind() for named unix domain sockets.
bpo-38692: Skip the test_posix.test_pidfd_open() test if
os.pidfd_open()
fails with aPermissionError
. This situation can happen in a Linux sandbox using a syscall whitelist which doesn’t allow thepidfd_open()
syscall yet.bpo-38839: Fix some unused functions in tests. Patch by Adam Johnson.
bpo-38669: Raise
TypeError
when passing target as a string withunittest.mock.patch.object()
.bpo-37957: test.regrtest now can receive a list of test patterns to ignore (using the -i/–ignore argument) or a file with a list of patterns to ignore (using the –ignore-file argument). Patch by Pablo Galindo.
Build¶
bpo-37404:
asyncio
now raisesTypeError
when calling incompatible methods with anssl.SSLSocket
socket. Patch by Ido Michael.bpo-36500: Added an optional “regen” project to the Visual Studio solution that will regenerate all grammar, tokens, and opcodes.
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-37931: Fixed a crash on OSX dynamic builds that occurred when re-initializing the posix module after a Py_Finalize if the environment had changed since the previous
import posix
. Patch by Benoît Hudson.
IDLE¶
bpo-38944: Escape key now closes IDLE completion windows. Patch by Johnny Najera.
bpo-38943: Fix IDLE autocomplete windows not always appearing on some systems. Patch by Johnny Najera.
bpo-38862: ‘Strip Trailing Whitespace’ on the Format menu removes extra newlines at the end of non-shell files.
bpo-38636: Fix IDLE Format menu tab toggle and file indent width. These functions (default shortcuts Alt-T and Alt-U) were mistakenly disabled in 3.7.5 and 3.8.0.
C API¶
bpo-38896: Remove
PyUnicode_ClearFreeList()
function: the Unicode free list has been removed in Python 3.3.bpo-37340: Remove
PyMethod_ClearFreeList()
andPyCFunction_ClearFreeList()
functions: the free lists of bound method objects have been removed.bpo-38835: Exclude
PyFPE_START_PROTECT()
andPyFPE_END_PROTECT()
macros ofpyfpe.h
fromPy_LIMITED_API
(stable API).
Python 3.9.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2019-11-19
Security¶
bpo-38722:
runpy
now usesio.open_code()
to open code files. Patch by Jason Killen.bpo-38622: Add additional audit events for the
ctypes
module.bpo-38418: Fixes audit event for
os.system()
to be namedos.system
.bpo-38243: Escape the server title of
xmlrpc.server.DocXMLRPCServer
when rendering the document page as HTML. (Contributed by Donghee Na in bpo-38243.)bpo-38174: Update vendorized expat library version to 2.2.8, which resolves CVE 2019-15903.
bpo-37764: Fixes email._header_value_parser.get_unstructured going into an infinite loop for a specific case in which the email header does not have trailing whitespace, and the case in which it contains an invalid encoded word. Patch by Ashwin Ramaswami.
bpo-37461: Fix an infinite loop when parsing specially crafted email headers. Patch by Abhilash Raj.
bpo-37363: Adds audit events for the range of supported run commands (see Linha de comando e ambiente).
bpo-37463: ssl.match_hostname() no longer accepts IPv4 addresses with additional text after the address and only quad-dotted notation without trailing whitespaces. Some inet_aton() implementations ignore whitespace and all data after whitespace, e.g. ‘127.0.0.1 whatever’.
bpo-37363: Adds audit events for
ensurepip
,ftplib
,glob
,imaplib
,nntplib
,pdb
,poplib
,shutil
,smtplib
,sqlite3
,subprocess
,telnetlib
,tempfile
andwebbrowser
, as well asos.listdir()
,os.scandir()
andbreakpoint()
.bpo-37364:
io.open_code()
is now used when reading.pth
files.bpo-34631: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in Windows installer
bpo-34155: Fix parsing of invalid email addresses with more than one
@
(e.g. a@b@c.com.) to not return the part before 2nd@
as valid email address. Patch by maxking & jpic.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-38631: Replace
Py_FatalError()
call with a regularRuntimeError
exception infloat.__getformat__()
.bpo-38639: Optimized
math.floor()
,math.ceil()
andmath.trunc()
for floats.bpo-38640: Fixed a bug in the compiler that was causing to raise in the presence of break statements and continue statements inside always false while loops. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-38613: Optimized some set operations (e.g.
|
,^
, and-
) ofdict_keys
.d.keys() | other
was slower thanset(d) | other
but they are almost same performance for now.bpo-28029:
"".replace("", s, n)
now returnss
instead of an empty string for all non-zeron
. There are similar changes forbytes
andbytearray
objects.bpo-38535: Fixed line numbers and column offsets for AST nodes for calls without arguments in decorators.
bpo-38525: Fix a segmentation fault when using reverse iterators of empty
dict
objects. Patch by Donghee Na and Inada Naoki.bpo-38465:
bytearray
,array
andmmap
objects allow now to export more than2**31
buffers at a time.bpo-38469: Fixed a bug where the scope of named expressions was not being resolved correctly in the presence of the global keyword. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-38437: Activate the
GC_DEBUG
macro for debug builds of the interpreter (whenPy_DEBUG
is set). Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-38379: When the garbage collector makes a collection in which some objects resurrect (they are reachable from outside the isolated cycles after the finalizers have been executed), do not block the collection of all objects that are still unreachable. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Tim Peters.
bpo-38379: When cyclic garbage collection (gc) runs finalizers that resurrect unreachable objects, the current gc run ends, without collecting any cyclic trash. However, the statistics reported by
collect()
andget_stats()
claimed that all cyclic trash found was collected, and that the resurrected objects were collected. Changed the stats to report that none were collected.bpo-38392: In debug mode,
PyObject_GC_Track()
now callstp_traverse()
of the object type to ensure that the object is valid: test that objects visited bytp_traverse()
are valid.bpo-38210: Remove unnecessary intersection and update set operation in dictview with empty set. (Contributed by Donghee Na in bpo-38210.)
bpo-38402: Check the error from the system’s underlying
crypt
orcrypt_r
.bpo-37474: On FreeBSD, Python no longer calls
fedisableexcept()
at startup to control the floating-point control mode. The call became useless since FreeBSD 6: it became the default mode.bpo-38006: Fix a bug due to the interaction of weakrefs and the cyclic garbage collector. We must clear any weakrefs in garbage in order to prevent their callbacks from executing and causing a crash.
bpo-38317: Fix warnings options priority:
PyConfig.warnoptions
has the highest priority, as stated in the PEP 587.bpo-38310: Predict
BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL
->CALL_FUNCTION_EX
opcode pairs in the main interpreter loop. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-36871: Improve error handling for the assert_has_calls and assert_has_awaits methods of mocks. Fixed a bug where any errors encountered while binding the expected calls to the mock’s spec were silently swallowed, leading to misleading error output.
bpo-11410: Better control over symbol visibility is provided through use of the visibility attributes available in gcc >= 4.0, provided in a uniform way across POSIX and Windows. The POSIX build files have been updated to compile with -fvisibility=hidden, minimising exported symbols.
bpo-38219: Optimized the
dict
constructor and theupdate()
method for the case when the argument is a dict.bpo-38236: Python now dumps path configuration if it fails to import the Python codecs of the filesystem and stdio encodings.
bpo-38013: Allow to call
async_generator_athrow().throw(...)
even for non-started async generator helper. It fixes annoying warning at the end ofasyncio.run()
call.bpo-38124: Fix an off-by-one error in PyState_AddModule that could cause out-of-bounds memory access.
bpo-38116: The select module is now PEP-384 compliant and no longer has static state
bpo-38113: ast module updated to PEP-384 and all statics removed
bpo-38076: The struct module is now PEP-384 compatible
bpo-38075: The random module is now PEP-384 compatible
bpo-38074: zlib module made PEP-384 compatible
bpo-38073: Make pwd extension module PEP-384 compatible
bpo-38072: grp module made PEP-384 compatible
bpo-38069: Make _posixsubprocess PEP-384 compatible
bpo-38071: Make termios extension module PEP-384 compatible
bpo-38005: Fixed comparing and creating of InterpreterID and ChannelID.
bpo-36946: Fix possible signed integer overflow when handling slices. Patch by hongweipeng.
bpo-37994: Fixed silencing arbitrary errors if an attribute lookup fails in several sites. Only AttributeError should be silenced.
bpo-8425: Optimize set difference_update for the case when the other set is much larger than the base set. (Suggested by Evgeny Kapun with code contributed by Michele Orrù).
bpo-37966: The implementation of
is_normalized()
has been greatly sped up on strings that aren’t normalized, by implementing the full normalization-quick-check algorithm from the Unicode standard.bpo-37947: Adjust correctly the recursion level in the symtable generation for named expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-37812: The
CHECK_SMALL_INT
macro used insideObject/longobject.c
has been replaced with an explicitreturn
at each call site.bpo-37751: Fix
codecs.lookup()
to normalize the encoding name the same way thanencodings.normalize_encoding()
, except thatcodecs.lookup()
also converts the name to lower case.bpo-37830: Fixed compilation of
break
andcontinue
in thefinally
block when the correspondingtry
block containsreturn
with a non-constant value.bpo-20490: Improve import error message for partially initialized module on circular
from
imports - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-37840: Fix handling of negative indices in
sq_item
ofbytearray
. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-37802: Slightly improve performance of
PyLong_FromUnsignedLong()
,PyLong_FromUnsignedLongLong()
andPyLong_FromSize_t()
. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-37409: Ensure explicit relative imports from interactive sessions and scripts (having no parent package) always raise ImportError, rather than treating the current module as the package. Patch by Ben Lewis.
bpo-32912: Reverted bpo-32912: emitting
SyntaxWarning
instead ofDeprecationWarning
for invalid escape sequences in string and bytes literals.bpo-37757: PEP 572: As described in the PEP, assignment expressions now raise
SyntaxError
when their interaction with comprehension scoping results in an ambiguous target scope.The
TargetScopeError
subclass originally proposed by the PEP has been removed in favour of just raising regular syntax errors for the disallowed cases.bpo-36279: Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in
os.wait3()
.bpo-36311: Decoding bytes objects larger than 2GiB is faster and no longer fails when a multibyte characters spans a chunk boundary.
bpo-34880: The
assert
statement now works properly if theAssertionError
exception is being shadowed. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-37340: Removed object cache (
free_list
) for bound method objects. Temporary bound method objects are less used than before thanks to theLOAD_METHOD
opcode and the_PyObject_VectorcallMethod
C API.bpo-37648: Fixed minor inconsistency in
list.__contains__()
,tuple.__contains__()
and a few other places. The collection’s item is now always at the left and the needle is on the right of==
.bpo-37444: Update differing exception between
builtins.__import__()
andimportlib.__import__()
.bpo-37619: When adding a wrapper descriptor from one class to a different class (for example, setting
__add__ = str.__add__
on anint
subclass), an exception is correctly raised when the operator is called.bpo-37593: Swap the positions of the posonlyargs and args parameters in the constructor of
ast.parameters
nodes.bpo-37543: Optimized pymalloc for non PGO build.
bpo-37537: Compute allocated pymalloc blocks inside _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks(). This slows down _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() but gives a small speedup to _PyObject_Malloc() and _PyObject_Free().
bpo-37467: Fix
sys.excepthook()
andPyErr_Display()
if a filename is a bytes string. For example, for a SyntaxError exception where the filename attribute is a bytes string.bpo-37433: Fix
SyntaxError
indicator printing too many spaces for multi-line strings - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-37417:
bytearray.extend()
now correctly handles errors that arise during iteration. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-37414: The undocumented
sys.callstats()
function has been removed. Since Python 3.7, it was deprecated and always returnedNone
. It required a special build optionCALL_PROFILE
which was already removed in Python 3.7.bpo-37392: Remove
sys.getcheckinterval()
andsys.setcheckinterval()
functions. They were deprecated since Python 3.2. Usesys.getswitchinterval()
andsys.setswitchinterval()
instead. Remove alsocheck_interval
field of thePyInterpreterState
structure.bpo-37388: In development mode and in debug build, encoding and errors arguments are now checked on string encoding and decoding operations. Examples:
open()
,str.encode()
andbytes.decode()
.By default, for best performances, the errors argument is only checked at the first encoding/decoding error, and the encoding argument is sometimes ignored for empty strings.
bpo-37348: Optimized decoding short ASCII string with UTF-8 and ascii codecs.
b"foo".decode()
is about 15% faster. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-24214: Improved support of the surrogatepass error handler in the UTF-8 and UTF-16 incremental decoders.
bpo-37330:
open()
,io.open()
,codecs.open()
andfileinput.FileInput
no longer accept'U'
(“universal newline”) in the file mode. This flag was deprecated since Python 3.3.bpo-35224: Reverse evaluation order of key: value in dict comprehensions as proposed in PEP 572. I.e. in
{k: v for ...}
,k
will be evaluated beforev
.bpo-37316: Fix the
PySys_Audit()
call inmmap.mmap
.bpo-37300: Remove an unnecessary Py_XINCREF in classobject.c.
bpo-37269: Fix a bug in the peephole optimizer that was not treating correctly constant conditions with binary operators. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-20443: Python now gets the absolute path of the script filename specified on the command line (ex: “python3 script.py”): the __file__ attribute of the __main__ module and sys.path[0] become an absolute path, rather than a relative path.
bpo-37257: Python’s small object allocator (
obmalloc.c
) now allows (no more than) one empty arena to remain available for immediate reuse, without returning it to the OS. This prevents thrashing in simple loops where an arena could be created and destroyed anew on each iteration.bpo-37231: The dispatching of type slots to special methods (for example calling
__mul__
when doingx * y
) has been made faster.bpo-36974: Implemented separate vectorcall functions for every calling convention of builtin functions and methods. This improves performance for calls.
bpo-37213: Handle correctly negative line offsets in the peephole optimizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-37219: Remove erroneous optimization for empty set differences.
bpo-15913: Implement
PyBuffer_SizeFromFormat()
function (previously documented but not implemented): callstruct.calcsize()
. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.bpo-36922: Slot functions optimize any callable with
Py_TPFLAGS_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR
instead of only instances offunction
.bpo-36974: The slot
tp_vectorcall_offset
is inherited unconditionally to supportsuper().__call__()
when the base class uses vectorcall.bpo-37160:
threading.get_native_id()
now also supports NetBSD.bpo-37077: Add
threading.get_native_id()
support for AIX. Patch by M. Feltbpo-34556: Add
--upgrade-deps
to venv module. Patch by Cooper Ry Leesbpo-20523:
pdb.Pdb
supports ~/.pdbrc in Windows 7. Patch by Tim Hopper and Dan Lidral-Porter.bpo-35551: Updated encodings: - Removed the “tis260” encoding, which was an alias for the nonexistent “tactis” codec. - Added “mac_centeuro” as an alias for the mac_latin2 encoding.
bpo-19072: The
classmethod
decorator can now wrap other descriptors such as property objects. Adapted from a patch written by Graham Dumpleton.bpo-27575: Improve speed of dictview intersection by directly using set intersection logic. Patch by David Su.
bpo-30773: Prohibit parallel running of aclose() / asend() / athrow(). Fix ag_running to reflect the actual running status of the AG.
Library¶
bpo-36589: The
curses.update_lines_cols()
function now returnsNone
instead of1
on success.bpo-38807: Update
TypeError
messages foros.path.join()
to includeos.PathLike
objects as acceptable input types.bpo-38724: Add a repr for
subprocess.Popen
objects. Patch by Andrey Doroschenko.bpo-38786: pydoc now recognizes and parses HTTPS URLs. Patch by python273.
bpo-38785: Prevent asyncio from crashing if parent
__init__
is not called from a constructor of object derived fromasyncio.Future
.bpo-38723:
pdb
now usesio.open_code()
to trigger auditing events.bpo-27805: Allow opening pipes and other non-seekable files in append mode with
open()
.bpo-38438: Simplify the
argparse
usage message fornargs="*"
.bpo-38761: WeakSet is now registered as a collections.abc.MutableSet.
bpo-38716: logging: change RotatingHandler namer and rotator to class-level attributes. This stops __init__ from setting them to None in the case where a subclass defines them with eponymous methods.
bpo-38713: Add
os.P_PIDFD
constant, which may be passed toos.waitid()
to wait on a Linux process file descriptor.bpo-38692: Add
asyncio.PidfdChildWatcher
, a Linux-specific child watcher implementation that polls process file descriptors.bpo-38692: Expose the Linux
pidfd_open
syscall asos.pidfd_open()
.bpo-38602: Added constants
F_OFD_GETLK
,F_OFD_SETLK
andF_OFD_SETLKW
to thefcntl
module. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-38334: Fixed seeking backward on an encrypted
zipfile.ZipExtFile
.bpo-38312: Add
curses.get_escdelay()
,curses.set_escdelay()
,curses.get_tabsize()
, andcurses.set_tabsize()
functions - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-38586: Now
fileConfig()
correctly sets the .name of handlers loaded.bpo-38565: Add new cache_parameters() method for functools.lru_cache() to better support pickling.
bpo-34679: asynci.ProactorEventLoop.close() now only calls signal.set_wakeup_fd() in the main thread.
bpo-31202: The case the result of
pathlib.WindowsPath.glob()
matches now the case of the pattern for literal parts.bpo-36321: Remove misspelled attribute. The 3.8 changelog noted that this would be removed in 3.9.
bpo-38521: Fixed erroneous equality comparison in statistics.NormalDist().
bpo-38493: Added
CLD_KILLED
andCLD_STOPPED
forsi_code
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-38478: Fixed a bug in
inspect.signature.bind()
that was causing it to fail when handling a keyword argument with same name as positional-only parameter. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-33604: Fixed
hmac.new
andhmac.HMAC
to raise TypeError instead of ValueError when the digestmod parameter, now required in 3.8, is omitted. Also clarified the hmac module documentation and docstrings.bpo-38378: Parameters out and in of
os.sendfile()
was renamed to out_fd and in_fd.bpo-38417: Added support for setting the umask in the child process to the subprocess module on POSIX systems.
bpo-38449: Revert PR 15522, which introduces a regression in
mimetypes.guess_type()
due to improper handling of filenames as urls.bpo-38431: Fix
__repr__
method fordataclasses.InitVar
to support typing objects, patch by Samuel Colvin.bpo-38109: Add missing
stat.S_IFDOOR
,stat.S_IFPORT
,stat.S_IFWHT
,stat.S_ISDOOR()
,stat.S_ISPORT()
, andstat.S_ISWHT()
values to the Python implementation ofstat
.bpo-38422: Clarify docstrings of pathlib suffix(es)
bpo-38405: Nested subclasses of
typing.NamedTuple
are now pickleable.bpo-38332: Prevent
KeyError
thrown by_encoded_words.decode()
when given an encoded-word with invalid content-type encoding from propagating all the way toemail.message.get()
.bpo-38371: Deprecated the
split()
method in_tkinter.TkappType
in favour of thesplitlist()
method which has more consistent and predictable behavior.bpo-38341: Add
smtplib.SMTPNotSupportedError
to thesmtplib
exported names.bpo-38319: sendfile() used in socket and shutil modules was raising OverflowError for files >= 2GiB on 32-bit architectures. (patch by Giampaolo Rodola)
bpo-38242: Revert the new asyncio Streams API
bpo-13153: OS native encoding is now used for converting between Python strings and Tcl objects. This allows to display, copy and paste to clipboard emoji and other non-BMP characters. Converting strings from Tcl to Python and back now never fails (except MemoryError).
bpo-38019: Correctly handle pause/resume reading of closed asyncio unix pipe.
bpo-38163: Child mocks will now detect their type as either synchronous or asynchronous, asynchronous child mocks will be AsyncMocks and synchronous child mocks will be either MagicMock or Mock (depending on their parent type).
bpo-38161: Removes _AwaitEvent from AsyncMock.
bpo-38216: Allow the rare code that wants to send invalid http requests from the
http.client
library a way to do so. The fixes for bpo-30458 led to breakage for some projects that were relying on this ability to test their own behavior in the face of bad requests.bpo-28286: Deprecate opening
GzipFile
for writing implicitly. Always specify the mode argument for writing.bpo-38108: Any synchronous magic methods on an AsyncMock now return a MagicMock. Any asynchronous magic methods on a MagicMock now return an AsyncMock.
bpo-38265: Update the length parameter of
os.pread()
to acceptPy_ssize_t
instead of int.bpo-38112:
compileall
has a higher default recursion limit and new command-line arguments for path manipulation, symlinks handling, and multiple optimization levels.bpo-38248: asyncio: Fix inconsistent immediate Task cancellation
bpo-38237: The arguments for the builtin pow function are more descriptive. They can now also be passed in as keywords.
bpo-34002: Improve efficiency in parts of email package by changing while-pop to a for loop, using isdisjoint instead of set intersections.
bpo-38191: Constructors of
NamedTuple
andTypedDict
types now accept arbitrary keyword argument names, including “cls”, “self”, “typename”, “_typename”, “fields” and “_fields”.bpo-38185: Fixed case-insensitive string comparison in
sqlite3.Row
indexing.bpo-38136: Changes AsyncMock call count and await count to be two different counters. Now await count only counts when a coroutine has been awaited, not when it has been called, and vice-versa. Update the documentation around this.
bpo-37828: Fix default mock name in
unittest.mock.Mock.assert_called()
exceptions. Patch by Abraham Toriz Cruz.bpo-38175: Fix a memory leak in comparison of
sqlite3.Row
objects.bpo-33936: _hashlib no longer calls obsolete OpenSSL initialization function with OpenSSL 1.1.0+.
bpo-34706: Preserve subclassing in inspect.Signature.from_callable.
bpo-38153: Names of hashing algorithms from OpenSSL are now normalized to follow Python’s naming conventions. For example OpenSSL uses sha3-512 instead of sha3_512 or blake2b512 instead of blake2b.
bpo-38115: Fix a bug in dis.findlinestarts() where it would return invalid bytecode offsets. Document that a code object’s co_lnotab can contain invalid bytecode offsets.
bpo-38148: Add slots to
asyncio
transport classes, which can reduce memory usage.bpo-38142: The _hashlib OpenSSL wrapper extension module is now PEP-384 compliant.
bpo-9216: hashlib constructors now support usedforsecurity flag to signal that a hashing algorithm is not used in a security context.
bpo-36991: Fixes a potential incorrect AttributeError exception escaping ZipFile.extract() in some unsupported input error situations.
bpo-38134: Remove obsolete copy of PBKDF2_HMAC_fast. All supported OpenSSL versions contain a fast implementation.
bpo-38132: The OpenSSL hashlib wrapper uses a simpler implementation. Several Macros and pointless caches are gone. The hash name now comes from OpenSSL’s EVP. The algorithm name stays the same, except it is now always lower case.
bpo-38008: Fix parent class check in protocols to correctly identify the module that provides a builtin protocol, instead of assuming they all come from the
collections.abc
modulebpo-34037: For
asyncio
, add a new coroutineloop.shutdown_default_executor()
. The new coroutine provides an API to schedule an executor shutdown that waits on the threadpool to finish closing. Also,asyncio.run()
has been updated to utilize the new coroutine. Patch by Kyle Stanley.bpo-37405: Fixed regression bug for socket.getsockname() for non-CAN_ISOTP AF_CAN address family sockets by returning a 1-tuple instead of string.
bpo-38121: Update parameter names on functions in importlib.metadata matching the changes in the 0.22 release of importlib_metadata.
bpo-38110: The os.closewalk() implementation now uses the libc fdwalk() API on platforms where it is available.
bpo-38093: Fixes AsyncMock so it doesn’t crash when used with AsyncContextManagers or AsyncIterators.
bpo-37488: Add warning to
datetime.utctimetuple()
,datetime.utcnow()
anddatetime.utcfromtimestamp()
.bpo-35640: Allow passing a path-like object as
directory
argument to thehttp.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
class. Patch by Géry Ogam.bpo-38086: Update importlib.metadata with changes from importlib_metadata 0.21.
bpo-37251: Remove
__code__
check in AsyncMock that incorrectly evaluated function specs as async objects but failed to evaluate classes with__await__
but no__code__
attribute defined as async objects.bpo-38066: Hide internal asyncio.Stream methods: feed_eof(), feed_data(), set_exception() and set_transport().
bpo-38059: inspect.py now uses sys.exit() instead of exit()
bpo-37953: In
typing
, improved the__hash__
and__eq__
methods forForwardReferences
.bpo-38026: Fixed
inspect.getattr_static()
usedisinstance
while it should avoid dynamic lookup.bpo-35923: Update
importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter
to useloader._ORIGIN
instead of a hardcoded value. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-38010: In
importlib.metadata
sync withimportlib_metadata
0.20, clarifying behavior offiles()
and fixing issue where only one requirement was returned forrequires()
ondist-info
packages.bpo-38006: weakref.WeakValueDictionary defines a local remove() function used as callback for weak references. This function was created with a closure. Modify the implementation to avoid the closure.
bpo-37995: Added the indent option to
ast.dump()
which allows it to produce a multiline indented output.bpo-34410: Fixed a crash in the
tee()
iterator when re-enter it. RuntimeError is now raised in this case.bpo-37140: Fix a ctypes regression of Python 3.8. When a ctypes.Structure is passed by copy to a function, ctypes internals created a temporary object which had the side effect of calling the structure finalizer (__del__) twice. The Python semantics requires a finalizer to be called exactly once. Fix ctypes internals to no longer call the finalizer twice.
bpo-37587:
_json.scanstring
is now up to 3x faster when there are many backslash escaped characters in the JSON string.bpo-37834: Prevent shutil.rmtree exception when built on non-Windows system without fd system call support, like older versions of macOS.
bpo-10978: Semaphores and BoundedSemaphores can now release more than one waiting thread at a time.
bpo-37972: Subscripts to the
unittest.mock.call
objects now receive the same chaining mechanism as any other custom attributes, so that the following usage no longer raises aTypeError
:call().foo().__getitem__('bar')
Patch by blhsing
bpo-37965: Fix C compiler warning caused by distutils.ccompiler.CCompiler.has_function.
bpo-37960:
repr()
of buffered and text streams now silences only expected exceptions when get the value of “name” and “mode” attributes.bpo-37961: Add a
total_nframe
field to the traces collected by the tracemalloc module. This field indicates the original number of frames before it was truncated.bpo-37951: Most features of the subprocess module now work again in subinterpreters. Only preexec_fn is restricted in subinterpreters.
bpo-36205: Fix the rusage implementation of time.process_time() to correctly report the sum of the system and user CPU time.
bpo-37950: Fix
ast.dump()
when call with incompletely initialized node.bpo-34679: Restores instantiation of Windows IOCP event loops from the non-main thread.
bpo-36917: Add default implementation of the
ast.NodeVisitor.visit_Constant()
method which emits a deprecation warning and calls corresponding methodsvisit_Num()
,visit_Str()
, etc.bpo-37798: Update test_statistics.py to verify that the statistics module works well for both C and Python implementations. Patch by Donghee Na
bpo-26589: Added a new status code to the http module: 451 UNAVAILABLE_FOR_LEGAL_REASONS
bpo-37915: Fix a segmentation fault that appeared when comparing instances of
datetime.timezone
anddatetime.tzinfo
objects. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-32554: Deprecate having random.seed() call hash on arbitrary types.
bpo-9938: Add optional keyword argument
exit_on_error
forArgumentParser
.bpo-37851: The
faulthandler
module no longer allocates its alternative stack at Python startup. Now the stack is only allocated at the first faulthandler usage.bpo-32793: Fix a duplicated debug message when
smtplib.SMTP.connect()
is called.bpo-37885: venv: Don’t generate unset variable warning on deactivate.
bpo-37868: Fix dataclasses.is_dataclass when given an instance that never raises AttributeError in __getattr__. That is, an object that returns something for __dataclass_fields__ even if it’s not a dataclass.
bpo-37811: Fix
socket
module’ssocket.connect(address)
function being unable to establish connection in case of interrupted system call. The problem was observed on all OSes whichpoll(2)
system call can take only non-negative integers and -1 as a timeout value.bpo-37863: Optimizations for Fraction.__hash__ suggested by Tim Peters.
bpo-21131: Fix
faulthandler.register(chain=True)
stack. faulthandler now allocates a dedicated stack ofSIGSTKSZ*2
bytes, instead of justSIGSTKSZ
bytes. Calling the previous signal handler in faulthandler signal handler uses more thanSIGSTKSZ
bytes of stack memory on some platforms.bpo-37798: Add C fastpath for statistics.NormalDist.inv_cdf() Patch by Donghee Na
bpo-37804: Remove the deprecated method
threading.Thread.isAlive()
. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-37819: Add Fraction.as_integer_ratio() to match the corresponding methods in bool, int, float, and decimal.
bpo-14465: Add an xml.etree.ElementTree.indent() function for pretty-printing XML trees. Contributed by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-37810: Fix
difflib
?
hint in diff output when dealing with tabs. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-37772: In
zipfile.Path
, when adding implicit dirs, ensure that ancestral directories are added and that duplicates are excluded.bpo-18578: Renamed and documented
test.bytecode_helper
astest.support.bytecode_helper
. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.bpo-34488:
writelines()
method ofio.BytesIO
is now slightly faster when many small lines are passed. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-37449:
ensurepip
now usesimportlib.resources.read_binary()
to read data instead ofpkgutil.get_data()
. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.bpo-28292: Mark calendar.py helper functions as being private. The follows PEP 8 guidance to maintain the style conventions in the module and it addresses a known case of user confusion.
bpo-18049: Add definition of THREAD_STACK_SIZE for AIX in Python/thread_pthread.h The default thread stacksize caused crashes with the default recursion limit Patch by M Felt
bpo-37742: The logging.getLogger() API now returns the root logger when passed the name ‘root’, whereas previously it returned a non-root logger named ‘root’. This could affect cases where user code explicitly wants a non-root logger named ‘root’, or instantiates a logger using logging.getLogger(__name__) in some top-level module called ‘root.py’.
bpo-37738: Fix the implementation of curses
addch(str, color_pair)
: pass the color pair tosetcchar()
, instead of always passing 0 as the color pair.bpo-37723: Fix performance regression on regular expression parsing with huge character sets. Patch by Yann Vaginay.
bpo-35943: The function
PyImport_GetModule()
now ensures any module it returns is fully initialized. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.bpo-32178: Fix IndexError in
email
package when trying to parse invalid address fields starting with:
.bpo-37268: The
parser
module is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Python.bpo-37685: Fixed comparisons of
datetime.timedelta
anddatetime.timezone
.bpo-37697: Synchronize
importlib.metadata
with importlib_metadata 0.19, improving handling of EGG-INFO files and fixing a crash when entry point names contained colons.bpo-37695: Correct
curses.unget_wch()
error message. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-37689: Add
is_relative_to()
inPurePath
to determine whether or not one path is relative to another.bpo-29553: Fixed
argparse.ArgumentParser.format_usage()
for mutually exclusive groups. Patch by Andrew Nester.bpo-37691: Let math.dist() accept coordinates as sequences (or iterables) rather than just tuples.
bpo-37685: Fixed
__eq__
,__lt__
etc implementations in some classes. They now returnNotImplemented
for unsupported type of the other operand. This allows the other operand to play role (for example the equality comparison withANY
will returnTrue
).bpo-37354: Make Activate.ps1 Powershell script static to allow for signing it.
bpo-37664: Update wheels bundled with ensurepip (pip 19.2.3 and setuptools 41.2.0)
bpo-37663: Bring consistency to venv shell activation scripts by always using __VENV_PROMPT__.
bpo-37642: Allowed the pure Python implementation of
datetime.timezone
to represent sub-minute offsets close to minimum and maximum boundaries, specifically in the ranges (23:59, 24:00) and (-23:59, 24:00). Patch by Ngalim Siregarbpo-36161: In
posix
, usettyname_r
instead ofttyname
for thread safety.bpo-36324: Make internal attributes for statistics.NormalDist() private.
bpo-37555: Fix
NonCallableMock._call_matcher
returning tuple instead of_Call
object whenself._spec_signature
exists. Patch by Elizabeth Useltonbpo-29446: Make
from tkinter import *
import only the expected objects.bpo-16970: Adding a value error when an invalid value in passed to nargs Patch by Robert Leenders
bpo-34443: Exceptions from
enum
now use the__qualname
of the enum class in the exception message instead of the__name__
.bpo-37491: Fix
IndexError
when parsing email headers with unexpectedly ending bare-quoted string value. Patch by Abhilash Raj.bpo-37587: Make json.loads faster for long strings. (Patch by Marco Paolini)
bpo-18378: Recognize “UTF-8” as a valid value for LC_CTYPE in locale._parse_localename.
bpo-37579: Return
NotImplemented
in Python implementation of__eq__
fortimedelta
andtime
when the other object being compared is not of the same type to match C implementation. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-21478: Record calls to parent when autospecced object is attached to a mock using
unittest.mock.attach_mock()
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-37531: “python3 -m test -jN –timeout=TIMEOUT” now kills a worker process if it runs longer than TIMEOUT seconds.
bpo-37482: Fix serialization of display name in originator or destination address fields with both encoded words and special chars.
bpo-36993: Improve error reporting for corrupt zip files with bad zip64 extra data. Patch by Daniel Hillier.
bpo-37502: pickle.loads() no longer raises TypeError when the buffers argument is set to None
bpo-37520: Correct behavior for zipfile.Path.parent when the path object identifies a subdirectory.
bpo-18374: Fix the
.col_offset
attribute of nestedast.BinOp
instances which had a too large value in some situations.bpo-37424: Fixes a possible hang when using a timeout on
subprocess.run()
while capturing output. If the child process spawned its own children or otherwise connected its stdout or stderr handles with another process, we could hang after the timeout was reached and our child was killed when attempting to read final output from the pipes.bpo-37421: Fix
multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir()
finalizer: clear also the ‘tempdir’ configuration of the current process, so next call toget_temp_dir()
will create a new temporary directory, rather than reusing the removed temporary directory.bpo-37481: The distutils
bdist_wininst
command is deprecated in Python 3.8, usebdist_wheel
(wheel packages) instead.bpo-37479: When
Enum.__str__
is overridden in a derived class, the override will be used byEnum.__format__
regardless of whether mixin classes are present.bpo-37440: http.client now enables TLS 1.3 post-handshake authentication for default context or if a cert_file is passed to HTTPSConnection.
bpo-37437: Update vendorized expat version to 2.2.7.
bpo-37428: SSLContext.post_handshake_auth = True no longer sets SSL_VERIFY_POST_HANDSHAKE verify flag for client connections. Although the option is documented as ignored for clients, OpenSSL implicitly enables cert chain validation when the flag is set.
bpo-37420:
os.sched_setaffinity()
now correctly handles errors that arise during iteration over itsmask
argument. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-37412: The
os.getcwdb()
function now uses the UTF-8 encoding on Windows, rather than the ANSI code page: see PEP 529 for the rationale. The function is no longer deprecated on Windows.bpo-37406: The sqlite3 module now raises TypeError, rather than ValueError, if operation argument type is not str: execute(), executemany() and calling a connection.
bpo-29412: Fix IndexError in parsing a header value ending unexpectedly. Patch by Abhilash Raj.
bpo-36546: The dist argument for statistics.quantiles() is now positional only. The current name doesn’t reflect that the argument can be either a dataset or a distribution. Marking the parameter as positional avoids confusion and makes it possible to change the name later.
bpo-37394: Fix a bug that was causing the
queue
module to fail if the accelerator module was not available. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-37376:
pprint
now has support fortypes.SimpleNamespace
. Patch by Carl Bordum Hansen.bpo-26967: An
ArgumentParser
withallow_abbrev=False
no longer disables grouping of short flags, such as-vv
, but only disables abbreviation of long flags as documented. Patch by Zac Hatfield-Dodds.bpo-37212:
unittest.mock.call()
now preserves the order of keyword arguments in repr output. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-37372: Fix error unpickling datetime.time objects from Python 2 with seconds>=24. Patch by Justin Blanchard.
bpo-37345: Add formal support for UDPLITE sockets. Support was present before, but it is now easier to detect support with
hasattr(socket, 'IPPROTO_UDPLITE')
and there are constants defined for each of the values needed:socket.IPPROTO_UDPLITE
,UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV
, andUDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV
. Patch by Gabe Appleton.bpo-37358: Optimized
functools.partial
by using vectorcall.bpo-37347:
sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate()
,sqlite3.Connection.create_function()
,sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer()
,sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler()
sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback()
methods lead to segfaults if some of these methods are called twice with an equal object but not the same. Now callbacks are stored more carefully. Patch by Aleksandr Balezin.bpo-37163: The obj argument of
dataclasses.replace()
is positional-only now.bpo-37085: Add the optional Linux SocketCAN Broadcast Manager constants, used as flags to configure the BCM behaviour, in the socket module. Patch by Karl Ding.
bpo-37328:
HTMLParser.unescape
is removed. It was undocumented and deprecated since Python 3.4.bpo-37305: Add .webmanifest -> application/manifest+json to list of recognized file types and content type headers
bpo-37320:
aifc.openfp()
alias toaifc.open()
,sunau.openfp()
alias tosunau.open()
, andwave.openfp()
alias towave.open()
have been removed. They were deprecated since Python 3.7.bpo-37315: Deprecated accepting floats with integral value (like
5.0
) inmath.factorial()
.bpo-37312:
_dummy_thread
anddummy_threading
modules have been removed. These modules were deprecated since Python 3.7 which requires threading support.bpo-33972: Email with single part but content-type set to
multipart/*
doesn’t raise AttributeError anymore.bpo-37280: Use threadpool for reading from file for sendfile fallback mode.
bpo-37279: Fix asyncio sendfile support when sendfile sends extra data in fallback mode.
bpo-19865:
ctypes.create_unicode_buffer()
now also supports non-BMP characters on platforms with 16-bitwchar_t
(for example, Windows and AIX).bpo-37266: In a subinterpreter, spawning a daemon thread now raises an exception. Daemon threads were never supported in subinterpreters. Previously, the subinterpreter finalization crashed with a Python fatal error if a daemon thread was still running.
bpo-37210: Allow pure Python implementation of
pickle
to work even when the C_pickle
module is unavailable.bpo-21872: Fix
lzma
: module decompresses data incompletely. When decompressing a FORMAT_ALONE format file, and it doesn’t have the end marker, sometimes the last one to dozens bytes can’t be output. Patch by Ma Lin.bpo-35922: Fix
RobotFileParser.crawl_delay()
andRobotFileParser.request_rate()
to returnNone
rather than raiseAttributeError
when no relevant rule is defined in the robots.txt file. Patch by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-35766: Change the format of feature_version to be a (major, minor) tuple.
bpo-36607: Eliminate
RuntimeError
raised byasyncio.all_tasks()
if internal tasks weak set is changed by another thread during iteration.bpo-18748:
_pyio.IOBase
destructor now does nothing if getting theclosed
attribute fails to better mimic_io.IOBase
finalizer.bpo-36402: Fix a race condition at Python shutdown when waiting for threads. Wait until the Python thread state of all non-daemon threads get deleted (join all non-daemon threads), rather than just wait until non-daemon Python threads complete.
bpo-37206: Default values which cannot be represented as Python objects no longer improperly represented as
None
in function signatures.bpo-37111: Added
encoding
anderrors
keyword parameters tologging.basicConfig
.bpo-12144: Ensure cookies with
expires
attribute are handled inCookieJar.make_cookies()
.bpo-34886: Fix an unintended ValueError from
subprocess.run()
when checking for conflicting input and stdin or capture_output and stdout or stderr args when they were explicitly provided but withNone
values within a passed in**kwargs
dict rather than as passed directly by name. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-37173: The exception message for
inspect.getfile()
now correctly reports the passed class rather than the builtins module.bpo-37178: Give math.perm() a one argument form that means the same as math.factorial().
bpo-37178: For math.perm(n, k), let k default to n, giving the same result as factorial.
bpo-37165: Converted _collections._count_elements to use the Argument Clinic.
bpo-34767: Do not always create a
collections.deque
inasyncio.Lock
.bpo-37158: Speed-up statistics.fmean() by switching from a function to a generator.
bpo-34282: Remove
Enum._convert
method, deprecated in 3.8.bpo-37150:
argparse._ActionsContainer.add_argument
now throws error, if someone accidentally pass FileType class object instead of instance of FileType astype
argument.bpo-28724: The socket module now has the
socket.send_fds()
andsocket.recv.fds()
methods. Contributed by Joannah Nanjekye, Shinya Okano and Victor Stinner.bpo-35621: Support running asyncio subprocesses when execution event loop in a thread on UNIX.
bpo-36520: Lengthy email headers with UTF-8 characters are now properly encoded when they are folded. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
bpo-30835: Fixed a bug in email parsing where a message with invalid bytes in content-transfer-encoding of a multipart message can cause an AttributeError. Patch by Andrew Donnellan.
bpo-31163: pathlib.Path instance’s rename and replace methods now return the new Path instance.
bpo-25068:
urllib.request.ProxyHandler
now lowercases the keys of the passed dictionary.bpo-26185: Fix
repr()
on emptyZipInfo
object. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.bpo-21315: Email headers containing RFC2047 encoded words are parsed despite the missing whitespace, and a defect registered. Also missing trailing whitespace after encoded words is now registered as a defect.
bpo-31904: Port test_datetime to VxWorks: skip zoneinfo tests on VxWorks
bpo-35805: Add parser for Message-ID header and add it to default HeaderRegistry. This should prevent folding of Message-ID using RFC 2048 encoded words.
bpo-36871: Ensure method signature is used instead of constructor signature of a class while asserting mock object against method calls. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-35070: posix.getgrouplist() now works correctly when the user belongs to NGROUPS_MAX supplemental groups. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
bpo-31783: Fix race condition in ThreadPoolExecutor when worker threads are created during interpreter shutdown.
bpo-36582: Fix
UserString.encode()
to correctly returnbytes
rather than aUserString
instance.bpo-32424: Deprecate xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.copy() in favor of copy.copy().
Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley
bpo-36564: Fix infinite loop in email header folding logic that would be triggered when an email policy’s max_line_length is not long enough to include the required markup and any values in the message. Patch by Paul Ganssle
bpo-36543: Removed methods Element.getchildren(), Element.getiterator() and ElementTree.getiterator() and the xml.etree.cElementTree module.
bpo-36409: Remove the old plistlib API deprecated in Python 3.4
bpo-36302: distutils sorts source file lists so that Extension .so files build more reproducibly by default
bpo-36250: Ignore
ValueError
fromsignal
withinteraction
in non-main thread.bpo-36046: Added
user
,group
andextra_groups
parameters to the subprocess.Popen constructor. Patch by Patrick McLean.bpo-32627: Fix compile error when
_uuid
headers conflicting included.bpo-35800: Deprecate
smtpd.MailmanProxy
ready for future removal.bpo-35168:
shlex.shlex.punctuation_chars
is now a read-only property.bpo-8538: Add support for boolean actions like
--foo
and--no-foo
to argparse. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-20504: Fixes a bug in
cgi
module when a multipart/form-data request has noContent-Length
header.bpo-25988: The abstract base classes in
collections.abc
no longer are exposed in the regularcollections
module.bpo-11122: Distutils won’t check for rpmbuild in specified paths only.
bpo-34775: Division handling of PurePath now returns NotImplemented instead of raising a TypeError when passed something other than an instance of str or PurePath. Patch by Roger Aiudi.
bpo-34749:
binascii.a2b_base64()
is now up to 2 times faster. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-34519: Add additional aliases for HP Roman 8. Patch by Michael Osipov.
bpo-28009: Fix uuid.getnode() on platforms with ‘.’ as MAC Addr delimiter as well fix for MAC Addr format that omits a leading 0 in MAC Addr values. Currently, AIX is the only know platform with these settings. Patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-30618: Add
readlink()
. Patch by Girts Folkmanis.bpo-32498: Made
urllib.parse.unquote()
accept bytes in addition to strings. Patch by Stein Karlsen.bpo-33348: lib2to3 now recognizes expressions after
*
and**
like inf(*[] or [])
.bpo-32689: Update
shutil.move()
function to allow for Path objects to be used as source argument. Patch by Emily Morehouse and Maxwell “5.13b” McKinnon.bpo-32820: Added
__format__
to IPv4 and IPv6 classes. Always outputs a fully zero-padded string. Supports b/x/n modifiers (bin/hex/native format). Native format for IPv4 is bin, native format for IPv6 is hex. Also supports ‘#’ and ‘_’ modifiers.bpo-27657: Fix urllib.parse.urlparse() with numeric paths. A string like “path:80” is no longer parsed as a path but as a scheme (“path”) and a path (“80”).
bpo-4963: Fixed non-deterministic behavior related to mimetypes extension mapping and module reinitialization.
Documentation¶
bpo-21767: Explicitly mention abc support in functools.singledispatch
bpo-38816: Provides more details about the interaction between
fork()
and CPython’s runtime, focusing just on the C-API. This includes cautions about wherefork()
should and shouldn’t be called.bpo-38351: Modernize
email
examples from %-formatting to f-strings.bpo-38778: Document the fact that
RuntimeError
is raised ifos.fork()
is called in a subinterpreter.bpo-38592: Add Brazilian Portuguese to the language switcher at Python Documentation website.
bpo-38294: Add list of no-longer-escaped chars to re.escape documentation
bpo-38053: Modernized the plistlib documentation
bpo-26868: Fix example usage of
PyModule_AddObject()
to properly handle errors.bpo-36797: Fix a dead link in the distutils API Reference.
bpo-37977: Warn more strongly and clearly about pickle insecurity
bpo-37979: Added a link to dateutil.parser.isoparse in the datetime.fromisoformat documentation. Patch by Paul Ganssle
bpo-12707: Deprecate info(), geturl(), getcode() methods in favor of the headers, url, and status properties, respectively, for HTTPResponse and addinfourl. Also deprecate the code attribute of addinfourl in favor of the status attribute. Patch by Ashwin Ramaswami
bpo-37937: Mention
frame.f_trace
insys.settrace()
docs.bpo-37878: Make
PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent()
Internal.bpo-37759: Beginning edits to Whatsnew 3.8
bpo-37726: Stop recommending getopt in the tutorial for command line argument parsing and promote argparse.
bpo-32910: Remove implementation-specific behaviour of how venv’s Deactivate works.
bpo-37256: Fix wording of arguments for
Request
inurllib.request
bpo-37284: Add a brief note to indicate that any new
sys.implementation
required attributes must go through the PEP process.bpo-30088: Documented that
mailbox.Maildir
constructor doesn’t attempt to verify the maildir folder layout correctness. Patch by Sviatoslav Sydorenko.bpo-37521: Fix
importlib
examples to insert any newly created modules via importlib.util.module_from_spec() immediately into sys.modules instead of after calling loader.exec_module().Thanks to Benjamin Mintz for finding the bug.
bpo-37456: Slash (‘/’) is now part of syntax.
bpo-37487: Fix PyList_GetItem index description to include 0.
bpo-37149: Replace the dead link to the Tkinter 8.5 reference by John Shipman, New Mexico Tech, with a link to the archive.org copy.
bpo-37478: Added possible exceptions to the description of os.chdir().
bpo-34903: Documented that in
datetime.datetime.strptime()
, the leading zero in some two-digit formats is optional. Patch by Mike Gleen.bpo-36260: Add decompression pitfalls to zipfile module documentation.
bpo-37004: In the documentation for difflib, a note was added explicitly warning that the results of SequenceMatcher’s ratio method may depend on the order of the input strings.
bpo-36960: Restructured the
datetime
docs in the interest of making them more user-friendly and improving readability. Patch by Brad Solomon.bpo-36487: Make C-API docs clear about what the “main” interpreter is.
bpo-23460: The documentation for decimal string formatting using the
:g
specifier has been updated to reflect the correct exponential notation cutoff point. Original patch contributed by Tuomas Suutari.bpo-35803: Document and test that
tempfile
functions may accept a path-like object for thedir
argument. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-33944: Added a note about the intended use of code in .pth files.
bpo-34293: Fix the Doc/Makefile regarding PAPER environment variable and PDF builds
bpo-25237: Add documentation for tkinter modules
Tests¶
bpo-38614: Fix test_communicate() of test_asyncio.test_subprocess: use
support.LONG_TIMEOUT
(5 minutes), instead of just 1 minute.bpo-38614: Add timeout constants to
test.support
:LOOPBACK_TIMEOUT
,INTERNET_TIMEOUT
,SHORT_TIMEOUT
andLONG_TIMEOUT
.bpo-38502: test.regrtest now uses process groups in the multiprocessing mode (-jN command line option) if process groups are available: if
os.setsid()
andos.killpg()
functions are available.bpo-35998: Fix a race condition in test_asyncio.test_start_tls_server_1(). Previously, there was a race condition between the test main() function which replaces the protocol and the test ServerProto protocol which sends ANSWER once it gets HELLO. Now, only the test main() function is responsible to send data, ServerProto no longer sends data.
bpo-38470: Fix
test_compileall.test_compile_dir_maxlevels()
on Windows without long path support: only create 3 subdirectories instead of between 20 and 100 subdirectories.bpo-37531: On timeout, regrtest no longer attempts to call
popen.communicate()
again: it can hang until all child processes using stdout and stderr pipes completes. Kill the worker process and ignores its output. Change also the faulthandler timeout of the main process from 1 minute to 5 minutes, for Python slowest buildbots.bpo-38239: Fix test_gdb for Link Time Optimization (LTO) builds.
bpo-38275: test_ssl now handles disabled TLS/SSL versions better. OpenSSL’s crypto policy and run-time settings are recognized and tests for disabled versions are skipped. Tests also accept more TLS minimum_versions for platforms that override OpenSSL’s default with strict settings.
bpo-38271: The private keys for test_ssl were encrypted with 3DES in traditional PKCS#5 format. 3DES and the digest algorithm of PKCS#5 are blocked by some strict crypto policies. Use PKCS#8 format with AES256 encryption instead.
bpo-38270: test.support now has a helper function to check for availability of a hash digest function. Several tests are refactored avoid MD5 and use SHA256 instead. Other tests are marked to use MD5 and skipped when MD5 is disabled.
bpo-37123: Multiprocessing test test_mymanager() now also expects -SIGTERM, not only exitcode 0. BaseManager._finalize_manager() sends SIGTERM to the manager process if it takes longer than 1 second to stop, which happens on slow buildbots.
bpo-38212: Multiprocessing tests: increase test_queue_feeder_donot_stop_onexc() timeout from 1 to 60 seconds.
bpo-38117: Test with OpenSSL 1.1.1d
bpo-38018: Increase code coverage for multiprocessing.shared_memory.
bpo-37805: Add tests for json.dump(…, skipkeys=True). Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-37531: Enhance regrtest multiprocess timeout: write a message when killing a worker process, catch popen.kill() and popen.wait() exceptions, put a timeout on the second call to popen.communicate().
bpo-37876: Add tests for ROT-13 codec.
bpo-36833: Added tests for
PyDateTime_xxx_GET_xxx()
macros of the C API of thedatetime
module. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.bpo-37558: Fix test_shared_memory_cleaned_after_process_termination name handling
bpo-37526: Add
test.support.catch_threading_exception()
: context manager catchingthreading.Thread
exception usingthreading.excepthook()
.bpo-37421: test_concurrent_futures now explicitly stops the ForkServer instance if it’s running.
bpo-37421: multiprocessing tests now stop the ForkServer instance if it’s running: close the “alive” file descriptor to ask the server to stop and then remove its UNIX address.
bpo-37421: test_distutils.test_build_ext() is now able to remove the temporary directory on Windows: don’t import the newly built C extension (“xx”) in the current process, but test it in a separated process.
bpo-37421: test_concurrent_futures now cleans up multiprocessing to remove immediately temporary directories created by multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir().
bpo-37421: test_winconsoleio doesn’t leak a temporary file anymore: use tempfile.TemporaryFile() to remove it when the test completes.
bpo-37421: multiprocessing tests now explicitly call
_run_finalizers()
to immediately remove temporary directories created by tests.bpo-37421: urllib.request tests now call
urlcleanup()
to remove temporary files created byurlretrieve()
tests and to clear the_opener
global variable set byurlopen()
and functions calling indirectlyurlopen()
.bpo-37472: Remove
Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py
.bpo-37199: Fix test failures when IPv6 is unavailable or disabled.
bpo-19696: Replace deprecated method “random.choose” with “random.choice” in “test_pkg_import.py”.
bpo-37335: Remove no longer necessary code from c locale coercion tests
bpo-37421: Fix test_shutil to no longer leak temporary files.
bpo-37411: Fix test_wsgiref.testEnviron() to no longer depend on the environment variables (don’t fail if “X” variable is set).
bpo-37400: Fix test_os.test_chown(): use os.getgroups() rather than grp.getgrall() to get groups. Rename also the test to test_chown_gid().
bpo-37359: Add –cleanup option to python3 -m test to remove
test_python_*
directories of previous failed jobs. Add “make cleantest” to runpython3 -m test --cleanup
.bpo-37362: test_gdb no longer fails if it gets an “unexpected” message on stderr: it now ignores stderr. The purpose of test_gdb is to test that python-gdb.py commands work as expected, not to test gdb.
bpo-35998: Avoid TimeoutError in test_asyncio: test_start_tls_server_1()
bpo-37278: Fix test_asyncio ProactorLoopCtrlC: join the thread to prevent leaking a running thread and leaking a reference.
bpo-37261: Fix
test.support.catch_unraisable_exception()
: its __exit__() method now ignores unraisable exception raised when clearing itsunraisable
attribute.bpo-37069: regrtest now uses
sys.unraisablehook()
to mark a test as “environment altered” (ENV_CHANGED) if it emits an “unraisable exception”. Moreover, regrtest logs a warning in this case.Use
python3 -m test --fail-env-changed
to catch unraisable exceptions in tests.bpo-37252: Fix assertions in
test_close
andtest_events_mask_overflow
devpoll tests.bpo-37169: Rewrite
_PyObject_IsFreed()
unit tests.bpo-37153:
test_venv.test_multiprocessing()
now explicitly callspool.terminate()
to wait until the pool completes.bpo-34001: Make test_ssl pass with LibreSSL. LibreSSL handles minimum and maximum TLS version differently than OpenSSL.
bpo-36919: Make
test_source_encoding.test_issue2301
implementation independent. The test will work now for both CPython and IronPython.bpo-30202: Update
test.test_importlib.test_abc
to testfind_spec()
.bpo-28009: Modify the test_uuid logic to test when a program is available AND can be used to obtain a MACADDR as basis for an UUID. Patch by M. Felt
bpo-34596: Fallback to a default reason when
unittest.skip()
is uncalled. Patch by Naitree Zhu.
Build¶
bpo-38809: On Windows, build scripts will now recognize and use python.exe from an active virtual env.
bpo-38684: Fix _hashlib build when Blake2 is disabled, but OpenSSL supports it.
bpo-38468: Misc/python-config.in now uses
getvar()
for all still existingsysconfig.get_config_var()
calls. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.bpo-37415: Fix stdatomic.h header check for ICC compiler: the ICC implementation lacks atomic_uintptr_t type which is needed by Python.
bpo-38301: In Solaris family, we must be sure to use
-D_REENTRANT
. Patch by Jesús Cea Avión.bpo-36002: Locate
llvm-profdata
andllvm-ar
binaries usingAC_PATH_TOOL
rather thanAC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL
.bpo-37936: The
.gitignore
file systematically keeps “rooted”, with a non-trailing slash, all the rules that are meant to apply to files in a specific place in the repo. Previously, when the intended file to ignore happened to be at the root of the repo, we’d most often accidentally also ignore files and directories with the same name anywhere in the tree.bpo-37760: The
Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py
script, which is used for converting information from the Unicode Character Database into generated code and data used by the methods ofstr
and by theunicodedata
module, now handles each character’s data as adataclass
with named attributes, rather than a length-18 list of different fields.bpo-37936: The
.gitignore
file no longer applies to any files that are in fact tracked in the Git repository. Patch by Greg Price.bpo-37725: Change “clean” makefile target to also clean the program guided optimization (PGO) data. Previously you would have to use “make clean” and “make profile-removal”, or “make clobber”.
bpo-37707: Mark some individual tests to skip when –pgo is used. The tests marked increase the PGO task time significantly and likely don’t help improve optimization of the final executable.
bpo-36044: Reduce the number of unit tests run for the PGO generation task. This speeds up the task by a factor of about 15x. Running the full unit test suite is slow. This change may result in a slightly less optimized build since not as many code branches will be executed. If you are willing to wait for the much slower build, the old behavior can be restored using ‘./configure [..] PROFILE_TASK=”-m test –pgo-extended”’. We make no guarantees as to which PGO task set produces a faster build. Users who care should run their own relevant benchmarks as results can depend on the environment, workload, and compiler tool chain.
bpo-37468:
make install
no longer installswininst-*.exe
files used by distutils bdist_wininst: bdist_wininst only works on Windows.bpo-37189: Many
PyRun_XXX()
functions likePyRun_String()
were no longer exported inlibpython38.dll
by mistake. Export them again to fix the ABI compatibility.bpo-25361: Enables use of SSE2 instructions in Windows 32-bit build.
bpo-36210: Update optional extension module detection for AIX. ossaudiodev and spwd are not applicable for AIX, and are no longer reported as missing. 3rd-party packaging of ncurses (with ASIS support) conflicts with officially supported AIX curses library, so configure AIX to use libcurses.a. However, skip trying to build _curses_panel.
patch by M Felt
Windows¶
bpo-38589: Fixes HTML Help shortcut when Windows is not installed to C drive
bpo-38453: Ensure ntpath.realpath() correctly resolves relative paths.
bpo-38519: Restores the internal C headers that were missing from the nuget.org and Microsoft Store packages.
bpo-38492: Remove
pythonw.exe
dependency on the Microsoft C++ runtime.bpo-38344: Fix error message in activate.bat
bpo-38359: Ensures
pyw.exe
launcher reads correct registry key.bpo-38355: Fixes
ntpath.realpath
failing onsys.executable
.bpo-38117: Update bundled OpenSSL to 1.1.1d
bpo-38092: Reduce overhead when using multiprocessing in a Windows virtual environment.
bpo-38133: Allow py.exe launcher to locate installations from the Microsoft Store and improve display of active virtual environments.
bpo-38114: The
pip.ini
is no longer included in the Nuget package.bpo-32592: Set Windows 8 as the minimum required version for API support
bpo-36634:
os.cpu_count()
now returns active processors rather than maximum processors.bpo-36634: venv activate.bat now works when the existing variables contain double quote characters.
bpo-38081: Prevent error calling
os.path.realpath()
on'NUL'
.bpo-38087: Fix case sensitivity in test_pathlib and test_ntpath.
bpo-38088: Fixes distutils not finding vcruntime140.dll with only the v142 toolset installed.
bpo-37283: Ensure command-line and unattend.xml setting override previously detected states in Windows installer.
bpo-38030: Fixes
os.stat()
failing for block devices on Windowsbpo-38020: Fixes potential crash when calling
os.readlink()
(or indirectly throughrealpath()
) on a file that is not a supported link.bpo-37705: Improve the implementation of
winerror_to_errno()
.bpo-37549:
os.dup()
no longer fails for standard streams on Windows 7.bpo-1311: The
nul
file on Windows now returns True fromexists()
and a valid result fromos.stat()
withS_IFCHR
set.bpo-9949: Enable support for following symlinks in
os.realpath()
.bpo-37834: Treat all name surrogate reparse points on Windows in
os.lstat()
and other reparse points as regular files inos.stat()
.bpo-36266: Add the module name in the formatted error message when DLL load fail happens during module import in
_PyImport_FindSharedFuncptrWindows()
. Patch by Srinivas Nyayapati.bpo-25172: Trying to import the
crypt
module on Windows will result in anImportError
with a message explaining that the module isn’t supported on Windows. On other platforms, if the underlying_crypt
module is not available, the ImportError will include a message explaining the problem.bpo-37778: Fixes the icons used for file associations to the Microsoft Store package.
bpo-37734: Fix use of registry values to launch Python from Microsoft Store app.
bpo-37702: Fix memory leak on Windows in creating an SSLContext object or running
urllib.request.urlopen('https://...')
.bpo-37672: Switch Windows Store package’s pip to use bundled
pip.ini
instead ofPIP_USER
variable.bpo-10945: Officially drop support for creating bdist_wininst installers on non-Windows systems.
bpo-37445: Include the
FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS
flag inFormatMessageW()
calls.bpo-37369: Fixes path for
sys.executable
when running from the Microsoft Store.bpo-37380: Don’t collect unfinished processes with
subprocess._active
on Windows to cleanup later. Patch by Ruslan Kuprieiev.bpo-37351: Removes libpython38.a from standard Windows distribution.
bpo-35360: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.28.0.
bpo-37267: On Windows,
os.dup()
no longer creates an inheritable fd when handling a character file.bpo-36779: Ensure
time.tzname
is correct on Windows when the active code page is set to CP_UTF7 or CP_UTF8.bpo-32587: Make
winreg.REG_MULTI_SZ
support zero-length strings.bpo-28269: Replace use of
strcasecmp()
for the system function_stricmp()
. Patch by Minmin Gong.bpo-36590: Add native Bluetooth RFCOMM support to socket module.
macOS¶
bpo-38117: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1d in macOS installer.
bpo-38089: Move Azure Pipelines to latest VM versions and make macOS tests optional
bpo-18049: Increase the default stack size of threads from 5MB to 16MB on macOS, to match the stack size of the main thread. This avoids crashes on deep recursion in threads.
bpo-34602: Avoid test suite failures on macOS by no longer calling resource.setrlimit to increase the process stack size limit at runtime. The runtime change is no longer needed since the interpreter is being built with a larger default stack size.
bpo-35360: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.28.0.
bpo-34631: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in macOS installer.
IDLE¶
bpo-26353: Stop adding newline when saving an IDLE shell window.
bpo-4630: Add an option to toggle IDLE’s cursor blink for shell, editor, and output windows. See Settings, General, Window Preferences, Cursor Blink. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-38598: Do not try to compile IDLE shell or output windows
bpo-36698: IDLE no longer fails when write non-encodable characters to stderr. It now escapes them with a backslash, as the regular Python interpreter. Added the
errors
field to the standard streams.bpo-35379: When exiting IDLE, catch any AttributeError. One happens when EditorWindow.close is called twice. Printing a traceback, when IDLE is run from a terminal, is useless and annoying.
bpo-38183: To avoid problems, test_idle ignores the user config directory. It no longer tries to create or access .idlerc or any files within. Users must run IDLE to discover problems with saving settings.
bpo-38077: IDLE no longer adds ‘argv’ to the user namespace when initializing it. This bug only affected 3.7.4 and 3.8.0b2 to 3.8.0b4.
bpo-38041: Shell restart lines now fill the window width, always start with ‘=’, and avoid wrapping unnecessarily. The line will still wrap if the included file name is long relative to the width.
bpo-35771: To avoid occasional spurious test_idle failures on slower machines, increase the
hover_delay
in test_tooltip.bpo-37824: Properly handle user input warnings in IDLE shell. Cease turning SyntaxWarnings into SyntaxErrors.
bpo-37929: IDLE Settings dialog now closes properly when there is no shell window.
bpo-37902: Add mousewheel scrolling for IDLE module, path, and stack browsers. Patch by George Zhang.
bpo-37849: Fixed completions list appearing too high or low when shown above the current line.
bpo-36419: Refactor IDLE autocomplete and improve testing.
bpo-37748: Reorder the Run menu. Put the most common choice, Run Module, at the top.
bpo-37692: Improve highlight config sample with example shell interaction and better labels for shell elements.
bpo-37628: Settings dialog no longer expands with font size.
bpo-37627: Initialize the Customize Run dialog with the command line arguments most recently entered before. The user can optionally edit before submitting them.
bpo-33610: Fix code context not showing the correct context when first toggled on.
bpo-37530: Optimize code context to reduce unneeded background activity. Font and highlight changes now occur along with text changes instead of after a random delay.
bpo-27452: Cleanup
config.py
by inliningRemoveFile
and simplifying the handling offile
inCreateConfigHandlers
.bpo-37325: Fix tab focus traversal order for help source and custom run dialogs.
bpo-37321: Both subprocess connection error messages now refer to the ‘Startup failure’ section of the IDLE doc.
bpo-17535: Add optional line numbers for IDLE editor windows. Windows open without line numbers unless set otherwise in the General tab of the configuration dialog.
bpo-26806: To compensate for stack frames added by IDLE and avoid possible problems with low recursion limits, add 30 to limits in the user code execution process. Subtract 30 when reporting recursion limits to make this addition mostly transparent.
bpo-37177: Properly ‘attach’ search dialogs to their main window so that they behave like other dialogs and do not get hidden behind their main window.
bpo-37039: Adjust “Zoom Height” to individual screens by momentarily maximizing the window on first use with a particular screen. Changing screen settings may invalidate the saved height. While a window is maximized, “Zoom Height” has no effect.
bpo-35763: Make calltip reminder about ‘/’ meaning positional-only less obtrusive by only adding it when there is room on the first line.
bpo-5680: Add ‘Run… Customized’ to the Run menu to run a module with customized settings. Any ‘command line arguments’ entered are added to sys.argv. One can suppress the normal Shell main module restart.
bpo-36390: Gather Format menu functions into format.py. Combine paragraph.py, rstrip.py, and format methods from editor.py.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-38118: Update Valgrind suppression file to ignore a false alarm in
PyUnicode_Decode()
when using GCC builtin strcmp().bpo-38347: pathfix.py: Assume all files that end on ‘.py’ are Python scripts when working recursively.
bpo-37803: pdb’s
--help
and--version
long options now work.bpo-37942: Improve ArgumentClinic converter for floats.
bpo-37704: Remove
Tools/scripts/h2py.py
: use cffi to access a C API in Python.bpo-37675: 2to3 now works when run from a zipped standard library.
bpo-37034: Argument Clinic now uses the argument name on errors with keyword-only argument instead of their position. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
bpo-37064: Add option -k to pathscript.py script: preserve shebang flags. Add option -a to pathscript.py script: add flags.
C API¶
bpo-37633: Re-export some function compatibility wrappers for macros in
pythonrun.h
.bpo-38644: Provide
Py_EnterRecursiveCall()
andPy_LeaveRecursiveCall()
as regular functions for the limited API. Previously, there were defined as macros, but these macros didn’t work with the limited API which cannot accessPyThreadState.recursion_depth
field. Remove_Py_CheckRecursionLimit
from the stable ABI.bpo-38650: The global variable
PyStructSequence_UnnamedField
is now a constant and refers to a constant string.bpo-38540: Fixed possible leak in
PyArg_Parse()
and similar functions for format units"es#"
and"et#"
when the macroPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
is not defined.bpo-38395: Fix a crash in
weakref.proxy
objects due to incorrect lifetime management when calling some associated methods that may delete the last reference to object being referenced by the proxy. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-36389: The
_PyObject_CheckConsistency()
function is now also available in release mode. For example, it can be used to debug a crash in thevisit_decref()
function of the GC.bpo-38266: Revert the removal of PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent() with documentation.
bpo-38303: Update audioop extension module to use the stable ABI (PEP-384). Patch by Tyler Kieft.
bpo-38234:
Py_SetPath()
now setssys.executable
to the program full path (Py_GetProgramFullPath()
) rather than to the program name (Py_GetProgramName()
).bpo-38234: Python ignored arguments passed to
Py_SetPath()
,Py_SetPythonHome()
andPy_SetProgramName()
: fix Python initialization to use specified arguments.bpo-38205: The
Py_UNREACHABLE()
macro now callsPy_FatalError()
.bpo-38140: Make dict and weakref offsets opaque for C heap types by passing the offsets through PyMemberDef
bpo-15088: The C function
PyGen_NeedsFinalizing
has been removed. It was not documented, tested or used anywhere within CPython after the implementation of PEP 442. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye. (Patch by Joannah Nanjekye)bpo-36763: Options added by
PySys_AddXOption()
are now handled the same way thanPyConfig.xoptions
and command line-X
options.bpo-37926: Fix a crash in
PySys_SetArgvEx(0, NULL, 0)
.bpo-37879: Fix subtype_dealloc to suppress the type decref when the base type is a C heap type
bpo-37645: Add
_PyObject_FunctionStr()
to get a user-friendly string representation of a function-like object. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.bpo-29548: The functions
PyEval_CallObject
,PyEval_CallFunction
,PyEval_CallMethod
andPyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords
are deprecated. UsePyObject_Call()
and its variants instead.bpo-37151:
PyCFunction_Call
is now a deprecated alias ofPyObject_Call()
.bpo-37540: The vectorcall protocol now requires that the caller passes only strings as keyword names.
bpo-37207: The vectorcall protocol is now enabled for
type
objects: settp_vectorcall
to a vectorcall function to be used instead oftp_new
andtp_init
when calling the class itself.bpo-21120: Exclude Python-ast.h, ast.h and asdl.h from the limited API.
bpo-37483: Add new function
_PyObject_CallOneArg
for calling an object with one positional argument.bpo-36763: Add
PyConfig_SetWideStringList()
function.bpo-37337: Add fast functions for calling methods:
_PyObject_VectorcallMethod()
,_PyObject_CallMethodNoArgs()
and_PyObject_CallMethodOneArg()
.bpo-28805: The
METH_FASTCALL
calling convention has been documented.bpo-37221: The new function
PyCode_NewWithPosOnlyArgs()
allows to create code objects likePyCode_New()
, but with an extra posonlyargcount parameter for indicating the number of positonal-only arguments.bpo-37194: Add a new public
PyObject_CallNoArgs()
function to the C API: call a callable Python object without any arguments. It is the most efficient way to call a callback without any argument. On x86-64, for example,PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(func, NULL)
allocates 960 bytes on the stack per call, whereasPyObject_CallNoArgs(func)
only allocates 624 bytes per call.bpo-37170: Fix the cast on error in
PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask()
.bpo-35381: Convert posixmodule.c statically allocated types
DirEntryType
andScandirIteratorType
to heap-allocated types.bpo-34331: Use singular/plural noun in error message when instantiating an abstract class with non-overridden abstract method(s).
Python 3.8.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2019-06-04
Security¶
bpo-35907: CVE 2019-9948: Avoid file reading by disallowing
local-file://
andlocal_file://
URL schemes inURLopener().open()
andURLopener().retrieve()
ofurllib.request
.bpo-33529: Prevent fold function used in email header encoding from entering infinite loop when there are too many non-ASCII characters in a header.
bpo-33164: Updated blake2 implementation which uses secure memset implementation provided by platform.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-35814: Allow unpacking in the right hand side of annotated assignments. In particular,
t: Tuple[int, ...] = x, y, *z
is now allowed.bpo-37126: All structseq objects are now tracked by the garbage collector. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-37122: Make the co_argcount attribute of code objects represent the total number of positional arguments (including positional-only arguments). The value of co_posonlyargcount can be used to distinguish which arguments are positional only, and the difference (co_argcount - co_posonlyargcount) is the number of positional-or-keyword arguments. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-20092: Constructors of
int
,float
andcomplex
will now use the__index__()
special method, if available and the corresponding method__int__()
,__float__()
or__complex__()
is not available.bpo-37087: Add native thread ID (TID) support to OpenBSD.
bpo-26219: Implemented per opcode cache mechanism and
LOAD_GLOBAL
instruction use it.LOAD_GLOBAL
is now about 40% faster. Contributed by Yury Selivanov, and Inada Naoki.bpo-37072: Fix crash in PyAST_FromNodeObject() when flags is NULL.
bpo-37029: Freeing a great many small objects could take time quadratic in the number of arenas, due to using linear search to keep
obmalloc.c
’s list of usable arenas sorted by order of number of free memory pools. This is accomplished without search now, leaving the worst-case time linear in the number of arenas. For programs where this quite visibly matters (typically with more than 100 thousand small objects alive simultaneously), this can greatly reduce the time needed to release their memory.bpo-26423: Fix possible overflow in
wrap_lenfunc()
whensizeof(long) < sizeof(Py_ssize_t)
(e.g., 64-bit Windows).bpo-37050: Improve the AST for “debug” f-strings, which use ‘=’ to print out the source of the expression being evaluated. Delete expr_text from the FormattedValue node, and instead use a Constant string node (possibly merged with adjacent constant expressions inside the f-string).
bpo-22385: The
bytes.hex
,bytearray.hex
, andmemoryview.hex
methods as well as thebinascii.hexlify
andb2a_hex
functions now have the ability to include an optional separator between hex bytes. This functionality was inspired by MicroPython’s hexlify implementation.bpo-26836: Add
os.memfd_create()
.bpo-37032: Added new
replace()
method to the code type (types.CodeType
).bpo-37007: Implement
socket.if_nameindex()
,socket.if_nametoindex()
, andsocket.if_indextoname()
on Windows.bpo-36829:
PyErr_WriteUnraisable()
now creates a traceback object if there is no current traceback. Moreover, callPyErr_NormalizeException()
andPyException_SetTraceback()
to normalize the exception value. Ignore any error.bpo-36878: Only accept text after
# type: ignore
if the first character is ASCII. This is to disallow things like# type: ignoreé
.bpo-36878: Store text appearing after a
# type: ignore
comment in the AST. For example a type ignore like# type: ignore[E1000]
will have the string"[E1000]"
stored in its AST node.bpo-2180: Treat line continuation at EOF as a
SyntaxError
by Anthony Sottile.bpo-36907: Fix a crash when calling a C function with a keyword dict (
f(**kwargs)
) and changing the dictkwargs
while that function is running.bpo-36946: Fix possible signed integer overflow when handling slices.
bpo-36826: Add NamedExpression kind support to ast_unparse.c
bpo-1875: A
SyntaxError
is now raised if a code blocks that will be optimized away (e.g. if conditions that are always false) contains syntax errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-36027: Allow computation of modular inverses via three-argument
pow
: the second argument is now permitted to be negative in the case where the first and third arguments are relatively prime.bpo-36861: Update the Unicode database to version 12.1.0.
bpo-28866: Avoid caching attributes of classes which type defines mro() to avoid a hard cache invalidation problem.
bpo-36851: The
FrameType
stack is now correctly cleaned up if the execution ends with a return and the stack is not empty.bpo-34616: The
compile()
builtin functions now support theast.PyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT
flag, which allow to compile sources that contains top-levelawait
,async with
orasync for
. This is useful to evaluate async-code from with an already async functions; for example in a custom REPL.bpo-36842: Implement PEP 578, adding sys.audit, io.open_code and related APIs.
bpo-27639: Correct return type for UserList slicing operations. Patch by Michael Blahay, Erick Cervantes, and vaultah
bpo-36737: Move PyRuntimeState.warnings into per-interpreter state (via “module state”).
bpo-36793: Removed
__str__
implementations from builtin typesbool
,int
,float
,complex
and few classes from the standard library. They now inherit__str__()
fromobject
.bpo-36817: Add a
=
feature f-strings for debugging. This can precede!s
,!r
, or!a
. It produces the text of the expression, followed by an equal sign, followed by the repr of the value of the expression. Sof'{3*9+15=}'
would be equal to the string'3*9+15=42'
. If=
is specified, the default conversion is set to!r
, unless a format spec is given, in which case the formatting behavior is unchanged, and __format__ will be used.bpo-24048: Save the live exception during import.c’s
remove_module()
.bpo-27987: pymalloc returns memory blocks aligned by 16 bytes, instead of 8 bytes, on 64-bit platforms to conform x86-64 ABI. Recent compilers assume this alignment more often. Patch by Inada Naoki.
bpo-36601: A long-since-meaningless check for
getpid() == main_pid
was removed from Python’s internal C signal handler.bpo-36594: Fix incorrect use of
%p
in format strings. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-36045:
builtins.help()
now prefixesasync
for async functions.bpo-36084: Add native thread ID (TID) to threading.Thread objects (supported platforms: Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS)
bpo-36035: Added fix for broken symlinks in combination with pathlib
bpo-35983: Added new trashcan macros to deal with a double deallocation that could occur when the
tp_dealloc
of a subclass calls thetp_dealloc
of a base class and that base class uses the trashcan mechanism. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.bpo-20602: Do not clear
sys.flags
andsys.float_info
during shutdown. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-26826: Expose
copy_file_range()
as a low level API in theos
module.bpo-32388: Remove cross-version binary compatibility requirement in tp_flags.
bpo-31862: Port binascii to PEP 489 multiphase initialization. Patch by Marcel Plch.
Library¶
bpo-37128: Added
math.perm()
.bpo-37120: Add SSLContext.num_tickets to control the number of TLSv1.3 session tickets.
bpo-12202: Fix the error handling in
msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-26835: The fcntl module now contains file sealing constants for sealing of memfds.
bpo-29262: Add
get_origin()
andget_args()
introspection helpers totyping
module.bpo-12639:
msilib.Directory.start_component()
no longer fails if keyfile is notNone
.bpo-36999: Add the
asyncio.Task.get_coro()
method to publicly expose the tasks’s coroutine object.bpo-35246: Make
asyncio.create_subprocess_exec()
accept path-like arguments.bpo-35279: Change default max_workers of
ThreadPoolExecutor
fromcpu_count() * 5
tomin(32, cpu_count() + 4)
. Previous value was unreasonably large on many cores machines.bpo-37076:
_thread.start_new_thread()
now logs uncaught exception raised by the function usingsys.unraisablehook()
, rather thansys.excepthook()
, so the hook gets access to the function which raised the exception.bpo-33725: On macOS, the
multiprocessing
module now uses spawn start method by default.bpo-37054: Fix destructor
_pyio.BytesIO
and_pyio.TextIOWrapper
: initialize their_buffer
attribute as soon as possible (in the class body), because it’s used by__del__()
which callsclose()
.bpo-37058: PEP 544: Add
Protocol
and@runtime_checkable
to thetyping
module.bpo-36933: The functions
sys.set_coroutine_wrapper
andsys.get_coroutine_wrapper
that were deprecated and marked for removal in 3.8 have been removed.bpo-37047: Handle late binding and attribute access in
unittest.mock.AsyncMock
setup for autospeccing. Document newly implemented async methods inunittest.mock.MagicMock
.bpo-37049: PEP 589: Add
TypedDict
to thetyping
module.bpo-37046: PEP 586: Add
Literal
to thetyping
module.bpo-37045: PEP 591: Add
Final
qualifier and@final
decorator to thetyping
module.bpo-37035: Don’t log OSError based exceptions if a fatal error has occurred in asyncio transport. Peer can generate almost any OSError, user cannot avoid these exceptions by fixing own code. Errors are still propagated to user code, it’s just logging them is pointless and pollute asyncio logs.
bpo-37001:
symtable.symtable()
now accepts the same input types for source code as the built-incompile()
function. Patch by Dino Viehland.bpo-37028: Implement asyncio REPL
bpo-37027: Return safe to use proxy socket object from transport.get_extra_info(‘socket’)
bpo-32528: Make asyncio.CancelledError a BaseException.
This will address the common mistake many asyncio users make: an “except Exception” clause breaking Tasks cancellation.
In addition to this change, we stop inheriting asyncio.TimeoutError and asyncio.InvalidStateError from their concurrent.futures.* counterparts. There’s no point for these exceptions to share the inheritance chain.
bpo-1230540: Add a new
threading.excepthook()
function which handles uncaughtthreading.Thread.run()
exception. It can be overridden to control how uncaughtthreading.Thread.run()
exceptions are handled.bpo-36996: Handle
unittest.mock.patch()
used as a decorator on async functions.bpo-37008: Add support for calling
next()
with the mock resulting fromunittest.mock.mock_open()
bpo-27737: Allow whitespace only header encoding in
email.header
- by Batuhan Taskayabpo-36969: PDB command
args
now display positional only arguments. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-36969: PDB command
args
now display keyword only arguments. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-36983: Add missing names to
typing.__all__
:ChainMap
,ForwardRef
,OrderedDict
- by Anthony Sottile.bpo-36972: Add SupportsIndex protocol to the typing module to allow type checking to detect classes that can be passed to
hex()
,oct()
andbin()
.bpo-32972: Implement
unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase
to help testing asyncio-based code.bpo-36952:
fileinput.input()
andfileinput.FileInput
bufsize argument has been removed (was deprecated and ignored since Python 3.6), and as a result the mode and openhook arguments have been made keyword-only.bpo-36952: Starting with Python 3.3, importing ABCs from
collections
is deprecated, and import should be done fromcollections.abc
. Still being able to import fromcollections
was marked for removal in 3.8, but has been delayed to 3.9; documentation andDeprecationWarning
clarified.bpo-36949: Implement __repr__ for WeakSet objects.
bpo-36948: Fix
NameError
inurllib.request.URLopener.retrieve()
. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-33524: Fix the folding of email header when the max_line_length is 0 or None and the header contains non-ascii characters. Contributed by Licht Takeuchi (@Licht-T).
bpo-24564:
shutil.copystat()
now ignoreserrno.EINVAL
onos.setxattr()
which may occur when copying files on filesystems without extended attributes support.Original patch by Giampaolo Rodola, updated by Ying Wang.
bpo-36888: Python child processes can now access the status of their parent process using multiprocessing.process.parent_process
bpo-36921: Deprecate
@coroutine
for sake ofasync def
.bpo-25652: Fix bug in
__rmod__
ofUserString
- by Batuhan Taskaya.bpo-36916: Remove a message about an unhandled exception in a task when writer.write() is used without await and writer.drain() fails with an exception.
bpo-36889: Introduce
asyncio.Stream
class that mergesasyncio.StreamReader
andasyncio.StreamWriter
functionality.asyncio.Stream
can work in readonly, writeonly and readwrite modes. Provideasyncio.connect()
,asyncio.connect_unix()
,asyncio.connect_read_pipe()
andasyncio.connect_write_pipe()
factories to openasyncio.Stream
connections. Provideasyncio.StreamServer
andUnixStreamServer
to serve servers with asyncio.Stream API. Modifyasyncio.create_subprocess_shell()
andasyncio.create_subprocess_exec()
to useasyncio.Stream
instead of deprecatedStreamReader
andStreamWriter
. Deprecateasyncio.StreamReader
andasyncio.StreamWriter
. Deprecate usage of private classes, e.g.asyncio.FlowControlMixing
andasyncio.StreamReaderProtocol
outside of asyncio package.bpo-36845: Added validation of integer prefixes to the construction of IP networks and interfaces in the ipaddress module.
bpo-23378: Add an extend action to argparser.
bpo-36867: Fix a bug making a SharedMemoryManager instance and its parent process use two separate resource_tracker processes.
bpo-23896: Adds a grammar to lib2to3.pygram that contains exec as a function not as statement.
bpo-36895: The function
time.clock()
was deprecated in 3.3 in favor oftime.perf_counter()
and marked for removal in 3.8, it has removed.bpo-35545: Fix asyncio discarding IPv6 scopes when ensuring hostname resolutions internally
bpo-36887: Add new function
math.isqrt()
to compute integer square roots.bpo-34632: Introduce the
importlib.metadata
module with (provisional) support for reading metadata from third-party packages.bpo-36878: When using
type_comments=True
inast.parse
, treat# type: ignore
followed by a non-alphanumeric character and then arbitrary text as a type ignore, instead of requiring nothing but whitespace or another comment. This is to permit formations such as# type: ignore[E1000]
.bpo-36778:
cp65001
encoding (Windows code page 65001) becomes an alias toutf_8
encoding.bpo-36867: The multiprocessing.resource_tracker replaces the multiprocessing.semaphore_tracker module. Other than semaphores, resource_tracker also tracks shared_memory segments.
bpo-30262: The
Cache
andStatement
objects of thesqlite3
module are not exposed to the user. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.bpo-24538: In
shutil.copystat()
, first copy extended file attributes and then file permissions, since extended attributes can only be set on the destination while it is still writeable.bpo-36829: Add new
sys.unraisablehook()
function which can be overridden to control how “unraisable exceptions” are handled. It is called when an exception has occurred but there is no way for Python to handle it. For example, when a destructor raises an exception or during garbage collection (gc.collect()
).bpo-36832: Introducing
zipfile.Path
, a pathlib-compatible wrapper for traversing zip files.bpo-36814: Fix an issue where os.posix_spawnp() would incorrectly raise a TypeError when file_actions is None.
bpo-33110: Handle exceptions raised by functions added by concurrent.futures add_done_callback correctly when the Future has already completed.
bpo-26903: Limit
max_workers
inProcessPoolExecutor
to 61 to work around a WaitForMultipleObjects limitation.bpo-36813: Fix
QueueListener
to callqueue.task_done()
upon stopping. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-36806: Forbid creation of asyncio stream objects like StreamReader, StreamWriter, Process, and their protocols outside of asyncio package.
bpo-36802: Provide both sync and async calls for StreamWriter.write() and StreamWriter.close()
bpo-36801: Properly handle SSL connection closing in asyncio StreamWriter.drain() call.
bpo-36785: Implement PEP 574 (pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band buffers).
bpo-36772: functools.lru_cache() can now be used as a straight decorator in addition to its existing usage as a function that returns a decorator.
bpo-6584: Add a
BadGzipFile
exception to thegzip
module.bpo-36748: Optimized write buffering in C implementation of
TextIOWrapper
. Writing ASCII string toTextIOWrapper
with ascii, latin1, or utf-8 encoding is about 20% faster. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-8138: Don’t mark
wsgiref.simple_server.SimpleServer
as multi-threaded sincewsgiref.simple_server.WSGIServer
is single-threaded.bpo-22640:
py_compile.compile()
now supports silent mode. Patch by Joannah Nanjekyebpo-29183: Fix double exceptions in
wsgiref.handlers.BaseHandler
by calling itsclose()
method only when no exception is raised.bpo-36548: Improved the repr of regular expression flags.
bpo-36542: The signature of Python functions can now be overridden by specifying the
__text_signature__
attribute.bpo-36533: Reinitialize logging.Handler locks in forked child processes instead of attempting to acquire them all in the parent before forking only to be released in the child process. The acquire/release pattern was leading to deadlocks in code that has implemented any form of chained logging handlers that depend upon one another as the lock acquisition order cannot be guaranteed.
bpo-35252: Throw a TypeError instead of an AssertionError when using an invalid type annotation with singledispatch.
bpo-35900: Allow reduction methods to return a 6-item tuple where the 6th item specifies a custom state-setting method that’s called instead of the regular
__setstate__
method.bpo-35900: enable custom reduction callback registration for functions and classes in _pickle.c, using the new Pickler’s attribute
reducer_override
bpo-36368: Fix a bug crashing SharedMemoryManager instances in interactive sessions after a ctrl-c (KeyboardInterrupt) was sent
bpo-31904: Fix mmap fail for VxWorks
bpo-27497:
csv.DictWriter.writeheader()
now returns the return value of the underlyingcsv.Writer.writerow()
method. Patch contributed by Ashish Nitin Patil.bpo-36239: Parsing .mo files now ignores comments starting and ending with #-#-#-#-#.
bpo-26707: Enable plistlib to read and write binary plist files that were created as a KeyedArchive file. Specifically, this allows the plistlib to process 0x80 tokens as UID objects.
bpo-31904: Add posix module support for VxWorks.
bpo-35125: Asyncio: Remove inner callback on outer cancellation in shield
bpo-35721: Fix
asyncio.SelectorEventLoop.subprocess_exec()
leaks file descriptors ifPopen
fails and called withstdin=subprocess.PIPE
. Patch by Niklas Fiekas.bpo-31855:
unittest.mock.mock_open()
results now respects the argument of read([size]). Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-35431: Implement
math.comb()
that returns binomial coefficient, that computes the number of ways to choose k items from n items without repetition and without order. Patch by Yash Aggarwal and Keller Fuchs.bpo-26660: Fixed permission errors in
TemporaryDirectory
clean up. PreviouslyTemporaryDirectory.cleanup()
failed when non-writeable or non-searchable files or directories were created inside a temporary directory.bpo-34271: Add debugging helpers to ssl module. It’s now possible to dump key material and to trace TLS protocol. The default and stdlib contexts also support SSLKEYLOGFILE env var.
bpo-26467: Added AsyncMock to support using unittest to mock asyncio coroutines. Patch by Lisa Roach.
bpo-33569: dataclasses.InitVar: Exposes the type used to create the init var.
bpo-34424: Fix serialization of messages containing encoded strings when the policy.linesep is set to a multi-character string. Patch by Jens Troeger.
bpo-34303: Performance of
functools.reduce()
is slightly improved. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-33361: Fix a bug in
codecs.StreamRecoder
where seeking might leave old data in a buffer and break subsequent read calls. Patch by Ammar Askar.bpo-22454: The
shlex
module now exposesshlex.join()
, the inverse ofshlex.split()
. Patch by Bo Bayles.bpo-31922:
asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.create_datagram_endpoint()
: Do not connect UDP socket when broadcast is allowed. This allows to receive replies after a UDP broadcast.bpo-24882: Change ThreadPoolExecutor to use existing idle threads before spinning up new ones.
bpo-31961: Added support for bytes and path-like objects in
subprocess.Popen()
on Windows. The args parameter now accepts a path-like object if shell isFalse
and a sequence containing bytes and path-like objects. The executable parameter now accepts a bytes and path-like object. The cwd parameter now accepts a bytes object. Based on patch by Anders Lorentsen.bpo-33123:
pathlib.Path.unlink
now accepts a missing_ok parameter to avoid aFileNotFoundError
from being raised. Patch by Robert Buchholz.bpo-32941: Allow
mmap.mmap
objects to access the madvise() system call (throughmmap.mmap.madvise()
).bpo-22102: Added support for ZIP files with disks set to 0. Such files are commonly created by builtin tools on Windows when use ZIP64 extension. Patch by Francisco Facioni.
bpo-32515: trace.py can now run modules via python3 -m trace -t –module module_name
bpo-32299: Changed
unittest.mock.patch.dict()
to return the patched dictionary when used as context manager. Patch by Vadim Tsander.bpo-27141: Added a
__copy__()
tocollections.UserList
andcollections.UserDict
in order to correctly implement shallow copying of the objects. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-31829:
\r
,\0
and\x1a
(end-of-file on Windows) are now escaped in protocol 0 pickles of Unicode strings. This allows to load them without loss from files open in text mode in Python 2.bpo-23395:
_thread.interrupt_main()
now avoids setting the Python error status if theSIGINT
signal is ignored or not handled by Python.
Documentation¶
bpo-36896: Clarify that some types have unstable constructor signature between Python versions.
bpo-36686: Improve documentation of the stdin, stdout, and stderr arguments of the
asyncio.subprocess_exec
function to specify which values are supported. Also mention that decoding as text is not supported.Add a few tests to verify that the various values passed to the std* arguments actually work.
bpo-36984: Improve version added references in
typing
module - by Anthony Sottile.bpo-36868: What’s new now mentions SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name instead of SSLContext.host_flags.
bpo-35924: Add a note to the
curses.addstr()
documentation to warn that multiline strings can cause segfaults because of an ncurses bug.bpo-36783: Added C API Documentation for Time_FromTimeAndFold and PyDateTime_FromDateAndTimeAndFold as per PEP 495. Patch by Edison Abahurire.
bpo-36797: More of the legacy distutils documentation has been either pruned, or else more clearly marked as being retained solely until the setuptools documentation covers it independently.
bpo-22865: Add detail to the documentation on the
pty.spawn
function.bpo-35397: Remove deprecation and document urllib.parse.unwrap(). Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
bpo-32995: Added the context variable in glossary.
bpo-33519: Clarify that
copy()
is not part of theMutableSequence
ABC.bpo-33482: Make
codecs.StreamRecoder.writelines
take a list of bytes.bpo-25735: Added documentation for func factorial to indicate that returns integer values
bpo-20285: Expand object.__doc__ (docstring) to make it clearer. Modify pydoc.py so that help(object) lists object methods (for other classes, help omits methods of the object base class.)
Tests¶
bpo-37069: Modify test_coroutines, test_cprofile, test_generators, test_raise, test_ssl and test_yield_from to use
test.support.catch_unraisable_exception()
rather thantest.support.captured_stderr()
.bpo-37098: Fix test_memfd_create on older Linux Kernels.
bpo-37081: Test with OpenSSL 1.1.1c
bpo-36829: Add
test.support.catch_unraisable_exception()
: context manager catching unraisable exception usingsys.unraisablehook()
.bpo-36915: The main regrtest process now always removes all temporary directories of worker processes even if they crash or if they are killed on KeyboardInterrupt (CTRL+c).
bpo-36719: “python3 -m test -jN …” now continues the execution of next tests when a worker process crash (CHILD_ERROR state). Previously, the test suite stopped immediately. Use –failfast to stop at the first error.
bpo-36816: Update Lib/test/selfsigned_pythontestdotnet.pem to match self-signed.pythontest.net’s new TLS certificate.
bpo-35925: Skip httplib and nntplib networking tests when they would otherwise fail due to a modern OS or distro with a default OpenSSL policy of rejecting connections to servers with weak certificates.
bpo-36782: Add tests for several C API functions in the
datetime
module. Patch by Edison Abahurire.bpo-36342: Fix test_multiprocessing in test_venv if platform lacks functioning sem_open.
Build¶
bpo-36721: To embed Python into an application, a new
--embed
option must be passed topython3-config --libs --embed
to get-lpython3.8
(link the application to libpython). To support both 3.8 and older, trypython3-config --libs --embed
first and fallback topython3-config --libs
(without--embed
) if the previous command fails.Add a pkg-config
python-3.8-embed
module to embed Python into an application:pkg-config python-3.8-embed --libs
includes-lpython3.8
. To support both 3.8 and older, trypkg-config python-X.Y-embed --libs
first and fallback topkg-config python-X.Y --libs
(without--embed
) if the previous command fails (replaceX.Y
with the Python version).On the other hand,
pkg-config python3.8 --libs
no longer contains-lpython3.8
. C extensions must not be linked to libpython (except on Android, case handled by the script); this change is backward incompatible on purpose.bpo-36786: “make install” now runs compileall in parallel.
Windows¶
bpo-36965: include of STATUS_CONTROL_C_EXIT without depending on MSC compiler
bpo-35926: Update to OpenSSL 1.1.1b for Windows.
bpo-29883: Add Windows support for UDP transports for the Proactor Event Loop. Patch by Adam Meily.
bpo-33407: The
Py_DEPRECATED()
macro has been implemented for MSVC.
macOS¶
bpo-36231: Support building Python on macOS without /usr/include installed. As of macOS 10.14, system header files are only available within an SDK provided by either the Command Line Tools or the Xcode app.
IDLE¶
bpo-35610: Replace now redundant .context_use_ps1 with .prompt_last_line. This finishes change started in bpo-31858.
bpo-37038: Make idlelib.run runnable; add test clause.
bpo-36958: Print any argument other than None or int passed to SystemExit or sys.exit().
bpo-36807: When saving a file, call os.fsync() so bits are flushed to e.g. USB drive.
bpo-32411: In browser.py, remove extraneous sorting by line number since dictionary was created in line number order.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-37053: Handle strings like u”bar” correctly in Tools/parser/unparse.py. Patch by Chih-Hsuan Yen.
C API¶
bpo-36763: Implement the PEP 587 “Python Initialization Configuration”.
bpo-36379: Fix crashes when attempting to use the modulo parameter when
__ipow__
is implemented in C.bpo-37107: Update
PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs()
and_PyObject_CallMethodIdObjArgs
to use_PyObject_GetMethod
to avoid creating a bound method object in many cases. Patch by Michael J. Sullivan.bpo-36974: Implement PEP 590: Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython. This is a new protocol to optimize calls of custom callable objects.
bpo-36763:
Py_Main()
now returns the exitcode rather than callingPy_Exit(exitcode)
when callingPyErr_Print()
if the current exception type isSystemExit
.bpo-36922: Add new type flag
Py_TPFLAGS_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR
for objects behaving like unbound methods. These are objects supporting the optimization given by theLOAD_METHOD
/CALL_METHOD
opcodes. See PEP 590.bpo-36728: The
PyEval_ReInitThreads()
function has been removed from the C API. It should not be called explicitly: usePyOS_AfterFork_Child()
instead.
Python 3.8.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2019-05-06
Security¶
bpo-36742: Fixes mishandling of pre-normalization characters in urlsplit().
bpo-30458: Address CVE 2019-9740 by disallowing URL paths with embedded whitespace or control characters through into the underlying http client request. Such potentially malicious header injection URLs now cause an http.client.InvalidURL exception to be raised.
bpo-35755:
shutil.which()
now usesos.confstr("CS_PATH")
if available and if thePATH
environment variable is not set. Remove also the current directory fromposixpath.defpath
. On Unix,shutil.which()
and thesubprocess
module no longer search the executable in the current directory if thePATH
environment variable is not set.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-36722: In debug build, import now also looks for C extensions compiled in release mode and for C extensions compiled in the stable ABI.
bpo-32849: Fix Python Initialization code on FreeBSD to detect properly when stdin file descriptor (fd 0) is invalid.
bpo-36623: Remove parser headers and related function declarations that lack implementations after the removal of pgen.
bpo-20180:
dict.pop()
is now up to 33% faster thanks to Argument Clinic. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-36611: Debug memory allocators: disable serialno field by default from debug hooks on Python memory allocators to reduce the memory footprint by 5%. Enable
tracemalloc
to get the traceback where a memory block has been allocated when a fatal memory error is logged to decide where to put a breakpoint. Compile Python withPYMEM_DEBUG_SERIALNO
defined to get back the field.bpo-36588: On AIX,
sys.platform
doesn’t contain the major version anymore. Always return'aix'
, instead of'aix3'
..'aix7'
. Since older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to always usesys.platform.startswith('aix')
. Contributed by M. Felt.bpo-36549: Change str.capitalize to use titlecase for the first character instead of uppercase.
bpo-36540: Implement PEP 570 (Python positional-only parameters). Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-36475:
PyEval_AcquireLock()
andPyEval_AcquireThread()
now terminate the current thread if called while the interpreter is finalizing, making them consistent withPyEval_RestoreThread()
,Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS()
, andPyGILState_Ensure()
.bpo-36504: Fix signed integer overflow in _ctypes.c’s
PyCArrayType_new()
.bpo-20844: Fix running script with encoding cookie and LF line ending may fail on Windows.
bpo-24214: Fixed support of the surrogatepass error handler in the UTF-8 incremental decoder.
bpo-36452: Changing
dict
keys during iteration of the dict itself,keys()
,values()
, oritems()
will now be detected in certain corner cases where keys are deleted/added so that the number of keys isn’t changed. ARuntimeError
will be raised afterlen(dict)
iterations. Contributed by Thomas Perl.bpo-36459: Fix a possible double
PyMem_FREE()
due to tokenizer.c’stok_nextc()
.bpo-36433: Fixed TypeError message in classmethoddescr_call.
bpo-36430: Fix a possible reference leak in
itertools.count()
.bpo-36440: Include node names in
ParserError
messages, instead of numeric IDs. Patch by A. Skrobov.bpo-36143: Regenerate
keyword
from the Grammar and Tokens file using pgen. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-18372: Add missing
PyObject_GC_Track()
calls in thepickle
module. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
Library¶
bpo-35952: Fix pythoninfo when the compiler is missing.
bpo-28238: The
.find*()
methods of xml.etree.ElementTree can now search for wildcards like{*}tag
and{ns}*
that match a tag in any namespace or all tags in a namespace. Patch by Stefan Behnel.bpo-26978:
pathlib.path.link_to()
is now implemented. It creates a hard link pointing to a path.bpo-1613500:
fileinput.FileInput
now uses the input file mode to correctly set the output file mode (previously it was hardcoded to'w'
) wheninplace=True
is passed to its constructor.bpo-36734: Fix compilation of
faulthandler.c
on HP-UX. Initializestack_t current_stack
to zero usingmemset()
.bpo-13611: The xml.etree.ElementTree packages gained support for C14N 2.0 serialisation. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-36669: Add missing matrix multiplication operator support to weakref.proxy.
bpo-36676: The XMLParser() in xml.etree.ElementTree provides namespace prefix context to the parser target if it defines the callback methods “start_ns()” and/or “end_ns()”. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-36673: The TreeBuilder and XMLPullParser in xml.etree.ElementTree gained support for parsing comments and processing instructions. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-36650: The C version of functools.lru_cache() was treating calls with an empty
**kwargs
dictionary as being distinct from calls with no keywords at all. This did not result in an incorrect answer, but it did trigger an unexpected cache miss.bpo-28552: Fix
distutils.sysconfig
ifsys.executable
isNone
or an empty string: useos.getcwd()
to initializeproject_base
. Fix also the distutils build command: don’t usesys.executable
if it isNone
or an empty string.bpo-35755:
shutil.which()
anddistutils.spawn.find_executable
now useos.confstr("CS_PATH")
if available instead ofos.defpath
, if thePATH
environment variable is not set. Moreover, don’t useos.confstr("CS_PATH")
noros.defpath
if thePATH
environment variable is set to an empty string.bpo-25430: improve performance of
IPNetwork.__contains__()
bpo-30485: Path expressions in xml.etree.ElementTree can now avoid explicit namespace prefixes for tags (or the “{namespace}tag” notation) by passing a default namespace with an empty string prefix.
bpo-36613: Fix
asyncio
wait() not removing callback if exceptionbpo-36598: Fix
isinstance
check for Mock objects with spec when the code is executed under tracing. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-18748: In development mode (
-X
dev
) and in debug build, theio.IOBase
destructor now logsclose()
exceptions. These exceptions are silent by default in release mode.bpo-36575: The
_lsprof
module now uses internal timer same totime.perf_counter()
by default.gettimeofday(2)
was used on Unix. New timer has better resolution on most Unix platforms and timings are no longer impacted by system clock updates sinceperf_counter()
is monotonic. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-33461:
json.loads
now emitsDeprecationWarning
whenencoding
option is specified. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.bpo-36559: The random module now prefers the lean internal _sha512 module over hashlib for seed(version=2) to optimize import time.
bpo-17561: Set backlog=None as the default for socket.create_server.
bpo-34373: Fix
time.mktime()
error handling on AIX for year before 1970.bpo-36232: Improve error message when trying to open existing DBM database that actually doesn’t exist. Patch by Marco Rougeth.
bpo-36546: Add statistics.quantiles()
bpo-36050: Optimized
http.client.HTTPResponse.read()
for large response. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-36522: If debuglevel is set to >0 in
http.client
, print all values for headers with multiple values for the same header name. Patch by Matt Houglum.bpo-36492: Deprecated passing required arguments like func as keyword arguments in functions which should accept arbitrary keyword arguments and pass them to other function. Arbitrary keyword arguments (even with names “self” and “func”) can now be passed to these functions if the required arguments are passed as positional arguments.
bpo-27181: Add statistics.geometric_mean().
bpo-30427:
os.path.normcase()
relies onos.fspath()
to check the type of its argument. Redundant checks have been removed from itsposixpath.normcase()
andntpath.normcase()
implementations. Patch by Wolfgang Maier.bpo-36385: Stop rejecting IPv4 octets for being ambiguously octal. Leading zeros are ignored, and no longer are assumed to specify octal octets. Octets are always decimal numbers. Octets must still be no more than three digits, including leading zeroes.
bpo-36434: Errors during writing to a ZIP file no longer prevent to properly close it.
bpo-36407: Fixed wrong indentation writing for CDATA section in xml.dom.minidom. Patch by Vladimir Surjaninov.
bpo-36326: inspect.getdoc() can now find docstrings for member objects when __slots__ is a dictionary.
bpo-36366: Calling
stop()
on an unstarted or stoppedunittest.mock.patch()
object will now returnNone
instead of raisingRuntimeError
, making the method idempotent. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-36348: The
imap.IMAP4.logout()
method no longer ignores silently arbitrary exceptions.bpo-31904: Add time module support and fix test_time failures for VxWorks.
bpo-36227: Added support for keyword arguments
default_namespace
andxml_declaration
in functionsElementTree.tostring()
andElementTree.tostringlist()
.bpo-36004: Added new alternate constructors
datetime.date.fromisocalendar()
anddatetime.datetime.fromisocalendar()
, which construct date objects from ISO year, week number and weekday; these are the inverse of each class’sisocalendar
method. Patch by Paul Ganssle.bpo-35936:
modulefinder
no longer depends on the deprecatedimp
module, and the initializer formodulefinder.ModuleFinder
now has immutable default arguments. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-35376:
modulefinder
correctly handles modules that have the same name as a bad package. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-17396:
modulefinder
no longer crashes when encountering syntax errors in followed imports. Patch by Brandt Bucher.bpo-35934: Added
create_server()
andhas_dualstack_ipv6()
convenience functions to automate the necessary tasks usually involved when creating a server socket, including accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 connections on the same socket. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola in bpo-17561.)bpo-23078: Add support for
classmethod()
andstaticmethod()
tounittest.mock.create_autospec()
. Initial patch by Felipe Ochoa.bpo-35416: Fix potential resource warnings in distutils. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.
bpo-25451: Add transparency methods to
tkinter.PhotoImage
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-35082: Don’t return deleted attributes when calling dir on a
unittest.mock.Mock
.bpo-34547:
wsgiref.handlers.BaseHandler
now handles abrupt client connection terminations gracefully. Patch by Petter Strandmark.bpo-31658:
xml.sax.parse()
now supports path-like. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.bpo-34139: Remove stale unix datagram socket before binding
bpo-33530: Implemented Happy Eyeballs in
asyncio.create_connection()
. Added two new arguments, happy_eyeballs_delay and interleave, to specify Happy Eyeballs behavior.bpo-33291: Do not raise AttributeError when calling the inspect functions isgeneratorfunction, iscoroutinefunction, isasyncgenfunction on a method created from an arbitrary callable. Instead, return False.
bpo-31310: Fix the multiprocessing.semaphore_tracker so it is reused by child processes
bpo-31292: Fix
setup.py check --restructuredtext
for files containinginclude
directives.
Documentation¶
bpo-36625: Remove obsolete comments from docstrings in fractions.Fraction
bpo-30840: Document relative imports
bpo-36523: Add docstring for io.IOBase.writelines().
bpo-36425: New documentation translation: Simplified Chinese.
bpo-36345: Avoid the duplication of code from
Tools/scripts/serve.py
in using theliteralinclude
directive for the basic wsgiref-based web server in the documentation ofwsgiref
. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.bpo-36345: Using the code of the
Tools/scripts/serve.py
script as an example in thewsgiref
documentation. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.bpo-36157: Added documentation for PyInterpreterState_Main().
bpo-33043: Updates the docs.python.org page with the addition of a ‘Contributing to Docs’ link at the end of the page (between ‘Reporting Bugs’ and ‘About Documentation’). Updates the ‘Found a Bug’ page with additional links and information in the Documentation Bugs section.
bpo-35581: @typing.type_check_only now allows type stubs to mark functions and classes not available during runtime.
bpo-33832: Add glossary entry for ‘magic method’.
bpo-32913: Added re.Match.groupdict example to regex HOWTO.
Tests¶
bpo-36719: regrtest now always detects uncollectable objects. Previously, the check was only enabled by
--findleaks
. The check now also works with-jN/--multiprocess N
.--findleaks
becomes a deprecated alias to--fail-env-changed
.bpo-36725: When using multiprocessing mode (-jN), regrtest now better reports errors if a worker process fails, and it exits immediately on a worker thread failure or when interrupted.
bpo-36454: Change test_time.test_monotonic() to test only the lower bound of elapsed time after a sleep command rather than the upper bound. This prevents unnecessary test failures on slow buildbots. Patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-32424: Improve test coverage for xml.etree.ElementTree. Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley.
bpo-32424: Fix typo in test_cyclic_gc() test for xml.etree.ElementTree. Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley.
bpo-36635: Add a new
_testinternalcapi
module to test the internal C API.bpo-36629: Fix
test_imap4_host_default_value()
oftest_imaplib
: catch alsoerrno.ENETUNREACH
error.bpo-36611: Fix
test_sys.test_getallocatedblocks()
whentracemalloc
is enabled.bpo-36560: Fix reference leak hunting in regrtest: compute also deltas (of reference count, allocated memory blocks, file descriptor count) during warmup, to ensure that everything is initialized before starting to hunt reference leaks.
bpo-36565: Fix reference hunting (
python3 -m test -R 3:3
) when Python has no built-in abc module.bpo-31904: Port test_resource to VxWorks: skip tests cases setting RLIMIT_FSIZE and RLIMIT_CPU.
bpo-31904: Fix test_tabnanny on VxWorks: adjust ENOENT error message.
bpo-36436: Fix
_testcapi.pymem_buffer_overflow()
: handle memory allocation failure.bpo-31904: Fix test_utf8_mode on VxWorks: Python always use UTF-8 on VxWorks.
bpo-36341: Fix tests that may fail with PermissionError upon calling bind() on AF_UNIX sockets.
Build¶
bpo-36747: Remove the stale scriptsinstall Makefile target.
bpo-21536: On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython except on Android and Cygwin.
It is now possible for a statically linked Python to load a C extension built using a shared library Python.
When Python is embedded,
libpython
must not be loaded withRTLD_LOCAL
, butRTLD_GLOBAL
instead. Previously, usingRTLD_LOCAL
, it was already not possible to load C extensions which were not linked tolibpython
, such as C extensions of the standard library built by the*shared*
section ofModules/Setup
.distutils, python-config and python-config.py have been modified.
bpo-36707:
./configure --with-pymalloc
no longer adds them
flag to SOABI (sys.implementation.cache_tag). Enabling or disabling pymalloc has no impact on the ABI.bpo-36635: Change
PyAPI_FUNC(type)
,PyAPI_DATA(type)
andPyMODINIT_FUNC
macros ofpyport.h
whenPy_BUILD_CORE_MODULE
is defined. ThePy_BUILD_CORE_MODULE
define must be now be used to build a C extension as a dynamic library accessing Python internals: export thePyInit_xxx()
function in DLL exports on Windows.bpo-31904: Don’t build the
_crypt
extension on VxWorks.bpo-36618: Add
-fmax-type-align=8
to CFLAGS when clang compiler is detected. The pymalloc memory allocator aligns memory on 8 bytes. On x86-64, clang expects alignment on 16 bytes by default and so uses MOVAPS instruction which can lead to segmentation fault. Instruct clang that Python is limited to alignment on 8 bytes to use MOVUPS instruction instead: slower but don’t trigger a SIGSEGV if the memory is not aligned on 16 bytes. Sadly, the flag must be added toCFLAGS
and not justCFLAGS_NODIST
, since third party C extensions can have the same issue.bpo-36605:
make tags
andmake TAGS
now also parseModules/_io/*.c
andModules/_io/*.h
.bpo-36465: Release builds and debug builds are now ABI compatible: defining the
Py_DEBUG
macro no longer implies thePy_TRACE_REFS
macro, which introduces the only ABI incompatibility. ThePy_TRACE_REFS
macro, which adds thesys.getobjects()
function and thePYTHONDUMPREFS
environment variable, can be set using the new./configure --with-trace-refs
build option.bpo-36577: setup.py now correctly reports missing OpenSSL headers and libraries again.
bpo-36544: Fix regression introduced in bpo-36146 refactoring setup.py
bpo-36508:
python-config --ldflags
no longer includes flags of theLINKFORSHARED
variable. TheLINKFORSHARED
variable must only be used to build executables.bpo-36503: Remove references to “aix3” and “aix4”. Patch by M. Felt.
Windows¶
bpo-35920: Added platform.win32_edition() and platform.win32_is_iot(). Added support for cross-compiling packages for Windows ARM32. Skip tests that are not expected to work on Windows IoT Core ARM32.
bpo-36649: Remove trailing spaces for registry keys when installed via the Store.
bpo-34144: Fixed activate.bat to correctly update codepage when chcp.com returns dots in output. Patch by Lorenz Mende.
bpo-36509: Added preset-iot layout for Windows IoT ARM containers. This layout doesn’t contain UI components like tkinter or IDLE. It also doesn’t contain files to support on-target builds since Windows ARM32 builds must be cross-compiled when using MSVC.
bpo-35941: enum_certificates function of the ssl module now returns certificates from all available certificate stores inside windows in a query instead of returning only certificates from the system wide certificate store. This includes certificates from these certificate stores: local machine, local machine enterprise, local machine group policy, current user, current user group policy, services, users. ssl.enum_crls() function is changed in the same way to return all certificate revocation lists inside the windows certificate revocation list stores.
bpo-36441: Fixes creating a venv when debug binaries are installed.
bpo-36085: Enable better DLL resolution on Windows by using safe DLL search paths and adding
os.add_dll_directory()
.bpo-36010: Add the venv standard library module to the nuget distribution for Windows.
bpo-29515: Add the following socket module constants on Windows: IPPROTO_AH IPPROTO_CBT IPPROTO_DSTOPTS IPPROTO_EGP IPPROTO_ESP IPPROTO_FRAGMENT IPPROTO_GGP IPPROTO_HOPOPTS IPPROTO_ICLFXBM IPPROTO_ICMPV6 IPPROTO_IDP IPPROTO_IGMP IPPROTO_IGP IPPROTO_IPV4 IPPROTO_IPV6 IPPROTO_L2TP IPPROTO_MAX IPPROTO_ND IPPROTO_NONE IPPROTO_PGM IPPROTO_PIM IPPROTO_PUP IPPROTO_RDP IPPROTO_ROUTING IPPROTO_SCTP IPPROTO_ST
bpo-35947: Added current version of libffi to cpython-source-deps. Change _ctypes to use current version of libffi on Windows.
bpo-34060: Report system load when running test suite on Windows. Patch by Ammar Askar. Based on prior work by Jeremy Kloth.
bpo-31512: With the Windows 10 Creators Update, non-elevated users can now create symlinks as long as the computer has Developer Mode enabled.
macOS¶
IDLE¶
bpo-36429: Fix starting IDLE with pyshell. Add idlelib.pyshell alias at top; remove pyshell alias at bottom. Remove obsolete __name__==’__main__’ command.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-14546: Fix the argument handling in Tools/scripts/lll.py.
C API¶
bpo-36763: Fix memory leak in
Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding()
: release memory if the function is called twice.bpo-36641: PyDoc_VAR(name) and PyDoc_STRVAR(name, str) now create
static const char name[]
instead ofstatic char name[]
. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-36389: Change the value of
CLEANBYTE
,DEADDYTE
andFORBIDDENBYTE
internal constants used by debug hooks on Python memory allocators (PyMem_SetupDebugHooks()
function). Byte patterns0xCB
,0xDB
and0xFB
have been replaced with0xCD
,0xDD
and0xFD
to use the same values than Windows CRT debugmalloc()
andfree()
.bpo-36443: Since Python 3.7.0, calling
Py_DecodeLocale()
beforePy_Initialize()
produces mojibake if theLC_CTYPE
locale is coerced and/or if the UTF-8 Mode is enabled by the user configuration. The LC_CTYPE coercion and UTF-8 Mode are now disabled by default to fix the mojibake issue. They must now be enabled explicitly (opt-in) using the new_Py_PreInitialize()
API with_PyPreConfig
.bpo-36025: Fixed an accidental change to the datetime C API where the arguments to the
PyDate_FromTimestamp()
function were incorrectly interpreted as a single timestamp rather than an arguments tuple, which causes existing code to start raisingTypeError
. The backwards-incompatible change was only present in alpha releases of Python 3.8. Patch by Paul Ganssle.bpo-35810: Modify
PyObject_Init
to correctly increase the refcount of heap-allocated Type objects. Also fix the refcounts of the heap-allocated types that were either doing this manually or not decreasing the type’s refcount in tp_dealloc
Python 3.8.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2019-03-25
Security¶
bpo-36216: Changes urlsplit() to raise ValueError when the URL contains characters that decompose under IDNA encoding (NFKC-normalization) into characters that affect how the URL is parsed.
bpo-35121: Don’t send cookies of domain A without Domain attribute to domain B when domain A is a suffix match of domain B while using a cookiejar with
http.cookiejar.DefaultCookiePolicy
policy. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-36421: Fix a possible double decref in _ctypes.c’s
PyCArrayType_new()
.bpo-36412: Fix a possible crash when creating a new dictionary.
bpo-36398: Fix a possible crash in
structseq_repr()
.bpo-36256: Fix bug in parsermodule when parsing a state in a DFA that has two or more arcs with labels of the same type. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-36365: repr(structseq) is no longer limited to 512 bytes.
bpo-36374: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in
merge_consts_recursive()
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-36236: At Python initialization, the current directory is no longer prepended to
sys.path
if it has been removed.bpo-36352: Python initialization now fails with an error, rather than silently truncating paths, if a path is too long.
bpo-36301: Python initialization now fails if decoding
pybuilddir.txt
configuration file fails at startup.bpo-36333: Fix leak in _PyRuntimeState_Fini. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.
bpo-36332: The builtin
compile()
can now handle AST objects that contain assignment expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-36282: Improved error message for too much positional arguments in some builtin functions.
bpo-30040: New empty dict uses fewer memory for now. It used more memory than empty dict created by
dict.clear()
. And empty dict creation and deletion is about 2x faster. Patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-36262: Fix an unlikely memory leak on conversion from string to float in the function
_Py_dg_strtod()
used byfloat(str)
,complex(str)
,pickle.load()
,marshal.load()
, etc.bpo-36252: Update Unicode databases to version 12.0.0.
bpo-36218: Fix a segfault occurring when sorting a list of heterogeneous values. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre and Elliot Gorokhovsky.
bpo-36188: Cleaned up left-over vestiges of Python 2 unbound method handling in method objects and documentation. Patch by Martijn Pieters
bpo-36124: Add a new interpreter-specific dict and expose it in the C-API via PyInterpreterState_GetDict(). This parallels PyThreadState_GetDict(). However, extension modules should continue using PyModule_GetState() for their own internal per-interpreter state.
bpo-35975: Add a
feature_version
flag toast.parse()
(documented) andcompile()
(hidden) that allows tweaking the parser to support older versions of the grammar. In particular, iffeature_version
is 5 or 6, the hacks for theasync
andawait
keyword from PEP 492 are reinstated. (For 7 or higher, these are unconditionally treated as keywords, but they are still special tokens rather thanNAME
tokens that the parser driver recognizes.)bpo-31904: Use UTF-8 as the system encoding on VxWorks.
bpo-36048: The
__index__()
special method will be used instead of__int__()
for implicit conversion of Python numbers to C integers. Using the__int__()
method in implicit conversions has been deprecated.bpo-35808: Retire pgen and use a modified version of pgen2 to generate the parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
Library¶
bpo-36401: The class documentation created by pydoc now has a separate section for readonly properties.
bpo-36320: The typing.NamedTuple() class has deprecated the _field_types attribute in favor of the __annotations__ attribute which carried the same information. Also, both attributes were converted from OrderedDict to a regular dict.
bpo-34745: Fix
asyncio
ssl memory issues caused by circular referencesbpo-36324: Add method to statistics.NormalDist for computing the inverse cumulative normal distribution.
bpo-36321: collections.namedtuple() misspelled the name of an attribute. To be consistent with typing.NamedTuple, the attribute name should have been “_field_defaults” instead of “_fields_defaults”. For backwards compatibility, both spellings are now created. The misspelled version may be removed in the future.
bpo-36297: “unicode_internal” codec is removed. It was deprecated since Python 3.3. Patch by Inada Naoki.
bpo-36298: Raise ModuleNotFoundError in pyclbr when a module can’t be found. Thanks to ‘mental’ for the bug report.
bpo-36268: Switch the default format used for writing tars with
tarfile
to the modern POSIX.1-2001 pax standard, from the vendor-specific GNU. Contributed by C.A.M. Gerlach.bpo-36285: Fix integer overflows in the array module. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
bpo-31904: Add _signal module support for VxWorks.
bpo-36272:
logging
does not silently ignore RecursionError anymore. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-36280: Add a kind field to ast.Constant. It is ‘u’ if the literal has a ‘u’ prefix (i.e. a Python 2 style unicode literal), else None.
bpo-35931: The
pdb
debug
command now gracefully handles all exceptions.bpo-36251: Fix format strings used for stderrprinter and re.Match reprs. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
bpo-36235: Fix
CFLAGS
incustomize_compiler()
ofdistutils.sysconfig
: when theCFLAGS
environment variable is defined, don’t overrideCFLAGS
variable with theOPT
variable anymore. Initial patch written by David Malcolm.bpo-35807: Update ensurepip to install pip 19.0.3 and setuptools 40.8.0.
bpo-36179: Fix two unlikely reference leaks in _hashopenssl. The leaks only occur in out-of-memory cases.
bpo-36169: Add overlap() method to statistics.NormalDist. Computes the overlapping coefficient for two normal distributions.
bpo-36103: Default buffer size used by
shutil.copyfileobj()
is changed from 16 KiB to 64 KiB on non-Windows platform to reduce system call overhead. Contributed by Inada Naoki.bpo-36130: Fix
pdb
withskip=...
when stepping into a frame without a__name__
global. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35652: shutil.copytree(copy_function=…) erroneously pass DirEntry instead of a path string.
bpo-35178: Ensure custom
warnings.formatwarning()
function can receiveline
as positional argument. Based on patch by Tashrif Billah.bpo-36106: Resolve potential name clash with libm’s sinpi(). Patch by Dmitrii Pasechnik.
bpo-36091: Clean up reference to async generator in Lib/types. Patch by Henry Chen.
bpo-36043:
FileCookieJar
supports path-like object. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtelbpo-35899: Enum has been fixed to correctly handle empty strings and strings with non-Latin characters (ie. ‘α’, ‘א’) without crashing. Original patch contributed by Maxwell. Assisted by Stéphane Wirtel.
bpo-21269: Add
args
andkwargs
properties to mock call objects. Contributed by Kumar Akshay.bpo-30670:
pprint.pp
has been added to pretty-print objects with dictionary keys being sorted with their insertion order by default. Parameter sort_dicts has been added topprint.pprint
,pprint.pformat
andpprint.PrettyPrinter
. Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-35843: Implement
__getitem__
for_NamespacePath
. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35802: Clean up code which checked presence of
os.stat
/os.lstat
/os.chmod
which are always present. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35715: Librates the return value of a ProcessPoolExecutor _process_worker after it’s no longer needed to free memory
bpo-35493: Use
multiprocessing.connection.wait()
instead of polling each 0.2 seconds for worker updates inmultiprocessing.Pool
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-35661: Store the venv prompt in pyvenv.cfg.
bpo-35121: Don’t set cookie for a request when the request path is a prefix match of the cookie’s path attribute but doesn’t end with “/”. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-21478: Calls to a child function created with
unittest.mock.create_autospec()
should propagate to the parent. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-35198: Fix C++ extension compilation on AIX
Documentation¶
bpo-36329: Declare the path of the Python binary for the usage of
Tools/scripts/serve.py
when executingmake -C Doc/ serve
. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtelbpo-36138: Improve documentation about converting datetime.timedelta to scalars.
bpo-21314: A new entry was added to the Core Language Section of the Programming FAQ, which explaines the usage of slash(/) in the signature of a function. Patch by Lysandros Nikolaou
Tests¶
bpo-36234: test_posix.PosixUidGidTests: add tests for invalid uid/gid type (str). Initial patch written by David Malcolm.
bpo-29571: Fix
test_re.test_locale_flag()
: uselocale.getpreferredencoding()
rather thanlocale.getlocale()
to get the locale encoding. With some locales,locale.getlocale()
returns the wrong encoding.bpo-36123: Fix race condition in test_socket.
Build¶
bpo-36356: Fix leaks that led to build failure when configured with address sanitizer.
bpo-36146: Add
TEST_EXTENSIONS
constant tosetup.py
to allow to not build test extensions like_testcapi
.bpo-36146: Fix setup.py on macOS: only add
/usr/include/ffi
to include directories of _ctypes, not for all extensions.bpo-31904: Enable build system to cross-build for VxWorks RTOS.
Windows¶
bpo-36312: Fixed decoders for the following code pages: 50220, 50221, 50222, 50225, 50227, 50229, 57002 through 57011, 65000 and 42.
bpo-36264: Don’t honor POSIX
HOME
inos.path.expanduser
on windows. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-24643: Fix name collisions due to
#define timezone _timezone
in PC/pyconfig.h.
IDLE¶
bpo-36405: Use dict unpacking in idlelib.
bpo-36396: Remove fgBg param of idlelib.config.GetHighlight(). This param was only used twice and changed the return type.
bpo-36176: Fix IDLE autocomplete & calltip popup colors. Prevent conflicts with Linux dark themes (and slightly darken calltip background).
bpo-23205: For the grep module, add tests for findfiles, refactor findfiles to be a module-level function, and refactor findfiles to use os.walk.
bpo-23216: Add docstrings to IDLE search modules.
bpo-36152: Remove colorizer.ColorDelegator.close_when_done and the corresponding argument of .close(). In IDLE, both have always been None or False since 2007.
bpo-32129: Avoid blurry IDLE application icon on macOS with Tk 8.6. Patch by Kevin Walzer.
bpo-36096: Refactor class variables to instance variables in colorizer.
bpo-30348: Increase test coverage of idlelib.autocomplete by 30%. Patch by Louie Lu
Tools/Demos¶
C API¶
Python 3.8.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2019-02-25
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-36052: Raise a
SyntaxError
when assigning a value to__debug__
with the Assignment Operator. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel and Pablo Galindo.bpo-36012: Doubled the speed of class variable writes. When a non-dunder attribute was updated, there was an unnecessary call to update slots.
bpo-35942: The error message emitted when returning invalid types from
__fspath__
in interfaces that allow passingPathLike
objects has been improved and now it does explain the origin of the error.bpo-36016:
gc.get_objects
can now receive an optional parameter indicating a generation to get objects from. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-1054041: When the main interpreter exits due to an uncaught KeyboardInterrupt, the process now exits in the appropriate manner for its parent process to detect that a SIGINT or ^C terminated the process. This allows shells and batch scripts to understand that the user has asked them to stop.
bpo-35992: Fix
__class_getitem__()
not being called on a class with a custom non-subscriptable metaclass.bpo-35993: Fix a crash on fork when using subinterpreters. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-35991: Fix a potential double free in Modules/_randommodule.c.
bpo-35961: Fix a crash in slice_richcompare(): use strong references rather than stolen references for the two temporary internal tuples.
bpo-35911: Enable the creation of cell objects by adding a
cell.__new__
method, and expose the typecell
inLib/types.py
under the name CellType. Patch by Pierre Glaser.bpo-12822: Use monotonic clock for
pthread_cond_timedwait
whenpthread_condattr_setclock
andCLOCK_MONOTONIC
are available.bpo-15248: The compiler emits now syntax warnings in the case when a comma is likely missed before tuple or list.
bpo-35886: The implementation of PyInterpreterState has been moved into the internal header files (guarded by Py_BUILD_CORE).
bpo-31506: Clarify the errors reported when
object.__new__
andobject.__init__
receive more than one argument. Contributed by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-35724: Signal-handling is now guaranteed to happen relative to the main interpreter.
bpo-33608: We added a new internal _Py_AddPendingCall() that operates relative to the provided interpreter. This allows us to use the existing implementation to ask another interpreter to do work that cannot be done in the current interpreter, like decref an object the other interpreter owns. The existing Py_AddPendingCall() only operates relative to the main interpreter.
bpo-33989: Fix a possible crash in
list.sort()
when sorting objects withob_type->tp_richcompare == NULL
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
Library¶
bpo-35512:
unittest.mock.patch.dict()
used as a decorator with string target resolves the target during function call instead of during decorator construction. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-36018: Add statistics.NormalDist, a tool for creating and manipulating normal distributions of random variable. Features a composite class that treats the mean and standard deviation of measurement data as single entity.
bpo-35904: Added statistics.fmean() as a faster, floating-point variant of the existing mean() function.
bpo-35918: Removed broken
has_key
method from multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.dict. Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.bpo-18283: Add support for bytes to
shutil.which()
.bpo-35960: Fix
dataclasses.field()
throwing away empty mapping objects passed as metadata.bpo-35500: Write expected and actual call parameters on separate lines in
unittest.mock.Mock.assert_called_with()
assertion errors. Contributed by Susan Su.bpo-35931: The
pdb
debug
command now gracefully handles syntax errors.bpo-24209: In http.server script, rely on getaddrinfo to bind to preferred address based on the bind parameter. Now default bind or binding to a name may bind to IPv6 or dual-stack, depending on the environment.
bpo-35321: Set
__spec__.origin
of_frozen_importlib
to frozen so that it matches the behavior of_frozen_importlib_external
. Patch by Nina Zakharenko.bpo-35378: Fix a reference issue inside
multiprocessing.Pool
that caused the pool to remain alive if it was deleted without being closed or terminated explicitly. A new strong reference is added to the pool iterators to link the lifetime of the pool to the lifetime of its iterators so the pool does not get destroyed if a pool iterator is still alive.bpo-34294: re module, fix wrong capturing groups in rare cases.
re.search()
,re.findall()
,re.sub()
and other functions that scan through string looking for a match, should reset capturing groups between two match attempts. Patch by Ma Lin.bpo-35615:
weakref
: Fix a RuntimeError when copying a WeakKeyDictionary or a WeakValueDictionary, due to some keys or values disappearing while iterating.bpo-35606: Implement
math.prod()
as analogous function tosum()
that returns the product of a ‘start’ value (default: 1) times an iterable of numbers. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-32417: Performing arithmetic between
datetime.datetime
subclasses anddatetime.timedelta
now returns an object of the same type as thedatetime.datetime
subclass. As a result,datetime.datetime.astimezone()
and alternate constructors likedatetime.datetime.now()
anddatetime.fromtimestamp()
called with atz
argument now also retain their subclass.bpo-35153: Add headers optional keyword-only parameter to
xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy
,xmlrpc.client.Transport
andxmlrpc.client.SafeTransport
. Patch by Cédric Krier.bpo-34572: Fix C implementation of pickle.loads to use importlib’s locking mechanisms, and thereby avoid using partially loaded modules. Patch by Tim Burgess.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
bpo-27313: Avoid test_ttk_guionly ComboboxTest failure with macOS Cocoa Tk.
bpo-36019: Add test.support.TEST_HTTP_URL and replace references of http://www.example.com by this new constant. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.
bpo-36037: Fix test_ssl for strict OpenSSL configuration like RHEL8 strict crypto policy. Use older TLS version for minimum TLS version of the server SSL context if needed, to test TLS version older than default minimum TLS version.
bpo-35798: Added
test.support.check_syntax_warning()
.bpo-35505: Make test_imap4_host_default_value independent on whether the local IMAP server is running.
bpo-35917: multiprocessing: provide unit tests for SyncManager and SharedMemoryManager classes + all the shareable types which are supposed to be supported by them. (patch by Giampaolo Rodola)
bpo-35704: Skip
test_shutil.test_unpack_archive_xztar
to prevent a MemoryError on 32-bit AIX when MAXDATA setting is less than 0x20000000.Patch by Michael Felt (aixtools)
bpo-34720: Assert m_state != NULL to mimic GC traversal functions that do not correctly handle module creation when the module state has not been created.
Windows¶
bpo-35976: Added ARM build support to Windows build files in PCBuild.
bpo-35692:
pathlib
no longer raises when checking file and directory existence on drives that are not readybpo-35872: Uses the base Python executable when invoking venv in a virtual environment
bpo-35873: Prevents venv paths being inherited by child processes
bpo-35299: Fix sysconfig detection of the source directory and distutils handling of pyconfig.h during PGO profiling
IDLE¶
Python 3.8.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2019-02-03
Security¶
bpo-35746: CVE 2019-5010: Fix a NULL pointer deref in ssl module. The cert parser did not handle CRL distribution points with empty DP or URI correctly. A malicious or buggy certificate can result into segfault. Vulnerability (TALOS-2018-0758) reported by Colin Read and Nicolas Edet of Cisco.
bpo-34812: The
-I
command line option (run Python in isolated mode) is now also copied by themultiprocessing
anddistutils
modules when spawning child processes. Previously, only-E
and-s
options (enabled by-I
) were copied.bpo-34791: The xml.sax and xml.dom.domreg no longer use environment variables to override parser implementations when sys.flags.ignore_environment is set by -E or -I arguments.
bpo-17239: The xml.sax and xml.dom.minidom parsers no longer processes external entities by default. External DTD and ENTITY declarations no longer load files or create network connections.
bpo-34623: CVE 2018-14647: The C accelerated _elementtree module now initializes hash randomization salt from _Py_HashSecret instead of libexpat’s default CSPRNG.
bpo-34405: Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.0i for Windows builds.
bpo-33871: Fixed sending the part of the file in
os.sendfile()
on macOS. Using the trailers argument could cause sending more bytes from the input file than was specified.bpo-32533: Fixed thread-safety of error handling in _ssl.
bpo-33136: Harden ssl module against LibreSSL CVE 2018-8970. X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() is called with an explicit namelen. A new test ensures that NULL bytes are not allowed.
bpo-33001: Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows
bpo-32981: Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They have been refactored. This resolves CVE 2018-1060 and CVE 2018-1061. Patch by Jamie Davis.
bpo-28414: The ssl module now allows users to perform their own IDN en/decoding when using SNI.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-35877: Make parenthesis optional for named expressions in while statement. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-35814: Allow same right hand side expressions in annotated assignments as in normal ones. In particular,
x: Tuple[int, int] = 1, 2
(without parentheses on the right) is now allowed.bpo-35766: Add the option to parse PEP 484 type comments in the ast module. (Off by default.) This is merging the key functionality of the third party fork thereof, [typed_ast](https://github.com/python/typed_ast).
bpo-35713: Reorganize Python initialization to get working exceptions and sys.stderr earlier.
bpo-33416: Add end line and end column position information to the Python AST nodes. This is a C-level backwards incompatible change.
bpo-35720: Fixed a minor memory leak in pymain_parse_cmdline_impl function in Modules/main.c
bpo-35634:
func(**kwargs)
will now raise an error whenkwargs
is a mapping containing multiple entries with the same key. An error was already raised when other keyword arguments are passed before**kwargs
since Python 3.6.bpo-35623: Fix a crash when sorting very long lists. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
bpo-35214: clang Memory Sanitizer build instrumentation was added to work around false positives from posix, socket, time, test_io, and test_faulthandler.
bpo-35560: Fix an assertion error in
format()
in debug build for floating-point formatting with “n” format, zero padding and small width. Release build is not impacted. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-35552: Format characters
%s
and%V
inPyUnicode_FromFormat()
and%s
inPyBytes_FromFormat()
no longer read memory past the limit if precision is specified.bpo-35504: Fix segfaults and
SystemError
s when deleting certain attributes. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-35504: Fixed a SystemError when delete the characters_written attribute of an OSError.
bpo-35494: Improved syntax error messages for unbalanced parentheses in f-string.
bpo-35444: Fixed error handling in pickling methods when fail to look up builtin “getattr”. Sped up pickling iterators.
bpo-35436: Fix various issues with memory allocation error handling. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-35423: Separate the signal handling trigger in the eval loop from the “pending calls” machinery. There is no semantic change and the difference in performance is insignificant.
bpo-35357: Internal attributes’ names of unittest.mock._Call and unittest.mock.MagicProxy (name, parent & from_kall) are now prefixed with _mock_ in order to prevent clashes with widely used object attributes. Fixed minor typo in test function name.
bpo-35372: Fixed the code page decoder for input longer than 2 GiB containing undecodable bytes.
bpo-35336: Fix PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=1 environment variable: only coerce the C locale if the LC_CTYPE locale is “C”.
bpo-31241: The lineno and col_offset attributes of AST nodes for list comprehensions, generator expressions and tuples are now point to the opening parenthesis or square brace. For tuples without parenthesis they point to the position of the first item.
bpo-33954: For
str.format()
,float.__format__()
andcomplex.__format__()
methods for non-ASCII decimal point when using the “n” formatter.bpo-35269: Fix a possible segfault involving a newly created coroutine. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-35224: Implement PEP 572 (assignment expressions). Patch by Emily Morehouse.
bpo-32492: Speed up
namedtuple()
attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path for the name descriptors. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-35214: Fixed an out of bounds memory access when parsing a truncated unicode escape sequence at the end of a string such as
'\N'
. It would read one byte beyond the end of the memory allocation.bpo-35214: The interpreter and extension modules have had annotations added so that they work properly under clang’s Memory Sanitizer. A new configure flag –with-memory-sanitizer has been added to make test builds of this nature easier to perform.
bpo-35193: Fix an off by one error in the bytecode peephole optimizer where it could read bytes beyond the end of bounds of an array when removing unreachable code. This bug was present in every release of Python 3.6 and 3.7 until now.
bpo-35169: Improved error messages for forbidden assignments.
bpo-34022: Fix handling of hash-based bytecode files in
zipimport
. Patch by Elvis Pranskevichus.bpo-28401: Debug builds will no longer to attempt to import extension modules built for the ABI as they were never compatible to begin with. Patch by Stefano Rivera.
bpo-29341: Clarify in the docstrings of
os
methods that path-like objects are also accepted as input parameters.bpo-35050:
socket
: Fix off-by-one bug in length check forAF_ALG
name and type.bpo-29743: Raise
ValueError
instead ofOverflowError
in case of a negative_length_
in actypes.Array
subclass. Also raiseTypeError
instead ofAttributeError
for non-integer_length_
. Original patch by Oren Milman.bpo-16806: Fix
lineno
andcol_offset
for multi-line string tokens.bpo-35029:
SyntaxWarning
raised as an exception at code generation time will be now replaced with aSyntaxError
for better error reporting.bpo-34983: Expose
symtable.Symbol.is_nonlocal()
in the symtable module. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-34974:
bytes
andbytearray
constructors no longer convert unexpected exceptions (e.g.MemoryError
andKeyboardInterrupt
) toTypeError
.bpo-34939: Allow annotated names in module namespace that are declared global before the annotation happens. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-34973: Fixed crash in
bytes()
when thelist
argument is mutated while it is iterated.bpo-34876: The lineno and col_offset attributes of the AST for decorated function and class refer now to the position of the corresponding
def
,async def
andclass
instead of the position of the first decorator. This leads to more correct line reporting in tracing. This is the only case when the position of child AST nodes can precede the position of the parent AST node.bpo-34879: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in bytesobject.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-34784: Fix the implementation of PyStructSequence_NewType in order to create heap allocated StructSequences.
bpo-32912: A
SyntaxWarning
is now emitted instead of aDeprecationWarning
for invalid escape sequences in string and bytes literals.bpo-34854: Fixed a crash in compiling string annotations containing a lambda with a keyword-only argument that doesn’t have a default value.
bpo-34850: The compiler now produces a
SyntaxWarning
when identity checks (is
andis not
) are used with certain types of literals (e.g. strings, ints). These can often work by accident in CPython, but are not guaranteed by the language spec. The warning advises users to use equality tests (==
and!=
) instead.bpo-34824: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in Modules/_ssl.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-30156: The C function
property_descr_get()
uses a “cached” tuple to optimize function calls. But this tuple can be discovered in debug mode withsys.getobjects()
. Remove the optimization, it’s not really worth it and it causes 3 different crashes last years.bpo-34762: Fix contextvars C API to use PyObject* pointer types.
bpo-34751: The hash function for tuples is now based on xxHash which gives better collision results on (formerly) pathological cases. Additionally, on 64-bit systems it improves tuple hashes in general. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer with substantial contributions by Tim Peters.
bpo-34735: Fix a memory leak in Modules/timemodule.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-34683: Fixed a bug where some SyntaxError error pointed to locations that were off-by-one.
bpo-34651: Only allow the main interpreter to fork. The avoids the possibility of affecting the main interpreter, which is critical to operation of the runtime.
bpo-34653: Remove unused function PyParser_SimpleParseStringFilename.
bpo-32236: Warn that line buffering is not supported if
open()
is called with binary mode andbuffering=1
.bpo-34641: Further restrict the syntax of the left-hand side of keyword arguments in function calls. In particular,
f((keyword)=arg)
is now disallowed.bpo-34637: Make the start argument to sum() visible as a keyword argument.
bpo-1621: Do not assume signed integer overflow behavior (C undefined behavior) when performing set hash table resizing.
bpo-34588: Fix an off-by-one in the recursive call pruning feature of traceback formatting.
bpo-34485: On Windows, the LC_CTYPE is now set to the user preferred locale at startup. Previously, the LC_CTYPE locale was “C” at startup, but changed when calling setlocale(LC_CTYPE, “”) or setlocale(LC_ALL, “”).
bpo-34485: Standard streams like sys.stdout now use the “surrogateescape” error handler, instead of “strict”, on the POSIX locale (when the C locale is not coerced and the UTF-8 Mode is disabled).
bpo-34485: Fix the error handler of standard streams like sys.stdout: PYTHONIOENCODING=”:” is now ignored instead of setting the error handler to “strict”.
bpo-34485: Python now gets the locale encoding with C code to initialize the encoding of standard streams like sys.stdout. Moreover, the encoding is now initialized to the Python codec name to get a normalized encoding name and to ensure that the codec is loaded. The change avoids importing _bootlocale and _locale modules at startup by default.
bpo-34527: On FreeBSD, Py_DecodeLocale() and Py_EncodeLocale() now also forces the ASCII encoding if the LC_CTYPE locale is “POSIX”, not only if the LC_CTYPE locale is “C”.
bpo-34527: The UTF-8 Mode is now also enabled by the “POSIX” locale, not only by the “C” locale.
bpo-34403: On HP-UX with C or POSIX locale, sys.getfilesystemencoding() now returns “ascii” instead of “roman8” (when the UTF-8 Mode is disabled and the C locale is not coerced).
bpo-34523: The Python filesystem encoding is now read earlier during the Python initialization.
bpo-12458: Tracebacks show now correct line number for subexpressions in multiline expressions. Tracebacks show now the line number of the first line for multiline expressions instead of the line number of the last subexpression.
bpo-34408: Prevent a null pointer dereference and resource leakage in
PyInterpreterState_New()
.bpo-34400: Fix undefined behavior in parsetok.c. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-33073: Added as_integer_ratio to ints to make them more interoperable with floats.
bpo-34377: Update valgrind suppression list to use
_PyObject_Free
/_PyObject_Realloc
instead ofPyObject_Free
/PyObject_Realloc
.bpo-34353: Added the “socket” option in the
stat.filemode()
Python implementation to match the C implementation.bpo-34320: Fix
dict(od)
didn’t copy iteration order of OrderedDict.bpo-34113: Fixed crash on debug builds when opcode stack was adjusted with negative numbers. Patch by Constantin Petrisor.
bpo-34100: Compiler now merges constants in tuples and frozensets recursively. Code attributes like
co_names
are merged too.bpo-34151: Performance of list concatenation, repetition and slicing operations is slightly improved. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
bpo-34170: -X dev: it is now possible to override the memory allocator using PYTHONMALLOC even if the developer mode is enabled.
bpo-33237: Improved
AttributeError
message for partially initialized module.bpo-34149: Fix min and max functions to get default behavior when key is None.
bpo-34125: Profiling of unbound built-in methods now works when
**kwargs
is given.bpo-34141: Optimized pickling atomic types (None, bool, int, float, bytes, str).
bpo-34126: Fix crashes when profiling certain invalid calls of unbound methods. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.
bpo-24618: Fixed reading invalid memory when create the code object with too small varnames tuple or too large argument counts.
bpo-34068: In
io.IOBase.close()
, ensure that theclosed
attribute is not set with a live exception. Patch by Zackery Spytz and Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-34087: Fix buffer overflow while converting unicode to numeric values.
bpo-34080: Fixed a memory leak in the compiler when it raised some uncommon errors during tokenizing.
bpo-34066: Disabled interruption by Ctrl-C between calling
open()
and entering a with block inwith open()
.bpo-34042: Fix dict.copy() to maintain correct total refcount (as reported by sys.gettotalrefcount()).
bpo-33418: Fix potential memory leak in function object when it creates reference cycle.
bpo-33985: Implement contextvars.ContextVar.name attribute.
bpo-33956: Update vendored Expat library copy to version 2.2.5.
bpo-24596: Decref the module object in
PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()
before callingPyErr_Print()
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-33451: Close directly executed pyc files before calling
PyEval_EvalCode()
.bpo-1617161: The hash of
BuiltinMethodType
instances (methods of built-in classes) now depends on the hash of the identity of __self__ instead of its value. The hash and equality ofModuleType
andMethodWrapperType
instances (methods of user-defined classes and some methods of built-in classes likestr.__add__
) now depend on the hash and equality of the identity of __self__ instead of its value.MethodWrapperType
instances no longer support ordering.bpo-33824: Fix “LC_ALL=C python3.7 -V”: reset properly the command line parser when the encoding changes after reading the Python configuration.
bpo-33803: Fix a crash in hamt.c caused by enabling GC tracking for an object that hadn’t all of its fields set to NULL.
bpo-33738: Seven macro incompatibilities with the Limited API were fixed, and the macros
PyIter_Check()
,PyIndex_Check()
andPyExceptionClass_Name()
were added as functions. A script for automatic macro checks was added.bpo-33786: Fix asynchronous generators to handle GeneratorExit in athrow() correctly
bpo-30167:
PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags
removes__cached__
from module in addition to__file__
.bpo-33706: Fix a crash in Python initialization when parsing the command line options. Thanks Christoph Gohlke for the bug report and the fix!
bpo-33597: Reduce
PyGC_Head
size from 3 words to 2 words.bpo-30654: Fixed reset of the SIGINT handler to SIG_DFL on interpreter shutdown even when there was a custom handler set previously. Patch by Philipp Kerling.
bpo-33622: Fixed a leak when the garbage collector fails to add an object with the
__del__
method or referenced by it into thegc.garbage
list.PyGC_Collect()
can now be called when an exception is set and preserves it.bpo-33462: Make dict and dict views reversible. Patch by Rémi Lapeyre.
bpo-23722: A
RuntimeError
is now raised when the custom metaclass doesn’t provide the__classcell__
entry in the namespace passed totype.__new__
. ADeprecationWarning
was emitted in Python 3.6–3.7.bpo-33499: Add
PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX
environment variable and-X
pycache_prefix
command-line option to set an alternate root directory for writing module bytecode cache files.bpo-25711: The
zipimport
module has been rewritten in pure Python.bpo-33509: Fix module_globals parameter of warnings.warn_explicit(): don’t crash if module_globals is not a dict.
bpo-31849: Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c.
bpo-33475: Fixed miscellaneous bugs in converting annotations to strings and optimized parentheses in the string representation.
bpo-20104: Added support for the
setpgroup
,resetids
,setsigmask
,setsigdef
andscheduler
parameters ofposix_spawn
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-33391: Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference().
bpo-33363: Raise a SyntaxError for
async with
andasync for
statements outside of async functions.bpo-28055: Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). Patch by Rolf Eike Beer.
bpo-33128: Fix a bug that causes PathFinder to appear twice on sys.meta_path. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
bpo-33331: Modules imported last are now cleared first at interpreter shutdown.
bpo-33312: Fixed clang ubsan (undefined behavior sanitizer) warnings in dictobject.c by adjusting how the internal struct _dictkeysobject shared keys structure is declared.
bpo-33305: Improved syntax error messages for invalid numerical literals.
bpo-33306: Improved syntax error messages for unbalanced parentheses.
bpo-33234: The list constructor will pre-size and not over-allocate when the input length is known.
bpo-33270: Intern the names for all anonymous code objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-30455: The C and Python code and the documentation related to tokens are now generated from a single source file
Grammar/Tokens
.bpo-33176: Add a
toreadonly()
method to memoryviews.bpo-33231: Fix potential memory leak in
normalizestring()
.bpo-33205: Change dict growth function from
round_up_to_power_2(used*2+hashtable_size/2)
toround_up_to_power_2(used*3)
. Previously, dict is shrinked only whenused == 0
. Now dict has more chance to be shrinked.bpo-29922: Improved error messages in ‘async with’ when
__aenter__()
or__aexit__()
return non-awaitable object.bpo-33199: Fix
ma_version_tag
in dict implementation is uninitialized when copying from key-sharing dict.bpo-33053: When using the -m switch, sys.path[0] is now explicitly expanded as the starting working directory, rather than being left as the empty path (which allows imports from the current working directory at the time of the import)
bpo-33138: Changed standard error message for non-pickleable and non-copyable types. It now says “cannot pickle” instead of “can’t pickle” or “cannot serialize”.
bpo-33018: Improve consistency of errors raised by
issubclass()
when called with a non-class and an abstract base class as the first and second arguments, respectively. Patch by Josh Bronson.bpo-33083:
math.factorial
no longer accepts arguments that are not int-like. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-33041: Added new opcode
END_ASYNC_FOR
and fixes the following issues:Setting global
StopAsyncIteration
no longer breaksasync for
loops.Jumping into an
async for
loop is now disabled.Jumping out of an
async for
loop no longer corrupts the stack.
bpo-25750: Fix rare Python crash due to bad refcounting in
type_getattro()
if a descriptor deletes itself from the class. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.bpo-33041: Fixed bytecode generation for “async for” with a complex target. A StopAsyncIteration raised on assigning or unpacking will be now propagated instead of stopping the iteration.
bpo-33026: Fixed jumping out of “with” block by setting f_lineno.
bpo-33005: Fix a crash on fork when using a custom memory allocator (ex: using PYTHONMALLOC env var). _PyGILState_Reinit() and _PyInterpreterState_Enable() now use the default RAW memory allocator to allocate a new interpreters mutex on fork.
bpo-32911: Due to unexpected compatibility issues discovered during downstream beta testing, reverted bpo-29463.
docstring
field is removed from Module, ClassDef, FunctionDef, and AsyncFunctionDef ast nodes which was added in 3.7a1. Docstring expression is restored as a first statement in their body. Based on patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-17288: Prevent jumps from ‘return’ and ‘exception’ trace events.
bpo-32946: Importing names from already imported module with “from … import …” is now 30% faster if the module is not a package.
bpo-32932: Make error message more revealing when there are non-str objects in
__all__
.bpo-32925: Optimized iterating and containing test for literal lists consisting of non-constants:
x in [a, b]
andfor x in [a, b]
. The case of all constant elements already was optimized.bpo-32889: Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG
toaddress_in_range
.bpo-32836: Don’t use temporary variables in cases of list/dict/set comprehensions
bpo-31356: Remove the new API added in bpo-31356 (gc.ensure_disabled() context manager).
bpo-32305: For namespace packages, ensure that both
__file__
and__spec__.origin
are set to None.bpo-32303: Make sure
__spec__.loader
matches__loader__
for namespace packages.bpo-32711: Fix the warning messages for Python/ast_unparse.c. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-32583: Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write out-of-bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.
bpo-32489: A
continue
statement is now allowed in thefinally
clause.bpo-17611: Simplified the interpreter loop by moving the logic of unrolling the stack of blocks into the compiler. The compiler emits now explicit instructions for adjusting the stack of values and calling the cleaning up code for
break
,continue
andreturn
.Removed opcodes
BREAK_LOOP
,CONTINUE_LOOP
,SETUP_LOOP
andSETUP_EXCEPT
. Added new opcodesROT_FOUR
,BEGIN_FINALLY
andCALL_FINALLY
andPOP_FINALLY
. Changed the behavior ofEND_FINALLY
andWITH_CLEANUP_START
.bpo-32285: New function unicodedata.is_normalized, which can check whether a string is in a specific normal form.
bpo-10544: Yield expressions are now disallowed in comprehensions and generator expressions except the expression for the outermost iterable.
bpo-32117: Iterable unpacking is now allowed without parentheses in yield and return statements, e.g.
yield 1, 2, 3, *rest
. Thanks to David Cuthbert for the change and Jordan Chapman for added tests.bpo-31902: Fix the
col_offset
attribute for ast nodesast.AsyncFor
,ast.AsyncFunctionDef
, andast.AsyncWith
. Previously,col_offset
pointed to the keyword afterasync
.bpo-25862: Fix assertion failures in the
tell()
method ofio.TextIOWrapper
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-21983: Fix a crash in
ctypes.cast()
in case the type argument is a ctypes structured data type. Patch by Eryk Sun and Oren Milman.bpo-31577: Fix a crash in
os.utime()
in case of a bad ns argument. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-29832: Remove references to ‘getsockaddrarg’ from various socket error messages. Patch by Oren Milman.
Library¶
bpo-35845: Add ‘order’ parameter to memoryview.tobytes().
bpo-35864: The _asdict() method for collections.namedtuple now returns a regular dict instead of an OrderedDict.
bpo-35537: An ExitStack is now used internally within subprocess.Popen to clean up pipe file handles. No behavior change in normal operation. But if closing one handle were ever to cause an exception, the others will now be closed instead of leaked. (patch by Giampaolo Rodola)
bpo-35847: RISC-V needed the CTYPES_PASS_BY_REF_HACK. Fixes ctypes Structure test_pass_by_value.
bpo-35813: Shared memory submodule added to multiprocessing to avoid need for serialization between processes
bpo-35780: Fix lru_cache() errors arising in recursive, reentrant, or multi-threaded code. These errors could result in orphan links and in the cache being trapped in a state with fewer than the specified maximum number of links. Fix handling of negative maxsize which should have been treated as zero. Fix errors in toggling the “full” status flag. Fix misordering of links when errors are encountered. Sync-up the C code and pure Python code for the space saving path in functions with a single positional argument. In this common case, the space overhead of an lru cache entry is reduced by almost half. Fix counting of cache misses. In error cases, the miss count was out of sync with the actual number of times the underlying user function was called.
bpo-35537:
os.posix_spawn()
andos.posix_spawnp()
now have a setsid parameter.bpo-23846:
asyncio.ProactorEventLoop
now catches and logs send errors when the self-pipe is full.bpo-34323:
asyncio
: EnhanceIocpProactor.close()
log: wait 1 second before the first log, then log every second. Log also the number of seconds sinceclose()
was called.bpo-35674: Add a new
os.posix_spawnp()
function. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.bpo-35733:
ast.Constant(boolean)
no longer an instance ofast.Num
. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35726: QueueHandler.prepare() now makes a copy of the record before modifying and enqueueing it, to avoid affecting other handlers in the chain.
bpo-35719: Sped up multi-argument
math
functions atan2(), copysign(), remainder() and hypot() by 1.3–2.5 times.bpo-35717: Fix KeyError exception raised when using enums and compile. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
bpo-35699: Fixed detection of Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 in distutils
bpo-32710: Fix memory leaks in asyncio ProactorEventLoop on overlapped operation failure.
bpo-35702: The
time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW
constant is now available for macOS 10.12.bpo-32710: Fix a memory leak in asyncio in the ProactorEventLoop when
ReadFile()
orWSASend()
overlapped operation fail immediately: release the internal buffer.bpo-35682: Fix
asyncio.ProactorEventLoop.sendfile()
: don’t attempt to set the result of an internal future if it’s already done.bpo-35283: Add a deprecated warning for the
threading.Thread.isAlive()
method. Patch by Donghee Na.bpo-35664: Improve operator.itemgetter() performance by 33% with optimized argument handling and with adding a fast path for the common case of a single non-negative integer index into a tuple (which is the typical use case in the standard library).
bpo-35643: Fixed a SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence in Modules/_sha3/cleanup.py. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.
bpo-35619: Improved support of custom data descriptors in
help()
andpydoc
.bpo-28503: The
crypt
module now internally uses thecrypt_r()
library function instead ofcrypt()
when available.bpo-35614: Fixed help() on metaclasses. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-35568: Expose
raise(signum)
asraise_signal
bpo-35588: The floor division and modulo operations and the
divmod()
function onfractions.Fraction
types are 2–4x faster. Patch by Stefan Behnel.bpo-35585: Speed-up building enums by value, e.g. http.HTTPStatus(200).
bpo-30561: random.gammavariate(1.0, beta) now computes the same result as random.expovariate(1.0 / beta). This synchronizes the two algorithms and eliminates some idiosyncrasies in the old implementation. It does however produce a difference stream of random variables than it used to.
bpo-35537: The
subprocess
module can now use theos.posix_spawn()
function in some cases for better performance.bpo-35526: Delaying the ‘joke’ of barry_as_FLUFL.mandatory to Python version 4.0
bpo-35523: Remove
ctypes
callback workaround: no longer create a callback at startup. Avoid SELinux alert onimport ctypes
andimport uuid
.bpo-31784:
uuid.uuid1()
now callstime.time_ns()
rather thanint(time.time() * 1e9)
.bpo-35513:
TextTestRunner
ofunittest.runner
now usestime.perf_counter()
rather thantime.time()
to measure the execution time of a test:time.time()
can go backwards, whereastime.perf_counter()
is monotonic.bpo-35502: Fixed reference leaks in
xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder
in case of unfinished building of the tree (in particular when an error was raised during parsing XML).bpo-35348: Make
platform.architecture()
parsing offile
command output more reliable: add the-b
option to thefile
command to omit the filename, force the usage of the C locale, and search also the “shared object” pattern.bpo-35491:
multiprocessing
: AddPool.__repr__()
and enhanceBaseProcess.__repr__()
(add pid and parent pid) to ease debugging. Pool state constant values are now strings instead of integers, for exampleRUN
value becomes'RUN'
instead of0
.bpo-35477:
multiprocessing.Pool.__enter__()
now fails if the pool is not running:with pool:
fails if used more than once.bpo-31446: Copy command line that was passed to CreateProcessW since this function can change the content of the input buffer.
bpo-35471: Python 2.4 dropped MacOS 9 support. The macpath module was deprecated in Python 3.7. The module is now removed.
bpo-23057: Unblock Proactor event loop when keyboard interrupt is received on Windows
bpo-35052: Fix xml.dom.minidom cloneNode() on a document with an entity: pass the correct arguments to the user data handler of an entity.
bpo-20239: Allow repeated assignment deletion of
unittest.mock.Mock
attributes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-17185: Set
__signature__
on mock forinspect
to get signature. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.bpo-35445: Memory errors during creating posix.environ no longer ignored.
bpo-35415: Validate fileno= argument to socket.socket().
bpo-35424:
multiprocessing.Pool
destructor now emitsResourceWarning
if the pool is still running.bpo-35330: When a
Mock
instance was used to wrap an object, ifside_effect
is used in one of the mocks of it methods, don’t call the original implementation and return the result of using the side effect the same way that it is done with return_value.bpo-35346: Drop Mac OS 9 and Rhapsody support from the
platform
module. Rhapsody last release was in 2000. Mac OS 9 last release was in 2001.bpo-10496:
check_environ()
ofdistutils.utils
now catchesKeyError
on callingpwd.getpwuid()
: don’t create theHOME
environment variable in this case.bpo-10496:
posixpath.expanduser()
now returns the input path unchanged if theHOME
environment variable is not set and the current user has no home directory (if the current user identifier doesn’t exist in the password database). This change fix thesite
module if the current user doesn’t exist in the password database (if the user has no home directory).bpo-35389:
platform.libc_ver()
now usesos.confstr('CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION')
if available and the executable parameter is not set.bpo-35394: Add empty slots to asyncio abstract protocols.
bpo-35310: Fix a bug in
select.select()
where, in some cases, the file descriptor sequences were returned unmodified after a signal interruption, even though the file descriptors might not be ready yet.select.select()
will now always return empty lists if a timeout has occurred. Patch by Oran Avraham.bpo-35380: Enable TCP_NODELAY on Windows for proactor asyncio event loop.
bpo-35341: Add generic version of
collections.OrderedDict
to thetyping
module. Patch by Ismo Toijala.bpo-35371: Fixed possible crash in
os.utime()
on Windows when pass incorrect arguments.bpo-35346:
platform.uname()
now redirectsstderr
toos.devnull
when running external programs likecmd /c ver
.bpo-35066: Previously, calling the strftime() method on a datetime object with a trailing ‘%’ in the format string would result in an exception. However, this only occurred when the datetime C module was being used; the python implementation did not match this behavior. Datetime is now PEP-399 compliant, and will not throw an exception on a trailing ‘%’.
bpo-35345: The function
platform.popen
has been removed, it was deprecated since Python 3.3: useos.popen()
instead.bpo-35344: On macOS,
platform.platform()
now usesplatform.mac_ver()
, if it returns a non-empty release string, to get the macOS version rather than the darwin version.bpo-35312: Make
lib2to3.pgen2.parse.ParseError
round-trip pickle-able. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-35308: Fix regression in
webbrowser
where default browsers may be preferred over browsers in theBROWSER
environment variable.bpo-24746: Avoid stripping trailing whitespace in doctest fancy diff. Original patch by R. David Murray & Jairo Trad. Enhanced by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-28604:
locale.localeconv()
now sets temporarily theLC_CTYPE
locale to theLC_MONETARY
locale if the two locales are different and monetary strings are non-ASCII. This temporary change affects other threads.bpo-35277: Update ensurepip to install pip 18.1 and setuptools 40.6.2.
bpo-24209: Adds IPv6 support when invoking http.server directly.
bpo-35226: Recursively check arguments when testing for equality of
unittest.mock.call
objects and add note that tracking of parameters used to create ancestors of mocks inmock_calls
is not possible.bpo-29564: The warnings module now suggests to enable tracemalloc if the source is specified, the tracemalloc module is available, but tracemalloc is not tracing memory allocations.
bpo-35189: Modify the following fnctl function to retry if interrupted by a signal (EINTR): flock, lockf, fnctl
bpo-30064: Use add_done_callback() in sock_* asyncio API to unsubscribe reader/writer early on calcellation.
bpo-35186: Removed the “built with” comment added when
setup.py upload
is used with eitherbdist_rpm
orbdist_dumb
.bpo-35152: Allow sending more than 2 GB at once on a multiprocessing connection on non-Windows systems.
bpo-35062: Fix incorrect parsing of
io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder
’s translate argument.bpo-35065: Remove
StreamReaderProtocol._untrack_reader
. The call to_untrack_reader
is currently performed too soon, causing the protocol to forget about the reader beforeconnection_lost
can run and feed the EOF to the reader.bpo-34160: ElementTree and minidom now preserve the attribute order specified by the user.
bpo-35079: Improve difflib.SequenceManager.get_matching_blocks doc by adding ‘non-overlapping’ and changing ‘!=’ to ‘<’.
bpo-33710: Deprecated
l*gettext()
functions and methods in thegettext
module. They return encoded bytes instead of Unicode strings and are artifacts from Python 2 times. Also deprecated functions and methods related to setting the charset forl*gettext()
functions and methods.bpo-35017:
socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever()
now exits immediately if it’sshutdown()
method is called while it is polling for new events.bpo-35024:
importlib
no longer logswrote <bytecode path>
redundantly after(created|could not create) <bytecode path>
is already logged. Patch by Quentin Agren.bpo-35047:
unittest.mock
now includes mock calls in exception messages ifassert_not_called
,assert_called_once
, orassert_called_once_with
fails. Patch by Petter Strandmark.bpo-31047: Fix
ntpath.abspath
regression where it didn’t remove a trailing separator on Windows. Patch by Tim Graham.bpo-35053: tracemalloc now tries to update the traceback when an object is reused from a “free list” (optimization for faster object creation, used by the builtin list type for example).
bpo-31553: Add the –json-lines option to json.tool. Patch by hongweipeng.
bpo-34794: Fixed a leak in Tkinter when pass the Python wrapper around Tcl_Obj back to Tcl/Tk.
bpo-34909: Enum: fix grandchildren subclassing when parent mixed with concrete data types.
bpo-35022:
unittest.mock.MagicMock
now supports the__fspath__
method (fromos.PathLike
).bpo-35008: Fixed references leaks when call the
__setstate__()
method ofxml.etree.ElementTree.Element
in the C implementation for already initialized element.bpo-23420: Verify the value for the parameter ‘-s’ of the cProfile CLI. Patch by Robert Kuska
bpo-33947: dataclasses now handle recursive reprs without raising RecursionError.
bpo-34890: Make
inspect.iscoroutinefunction()
,inspect.isgeneratorfunction()
andinspect.isasyncgenfunction()
work withfunctools.partial()
. Patch by Pablo Galindo.bpo-34521: Use
socket.CMSG_SPACE()
to calculate ancillary data size instead ofsocket.CMSG_LEN()
inmultiprocessing.reduction.recvfds()
as RFC 3542 requires the use of the former for portable applications.bpo-31522: The
mailbox.mbox.get_string
function from_ parameter can now successfully be set to a non-default value.bpo-34970: Protect tasks weak set manipulation in
asyncio.all_tasks()
bpo-34969: gzip: Add –fast, –best on the gzip CLI, these parameters will be used for the fast compression method (quick) or the best method compress (slower, but smaller file). Also, change the default compression level to 6 (tradeoff).
bpo-16965: The 2to3
execfile
fixer now opens the file with mode'rb'
. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-34966:
pydoc
now supports aliases not only to methods defined in the end class, but also to inherited methods. The docstring is not duplicated for aliases.bpo-34926:
mimetypes.MimeTypes.guess_type()
now accepts path-like object in addition to url strings. Patch by Mayank Asthana.bpo-23831: Add
moveto()
method to thetkinter.Canvas
widget. Patch by Juliette Monsel.bpo-34941: Methods
find()
,findtext()
andfindall()
of theElement
class in thexml.etree.ElementTree
module are now able to find children which are instances ofElement
subclasses.bpo-32680:
smtplib.SMTP
objects now always have asock
attribute presentbpo-34769: Fix for async generators not finalizing when event loop is in debug mode and garbage collector runs in another thread.
bpo-34936: Fix
TclError
intkinter.Spinbox.selection_element()
. Patch by Juliette Monsel.bpo-34829: Add methods
selection_from
,selection_range
,selection_present
andselection_to
to thetkinter.Spinbox
for consistency with thetkinter.Entry
widget. Patch by Juliette Monsel.bpo-34911: Added secure_protocols argument to http.cookiejar.DefaultCookiePolicy to allow for tweaking of protocols and also to add support by default for wss, the secure websocket protocol.
bpo-34922: Fixed integer overflow in the
digest()
andhexdigest()
methods for the SHAKE algorithm in thehashlib
module.bpo-34925: 25% speedup in argument parsing for the functions in the bisect module.
bpo-34900: Fixed
unittest.TestCase.debug()
when used to call test methods with subtests. Patch by Bruno Oliveira.bpo-34844: logging.Formatter enhancement - Ensure styles and fmt matches in logging.Formatter - Added validate method in each format style class: StrFormatStyle, PercentStyle, StringTemplateStyle. - This method is called in the constructor of logging.Formatter class - Also re-raise the KeyError in the format method of each style class, so it would a bit clear that it’s an error with the invalid format fields.
bpo-34897: Adjust test.support.missing_compiler_executable check so that a nominal command name of “” is ignored. Patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-34871: Fix inspect module polluted
sys.modules
when parsing__text_signature__
of callable.bpo-34898: Add
mtime
argument togzip.compress
for reproducible output. Patch by Guo Ci Teo.bpo-28441: On Cygwin and MinGW, ensure that
sys.executable
always includes the full filename in the path, including the.exe
suffix (unless it is a symbolic link).bpo-34866: Adding
max_num_fields
tocgi.FieldStorage
to make DOS attacks harder by limiting the number ofMiniFieldStorage
objects created byFieldStorage
.bpo-34711: http.server ensures it reports HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND when the local path ends with “/” and is not a directory, even if the underlying OS (e.g. AIX) accepts such paths as a valid file reference. Patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-34872: Fix self-cancellation in C implementation of asyncio.Task
bpo-34849: Don’t log waiting for
selector.select
in asyncio loop iteration. The waiting is pretty normal for any asyncio program, logging its time just adds a noise to logs without any useful information provided.bpo-34022: The
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable no longer overrides the value of the invalidation_mode argument topy_compile.compile()
, and determines its default value instead.bpo-34819: Use a monotonic clock to compute timeouts in
Executor.map()
andas_completed()
, in order to prevent timeouts from deviating when the system clock is adjusted.bpo-34758: Add .wasm -> application/wasm to list of recognized file types and content type headers
bpo-34789:
xml.sax.make_parser()
now accepts any iterable as its parser_list argument. Patch by Andrés Delfino.bpo-34334: In
QueueHandler
, clearexc_text
fromLogRecord
to prevent traceback from being written twice.bpo-34687: On Windows, asyncio now uses ProactorEventLoop, instead of SelectorEventLoop, by default.
bpo-5950: Support reading zip files with archive comments in
zipimport
.bpo-32892: The parser now represents all constants as
ast.Constant
instead of using specific constant AST types (Num
,Str
,Bytes
,NameConstant
andEllipsis
). These classes are considered deprecated and will be removed in future Python versions.bpo-34728: Add deprecation warning when
loop
is used in methods:asyncio.sleep
,asyncio.wait
andasyncio.wait_for
.bpo-34738: ZIP files created by
distutils
will now include entries for directories.bpo-34659: Add an optional initial argument to itertools.accumulate().
bpo-29577: Support multiple mixin classes when creating Enums.
bpo-34670: Add SSLContext.post_handshake_auth and SSLSocket.verify_client_post_handshake for TLS 1.3’s post handshake authentication feature.
bpo-32718: The Activate.ps1 script from venv works with PowerShell Core 6.1 and is now available under all operating systems.
bpo-31177: Fix bug that prevented using
reset_mock
on mock instances with deleted attributesbpo-34672: Add a workaround, so the
'Z'
time.strftime()
specifier on the musl C library can work in some cases.bpo-34666: Implement
asyncio.StreamWriter.awrite
andasyncio.StreamWriter.aclose()
coroutines. Methods are needed for providing a consistent stream API with control flow switched on by default.bpo-6721: Acquire the logging module’s commonly used internal locks while fork()ing to avoid deadlocks in the child process.
bpo-34658: Fix a rare interpreter unhandled exception state SystemError only seen when using subprocess with a preexec_fn while an after_parent handler has been registered with os.register_at_fork and the fork system call fails.
bpo-34652: Ensure
os.lchmod()
is never defined on Linux.bpo-34638: Store a weak reference to stream reader to break strong references loop between reader and protocol. It allows to detect and close the socket if the stream is deleted (garbage collected) without
close()
call.bpo-34536:
Enum._missing_
: raiseValueError
if None returned andTypeError
if non-member is returned.bpo-34636: Speed up re scanning of many non-matching characters for s w and d within bytes objects. (microoptimization)
bpo-24412: Add
addModuleCleanup()
andaddClassCleanup()
to unittest to support cleanups forsetUpModule()
andsetUpClass()
. Patch by Lisa Roach.bpo-34630: Don’t log SSL certificate errors in asyncio code (connection error logging is skipped already).
bpo-32490: Prevent filename duplication in
subprocess
exception messages. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-34363: dataclasses.asdict() and .astuple() now handle namedtuples correctly.
bpo-34625: Update vendorized expat library version to 2.2.6.
bpo-32270: The subprocess module no longer mistakenly closes redirected fds even when they were in pass_fds when outside of the default {0, 1, 2} set.
bpo-34622: Create a dedicated
asyncio.CancelledError
,asyncio.InvalidStateError
andasyncio.TimeoutError
exception classes. Inherit them from corresponding exceptions fromconcurrent.futures
package. Extractasyncio
exceptions into a separate file.bpo-34610: Fixed iterator of
multiprocessing.managers.DictProxy
.bpo-34421: Fix distutils logging for non-ASCII strings. This caused installation issues on Windows.
bpo-34604: Fix possible mojibake in the error message of
pwd.getpwnam
andgrp.getgrnam
using string representation because of invisible characters or trailing whitespaces. Patch by William Grzybowski.bpo-30977: Make uuid.UUID use
__slots__
to reduce its memory footprint. Based on original patch by Wouter Bolsterlee.bpo-34574: OrderedDict iterators are not exhausted during pickling anymore. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
bpo-8110: Refactored
subprocess
to check for Windows-specific modules rather thansys.platform == 'win32'
.bpo-34530:
distutils.spawn.find_executable()
now falls back onos.defpath
if thePATH
environment variable is not set.bpo-34563: On Windows, fix multiprocessing.Connection for very large read: fix _winapi.PeekNamedPipe() and _winapi.ReadFile() for read larger than INT_MAX (usually
2**31-1
).bpo-34558: Correct typo in Lib/ctypes/_aix.py
bpo-34282: Move
Enum._convert
toEnumMeta._convert_
and fix enum members getting shadowed by parent attributes.bpo-22872: When the queue is closed,
ValueError
is now raised bymultiprocessing.Queue.put()
andmultiprocessing.Queue.get()
instead ofAssertionError
andOSError
, respectively. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-34515: Fix parsing non-ASCII identifiers in
lib2to3.pgen2.tokenize
(PEP 3131).bpo-13312: Avoids a possible integer underflow (undefined behavior) in the time module’s year handling code when passed a very low negative year value.
bpo-34472: Improved compatibility for streamed files in
zipfile
. Previously an optional signature was not being written and certain ZIP applications were not supported. Patch by Silas Sewell.bpo-34454: Fix the .fromisoformat() methods of datetime types crashing when given unicode with non-UTF-8-encodable code points. Specifically, datetime.fromisoformat() now accepts surrogate unicode code points used as the separator. Report and tests by Alexey Izbyshev, patch by Paul Ganssle.
bpo-6700: Fix inspect.getsourcelines for module level frames/tracebacks. Patch by Vladimir Matveev.
bpo-34171: Running the
trace
module no longer creates thetrace.cover
file.bpo-34441: Fix crash when an
ABC
-derived class with invalid__subclasses__
is passed as the second argument toissubclass()
. Patch by Alexey Izbyshev.bpo-34427: Fix infinite loop in
a.extend(a)
forMutableSequence
subclasses.bpo-34412: Make
signal.strsignal()
work on HP-UX. Patch by Michael Osipov.bpo-20849: shutil.copytree now accepts a new
dirs_exist_ok
keyword argument. Patch by Josh Bronson.bpo-31715: Associate
.mjs
file extension withapplication/javascript
MIME Type.bpo-34384:
os.readlink()
now accepts path-like andbytes
objects on Windows.bpo-22602: The UTF-7 decoder now raises
UnicodeDecodeError
for ill-formed sequences starting with “+” (as specified in RFC 2152). Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-2122: The
mmap.flush()
method now returnsNone
on success, raises an exception on error under all platforms.bpo-34341: Appending to the ZIP archive with the ZIP64 extension no longer grows the size of extra fields of existing entries.
bpo-34333: Fix %-formatting in
pathlib.PurePath.with_suffix()
when formatting an error message.bpo-18540: The
imaplib.IMAP4
andimaplib.IMAP4_SSL
classes now resolve to the local host IP correctly when the default value of host parameter (''
) is used.bpo-26502: Implement
traceback.FrameSummary.__len__()
method to preserve compatibility with the old tuple API.bpo-34318:
assertRaises()
,assertRaisesRegex()
,assertWarns()
andassertWarnsRegex()
no longer success if the passed callable is None. They no longer ignore unknown keyword arguments in the context manager mode. A DeprecationWarning was raised in these cases since Python 3.5.bpo-9372: Deprecate
__getitem__()
methods ofxml.dom.pulldom.DOMEventStream
,wsgiref.util.FileWrapper
andfileinput.FileInput
.bpo-33613: Fix a race condition in
multiprocessing.semaphore_tracker
when the tracker receives SIGINT before it can register signal handlers for ignoring it.bpo-34248: Report filename in the exception raised when the database file cannot be opened by
dbm.gnu.open()
anddbm.ndbm.open()
due to OS-related error. Patch by Zsolt Cserna.bpo-33089: Add math.dist() to compute the Euclidean distance between two points.
bpo-34246:
smtplib.SMTP.send_message()
no longer modifies the content of the mail_options argument. Patch by Pablo S. Blum de Aguiar.bpo-31047: Fix
ntpath.abspath
for invalid paths on windows. Patch by Franz Woellert.bpo-32321: Add pure Python fallback for functools.reduce. Patch by Robert Wright.
bpo-34270: The default asyncio task class now always has a name which can be get or set using two new methods (
get_name()
andset_name()
) and is visible in therepr()
output. An initial name can also be set using the newname
keyword argument toasyncio.create_task()
or thecreate_task()
method of the event loop. If no initial name is set, the default Task implementation generates a name likeTask-1
using a monotonic counter.bpo-34263: asyncio’s event loop will not pass timeouts longer than one day to epoll/select etc.
bpo-34035: Fix several AttributeError in zipfile seek() methods. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen.
bpo-32215: Fix performance regression in
sqlite3
when a DML statement appeared in a different line than the rest of the SQL query.bpo-34075: Deprecate passing non-ThreadPoolExecutor instances to
AbstractEventLoop.set_default_executor()
.bpo-34251: Restore
msilib.Win64
to preserve backwards compatibility since it’s already used bydistutils
’bdist_msi
command.bpo-19891: Ignore errors caused by missing / non-writable homedir while writing history during exit of an interactive session. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
bpo-33089: Enhanced math.hypot() to support more than two dimensions.
bpo-34228: tracemalloc: PYTHONTRACEMALLOC=0 environment variable and -X tracemalloc=0 command line option are now allowed to disable explicitly tracemalloc at startup.
bpo-13041: Use
shutil.get_terminal_size()
to calculate the terminal width correctly in theargparse.HelpFormatter
class. Initial patch by Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek.bpo-34213: Allow frozen dataclasses to have a field named “object”. Previously this conflicted with an internal use of “object”.
bpo-34052:
sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate()
,sqlite3.Connection.create_function()
,sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer()
,sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler()
methods raises TypeError when unhashable objects are passed as callable. These methods now don’t pass such objects to SQLite API. Previous behavior could lead to segfaults. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-34197: Attributes skipinitialspace, doublequote and strict of the dialect attribute of the
csv
reader are nowbool
instances instead of integers 0 or 1.bpo-32788: Errors other than
TypeError
raised in methods__adapt__()
and__conform__()
in thesqlite3
module are now propagated to the user.bpo-21446: The
reload
fixer now usesimportlib.reload()
instead of deprecatedimp.reload()
.bpo-940286: pydoc’s
Helper.showtopic()
method now prints the cross references of a topic correctly.bpo-34164:
base64.b32decode()
could raise UnboundLocalError or OverflowError for incorrect padding. Now it always raisesbase64.Error
in these cases.bpo-34097: ZipFile can zip files older than 1980-01-01 and newer than 2107-12-31 using a new
strict_timestamps
parameter at the cost of setting the timestamp to the limit.bpo-34108: Remove extraneous CR in 2to3 refactor.
bpo-34070: Make sure to only check if the handle is a tty, when opening a file with
buffering=-1
.bpo-27494: Reverted bpo-27494. 2to3 rejects now a trailing comma in generator expressions.
bpo-33967: functools.singledispatch now raises TypeError instead of IndexError when no positional arguments are passed.
bpo-34041: Add the parameter deterministic to the
sqlite3.Connection.create_function()
method. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-34056: Ensure the loader shim created by
imp.load_module
always returns bytes from itsget_data()
function. This fixes usingimp.load_module
with PEP 552 hash-based pycs.bpo-34054: The multiprocessing module now uses the monotonic clock
time.monotonic()
instead of the system clocktime.time()
to implement timeout.bpo-34043: Optimize tarfile uncompress performance about 15% when gzip is used.
bpo-34044:
subprocess.Popen
now copies the startupinfo argument to leave it unchanged: it will modify the copy, so that the sameSTARTUPINFO
object can be used multiple times.bpo-34010: Fixed a performance regression for reading streams with tarfile. The buffered read should use a list, instead of appending to a bytes object.
bpo-34019: webbrowser: Correct the arguments passed to Opera Browser when opening a new URL using the
webbrowser
module. Patch by Bumsik Kim.bpo-34003: csv.DictReader now creates dicts instead of OrderedDicts. Patch by Michael Selik.
bpo-33978: Closed existing logging handlers before reconfiguration via fileConfig and dictConfig. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-14117: Make minor tweaks to turtledemo. The ‘wikipedia’ example is now ‘rosette’, describing what it draws. The ‘penrose’ print output is reduced. The’1024’ output of ‘tree’ is eliminated.
bpo-33974: Fixed passing lists and tuples of strings containing special characters
"
,\
,{
,}
and\n
as options tottk
widgets.bpo-27500: Fix getaddrinfo to resolve IPv6 addresses correctly.
bpo-24567: Improve random.choices() to handle subnormal input weights that could occasionally trigger an IndexError.
bpo-33871: Fixed integer overflow in
os.readv()
,os.writev()
,os.preadv()
andos.pwritev()
and inos.sendfile()
with headers or trailers arguments (on BSD-based OSes and macOS).bpo-25007: Add
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
support to zlib compressors and decompressors. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-33929: multiprocessing: Fix a race condition in Popen of multiprocessing.popen_spawn_win32. The child process now duplicates the read end of pipe instead of “stealing” it. Previously, the read end of pipe was “stolen” by the child process, but it leaked a handle if the child process had been terminated before it could steal the handle from the parent process.
bpo-33899: Tokenize module now implicitly emits a NEWLINE when provided with input that does not have a trailing new line. This behavior now matches what the C tokenizer does internally. Contributed by Ammar Askar.
bpo-33897: Added a ‘force’ keyword argument to logging.basicConfig().
bpo-33695:
shutil.copytree()
usesos.scandir()
function and all copy functions depending from it use cachedos.stat()
values. The speedup for copying a directory with 8000 files is around +9% on Linux, +20% on Windows and + 30% on a Windows SMB share. Also the number ofos.stat()
syscalls is reduced by 38% makingshutil.copytree()
especially faster on network filesystems. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola’ in bpo-33695.)bpo-33916: bz2 and lzma: When Decompressor.__init__() is called twice, free the old lock to not leak memory.
bpo-32568: Make select.epoll() and its documentation consistent regarding sizehint and flags.
bpo-33833: Fixed bug in asyncio where ProactorSocketTransport logs AssertionError if force closed during write.
bpo-33663: Convert content length to string before putting to header.
bpo-33721:
os.path
functions that return a boolean result likeexists()
,lexists()
,isdir()
,isfile()
,islink()
, andismount()
, andpathlib.Path
methods that return a boolean result likeexists()
,is_dir()
,is_file()
,is_mount()
,is_symlink()
,is_block_device()
,is_char_device()
,is_fifo()
,is_socket()
now returnFalse
instead of raisingValueError
or its subclassesUnicodeEncodeError
andUnicodeDecodeError
for paths that contain characters or bytes unrepresentable at the OS level.bpo-26544: Fixed implementation of
platform.libc_ver()
. It almost always returned version ‘2.9’ for glibc.bpo-33843: Remove deprecated
cgi.escape
,cgi.parse_qs
andcgi.parse_qsl
.bpo-33842: Remove
tarfile.filemode
which is deprecated since Python 3.3.bpo-30167: Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber.
bpo-33805: Improve error message of dataclasses.replace() when an InitVar is not specified
bpo-33687: Fix the call to
os.chmod()
foruu.decode()
if a mode is given or decoded. Patch by Timo Furrer.bpo-33812: Datetime instance d with non-None tzinfo, but with d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) returning None is now treated as naive by the astimezone() method.
bpo-32108: In configparser, don’t clear section when it is assigned to itself.
bpo-27397: Make email module properly handle invalid-length base64 strings.
bpo-33578: Implement multibyte encoder/decoder state methods
bpo-30805: Avoid race condition with debug logging
bpo-33476: Fix _header_value_parser.py when address group is missing final ‘;’. Contributed by Enrique Perez-Terron
bpo-33694: asyncio: Fix a race condition causing data loss on pause_reading()/resume_reading() when using the ProactorEventLoop.
bpo-32493: Correct test for
uuid_enc_be
availability inconfigure.ac
. Patch by Michael Felt.bpo-33792: Add asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy and asyncio.WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy.
bpo-33274: W3C DOM Level 1 specifies return value of Element.removeAttributeNode() as “The Attr node that was removed.” xml.dom.minidom now complies with this requirement.
bpo-33778: Update
unicodedata
’s database to Unicode version 11.0.0.bpo-33165: Added a stacklevel parameter to logging calls to allow use of wrapper/helper functions for logging APIs.
bpo-33770: improve base64 exception message for encoded inputs of invalid length
bpo-33769: asyncio/start_tls: Fix error message; cancel callbacks in case of an unhandled error; mark SSLTransport as closed if it is aborted.
bpo-33767: The concatenation (
+
) and repetition (*
) sequence operations now raiseTypeError
instead ofSystemError
when performed onmmap.mmap
objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-33734: asyncio/ssl: Fix AttributeError, increase default handshake timeout
bpo-31014: Fixed creating a controller for
webbrowser
when a user specifies a path to an entry in the BROWSER environment variable. Based on patch by John Still.bpo-2504: Add gettext.pgettext() and variants.
bpo-33197: Add description property for _ParameterKind
bpo-32751: When cancelling the task due to a timeout,
asyncio.wait_for()
will now wait until the cancellation is complete.bpo-32684: Fix gather to propagate cancellation of itself even with return_exceptions.
bpo-33654: Support protocol type switching in SSLTransport.set_protocol().
bpo-33674: Pause the transport as early as possible to further reduce the risk of data_received() being called before connection_made().
bpo-33671:
shutil.copyfile()
,shutil.copy()
,shutil.copy2()
,shutil.copytree()
andshutil.move()
use platform-specific fast-copy syscalls on Linux and macOS in order to copy the file more efficiently. On Windowsshutil.copyfile()
uses a bigger default buffer size (1 MiB instead of 16 KiB) and amemoryview()
-based variant ofshutil.copyfileobj()
is used. The speedup for copying a 512MiB file is about +26% on Linux, +50% on macOS and +40% on Windows. Also, much less CPU cycles are consumed. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola’ in bpo-25427.)bpo-33674: Fix a race condition in SSLProtocol.connection_made() of asyncio.sslproto: start immediately the handshake instead of using call_soon(). Previously, data_received() could be called before the handshake started, causing the handshake to hang or fail.
bpo-31647: Fixed bug where calling write_eof() on a _SelectorSocketTransport after it’s already closed raises AttributeError.
bpo-32610: Make asyncio.all_tasks() return only pending tasks.
bpo-32410: Avoid blocking on file IO in sendfile fallback code
bpo-33469: Fix RuntimeError after closing loop that used run_in_executor
bpo-33672: Fix Task.__repr__ crash with Cython’s bogus coroutines
bpo-33654: Fix transport.set_protocol() to support switching between asyncio.Protocol and asyncio.BufferedProtocol. Fix loop.start_tls() to work with asyncio.BufferedProtocols.
bpo-33652: Pickles of type variables and subscripted generics are now future-proof and compatible with older Python versions.
bpo-32493: Fixed
uuid.uuid1()
on FreeBSD.bpo-33238: Add
InvalidStateError
toconcurrent.futures
.Future.set_result
andFuture.set_exception
now raiseInvalidStateError
if the futures are not pending or running. Patch by Jason Haydaman.bpo-33618: Finalize and document preliminary and experimental TLS 1.3 support with OpenSSL 1.1.1
bpo-33625: Release GIL on
grp.getgrnam
,grp.getgrgid
,pwd.getpwnam
andpwd.getpwuid
if reentrant variants of these functions are available. Patch by William Grzybowski.bpo-33623: Fix possible SIGSGV when asyncio.Future is created in __del__
bpo-11874: Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts. Avoids bogus assertion errors from custom metavar strings.
bpo-30877: Fixed a bug in the Python implementation of the JSON decoder that prevented the cache of parsed strings from clearing after finishing the decoding. Based on patch by c-fos.
bpo-33604: Remove HMAC default to md5 marked for removal in 3.8 (removal originally planned in 3.6, bump to 3.8 in PR 7062).
bpo-33582: Emit a deprecation warning for inspect.formatargspec
bpo-21145: Add
functools.cached_property
decorator, for computed properties cached for the life of the instance.bpo-33570: Change TLS 1.3 cipher suite settings for compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6 and newer. OpenSSL 1.1.1 will have TLS 1.3 ciphers enabled by default.
bpo-28556: Do not simplify arguments to
typing.Union
. NowUnion[Manager, Employee]
is not simplified toEmployee
at runtime. Such simplification previously caused several bugs and limited possibilities for introspection.bpo-12486:
tokenize.generate_tokens()
is now documented as a public API to tokenize unicode strings. It was previously present but undocumented.bpo-33540: Add a new
block_on_close
class attribute toForkingMixIn
andThreadingMixIn
classes ofsocketserver
.bpo-33548: tempfile._candidate_tempdir_list should consider common TEMP locations
bpo-33109: argparse subparsers are once again not required by default, reverting the change in behavior introduced by bpo-26510 in 3.7.0a2.
bpo-33541: Remove unused private method
_strptime.LocaleTime.__pad
(a.k.a._LocaleTime__pad
).bpo-33536: dataclasses.make_dataclass now checks for invalid field names and duplicate fields. Also, added a check for invalid field specifications.
bpo-33542: Prevent
uuid.get_node
from using a DUID instead of a MAC on Windows. Patch by Zvi Effronbpo-26819: Fix race condition with
ReadTransport.resume_reading
in Windows proactor event loop.Fix failure in
typing.get_type_hints()
when ClassVar was provided as a string forward reference.bpo-33516:
unittest.mock.MagicMock
now supports the__round__
magic method.bpo-28612: Added support for Site Maps to urllib’s
RobotFileParser
asRobotFileParser.site_maps()
. Patch by Lady Red, based on patch by Peter Wirtz.bpo-28167: Remove platform.linux_distribution, which was deprecated since 3.5.
bpo-33504: Switch the default dictionary implementation for
configparser
fromcollections.OrderedDict
to the standarddict
type.bpo-33505: Optimize asyncio.ensure_future() by reordering if checks: 1.17x faster.
bpo-33497: Add errors param to cgi.parse_multipart and make an encoding in FieldStorage use the given errors (needed for Twisted). Patch by Amber Brown.
bpo-29235: The
cProfile.Profile
class can now be used as a context manager. Patch by Scott Sanderson.bpo-33495: Change dataclasses.Fields repr to use the repr of each of its members, instead of str. This makes it more clear what each field actually represents. This is especially true for the ‘type’ member.
bpo-26103: Correct
inspect.isdatadescriptor
to look for__set__
or__delete__
. Patch by Aaron Hall.bpo-29209: Removed the
doctype()
method and the html parameter of the constructor ofXMLParser
. Thedoctype()
method defined in a subclass will no longer be called. Deprecated methodsgetchildren()
andgetiterator()
in theElementTree
module emit now aDeprecationWarning
instead ofPendingDeprecationWarning
.bpo-33453: Fix dataclasses to work if using literal string type annotations or if using PEP 563 “Postponed Evaluation of Annotations”. Only specific string prefixes are detected for both ClassVar (“ClassVar” and “typing.ClassVar”) and InitVar (“InitVar” and “dataclasses.InitVar”).
bpo-28556: Minor fixes in typing module: add annotations to
NamedTuple.__new__
, pass*args
and**kwds
inGeneric.__new__
. Original PRs by Paulius Šarka and Chad Dombrova.bpo-33365: Print the header values besides the header keys instead just the header keys if debuglevel is set to >0 in
http.client
. Patch by Marco Strigl.bpo-20087: Updated alias mapping with glibc 2.27 supported locales.
bpo-33422: Fix trailing quotation marks getting deleted when looking up byte/string literals on pydoc. Patch by Andrés Delfino.
bpo-28167: The function
platform.linux_distribution
andplatform.dist
now trigger aDeprecationWarning
and have been marked for removal in Python 3.8bpo-33281: Fix ctypes.util.find_library regression on macOS.
bpo-33311: Text and html output generated by cgitb does not display parentheses if the current call is done directly in the module. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.
bpo-27300: The file classes in tempfile now accept an errors parameter that complements the already existing encoding. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
bpo-32933:
unittest.mock.mock_open()
now supports iteration over the file contents. Patch by Tony Flury.bpo-33217: Raise
TypeError
when looking up non-Enum objects in Enum classes and Enum members.bpo-33197: Update error message when constructing invalid inspect.Parameters Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-33383: Fixed crash in the get() method of the
dbm.ndbm
database object when it is called with a single argument.bpo-33375: The warnings module now finds the Python file associated with a warning from the code object, rather than the frame’s global namespace. This is consistent with how tracebacks and pdb find filenames, and should work better for dynamically executed code.
bpo-33336:
imaplib
now allowsMOVE
command inIMAP4.uid()
(RFC 6851: IMAP MOVE Extension) and potentially as a name of supported method ofIMAP4
object.bpo-32455: Added jump parameter to
dis.stack_effect()
.bpo-27485: Rename and deprecate undocumented functions in
urllib.parse()
.bpo-33332: Add
signal.valid_signals()
to expose the POSIX sigfillset() functionality.bpo-33251:
ConfigParser.items()
was fixed so that key-value pairs passed in viavars()
are not included in the resulting output.bpo-33329: Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs
bpo-33334:
dis.stack_effect()
now supports all defined opcodes including NOP and EXTENDED_ARG.bpo-991266: Fix quoting of the
Comment
attribute ofhttp.cookies.SimpleCookie
.bpo-33131: Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1.
bpo-33308: Fixed a crash in the
parser
module when converting an ST object to a tree of tuples or lists withline_info=False
andcol_info=True
.bpo-23403: lib2to3 now uses pickle protocol 4 for pre-computed grammars.
bpo-33266: lib2to3 now recognizes
rf'...'
strings.bpo-11594: Ensure line-endings are respected when using lib2to3.
bpo-33254: Have
importlib.resources.contents()
andimportlib.abc.ResourceReader.contents()
return an iterable instead of an iterator.bpo-33265:
contextlib.ExitStack
andcontextlib.AsyncExitStack
now use a method instead of a wrapper function for exit callbacks.bpo-33263: Fix FD leak in
_SelectorSocketTransport
Patch by Vlad Starostin.bpo-33256: Fix display of
<module>
call in the html produced bycgitb.html()
. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.bpo-33144:
random.Random()
and its subclassing mechanism got optimized to check only once at class/subclass instantiation time whether itsgetrandbits()
method can be relied on by other methods, includingrandrange()
, for the generation of arbitrarily large random integers. Patch by Wolfgang Maier.bpo-33185: Fixed regression when running pydoc with the
-m
switch. (The regression was introduced in 3.7.0b3 by the resolution of bpo-33053)This fix also changed pydoc to add
os.getcwd()
tosys.path
when necessary, rather than adding"."
.bpo-29613: Added support for the
SameSite
cookie flag to thehttp.cookies
module.bpo-33169: Delete entries of
None
insys.path_importer_cache
whenimportlib.machinery.invalidate_caches()
is called.bpo-33203:
random.Random.choice()
now raisesIndexError
for empty sequences consistently even when called from subclasses without agetrandbits()
implementation.bpo-33224: Update difflib.mdiff() for PEP 479. Convert an uncaught StopIteration in a generator into a return-statement.
bpo-33209: End framing at the end of C implementation of
pickle.Pickler.dump()
.bpo-32861: The urllib.robotparser’s
__str__
representation now includes wildcard entries and the “Crawl-delay” and “Request-rate” fields. Also removes extra newlines that were being appended to the end of the string. Patch by Michael Lazar.bpo-23403:
DEFAULT_PROTOCOL
inpickle
was bumped to 4. Protocol 4 is described in PEP 3154 and available since Python 3.4. It offers better performance and smaller size compared to protocol 3 introduced in Python 3.0.bpo-20104: Improved error handling and fixed a reference leak in
os.posix_spawn()
.bpo-33106: Deleting a key from a read-only dbm database raises module specific error instead of KeyError.
bpo-33175: In dataclasses, Field.__set_name__ now looks up the __set_name__ special method on the class, not the instance, of the default value.
bpo-32380: Create functools.singledispatchmethod to support generic single dispatch on descriptors and methods.
bpo-33141: Have Field objects pass through __set_name__ to their default values, if they have their own __set_name__.
bpo-33096: Allow ttk.Treeview.insert to insert iid that has a false boolean value. Note iid=0 and iid=False would be same. Patch by Garvit Khatri.
bpo-32873: Treat type variables and special typing forms as immutable by copy and pickle. This fixes several minor issues and inconsistencies, and improves backwards compatibility with Python 3.6.
bpo-33134: When computing dataclass’s __hash__, use the lookup table to contain the function which returns the __hash__ value. This is an improvement over looking up a string, and then testing that string to see what to do.
bpo-33127: The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1.
bpo-32505: Raise TypeError if a member variable of a dataclass is of type Field, but doesn’t have a type annotation.
bpo-33078: Fix the failure on OSX caused by the tests relying on sem_getvalue
bpo-33116: Add ‘Field’ to dataclasses.__all__.
bpo-32896: Fix an error where subclassing a dataclass with a field that uses a default_factory would generate an incorrect class.
bpo-33100: Dataclasses: If a field has a default value that’s a MemberDescriptorType, then it’s from that field being in __slots__, not an actual default value.
bpo-32953: If a non-dataclass inherits from a frozen dataclass, allow attributes to be added to the derived class. Only attributes from the frozen dataclass cannot be assigned to. Require all dataclasses in a hierarchy to be either all frozen or all non-frozen.
bpo-33097: Raise RuntimeError when
executor.submit
is called during interpreter shutdown.bpo-32968: Modulo and floor division involving Fraction and float should return float.
bpo-33061: Add missing
NoReturn
to__all__
in typing.pybpo-33078: Fix the size handling in multiprocessing.Queue when a pickling error occurs.
bpo-33064: lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after
*args
and**kwargs
in function signatures.bpo-33056: FIX properly close leaking fds in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
bpo-33021: Release the GIL during fstat() calls, avoiding hang of all threads when calling mmap.mmap(), os.urandom(), and random.seed(). Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-31804: Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed or None at exit.
bpo-33034: Providing an explicit error message when casting the port property to anything that is not an integer value using
urlparse()
andurlsplit()
. Patch by Matt Eaton.bpo-30249: Improve struct.unpack_from() exception messages for problems with the buffer size and offset.
bpo-33037: Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.
bpo-27683: Fix a regression in
ipaddress
that result ofhosts()
is empty when the network is constructed by a tuple containing an integer mask and only 1 bit left for addresses.bpo-22674: Add the strsignal() function in the signal module that returns the system description of the given signal, as returned by strsignal(3).
bpo-32999: Fix C implementation of
ABC.__subclasscheck__(cls, subclass)
crashed whensubclass
is not a type object.bpo-33009: Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.
bpo-32969: Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding documentation.
bpo-32056: Improved exceptions raised for invalid number of channels and sample width when read an audio file in modules
aifc
,wave
andsunau
.bpo-32970: Improved disassembly of the MAKE_FUNCTION instruction.
bpo-32844: Fix wrong redirection of a low descriptor (0 or 1) to stderr in subprocess if another low descriptor is closed.
bpo-32960: For dataclasses, disallow inheriting frozen from non-frozen classes, and also disallow inheriting non-frozen from frozen classes. This restriction will be relaxed at a future date.
bpo-32713: Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey Fuhrer.
bpo-32257: The ssl module now contains OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION constant, available with OpenSSL 1.1.0h or 1.1.1.
bpo-32951: Direct instantiation of SSLSocket and SSLObject objects is now prohibited. The constructors were never documented, tested, or designed as public constructors. Users were suppose to use ssl.wrap_socket() or SSLContext.
bpo-32929: Remove the tri-state parameter “hash”, and add the boolean “unsafe_hash”. If unsafe_hash is True, add a __hash__ function, but if a __hash__ exists, raise TypeError. If unsafe_hash is False, add a __hash__ based on the values of eq= and frozen=. The unsafe_hash=False behavior is the same as the old hash=None behavior. unsafe_hash=False is the default, just as hash=None used to be.
bpo-32947: Add OP_ENABLE_MIDDLEBOX_COMPAT and test workaround for TLSv1.3 for future compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1.
bpo-32146: Document the interaction between frozen executables and the spawn and forkserver start methods in multiprocessing.
bpo-30622: The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
bpo-32922: dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than default encoding.
bpo-32759: Free unused arenas in multiprocessing.heap.
bpo-32859: In
os.dup2
, don’t check every call whether thedup3
syscall exists or not.bpo-32556: nt._getfinalpathname, nt._getvolumepathname and nt._getdiskusage now correctly convert from bytes.
bpo-21060: Rewrite confusing message from setup.py upload from “No dist file created in earlier command” to the more helpful “Must create and upload files in one command”.
bpo-32857: In
tkinter
,after_cancel(None)
now raises aValueError
instead of canceling the first scheduled function. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-32852: Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.
bpo-31333:
_abc
module is added. It is a speedup module with C implementations for various functions and methods inabc
. Creating an ABC subclass and callingisinstance
orissubclass
with an ABC subclass are up to 1.5x faster. In addition, this makes Python start-up up to 10% faster.Note that the new implementation hides internal registry and caches, previously accessible via private attributes
_abc_registry
,_abc_cache
, and_abc_negative_cache
. There are three debugging helper methods that can be used instead_dump_registry
,_abc_registry_clear
, and_abc_caches_clear
.bpo-32841: Fixed
asyncio.Condition
issue which silently ignored cancellation after notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-32819: ssl.match_hostname() has been simplified and no longer depends on re and ipaddress module for wildcard and IP addresses. Error reporting for invalid wildcards has been improved.
bpo-19675:
multiprocessing.Pool
no longer leaks processes if its initialization fails.bpo-32394: socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN,TCP_KEEPCNT,TCP_KEEPIDLE,TCP_KEEPINTVL flags on older version Windows during run-time.
bpo-31787: Fixed refleaks of
__init__()
methods in various modules. (Contributed by Oren Milman)bpo-30157: Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last field is quoted. Patch by Jake Davis.
bpo-30688: Added support of
\N{name}
escapes in regular expressions. Based on patch by Jonathan Eunice.bpo-32792: collections.ChainMap() preserves the order of the underlying mappings.
bpo-32775:
fnmatch.translate()
no longer produces patterns which contain set operations. Sets starting with ‘[’ or containing ‘–’, ‘&&’, ‘~~’ or ‘||’ will be interpreted differently in regular expressions in future versions. Currently they emit warnings. fnmatch.translate() now avoids producing patterns containing such sets by accident.bpo-32622: Implement native fast sendfile for Windows proactor event loop.
bpo-32777: Fix a rare but potential pre-exec child process deadlock in subprocess on POSIX systems when marking file descriptors inheritable on exec in the child process. This bug appears to have been introduced in 3.4.
bpo-32647: The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.
bpo-32749: A
dbm.dumb
database opened with flags ‘r’ is now read-only.dbm.dumb.open()
with flags ‘r’ and ‘w’ no longer creates a database if it does not exist.bpo-32741: Implement
asyncio.TimerHandle.when()
method.bpo-32691: Use mod_spec.parent when running modules with pdb
bpo-32734: Fixed
asyncio.Lock()
safety issue which allowed acquiring and locking the same lock multiple times, without it being free. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-32727: Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-31453: Add TLSVersion constants and SSLContext.maximum_version / minimum_version attributes. The new API wraps OpenSSL 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20180309043602/https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html feature.
bpo-24334: Internal implementation details of ssl module were cleaned up. The SSLSocket has one less layer of indirection. Owner and session information are now handled by the SSLSocket and SSLObject constructor. Channel binding implementation has been simplified.
bpo-31848: Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-32585: Add Ttk spinbox widget to
tkinter.ttk
. Patch by Alan D Moore.bpo-32512:
profile
CLI accepts-m module_name
as an alternative to script path.bpo-8525: help() on a type now displays builtin subclasses. This is intended primarily to help with notification of more specific exception subclasses.
Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-31639: http.server now exposes a ThreadingHTTPServer class and uses it when the module is run with
-m
to cope with web browsers pre-opening sockets.bpo-29877: compileall: import ProcessPoolExecutor only when needed, preventing hangs on low resource platforms
bpo-32221: Various functions returning tuple containing IPv6 addresses now omit
%scope
part since the same information is already encoded in scopeid tuple item. Especially this speeds upsocket.recvfrom()
when it receives multicast packet since useless resolving of network interface name is omitted.bpo-32147:
binascii.unhexlify()
is now up to 2 times faster. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.bpo-30693: The TarFile class now recurses directories in a reproducible way.
bpo-30693: The ZipFile class now recurses directories in a reproducible way.
bpo-31680: Added
curses.ncurses_version
.bpo-31908: Fix output of cover files for
trace
module command-line tool. Previously emitted cover files only when--missing
option was used. Patch by Michael Selik.bpo-31608: Raise a
TypeError
instead of crashing if acollections.deque
subclass returns a non-deque from__new__
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31425: Add support for sockets of the AF_QIPCRTR address family, supported by the Linux kernel. This is used to communicate with services, such as GPS or radio, running on Qualcomm devices. Patch by Bjorn Andersson.
bpo-22005: Implemented unpickling instances of
datetime
,date
andtime
pickled by Python 2.encoding='latin1'
should be used for successful decoding.bpo-27645:
sqlite3.Connection
now exposes abackup
method, if the underlying SQLite library is at version 3.6.11 or higher. Patch by Lele Gaifax.bpo-16865: Support arrays >=2GiB in
ctypes
. Patch by Segev Finer.bpo-31508: Removed support of arguments in
tkinter.ttk.Treeview.selection
. It was deprecated in 3.6. Use specialized methods likeselection_set
for changing the selection.bpo-29456: Fix bugs in hangul normalization: u1176, u11a7 and u11c3
Documentation¶
bpo-21257: Document
http.client.parse_headers()
.bpo-34764: Improve example of iter() with 2nd sentinel argument.
bpo-35564: Explicitly set master_doc variable in conf.py for compliance with Sphinx 2.0
bpo-35511: Specified that profile.Profile class doesn’t not support enable or disable methods. Also, elaborated that Profile object as a context manager is only supported in cProfile module.
bpo-10536: Enhance the gettext docs. Patch by Éric Araujo
bpo-35089: Remove mention of
typing.io
andtyping.re
. Their types should be imported fromtyping
directly.bpo-35038: Fix the documentation about an unexisting
f_restricted
attribute in the frame object. Patch by Stéphane Wirtelbpo-35042: Replace PEP XYZ by the pep role and allow to use the direct links to the PEPs.
bpo-35044: Fix the documentation with the role
exc
for the appropriated exception. Patch by Stéphane Wirtelbpo-35035: Rename documentation for
email.utils
toemail.utils.rst
.bpo-34967: Use app.add_object_type() instead of the deprecated Sphinx function app.description_unit()
bpo-34913: Add documentation about the new command line interface of the gzip module.
bpo-32174: chm document displays non-ASCII characters properly on some MBCS Windows systems.
bpo-11233: Create availability directive for documentation. Original patch by Georg Brandl.
bpo-34790: Document how passing coroutines to asyncio.wait() can be confusing.
bpo-34552: Make clear that
==
operator sometimes is equivalent tois
. The<
,<=
,>
and>=
operators are only defined where they make sense.bpo-28617: Fixed info in the stdtypes docs concerning the types that support membership tests.
bpo-20177: Migrate datetime.date.fromtimestamp to Argument Clinic. Patch by Tim Hoffmann.
bpo-34065: Fix wrongly written basicConfig documentation markup syntax
bpo-33460: replaced ellipsis with correct error codes in tutorial chapter 3.
bpo-33847: Add ‘@’ operator entry to index.
bpo-33409: Clarified the relationship between PEP 538’s PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE and PEP 540’s PYTHONUTF8 mode.
bpo-33197: Add versionadded tag to the documentation of ParameterKind.description
bpo-17045: Improve the C-API doc for PyTypeObject. This includes adding several quick-reference tables and a lot of missing slot/typedef entries. The existing entries were also cleaned up with a slightly more consistent format.
bpo-33736: Improve the documentation of
asyncio.open_connection()
,asyncio.start_server()
and their UNIX socket counterparts.bpo-23859: Document that
asyncio.wait()
does not cancel its futures on timeout.bpo-33604: Update HMAC md5 default to a DeprecationWarning, bump removal to 3.8.
bpo-33594: Document
getargspec
,from_function
andfrom_builtin
as deprecated in their respective docstring, and include version since deprecation in DeprecationWarning message.bpo-33503: Fix broken pypi link
bpo-33421: Add missing documentation for
typing.AsyncContextManager
.bpo-33487: BZ2file now emit a DeprecationWarning when buffering=None is passed, the deprecation message and documentation also now explicitly state it is deprecated since 3.0.
bpo-33378: Add Korean language switcher for https://docs.python.org/3/
bpo-33276: Clarify that the
__path__
attribute on modules cannot be just any value.bpo-33201: Modernize documentation for writing C extension types.
bpo-33195: Deprecate
Py_UNICODE
usage inc-api/arg
document.Py_UNICODE
related APIs are deprecated since Python 3.3, but it is missed in the document.bpo-33126: Document PyBuffer_ToContiguous().
bpo-27212: Modify documentation for the
islice()
recipe to consume initial values up to the start index.bpo-28247: Update
zipapp
documentation to describe how to make standalone applications.bpo-18802: Documentation changes for ipaddress. Patch by Jon Foster and Berker Peksag.
bpo-27428: Update documentation to clarify that
WindowsRegistryFinder
implementsMetaPathFinder
. (Patch by Himanshu Lakhara)bpo-28124: The ssl module function ssl.wrap_socket() has been de-emphasized and deprecated in favor of the more secure and efficient SSLContext.wrap_socket() method.
bpo-17232: Clarify docs for -O and -OO. Patch by Terry Reedy.
bpo-32436: Add documentation for the contextvars module (PEP 567).
bpo-32800: Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
bpo-11015: Update
test.support
documentation.bpo-32613: Update the faq/windows.html to use the py command from PEP 397 instead of python.
bpo-8722: Document
__getattr__()
behavior when propertyget()
method raisesAttributeError
.bpo-32614: Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
DeprecationWarning
and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the deprecation.bpo-20709: Remove the paragraph where we explain that os.utime() does not support a directory as path under Windows. Patch by Jan-Philip Gehrcke
bpo-32722: Remove the bad example in the tutorial of the Generator Expression. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-31972: Improve docstrings for
pathlib.PurePath
subclasses.bpo-30607: Use the externalized
python-docs-theme
package when building the documentation.bpo-8243: Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when writing outside a window, or pad.
bpo-32337: Update documentation related with
dict
order.bpo-31432: Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode.
Tests¶
bpo-35772: Fix sparse file tests of test_tarfile on ppc64 with the tmpfs filesystem. Fix the function testing if the filesystem supports sparse files: create a file which contains data and “holes”, instead of creating a file which contains no data. tmpfs effective block size is a page size (tmpfs lives in the page cache). RHEL uses 64 KiB pages on aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, only s390x and x86_64 use 4 KiB pages, whereas the test punch holes of 4 KiB.
bpo-35045: Make ssl tests less strict and also accept TLSv1 as system default. The changes unbreaks test_min_max_version on Fedora 29.
bpo-32710:
test_asyncio/test_sendfile.py
now resets the event loop policy usingtearDownModule()
as done in other tests, to prevent a warning when running tests on Windows.bpo-33717: test.pythoninfo now logs information of all clocks, not only time.time() and time.perf_counter().
bpo-35488: Add a test to pathlib’s Path.match() to verify it does not support glob-style ** recursive pattern matching.
bpo-31731: Fix a race condition in
check_interrupted_write()
of test_io: create directly the thread with SIGALRM signal blocked, rather than blocking the signal later from the thread. Previously, it was possible that the thread gets the signal before the signal is blocked.bpo-35424: Fix test_multiprocessing_main_handling: use
multiprocessing.Pool
with a context manager and then explicitly join the pool.bpo-35519: Rename
test.bisect
module totest.bisect_cmd
to avoid conflict withbisect
module when running directly a test like./python Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
.bpo-35513: Replace
time.time()
withtime.monotonic()
in tests to measure time delta.bpo-34279:
test.support.run_unittest()
no longer raiseTestDidNotRun
if the test result contains skipped tests. The exception is now only raised if no test have been run and no test have been skipped.bpo-35412: Add testcase to
test_future4
: check unicode literal.bpo-26704: Added test demonstrating double-patching of an instance method. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
bpo-33725: test_multiprocessing_fork may crash on recent versions of macOS. Until the issue is resolved, skip the test on macOS.
bpo-35352: Modify test_asyncio to use the certificate set from the test directory.
bpo-35317: Fix
mktime()
overflow error intest_email
: runtest_localtime_daylight_true_dst_true()
andtest_localtime_daylight_false_dst_true()
with a specific timezone.bpo-21263: After several reports that test_gdb does not work properly on macOS and since gdb is not shipped by default anymore, test_gdb is now skipped on macOS when LLVM Clang has been used to compile Python. Patch by Lysandros Nikolaou
bpo-34279: regrtest issue a warning when no tests have been executed in a particular test file. Also, a new final result state is issued if no test have been executed across all test files. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-34962: make docstest in Doc now passes., and is enforced in CI
bpo-23596: Use argparse for the command line of the gzip module. Patch by Antony Lee
bpo-34537: Fix
test_gdb.test_strings()
whenLC_ALL=C
and GDB was compiled with Python 3.6 or earlier.bpo-34587: test_socket: Remove RDSTest.testCongestion(). The test tries to fill the receiver’s socket buffer and expects an error. But the RDS protocol doesn’t require that. Moreover, the Linux implementation of RDS expects that the producer of the messages reduces its rate, it’s not the role of the receiver to trigger an error. The test fails on Fedora 28 by design, so just remove it.
bpo-34661: Fix test_shutil if unzip doesn’t support -t.
bpo-34200: Fixed non-deterministic flakiness of test_pkg by not using the scary test.support.module_cleanup() logic to save and restore sys.modules contents between test cases.
bpo-34569: The experimental PEP 554 data channels now correctly pass negative PyLong objects between subinterpreters on 32-bit systems. Patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-34594: Fix usage of hardcoded
errno
values in the tests.bpo-34579: Fix test_embed for AIX Patch by Michael Felt
bpo-34542: Use 3072 RSA keys and SHA-256 signature for test certs and keys.
bpo-11193: Remove special condition for AIX in
test_subprocess.test_undecodable_env
bpo-34347: Fix
test_utf8_mode.test_cmd_line
for AIXbpo-34490: On AIX with AF_UNIX family sockets getsockname() does not provide ‘sockname’, so skip calls to transport.get_extra_info(‘sockname’)
bpo-34391: Fix ftplib test for TLS 1.3 by reading from data socket.
bpo-11192: Fix
test_socket
on AIX 6.1 and later IPv6 zone id supports only supported byinet_pton6_zone()
. Switch to runtime-basedplatform.system()
to establish current platform rather than build-time basedsys.platform()
bpo-34399: Update all RSA keys and DH params to use at least 2048 bits.
bpo-34373: Fix
test_mktime
andtest_pthread_getcpuclickid
tests for AIX Add range checking for_PyTime_localtime
for AIX Patch by Michael Feltbpo-11191: Skip the distutils test ‘test_search_cpp’ when using XLC as compiler patch by aixtools (Michael Felt)
Improved an error message when mock assert_has_calls fails.
bpo-33746: Fix test_unittest when run in verbose mode.
bpo-33901: Fix test_dbm_gnu on macOS with gdbm 1.15: add a larger value to make sure that the file size changes.
bpo-33873: Fix a bug in
regrtest
that caused an extra test to run if –huntrleaks/-R was used. Exit with error in case that invalid parameters are specified to –huntrleaks/-R (at least one warmup run and one repetition must be used).bpo-33562: Check that a global asyncio event loop policy is not left behind by any tests.
bpo-33655: Ignore test_posix_fallocate failures on BSD platforms that might be due to running on ZFS.
bpo-32962: Fixed test_gdb when Python is compiled with flags -mcet -fcf-protection -O0.
bpo-33358: Fix
test_embed.test_pre_initialization_sys_options()
when the interpreter is built with--enable-shared
.bpo-32872: Avoid regrtest compatibility issue with namespace packages.
bpo-32517: Fix failing
test_asyncio
on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport ofKqueueSelector
loop was not being closed.bpo-32663: Making sure the
SMTPUTF8SimTests
class of tests gets run intest_smtplib.py
.bpo-27643: Test_C test case needs “signed short” bitfields, but the IBM XLC compiler (on AIX) does not support this Skip the code and test when AIX and XLC are used
Applicable to Python2-2.7 and later
bpo-19417: Add test_bdb.py.
bpo-31809: Add tests to verify connection with secp ECDH curves.
Build¶
bpo-34691: The _contextvars module is now built into the core Python library on Windows.
bpo-35683: Improved Azure Pipelines build steps and now verifying layouts correctly
bpo-35642: Remove asynciomodule.c from pythoncore.vcxproj
bpo-35550: Fix incorrect Solaris #ifdef checks to look for __sun && __SVR4 instead of sun when compiling.
bpo-35499:
make profile-opt
no longer replacesCFLAGS_NODIST
withCFLAGS
. It now adds profile-guided optimization (PGO) flags toCFLAGS_NODIST
: existingCFLAGS_NODIST
flags are kept.bpo-35257: Avoid leaking the linker flags from Link Time Optimizations (LTO) into distutils when compiling C extensions.
bpo-35351: When building Python with clang and LTO, LTO flags are no longer passed into CFLAGS to build third-party C extensions through distutils.
bpo-35139: Fix a compiler error when statically linking
pyexpat
inModules/Setup
.bpo-35059: PCbuild: Set InlineFunctionExpansion to OnlyExplicitInline (“/Ob1” option) in pyproject.props in Debug mode to expand functions marked as inline. This change should make Python compiled in Debug mode a little bit faster on Windows.
bpo-35011: Restores the use of pyexpatns.h to isolate our embedded copy of the expat C library so that its symbols do not conflict at link or dynamic loading time with an embedding application or other extension modules with their own version of libexpat.
bpo-28015: Have –with-lto works correctly with clang.
bpo-34765: Update the outdated install-sh file to the latest revision from automake v1.16.1
bpo-34585: Check for floating-point byte order in configure.ac using compilation tests instead of executing code, so that these checks work in cross-compiled builds.
bpo-34710: Fixed SSL module build with OpenSSL & pedantic CFLAGS.
bpo-34582: Add JUnit XML output for regression tests and update Azure DevOps builds.
bpo-34081: Make Sphinx warnings as errors in the Docs Makefile.
bpo-34555: Fix for case where it was not possible to have both
HAVE_LINUX_VM_SOCKETS_H
andHAVE_SOCKADDR_ALG
be undefined.bpo-33015: Fix an undefined behaviour in the pthread implementation of
PyThread_start_new_thread()
: add a function wrapper to always returnNULL
.bpo-34245: The Python shared library is now installed with write permission (mode 0755), which is the standard way of installing such libraries.
bpo-34121: Fix detection of C11 atomic support on clang.
bpo-32430: Rename Modules/Setup.dist to Modules/Setup, and remove the necessity to copy the former manually to the latter when updating the local source tree.
bpo-30345: Add -g to LDFLAGS when compiling with LTO to get debug symbols.
bpo-5755: Move
-Wstrict-prototypes
option toCFLAGS_NODIST
fromOPT
. This option emitted annoying warnings when building extension modules written in C++.bpo-33614: Ensures module definition files for the stable ABI on Windows are correctly regenerated.
bpo-33648: The –with-c-locale-warning configuration flag has been removed. It has had no effect for about a year.
bpo-33522: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services at https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython
bpo-33512: configure’s check for “long double” has been simplified
bpo-33483: C compiler is now correctly detected from the standard environment variables. –without-gcc and –with-icc options have been removed.
bpo-33394: Enable the verbose build for extension modules, when GNU make is passed macros on the command line.
bpo-33393: Update config.guess and config.sub files.
bpo-33377: Add new triplets for mips r6 and riscv variants (used in extension suffixes).
bpo-32232: By default, modules configured in
Modules/Setup
are no longer built with-DPy_BUILD_CORE
. Instead, modules that specifically need that preprocessor definition include it in their individual entries.bpo-33182: The embedding tests can once again be built with clang 6.0
bpo-33163: Upgrade pip to 9.0.3 and setuptools to v39.0.1.
bpo-33012: gcc 8 has added a new warning heuristic to detect invalid function casts and a stock python build seems to hit that warning quite often. The most common is the cast of a METH_NOARGS function (that uses just one argument) to a PyCFunction. Fix this by adding a dummy argument to all functions that implement METH_NOARGS.
bpo-32898: Fix the python debug build when using COUNT_ALLOCS.
bpo-29442: Replace optparse with argparse in setup.py
Windows¶
bpo-35890: Fix API calling consistency of GetVersionEx and wcstok.
bpo-32560: The
py
launcher now forwards itsSTARTUPINFO
structure to child processes.bpo-35854: Fix EnvBuilder and –symlinks in venv on Windows
bpo-35811: Avoid propagating venv settings when launching via py.exe
bpo-35797: Fix default executable used by the multiprocessing module
bpo-35758: Allow building on ARM with MSVC.
bpo-29734: Fix handle leaks in os.stat on Windows.
bpo-35596: Use unchecked PYCs for the embeddable distro to avoid zipimport restrictions.
bpo-35596: Fix vcruntime140.dll being added to embeddable distro multiple times.
bpo-35402: Update Windows build to use Tcl and Tk 8.6.9
bpo-35401: Updates Windows build to OpenSSL 1.1.0j
bpo-34977: venv on Windows will now use a python.exe redirector rather than copying the actual binaries from the base environment.
bpo-34977: Adds support for building a Windows App Store package
bpo-35067: Remove _distutils_findvs module and use vswhere.exe instead.
bpo-32557: Allow shutil.disk_usage to take a file path on Windows
bpo-34770: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in pyshellext.cpp.
bpo-34603: Fix returning structs from functions produced by MSVC
bpo-34581: Guard MSVC-specific code in socketmodule.c with
#ifdef _MSC_VER
.bpo-34532: Fixes exit code of list version arguments for py.exe.
bpo-34062: Fixed the ‘–list’ and ‘–list-paths’ arguments for the py.exe launcher
bpo-34225: Ensure INCLUDE and LIB directories do not end with a backslash.
bpo-34011: A suite of code has been changed which copied across DLLs and init.tcl from the running Python location into a venv being created. These copies are needed only when running from a Python source build, and the copying code is now only run when that is the case, rather than whenever a venv is created.
bpo-34006: Revert line length limit for Windows help docs. The line-length limit is not needed because the pages appear in a separate app rather than on a browser tab. It can also interact badly with the DPI setting.
bpo-31546: Restore running PyOS_InputHook while waiting for user input at the prompt. The restores integration of interactive GUI windows (such as Matplotlib figures) with the prompt on Windows.
bpo-30237: Output error when ReadConsole is canceled by CancelSynchronousIo instead of crashing.
bpo-33895: GIL is released while calling functions that acquire Windows loader lock.
bpo-33720: Reduces maximum marshal recursion depth on release builds.
bpo-29097: Fix bug where
datetime.fromtimestamp()
erroneously throws anOSError
on Windows for values between 0 and 86400. Patch by Ammar Askar.bpo-33316: PyThread_release_lock always fails
bpo-33184: Update Windows installer to use OpenSSL 1.1.0h.
bpo-32890: Fix usage of GetLastError() instead of errno in os.execve() and os.truncate().
bpo-33016: Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in nt._getfinalpathname
bpo-32903: Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current directory is set to a UNC path.
bpo-32901: Update Tcl and Tk versions to 8.6.8
bpo-31966: Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.
bpo-32409: Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.
bpo-32457: Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.
bpo-32370: Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module. Patch by Segev Finer.
bpo-29248: Fix
os.readlink()
on Windows, which was mistakenly treating thePrintNameOffset
field of the reparse data buffer as a number of characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.bpo-1104: Correctly handle string length in
msilib.SummaryInfo.GetProperty()
to prevent it from truncating the last character.
macOS¶
bpo-35401: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 1.1.0j.
bpo-35025: Properly guard the use of the
CLOCK_GETTIME
et al. macros intimemodule
on macOS.bpo-24658: On macOS, fix reading from and writing into a file with a size larger than 2 GiB.
bpo-34405: Update to OpenSSL 1.1.0i for macOS installer builds.
bpo-33635: In macOS stat on some file descriptors (/dev/fd/3 f.e) will result in bad file descriptor OSError. Guard against this exception was added in is_dir, is_file and similar methods. DirEntry.is_dir can also throw this exception so _RecursiveWildcardSelector._iterate_directories was also extended with the same error ignoring pattern.
bpo-13631: The .editrc file in user’s home directory is now processed correctly during the readline initialization through editline emulation on macOS.
bpo-33184: Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.1.0h.
bpo-32726: Build and link with private copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6 for the macOS 10.6+ installer. The 10.9+ installer variant already does this. This means that the Python 3.7 provided by the python.org macOS installers no longer need or use any external versions of Tcl/Tk, either system-provided or user-installed, such as ActiveTcl.
bpo-32901: Update macOS 10.9+ installer to Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.
bpo-31903: In
_scproxy
, drop the GIL when calling intoSystemConfiguration
to avoid deadlocks.
IDLE¶
bpo-35770: IDLE macosx deletes Options => Configure IDLE. It previously deleted Window => Zoom Height by mistake. (Zoom Height is now on the Options menu). On Mac, the settings dialog is accessed via Preferences on the IDLE menu.
bpo-35769: Change IDLE’s new file name from ‘Untitled’ to ‘untitled’
bpo-35660: Fix imports in idlelib.window.
bpo-35641: Proper format
calltip
when the function has no docstring.bpo-33987: Use ttk Frame for ttk widgets.
bpo-34055: Fix erroneous ‘smart’ indents and newlines in IDLE Shell.
bpo-35591: Find Selection now works when selection not found.
bpo-35196: Speed up squeezer line counting.
bpo-35598: Update config_key: use PEP 8 names and ttk widgets, make some objects global, and add tests.
bpo-28097: Add Previous/Next History entries to Shell menu.
bpo-35208: Squeezer now properly counts wrapped lines before newlines.
bpo-35555: Gray out Code Context menu entry when it’s not applicable.
bpo-35521: Document the IDLE editor code context feature. Add some internal references within the IDLE doc.
bpo-22703: The Code Context menu label now toggles between Show/Hide Code Context. The Zoom Height menu now toggles between Zoom/Restore Height. Zoom Height has moved from the Window menu to the Options menu.
bpo-35213: Where appropriate, use ‘macOS’ in idlelib.
bpo-34864: On macOS, warn if the system preference “Prefer tabs when opening documents” is set to “Always”.
bpo-34864: Document two IDLE on MacOS issues. The System Preferences Dock “prefer tabs always” setting disables some IDLE features. Menus are a bit different than as described for Windows and Linux.
bpo-35202: Remove unused imports from lib/idlelib
bpo-33000: Document that IDLE’s shell has no line limit. A program that runs indefinitely can overfill memory.
bpo-23220: Explain how IDLE’s Shell displays output.
bpo-35099: Improve the doc about IDLE running user code. The section is renamed from “IDLE – console differences” is renamed “Running user code”. It mostly covers the implications of using custom
sys.stdxxx
objects.bpo-35097: Add IDLE doc subsection explaining editor windows. Topics include opening, title and status bar, .py* extension, and running.
bpo-35093: Document the IDLE document viewer in the IDLE doc. Add a paragraph in “Help and preferences”, “Help sources” subsection.
bpo-35088: Update idlelib.help.copy_string docstring. We now use git and backporting instead of hg and forward merging.
bpo-35087: Update idlelib help files for the current doc build. The main change is the elimination of chapter-section numbers.
bpo-34548: Use configured color theme for read-only text views.
bpo-1529353: Enable “squeezing” of long outputs in the shell, to avoid performance degradation and to clean up the history without losing it. Squeezed outputs may be copied, viewed in a separate window, and “unsqueezed”.
bpo-34047: Fixed mousewheel scrolling direction on macOS.
bpo-34275: Make IDLE calltips always visible on Mac. Some MacOS-tk combinations need .update_idletasks(). Patch by Kevin Walzer.
bpo-34120: Fix unresponsiveness after closing certain windows and dialogs.
bpo-33975: Avoid small type when running htests. Since part of the purpose of human-viewed tests is to determine that widgets look right, it is important that they look the same for testing as when running IDLE.
bpo-33905: Add test for idlelib.stackview.StackBrowser.
bpo-33924: Change mainmenu.menudefs key ‘windows’ to ‘window’. Every other menudef key is lowercase version of main menu entry.
bpo-33906: Rename idlelib.windows as window Match Window on the main menu and remove last plural module name.
bpo-33917: Fix and document idlelib/idle_test/template.py. The revised file compiles, runs, and tests OK. idle_test/README.txt explains how to use it to create new IDLE test files.
bpo-33904: IDLE: In rstrip, rename class RstripExtension as Rstrip
bpo-33907: For consistency and clarity, rename an IDLE module and classes. Module calltips and its class CallTips are now calltip and Calltip. In module calltip_w, class CallTip is now CalltipWindow.
bpo-33856: Add “help” in the welcome message of IDLE
bpo-33839: IDLE: refactor ToolTip and CallTip and add documentation and tests
bpo-33855: Minimally test all IDLE modules. Add missing files, import module, instantiate classes, and check coverage. Check existing files.
bpo-33656: On Windows, add API call saying that tk scales for DPI. On Windows 8.1+ or 10, with DPI compatibility properties of the Python binary unchanged, and a monitor resolution greater than 96 DPI, this should make text and lines sharper. It should otherwise have no effect.
bpo-33768: Clicking on a context line moves that line to the top of the editor window.
bpo-33763: IDLE: Use read-only text widget for code context instead of label widget.
bpo-33664: Scroll IDLE editor text by lines. Previously, the mouse wheel and scrollbar slider moved text by a fixed number of pixels, resulting in partial lines at the top of the editor box. The change also applies to the shell and grep output windows, but not to read-only text views.
bpo-33679: Enable theme-specific color configuration for Code Context. Use the Highlights tab to see the setting for built-in themes or add settings to custom themes.
bpo-33642: Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context. If there is no current context, show a single blank line.
bpo-33628: IDLE: Cleanup codecontext.py and its test.
bpo-33564: IDLE’s code context now recognizes async as a block opener.
bpo-21474: Update word/identifier definition from ascii to unicode. In text and entry boxes, this affects selection by double-click, movement left/right by control-left/right, and deletion left/right by control-BACKSPACE/DEL.
bpo-33204: IDLE: consistently color invalid string prefixes. A ‘u’ string prefix cannot be paired with either ‘r’ or ‘f’. Consistently color as much of the prefix, starting at the right, as is valid. Revise and extend colorizer test.
bpo-32984: Set
__file__
while running a startup file. Like Python, IDLE optionally runs one startup file in the Shell window before presenting the first interactive input prompt. For IDLE,-s
runs a file named in environmental variableIDLESTARTUP
orPYTHONSTARTUP
;-r file
runsfile
. Python sets__file__
to the startup file name before running the file and unsets it before the first prompt. IDLE now does the same when run normally, without the-n
option.bpo-32940: Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.
bpo-32916: Change
str
tocode
in pyparse.bpo-32905: Remove unused code in pyparse module.
bpo-32874: Add tests for pyparse.
bpo-32837: Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad idea for IDLE’s system and location-independent files.
bpo-32826: Add “encoding=utf-8” to open() in IDLE’s test_help_about. GUI test test_file_buttons() only looks at initial ascii-only lines, but failed on systems where open() defaults to ‘ascii’ because readline() internally reads and decodes far enough ahead to encounter a non-ascii character in CREDITS.txt.
bpo-32831: Add docstrings and tests for codecontext.
bpo-32765: Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget list.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-35884: Add a benchmark script for timing various ways to access variables:
Tools/scripts/var_access_benchmark.py
.bpo-34989: python-gdb.py now handles errors on computing the line number of a Python frame.
bpo-20260: Argument Clinic now has non-bitwise unsigned int converters.
bpo-32962: python-gdb now catches
UnicodeDecodeError
exceptions when callingstring()
.bpo-32962: python-gdb now catches ValueError on read_var(): when Python has no debug symbols for example.
bpo-33189: pygettext.py now recognizes only literal strings as docstrings and translatable strings, and rejects bytes literals and f-string expressions.
bpo-31920: Fixed handling directories as arguments in the
pygettext
script. Based on patch by Oleg Krasnikov.bpo-29673: Fix pystackv and pystack gdbinit macros.
bpo-25427: Remove the pyvenv script in favor of
python3 -m venv
in order to lower confusion as to what Python interpreter a virtual environment will be created for.bpo-32885: Add an
-n
flag forTools/scripts/pathfix.py
to disable automatic backup creation (files with~
suffix).bpo-32222: Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated arguments. Patch by Toby Harradine.
bpo-31583: Fix 2to3 for using with –add-suffix option but without –output-dir option for relative path to files in current directory.
C API¶
bpo-35713: The
PyByteArray_Init()
andPyByteArray_Fini()
functions have been removed. They did nothing since Python 2.7.4 and Python 3.2.0, were excluded from the limited API (stable ABI), and were not documented.bpo-33817: Fixed
_PyBytes_Resize()
for empty bytes objects.bpo-35322: Fix memory leak in
PyUnicode_EncodeLocale()
andPyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault()
on error handling.bpo-35059: The following C macros have been converted to static inline functions:
Py_INCREF()
,Py_DECREF()
,Py_XINCREF()
,Py_XDECREF()
,PyObject_INIT()
,PyObject_INIT_VAR()
.bpo-35296:
make install
now also installs the internal API:Include/internal/*.h
header files.bpo-35081: Internal APIs surrounded by
#ifdef Py_BUILD_CORE
have been moved fromInclude/*.h
headers to new header filesInclude/internal/pycore_*.h
.bpo-35259: Conditionally declare
Py_FinalizeEx()
(new in 3.6) based on Py_LIMITED_API. Patch by Arthur Neufeld.bpo-35081: The
_PyObject_GC_TRACK()
and_PyObject_GC_UNTRACK()
macros have been removed from the public C API.bpo-35134: Creation of a new
Include/cpython/
subdirectory.bpo-34725: Adds _Py_SetProgramFullPath so embedders may override sys.executable
bpo-34910: Ensure that
PyObject_Print()
always returns-1
on error. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-34523: Py_DecodeLocale() and Py_EncodeLocale() now use the UTF-8 encoding on Windows if Py_LegacyWindowsFSEncodingFlag is zero.
bpo-34193: Fix pluralization in TypeError messages in getargs.c and typeobject.c: ‘1 argument’ instead of ‘1 arguments’ and ‘1 element’ instead of ‘1 elements’.
bpo-34127: Return grammatically correct error message based on argument count. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
bpo-23927: Fixed
SystemError
inPyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()
when thew*
format unit is used for optional parameter.bpo-32455: Added
PyCompile_OpcodeStackEffectWithJump()
.bpo-34008: Py_Main() can again be called after Py_Initialize(), as in Python 3.6.
bpo-32500: Fixed error messages for
PySequence_Size()
,PySequence_GetItem()
,PySequence_SetItem()
andPySequence_DelItem()
called with a mapping andPyMapping_Size()
called with a sequence.bpo-33818:
PyExceptionClass_Name()
will now returnconst char *
instead ofchar *
.bpo-33042: Embedding applications may once again call PySys_ResetWarnOptions, PySys_AddWarnOption, and PySys_AddXOption prior to calling Py_Initialize.
bpo-32374: Document that m_traverse for multi-phase initialized modules can be called with m_state=NULL, and add a sanity check
bpo-30863:
PyUnicode_AsWideChar()
andPyUnicode_AsWideCharString()
no longer cache thewchar_t*
representation of string objects.
Python 3.7.0 final¶
Release date: 2018-06-27
Library¶
bpo-33851: Fix
ast.get_docstring()
for a node that lacks a docstring.
C API¶
bpo-33932: Calling Py_Initialize() twice does nothing, instead of failing with a fatal error: restore the Python 3.6 behaviour.
Python 3.7.0 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-06-12
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33803: Fix a crash in hamt.c caused by enabling GC tracking for an object that hadn’t all of its fields set to NULL.
bpo-33706: Fix a crash in Python initialization when parsing the command line options. Thanks Christoph Gohlke for the bug report and the fix!
bpo-30654: Fixed reset of the SIGINT handler to SIG_DFL on interpreter shutdown even when there was a custom handler set previously. Patch by Philipp Kerling.
bpo-31849: Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c.
Library¶
bpo-30167: Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber.
bpo-33812: Datetime instance d with non-None tzinfo, but with d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) returning None is now treated as naive by the astimezone() method.
bpo-30805: Avoid race condition with debug logging
bpo-33694: asyncio: Fix a race condition causing data loss on pause_reading()/resume_reading() when using the ProactorEventLoop.
bpo-32493: Correct test for
uuid_enc_be
availability inconfigure.ac
. Patch by Michael Felt.bpo-33792: Add asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy and asyncio.WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy.
bpo-33778: Update
unicodedata
’s database to Unicode version 11.0.0.bpo-33770: improve base64 exception message for encoded inputs of invalid length
bpo-33769: asyncio/start_tls: Fix error message; cancel callbacks in case of an unhandled error; mark SSLTransport as closed if it is aborted.
bpo-33767: The concatenation (
+
) and repetition (*
) sequence operations now raiseTypeError
instead ofSystemError
when performed onmmap.mmap
objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-33734: asyncio/ssl: Fix AttributeError, increase default handshake timeout
bpo-11874: Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts. Avoids bogus assertion errors from custom metavar strings.
bpo-33582: Emit a deprecation warning for inspect.formatargspec
Documentation¶
bpo-33409: Clarified the relationship between PEP 538’s PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE and PEP 540’s PYTHONUTF8 mode.
bpo-33736: Improve the documentation of
asyncio.open_connection()
,asyncio.start_server()
and their UNIX socket counterparts.bpo-31432: Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode.
Build¶
bpo-5755: Move
-Wstrict-prototypes
option toCFLAGS_NODIST
fromOPT
. This option emitted annoying warnings when building extension modules written in C++.
Windows¶
bpo-33720: Reduces maximum marshal recursion depth on release builds.
IDLE¶
bpo-33656: On Windows, add API call saying that tk scales for DPI. On Windows 8.1+ or 10, with DPI compatibility properties of the Python binary unchanged, and a monitor resolution greater than 96 DPI, this should make text and lines sharper. It should otherwise have no effect.
bpo-33768: Clicking on a context line moves that line to the top of the editor window.
bpo-33763: IDLE: Use read-only text widget for code context instead of label widget.
bpo-33664: Scroll IDLE editor text by lines. Previously, the mouse wheel and scrollbar slider moved text by a fixed number of pixels, resulting in partial lines at the top of the editor box. The change also applies to the shell and grep output windows, but not to read-only text views.
bpo-33679: Enable theme-specific color configuration for Code Context. Use the Highlights tab to see the setting for built-in themes or add settings to custom themes.
bpo-33642: Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context. If there is no current context, show a single blank line.
Python 3.7.0 beta 5¶
Release date: 2018-05-30
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33622: Fixed a leak when the garbage collector fails to add an object with the
__del__
method or referenced by it into thegc.garbage
list.PyGC_Collect()
can now be called when an exception is set and preserves it.bpo-33509: Fix module_globals parameter of warnings.warn_explicit(): don’t crash if module_globals is not a dict.
bpo-20104: The new
os.posix_spawn
added in 3.7.0b1 was removed as we are still working on what the API should look like. Expect this in 3.8 instead.bpo-33475: Fixed miscellaneous bugs in converting annotations to strings and optimized parentheses in the string representation.
bpo-33391: Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference().
bpo-28055: Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). Patch by Rolf Eike Beer.
bpo-32911: Due to unexpected compatibility issues discovered during downstream beta testing, reverted bpo-29463.
docstring
field is removed from Module, ClassDef, FunctionDef, and AsyncFunctionDef ast nodes which was added in 3.7a1. Docstring expression is restored as a first statement in their body. Based on patch by Inada Naoki.bpo-21983: Fix a crash in
ctypes.cast()
in case the type argument is a ctypes structured data type. Patch by Eryk Sun and Oren Milman.
Library¶
bpo-32751: When cancelling the task due to a timeout,
asyncio.wait_for()
will now wait until the cancellation is complete.bpo-32684: Fix gather to propagate cancellation of itself even with return_exceptions.
bpo-33654: Support protocol type switching in SSLTransport.set_protocol().
bpo-33674: Pause the transport as early as possible to further reduce the risk of data_received() being called before connection_made().
bpo-33674: Fix a race condition in SSLProtocol.connection_made() of asyncio.sslproto: start immediately the handshake instead of using call_soon(). Previously, data_received() could be called before the handshake started, causing the handshake to hang or fail.
bpo-31647: Fixed bug where calling write_eof() on a _SelectorSocketTransport after it’s already closed raises AttributeError.
bpo-32610: Make asyncio.all_tasks() return only pending tasks.
bpo-32410: Avoid blocking on file IO in sendfile fallback code
bpo-33469: Fix RuntimeError after closing loop that used run_in_executor
bpo-33672: Fix Task.__repr__ crash with Cython’s bogus coroutines
bpo-33654: Fix transport.set_protocol() to support switching between asyncio.Protocol and asyncio.BufferedProtocol. Fix loop.start_tls() to work with asyncio.BufferedProtocols.
bpo-33652: Pickles of type variables and subscripted generics are now future-proof and compatible with older Python versions.
bpo-32493: Fixed
uuid.uuid1()
on FreeBSD.bpo-33618: Finalize and document preliminary and experimental TLS 1.3 support with OpenSSL 1.1.1
bpo-33623: Fix possible SIGSGV when asyncio.Future is created in __del__
bpo-30877: Fixed a bug in the Python implementation of the JSON decoder that prevented the cache of parsed strings from clearing after finishing the decoding. Based on patch by c-fos.
bpo-33570: Change TLS 1.3 cipher suite settings for compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6 and newer. OpenSSL 1.1.1 will have TLS 1.3 ciphers enabled by default.
bpo-28556: Do not simplify arguments to
typing.Union
. NowUnion[Manager, Employee]
is not simplified toEmployee
at runtime. Such simplification previously caused several bugs and limited possibilities for introspection.bpo-33540: Add a new
block_on_close
class attribute toForkingMixIn
andThreadingMixIn
classes ofsocketserver
.bpo-33548: tempfile._candidate_tempdir_list should consider common TEMP locations
bpo-33109: argparse subparsers are once again not required by default, reverting the change in behavior introduced by bpo-26510 in 3.7.0a2.
bpo-33536: dataclasses.make_dataclass now checks for invalid field names and duplicate fields. Also, added a check for invalid field specifications.
bpo-33542: Prevent
uuid.get_node
from using a DUID instead of a MAC on Windows. Patch by Zvi Effronbpo-26819: Fix race condition with
ReadTransport.resume_reading
in Windows proactor event loop.Fix failure in
typing.get_type_hints()
when ClassVar was provided as a string forward reference.bpo-33505: Optimize asyncio.ensure_future() by reordering if checks: 1.17x faster.
bpo-33497: Add errors param to cgi.parse_multipart and make an encoding in FieldStorage use the given errors (needed for Twisted). Patch by Amber Brown.
bpo-33495: Change dataclasses.Fields repr to use the repr of each of its members, instead of str. This makes it more clear what each field actually represents. This is especially true for the ‘type’ member.
bpo-33453: Fix dataclasses to work if using literal string type annotations or if using PEP 563 “Postponed Evaluation of Annotations”. Only specific string prefixes are detected for both ClassVar (“ClassVar” and “typing.ClassVar”) and InitVar (“InitVar” and “dataclasses.InitVar”).
bpo-28556: Minor fixes in typing module: add annotations to
NamedTuple.__new__
, pass*args
and**kwds
inGeneric.__new__
. Original PRs by Paulius Šarka and Chad Dombrova.bpo-20087: Updated alias mapping with glibc 2.27 supported locales.
bpo-33422: Fix trailing quotation marks getting deleted when looking up byte/string literals on pydoc. Patch by Andrés Delfino.
bpo-28167: The function
platform.linux_distribution
andplatform.dist
now trigger aDeprecationWarning
and have been marked for removal in Python 3.8bpo-33197: Update error message when constructing invalid inspect.Parameters Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-33263: Fix FD leak in
_SelectorSocketTransport
Patch by Vlad Starostin.bpo-32861: The urllib.robotparser’s
__str__
representation now includes wildcard entries and the “Crawl-delay” and “Request-rate” fields. Patch by Michael Lazar.bpo-32257: The ssl module now contains OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION constant, available with OpenSSL 1.1.0h or 1.1.1.
bpo-16865: Support arrays >=2GiB in
ctypes
. Patch by Segev Finer.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
Build¶
bpo-33614: Ensures module definition files for the stable ABI on Windows are correctly regenerated.
bpo-33522: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services at https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython
bpo-33012: Add
-Wno-cast-function-type
for gcc 8 for silencing warnings about function casts like casting to PyCFunction in method definition lists.
macOS¶
bpo-13631: The .editrc file in user’s home directory is now processed correctly during the readline initialization through editline emulation on macOS.
IDLE¶
Python 3.7.0 beta 4¶
Release date: 2018-05-02
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33363: Raise a SyntaxError for
async with
andasync for
statements outside of async functions.bpo-33128: Fix a bug that causes PathFinder to appear twice on sys.meta_path. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
bpo-33312: Fixed clang ubsan (undefined behavior sanitizer) warnings in dictobject.c by adjusting how the internal struct _dictkeysobject shared keys structure is declared.
bpo-33231: Fix potential memory leak in
normalizestring()
.bpo-33205: Change dict growth function from
round_up_to_power_2(used*2+hashtable_size/2)
toround_up_to_power_2(used*3)
. Previously, dict is shrinked only whenused == 0
. Now dict has more chance to be shrinked.bpo-29922: Improved error messages in ‘async with’ when
__aenter__()
or__aexit__()
return non-awaitable object.bpo-33199: Fix
ma_version_tag
in dict implementation is uninitialized when copying from key-sharing dict.
Library¶
bpo-33281: Fix ctypes.util.find_library regression on macOS.
bpo-33383: Fixed crash in the get() method of the
dbm.ndbm
database object when it is called with a single argument.bpo-33329: Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs
bpo-991266: Fix quoting of the
Comment
attribute ofhttp.cookies.SimpleCookie
.bpo-33131: Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1.
bpo-33308: Fixed a crash in the
parser
module when converting an ST object to a tree of tuples or lists withline_info=False
andcol_info=True
.bpo-33266: lib2to3 now recognizes
rf'...'
strings.bpo-11594: Ensure line-endings are respected when using lib2to3.
bpo-33254: Have
importlib.resources.contents()
andimportlib.abc.ResourceReader.contents()
return an iterable instead of an iterator.bpo-33256: Fix display of
<module>
call in the html produced bycgitb.html()
. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.bpo-33185: Fixed regression when running pydoc with the
-m
switch. (The regression was introduced in 3.7.0b3 by the resolution of bpo-33053) This fix also changed pydoc to addos.getcwd()
tosys.path
when necessary, rather than adding"."
.bpo-33169: Delete entries of
None
insys.path_importer_cache
whenimportlib.machinery.invalidate_caches()
is called.bpo-33217: Deprecate looking up non-Enum objects in Enum classes and Enum members (will raise
TypeError
in 3.8+).bpo-33203:
random.Random.choice()
now raisesIndexError
for empty sequences consistently even when called from subclasses without agetrandbits()
implementation.bpo-33224: Update difflib.mdiff() for PEP 479. Convert an uncaught StopIteration in a generator into a return-statement.
bpo-33209: End framing at the end of C implementation of
pickle.Pickler.dump()
.bpo-20104: Improved error handling and fixed a reference leak in
os.posix_spawn()
.bpo-33175: In dataclasses, Field.__set_name__ now looks up the __set_name__ special method on the class, not the instance, of the default value.
bpo-33097: Raise RuntimeError when
executor.submit
is called during interpreter shutdown.bpo-31908: Fix output of cover files for
trace
module command-line tool. Previously emitted cover files only when--missing
option was used. Patch by Michael Selik.
Documentation¶
bpo-33378: Add Korean language switcher for https://docs.python.org/3/
bpo-33276: Clarify that the
__path__
attribute on modules cannot be just any value.bpo-33201: Modernize documentation for writing C extension types.
bpo-33195: Deprecate
Py_UNICODE
usage inc-api/arg
document.Py_UNICODE
related APIs are deprecated since Python 3.3, but it is missed in the document.bpo-8243: Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when writing outside a window, or pad.
bpo-32337: Update documentation related with
dict
order.
Tests¶
bpo-33358: Fix
test_embed.test_pre_initialization_sys_options()
when the interpreter is built with--enable-shared
.
Build¶
bpo-33394: Enable the verbose build for extension modules, when GNU make is passed macros on the command line.
bpo-33393: Update config.guess and config.sub files.
bpo-33377: Add new triplets for mips r6 and riscv variants (used in extension suffixes).
bpo-32232: By default, modules configured in
Modules/Setup
are no longer built with-DPy_BUILD_CORE
. Instead, modules that specifically need that preprocessor definition include it in their individual entries.bpo-33182: The embedding tests can once again be built with clang 6.0
Windows¶
bpo-33184: Update Windows installer to use OpenSSL 1.1.0h.
macOS¶
bpo-33184: Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.1.0h.
IDLE¶
bpo-21474: Update word/identifier definition from ascii to unicode. In text and entry boxes, this affects selection by double-click, movement left/right by control-left/right, and deletion left/right by control-BACKSPACE/DEL.
bpo-33204: IDLE: consistently color invalid string prefixes. A ‘u’ string prefix cannot be paired with either ‘r’ or ‘f’. Consistently color as much of the prefix, starting at the right, as is valid. Revise and extend colorizer test.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-33189: pygettext.py now recognizes only literal strings as docstrings and translatable strings, and rejects bytes literals and f-string expressions.
bpo-31920: Fixed handling directories as arguments in the
pygettext
script. Based on patch by Oleg Krasnikov.bpo-29673: Fix pystackv and pystack gdbinit macros.
bpo-31583: Fix 2to3 for using with –add-suffix option but without –output-dir option for relative path to files in current directory.
Python 3.7.0 beta 3¶
Release date: 2018-03-29
Security¶
bpo-33136: Harden ssl module against LibreSSL CVE 2018-8970. X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() is called with an explicit namelen. A new test ensures that NULL bytes are not allowed.
bpo-33001: Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows
bpo-32981: Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They have been refactored. This resolves CVE 2018-1060 and CVE 2018-1061. Patch by Jamie Davis.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33053: When using the -m switch, sys.path[0] is now explicitly expanded as the starting working directory, rather than being left as the empty path (which allows imports from the current working directory at the time of the import)
bpo-33018: Improve consistency of errors raised by
issubclass()
when called with a non-class and an abstract base class as the first and second arguments, respectively. Patch by Josh Bronson.bpo-33041: Fixed jumping when the function contains an
async for
loop.bpo-33026: Fixed jumping out of “with” block by setting f_lineno.
bpo-33005: Fix a crash on fork when using a custom memory allocator (ex: using PYTHONMALLOC env var). _PyGILState_Reinit() and _PyInterpreterState_Enable() now use the default RAW memory allocator to allocate a new interpreters mutex on fork.
bpo-17288: Prevent jumps from ‘return’ and ‘exception’ trace events.
bpo-32836: Don’t use temporary variables in cases of list/dict/set comprehensions
Library¶
bpo-33141: Have Field objects pass through __set_name__ to their default values, if they have their own __set_name__.
bpo-33096: Allow ttk.Treeview.insert to insert iid that has a false boolean value. Note iid=0 and iid=False would be same. Patch by Garvit Khatri.
bpo-32873: Treat type variables and special typing forms as immutable by copy and pickle. This fixes several minor issues and inconsistencies, and improves backwards compatibility with Python 3.6.
bpo-33134: When computing dataclass’s __hash__, use the lookup table to contain the function which returns the __hash__ value. This is an improvement over looking up a string, and then testing that string to see what to do.
bpo-33127: The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1.
bpo-32505: Raise TypeError if a member variable of a dataclass is of type Field, but doesn’t have a type annotation.
bpo-33078: Fix the failure on OSX caused by the tests relying on sem_getvalue
bpo-33116: Add ‘Field’ to dataclasses.__all__.
bpo-32896: Fix an error where subclassing a dataclass with a field that uses a default_factory would generate an incorrect class.
bpo-33100: Dataclasses: If a field has a default value that’s a MemberDescriptorType, then it’s from that field being in __slots__, not an actual default value.
bpo-32953: If a non-dataclass inherits from a frozen dataclass, allow attributes to be added to the derived class. Only attributes from the frozen dataclass cannot be assigned to. Require all dataclasses in a hierarchy to be either all frozen or all non-frozen.
bpo-33061: Add missing
NoReturn
to__all__
in typing.pybpo-33078: Fix the size handling in multiprocessing.Queue when a pickling error occurs.
bpo-33064: lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after
*args
and**kwargs
in function signatures.bpo-33056: FIX properly close leaking fds in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
bpo-33021: Release the GIL during fstat() calls, avoiding hang of all threads when calling mmap.mmap(), os.urandom(), and random.seed(). Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-31804: Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed or None at exit.
bpo-33037: Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.
bpo-27683: Fix a regression in
ipaddress
that result ofhosts()
is empty when the network is constructed by a tuple containing an integer mask and only 1 bit left for addresses.bpo-32999: Fix C implementation of
ABC.__subclasscheck__(cls, subclass)
crashed whensubclass
is not a type object.bpo-33009: Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.
bpo-32969: Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding documentation.
bpo-32056: Improved exceptions raised for invalid number of channels and sample width when read an audio file in modules
aifc
,wave
andsunau
.bpo-32844: Fix wrong redirection of a low descriptor (0 or 1) to stderr in subprocess if another low descriptor is closed.
bpo-32857: In
tkinter
,after_cancel(None)
now raises aValueError
instead of canceling the first scheduled function. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-31639: http.server now exposes a ThreadedHTTPServer class and uses it when the module is run with
-m
to cope with web browsers pre-opening sockets.bpo-27645:
sqlite3.Connection
now exposes abackup
method, if the underlying SQLite library is at version 3.6.11 or higher. Patch by Lele Gaifax.
Documentation¶
bpo-33126: Document PyBuffer_ToContiguous().
bpo-27212: Modify documentation for the
islice()
recipe to consume initial values up to the start index.bpo-28247: Update
zipapp
documentation to describe how to make standalone applications.bpo-18802: Documentation changes for ipaddress. Patch by Jon Foster and Berker Peksag.
bpo-27428: Update documentation to clarify that
WindowsRegistryFinder
implementsMetaPathFinder
. (Patch by Himanshu Lakhara)
Tests¶
Build¶
bpo-33163: Upgrade pip to 9.0.3 and setuptools to v39.0.1.
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-32726: Build and link with private copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6 for the macOS 10.6+ installer. The 10.9+ installer variant already does this. This means that the Python 3.7 provided by the python.org macOS installers no longer need or use any external versions of Tcl/Tk, either system-provided or user-installed, such as ActiveTcl.
IDLE¶
bpo-32984: Set
__file__
while running a startup file. Like Python, IDLE optionally runs one startup file in the Shell window before presenting the first interactive input prompt. For IDLE,-s
runs a file named in environmental variableIDLESTARTUP
orPYTHONSTARTUP
;-r file
runsfile
. Python sets__file__
to the startup file name before running the file and unsets it before the first prompt. IDLE now does the same when run normally, without the-n
option.bpo-32940: Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-32885: Add an
-n
flag forTools/scripts/pathfix.py
to disable automatic backup creation (files with~
suffix).
C API¶
Python 3.7.0 beta 2¶
Release date: 2018-02-27
Security¶
bpo-28414: The ssl module now allows users to perform their own IDN en/decoding when using SNI.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-32889: Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG
toaddress_in_range
.bpo-31356: Remove the new API added in bpo-31356 (gc.ensure_disabled() context manager).
bpo-32305: For namespace packages, ensure that both
__file__
and__spec__.origin
are set to None.bpo-32303: Make sure
__spec__.loader
matches__loader__
for namespace packages.bpo-32711: Fix the warning messages for Python/ast_unparse.c. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-32583: Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write out-of-bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.
Library¶
bpo-32960: For dataclasses, disallow inheriting frozen from non-frozen classes, and also disallow inheriting non-frozen from frozen classes. This restriction will be relaxed at a future date.
bpo-32713: Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey Fuhrer.
bpo-32951: Direct instantiation of SSLSocket and SSLObject objects is now prohibited. The constructors were never documented, tested, or designed as public constructors. Users were suppose to use ssl.wrap_socket() or SSLContext.
bpo-32929: Remove the tri-state parameter “hash”, and add the boolean “unsafe_hash”. If unsafe_hash is True, add a __hash__ function, but if a __hash__ exists, raise TypeError. If unsafe_hash is False, add a __hash__ based on the values of eq= and frozen=. The unsafe_hash=False behavior is the same as the old hash=None behavior. unsafe_hash=False is the default, just as hash=None used to be.
bpo-32947: Add OP_ENABLE_MIDDLEBOX_COMPAT and test workaround for TLSv1.3 for future compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1.
bpo-30622: The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
bpo-32922: dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than default encoding.
bpo-32859: In
os.dup2
, don’t check every call whether thedup3
syscall exists or not.bpo-32556: nt._getfinalpathname, nt._getvolumepathname and nt._getdiskusage now correctly convert from bytes.
bpo-25988: Emit a
DeprecationWarning
when using or importing an ABC directly fromcollections
rather than fromcollections.abc
.bpo-21060: Rewrite confusing message from setup.py upload from “No dist file created in earlier command” to the more helpful “Must create and upload files in one command”.
bpo-32852: Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.
bpo-31333:
_abc
module is added. It is a speedup module with C implementations for various functions and methods inabc
. Creating an ABC subclass and callingisinstance
orissubclass
with an ABC subclass are up to 1.5x faster. In addition, this makes Python start-up up to 10% faster. Note that the new implementation hides internal registry and caches, previously accessible via private attributes_abc_registry
,_abc_cache
, and_abc_negative_cache
. There are three debugging helper methods that can be used instead_dump_registry
,_abc_registry_clear
, and_abc_caches_clear
.bpo-32841: Fixed
asyncio.Condition
issue which silently ignored cancellation after notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-32819: ssl.match_hostname() has been simplified and no longer depends on re and ipaddress module for wildcard and IP addresses. Error reporting for invalid wildcards has been improved.
bpo-32394: socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN,TCP_KEEPCNT,TCP_KEEPIDLE,TCP_KEEPINTVL flags on older version Windows during run-time.
bpo-31787: Fixed refleaks of
__init__()
methods in various modules. (Contributed by Oren Milman)bpo-30157: Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last field is quoted. Patch by Jake Davis.
bpo-32792: collections.ChainMap() preserves the order of the underlying mappings.
bpo-32775:
fnmatch.translate()
no longer produces patterns which contain set operations. Sets starting with ‘[’ or containing ‘–’, ‘&&’, ‘~~’ or ‘||’ will be interpreted differently in regular expressions in future versions. Currently they emit warnings. fnmatch.translate() now avoids producing patterns containing such sets by accident.bpo-32622: Implement native fast sendfile for Windows proactor event loop.
bpo-32777: Fix a rare but potential pre-exec child process deadlock in subprocess on POSIX systems when marking file descriptors inheritable on exec in the child process. This bug appears to have been introduced in 3.4.
bpo-32647: The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.
bpo-32741: Implement
asyncio.TimerHandle.when()
method.bpo-32691: Use mod_spec.parent when running modules with pdb
bpo-32734: Fixed
asyncio.Lock()
safety issue which allowed acquiring and locking the same lock multiple times, without it being free. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-32727: Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-31453: Add TLSVersion constants and SSLContext.maximum_version / minimum_version attributes. The new API wraps OpenSSL 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20180309043602/https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html feature.
bpo-24334: Internal implementation details of ssl module were cleaned up. The SSLSocket has one less layer of indirection. Owner and session information are now handled by the SSLSocket and SSLObject constructor. Channel binding implementation has been simplified.
bpo-31848: Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-32585: Add Ttk spinbox widget to
tkinter.ttk
. Patch by Alan D Moore.bpo-32221: Various functions returning tuple containing IPv6 addresses now omit
%scope
part since the same information is already encoded in scopeid tuple item. Especially this speeds upsocket.recvfrom()
when it receives multicast packet since useless resolving of network interface name is omitted.bpo-30693: The TarFile class now recurses directories in a reproducible way.
bpo-30693: The ZipFile class now recurses directories in a reproducible way.
Documentation¶
bpo-28124: The ssl module function ssl.wrap_socket() has been de-emphasized and deprecated in favor of the more secure and efficient SSLContext.wrap_socket() method.
bpo-17232: Clarify docs for -O and -OO. Patch by Terry Reedy.
bpo-32436: Add documentation for the contextvars module (PEP 567).
bpo-32800: Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
bpo-11015: Update
test.support
documentation.bpo-8722: Document
__getattr__()
behavior when propertyget()
method raisesAttributeError
.bpo-32614: Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
DeprecationWarning
and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the deprecation.bpo-31972: Improve docstrings for
pathlib.PurePath
subclasses.
Tests¶
bpo-31809: Add tests to verify connection with secp ECDH curves.
Build¶
bpo-32898: Fix the python debug build when using COUNT_ALLOCS.
Windows¶
bpo-32901: Update Tcl and Tk versions to 8.6.8
bpo-31966: Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.
bpo-32409: Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.
bpo-32457: Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.
bpo-32370: Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module. Patch by Segev Finer.
bpo-29248: Fix
os.readlink()
on Windows, which was mistakenly treating thePrintNameOffset
field of the reparse data buffer as a number of characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.
macOS¶
bpo-32901: Update macOS 10.9+ installer to Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.
IDLE¶
bpo-32916: Change
str
tocode
in pyparse.bpo-32905: Remove unused code in pyparse module.
bpo-32874: Add tests for pyparse.
bpo-32837: Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad idea for IDLE’s system and location-independent files.
bpo-32826: Add “encoding=utf-8” to open() in IDLE’s test_help_about. GUI test test_file_buttons() only looks at initial ascii-only lines, but failed on systems where open() defaults to ‘ascii’ because readline() internally reads and decodes far enough ahead to encounter a non-ascii character in CREDITS.txt.
bpo-32765: Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget list.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-32222: Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated arguments. Patch by Toby Harradine.
Python 3.7.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2018-01-30
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-32703: Fix coroutine’s ResourceWarning when there’s an active error set when it’s being finalized.
bpo-32650: Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-28685: Optimize list.sort() and sorted() by using type specialized comparisons when possible.
bpo-32685: Improve suggestion when the Python 2 form of print statement is either present on the same line as the header of a compound statement or else terminated by a semi-colon instead of a newline. Patch by Nitish Chandra.
bpo-32697: Python now explicitly preserves the definition order of keyword-only parameters. It’s always preserved their order, but this behavior was never guaranteed before; this behavior is now guaranteed and tested.
bpo-32690: The locals() dictionary now displays in the lexical order that variables were defined. Previously, the order was reversed.
bpo-32677: Add
.isascii()
method tostr
,bytes
andbytearray
. It can be used to test that string contains only ASCII characters.bpo-32670: Enforce PEP 479 for all code. This means that manually raising a StopIteration exception from a generator is prohibited for all code, regardless of whether ‘from __future__ import generator_stop’ was used or not.
bpo-32591: Added built-in support for tracking the origin of coroutine objects; see sys.set_coroutine_origin_tracking_depth and CoroutineType.cr_origin. This replaces the asyncio debug mode’s use of coroutine wrapping for native coroutine objects.
bpo-31368: Expose preadv and pwritev system calls in the os module. Patch by Pablo Galindo
bpo-32544:
hasattr(obj, name)
andgetattr(obj, name, default)
are about 4 times faster than before whenname
is not found andobj
doesn’t override__getattr__
or__getattribute__
.bpo-26163: Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced with datasets containing many similar values.
bpo-32550: Remove the STORE_ANNOTATION bytecode.
bpo-20104: Expose posix_spawn as a low level API in the os module. (removed before 3.7.0rc1)
bpo-24340: Fixed estimation of the code stack size.
bpo-18533:
repr()
on a dict containing its ownvalues()
oritems()
no longer raisesRecursionError
; OrderedDict similarly. Instead, use...
, as for other recursive structures. Patch by Ben North.bpo-20891: Py_Initialize() now creates the GIL. The GIL is no longer created “on demand” to fix a race condition when PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-Python thread.
bpo-32028: Leading whitespace is now correctly ignored when generating suggestions for converting Py2 print statements to Py3 builtin print function calls. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-31179: Make dict.copy() up to 5.5 times faster.
bpo-31113: Get rid of recursion in the compiler for normal control flow.
Library¶
bpo-25988: Deprecate exposing the contents of collections.abc in the regular collections module.
bpo-31429: The default cipher suite selection of the ssl module now uses a blacklist approach rather than a hard-coded whitelist. Python no longer re-enables ciphers that have been blocked by OpenSSL security update. Default cipher suite selection can be configured on compile time.
bpo-30306: contextlib.contextmanager now releases the arguments passed to the underlying generator as soon as the context manager is entered. Previously it would keep them alive for as long as the context manager was alive, even when not being used as a function decorator. Patch by Martin Teichmann.
bpo-21417: Added support for setting the compression level for zipfile.ZipFile.
bpo-32251: Implement asyncio.BufferedProtocol (provisional API).
bpo-32513: In dataclasses, allow easier overriding of dunder methods without specifying decorator parameters.
bpo-32660:
termios
makes availableFIONREAD
,FIONCLEX
,FIOCLEX
,FIOASYNC
andFIONBIO
also under Solaris/derivatives.bpo-27931: Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-32659: Under Solaris and derivatives,
os.stat_result
provides a st_fstype attribute.bpo-32662: Implement Server.start_serving(), Server.serve_forever(), and Server.is_serving() methods. Add ‘start_serving’ keyword parameter to loop.create_server() and loop.create_unix_server().
bpo-32391: Implement
asyncio.StreamWriter.wait_closed()
andasyncio.StreamWriter.is_closing()
methodsbpo-32643: Make Task._step, Task._wakeup and Future._schedule_callbacks methods private.
bpo-32630: Refactor decimal module to use contextvars to store decimal context.
bpo-32622: Add
asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.sendfile()
method.bpo-32304: distutils’ upload command no longer corrupts tar files ending with a CR byte, and no longer tries to convert CR to CRLF in any of the upload text fields.
bpo-32502: uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is encountered.
bpo-32596:
concurrent.futures
importsThreadPoolExecutor
andProcessPoolExecutor
lazily (using PEP 562). It makesimport asyncio
about 15% faster because asyncio uses onlyThreadPoolExecutor
by default.bpo-31801: Add
_ignore_
toEnum
so temporary variables can be used during class construction without being turned into members.bpo-32576: Use queue.SimpleQueue() in places where it can be invoked from a weakref callback.
bpo-32574: Fix memory leak in asyncio.Queue, when the queue has limited size and it is full, the cancelation of queue.put() can cause a memory leak. Patch by: José Melero.
bpo-32521: The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
bpo-32467: collections.abc.ValuesView now inherits from collections.abc.Collection.
bpo-32473: Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
bpo-32102: New argument
capture_output
for subprocess.runbpo-32521: glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in nis module.
bpo-32493: UUID module fixes build for FreeBSD/OpenBSD
bpo-32503: Pickling with protocol 4 no longer creates too small frames.
bpo-29237: Create enum for pstats sorting options
bpo-32454: Add close(fd) function to the socket module.
bpo-25942: The subprocess module is now more graceful when handling a Ctrl-C KeyboardInterrupt during subprocess.call, subprocess.run, or a Popen context manager. It now waits a short amount of time for the child (presumed to have also gotten the SIGINT) to exit, before continuing the KeyboardInterrupt exception handling. This still includes a SIGKILL in the call() and run() APIs, but at least the child had a chance first.
bpo-32433: The hmac module now has hmac.digest(), which provides an optimized HMAC digest.
bpo-28134: Sockets now auto-detect family, type and protocol from file descriptor by default.
bpo-32404: Fix bug where
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp()
did not call __new__ indatetime.datetime
subclasses.bpo-32403: Improved speed of
datetime.date
anddatetime.datetime
alternate constructors.bpo-32228: Ensure that
truncate()
preserves the file position (as reported bytell()
) after writes longer than the buffer size.bpo-32410: Implement
loop.sock_sendfile
for asyncio event loop.bpo-22908: Added seek and tell to the ZipExtFile class. This only works if the file object used to open the zipfile is seekable.
bpo-32373: Add socket.getblocking() method.
bpo-32248: Add
importlib.resources
andimportlib.abc.ResourceReader
as the unified API for reading resources contained within packages. Loaders wishing to support resource reading must implement theget_resource_reader()
method. File-based and zipimport-based loaders both implement these APIs.importlib.abc.ResourceLoader
is deprecated in favor of these new APIs.bpo-32320: collections.namedtuple() now supports default values.
bpo-29302: Add contextlib.AsyncExitStack. Patch by Alexander Mohr and Ilya Kulakov.
bpo-31961: Removed in Python 3.7.0b2. The args argument of subprocess.Popen can now be a path-like object. If args is given as a sequence, it’s first element can now be a path-like object as well.
bpo-31900: The
locale.localeconv()
function now sets temporarily theLC_CTYPE
locale to theLC_NUMERIC
locale to decodedecimal_point
andthousands_sep
byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and theLC_NUMERIC
locale is different than theLC_CTYPE
locale. This temporary change affects other threads. Same change for thestr.format()
method when formatting a number (int
,float
,float
and subclasses) with then
type (ex:'{:n}'.format(1234)
).bpo-31853: Use super().method instead of socket.method in SSLSocket. They were there most likely for legacy reasons.
bpo-31399: The ssl module now uses OpenSSL’s X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() and X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_ip() API to verify hostname and IP addresses. Subject common name fallback can be disabled with SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name.
bpo-14976: Add a queue.SimpleQueue class, an unbounded FIFO queue with a reentrant C implementation of put().
Documentation¶
bpo-32724: Add references to some commands in the documentation of Pdb. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-32649: Complete the C API documentation, profiling and tracing part with the newly added per-opcode events.
bpo-17799: Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and their C-API counterparts regarding which type of events are received in each function. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
Tests¶
bpo-32721: Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
bpo-28414: Add test cases for IDNA 2003 and 2008 host names. IDNA 2003 internationalized host names are working since bpo-31399 has landed. IDNA 2008 are still broken.
bpo-32604: Add a new “_xxsubinterpreters” extension module that exposes the existing subinterpreter C-API and a new cross-interpreter data sharing mechanism. The module is primarily intended for more thorough testing of the existing subinterpreter support. Note that the _xxsubinterpreters module has been removed in 3.7.0rc1.
bpo-32602: Add test certs and test for ECDSA cert and EC/RSA dual mode.
bpo-32549: On Travis CI, Python now Compiles and uses a local copy of OpenSSL 1.1.0g for testing.
Build¶
bpo-32635: Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of libcrypt at the system.
bpo-32598: Use autoconf to detect OpenSSL libs, headers and supported features. The ax_check_openssl M4 macro uses pkg-config to locate OpenSSL and falls back to manual search.
bpo-32593: Drop support of FreeBSD 9 and older.
bpo-29708: If the
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable is set,py_compile
will always create hash-based.pyc
files.
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-32726: Provide an additional, more modern macOS installer variant that supports macOS 10.9+ systems in 64-bit mode only. Upgrade the supplied third-party libraries to OpenSSL 1.1.0g and to SQLite 3.22.0. The 10.9+ installer now links with and supplies its own copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.
bpo-28440: No longer add /Library/Python/3.x/site-packages to sys.path for macOS framework builds to avoid future conflicts.
C API¶
Python 3.7.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2018-01-08
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31975: The default warning filter list now starts with a “default::DeprecationWarning:__main__” entry, so deprecation warnings are once again shown by default in single-file scripts and at the interactive prompt.
bpo-32226:
__class_getitem__
is now an automatic class method.bpo-32399: Add AIX uuid library support for RFC4122 using uuid_create() in libc.a
bpo-32390: Fix the compilation failure on AIX after the f_fsid field has been added to the object returned by os.statvfs() (bpo-32143). Original patch by Michael Felt.
bpo-32379: Make MRO computation faster when a class inherits from a single base.
bpo-32259: The error message of a TypeError raised when unpack non-iterable is now more specific.
bpo-27169: The
__debug__
constant is now optimized out at compile time. This fixes also bpo-22091.bpo-32329: The
-R
option now turns on hash randomization when thePYTHONHASHSEED
environment variable is set to0
. Previously, the option was ignored. Moreover,sys.flags.hash_randomization
is now properly set to 0 when hash randomization is turned off byPYTHONHASHSEED=0
.bpo-30416: The optimizer is now protected from spending much time doing complex calculations and consuming much memory for creating large constants in constant folding. Increased limits for constants that can be produced in constant folding.
bpo-32282: Fix an unnecessary ifdef in the include of VersionHelpers.h in socketmodule on Windows.
bpo-30579: Implement TracebackType.__new__ to allow Python-level creation of traceback objects, and make TracebackType.tb_next mutable.
bpo-32260: Don’t byte swap the input keys to the SipHash algorithm on big-endian platforms. This should ensure siphash gives consistent results across platforms.
bpo-31506: Improve the error message logic for object.__new__ and object.__init__. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-20361:
-b
and-bb
now inject'default::BytesWarning'
anderror::BytesWarning
entries intosys.warnoptions
, ensuring that they take precedence over any other warning filters configured via the-W
option or thePYTHONWARNINGS
environment variable.bpo-32230:
-X dev
now injects a'default'
entry into sys.warnoptions, ensuring that it behaves identically to actually passing-Wdefault
at the command line.bpo-29240: Add a new UTF-8 mode: implementation of the PEP 540.
bpo-32226: PEP 560: Add support for
__mro_entries__
and__class_getitem__
. Implemented by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-32225: PEP 562: Add support for module
__getattr__
and__dir__
. Implemented by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-31901: The
atexit
module now has its callback stored per interpreter.bpo-31650: Implement PEP 552 (Deterministic pycs). Python now supports invalidating bytecode cache files bashed on a source content hash rather than source last-modified time.
bpo-29469: Move constant folding from bytecode layer to AST layer. Original patch by Eugene Toder.
Library¶
bpo-32506: Now that dict is defined as keeping insertion order, drop OrderedDict and just use plain dict.
bpo-32279: Add params to dataclasses.make_dataclasses(): init, repr, eq, order, hash, and frozen. Pass them through to dataclass().
bpo-32278: Make type information optional on dataclasses.make_dataclass(). If omitted, the string ‘typing.Any’ is used.
bpo-32499: Add dataclasses.is_dataclass(obj), which returns True if obj is a dataclass or an instance of one.
bpo-32468: Improve frame repr() to mention filename, code name and current line number.
bpo-23749: asyncio: Implement loop.start_tls()
bpo-32441: Return the new file descriptor (i.e., the second argument) from
os.dup2
. Previously,None
was always returned.bpo-32422:
functools.lru_cache
uses less memory (3 words for each cached key) and takes about 1/3 time for cyclic GC.bpo-31721: Prevent Python crash from happening when Future._log_traceback is set to True manually. Now it can only be set to False, or a ValueError is raised.
bpo-32415: asyncio: Add Task.get_loop() and Future.get_loop()
bpo-26133: Don’t unsubscribe signals in asyncio UNIX event loop on interpreter shutdown.
bpo-32363: Make asyncio.Task.set_exception() and set_result() raise NotImplementedError. Task._step() and Future.__await__() raise proper exceptions when they are in an invalid state, instead of raising an AssertionError.
bpo-32357: Optimize asyncio.iscoroutine() and loop.create_task() for non-native coroutines (e.g. async/await compiled with Cython). ‘loop.create_task(python_coroutine)’ used to be 20% faster than ‘loop.create_task(cython_coroutine)’. Now, the latter is as fast.
bpo-32356: asyncio.transport.resume_reading() and pause_reading() are now idempotent. New transport.is_reading() method is added.
bpo-32355: Optimize asyncio.gather(); now up to 15% faster.
bpo-32351: Use fastpath in asyncio.sleep if delay<0 (2x boost)
bpo-32348: Optimize asyncio.Future schedule/add/remove callback. The optimization shows 3-6% performance improvements of async/await code.
bpo-32331: Fix socket.settimeout() and socket.setblocking() to keep socket.type as is. Fix socket.socket() constructor to reset any bit flags applied to socket’s type. This change only affects OSes that have SOCK_NONBLOCK and/or SOCK_CLOEXEC.
bpo-32248: Add
importlib.abc.ResourceReader
as an ABC for loaders to provide a unified API for reading resources contained within packages. Also addimportlib.resources
as the port ofimportlib_resources
.bpo-32311: Implement asyncio.create_task(coro) shortcut
bpo-32327: Convert asyncio functions that were documented as coroutines to coroutines. Affected functions: loop.sock_sendall, loop.sock_recv, loop.sock_accept, loop.getaddrinfo, loop.getnameinfo.
bpo-32323:
urllib.parse.urlsplit()
does not convert zone-id (scope) to lower case for scoped IPv6 addresses in hostnames now.bpo-32302: Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT v140.
bpo-29711: Fix
stop_serving
in asyncio proactor loop kill all listening serversbpo-32308:
re.sub()
now replaces empty matches adjacent to a previous non-empty match.bpo-29970: Abort asyncio SSLProtocol connection if handshake not complete within 10 seconds.
bpo-32314: Implement asyncio.run().
bpo-17852: Revert incorrect fix based on misunderstanding of _Py_PyAtExit() semantics.
bpo-32296: Implement asyncio._get_running_loop() and get_event_loop() in C. This makes them 4x faster.
bpo-32250: Implement
asyncio.current_task()
andasyncio.all_tasks()
. Add helpers intended to be used by alternative task implementations:asyncio._register_task
,asyncio._enter_task
,asyncio._leave_task
andasyncio._unregister_task
. Deprecateasyncio.Task.current_task()
andasyncio.Task.all_tasks()
.bpo-32255: A single empty field is now always quoted when written into a CSV file. This allows to distinguish an empty row from a row consisting of a single empty field. Patch by Licht Takeuchi.
bpo-32277: Raise
NotImplementedError
instead ofSystemError
on platforms wherechmod(..., follow_symlinks=False)
is not supported. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-30050: New argument warn_on_full_buffer to signal.set_wakeup_fd lets you control whether Python prints a warning on stderr when the wakeup fd buffer overflows.
bpo-29137: The
fpectl
library has been removed. It was never enabled by default, never worked correctly on x86-64, and it changed the Python ABI in ways that caused unexpected breakage of C extensions.bpo-32273: Move asyncio.test_utils to test.test_asyncio.
bpo-32272: Remove asyncio.async() function.
bpo-32269: Add asyncio.get_running_loop() function.
bpo-32265: All class and static methods of builtin types now are correctly classified by inspect.classify_class_attrs() and grouped in pydoc ouput. Added types.ClassMethodDescriptorType for unbound class methods of builtin types.
bpo-32253: Deprecate
yield from lock
,await lock
,with (yield from lock)
andwith await lock
for asyncio synchronization primitives.bpo-22589: Changed MIME type of .bmp from ‘image/x-ms-bmp’ to ‘image/bmp’
bpo-32193: Convert asyncio to use async/await syntax. Old styled
yield from
is still supported too.bpo-32206: Add support to run modules with pdb
bpo-32227:
functools.singledispatch
now supports registering implementations using type annotations.bpo-15873: Added new alternate constructors
datetime.datetime.fromisoformat()
,datetime.time.fromisoformat()
anddatetime.date.fromisoformat()
as the inverse operation of each classes’s respectiveisoformat
methods.bpo-32199: The getnode() ip getter now uses ‘ip link’ instead of ‘ip link list’.
bpo-32143: os.statvfs() includes the f_fsid field from statvfs(2)
bpo-26439: Fix ctypes.util.find_library() for AIX by implementing ctypes._aix.find_library() Patch by: Michael Felt
bpo-31993: The pickler now uses less memory when serializing large bytes and str objects into a file. Pickles created with protocol 4 will require less memory for unpickling large bytes and str objects.
bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on Linux. Tests by Victor Stinner.
bpo-31778: ast.literal_eval() is now more strict. Addition and subtraction of arbitrary numbers no longer allowed.
bpo-31802: Importing native path module (
posixpath
,ntpath
) now works even if theos
module still is not imported.bpo-30241: Add contextlib.AbstractAsyncContextManager. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-31699: Fix deadlocks in
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
when task arguments or results cause pickling or unpickling errors. This should make sure that calls to theProcessPoolExecutor
API always eventually return.bpo-15216:
TextIOWrapper.reconfigure()
supports changing encoding, errors, and newline.
Documentation¶
bpo-32418: Add get_loop() method to Server and AbstractServer classes.
Tests¶
Windows¶
bpo-19764: Implement support for
subprocess.Popen(close_fds=True)
on Windows. Patch by Segev Finer.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-24960: 2to3 and lib2to3 can now read pickled grammar files using pkgutil.get_data() rather than probing the filesystem. This lets 2to3 and lib2to3 work when run from a zipfile.
C API¶
bpo-32030: Py_Initialize() doesn’t reset the memory allocators to default if the
PYTHONMALLOC
environment variable is not set.bpo-29084: Undocumented C API for OrderedDict has been excluded from the limited C API. It was added by mistake and actually never worked in the limited C API.
bpo-32264: Moved the pygetopt.h header into internal/, since it has no public APIs.
bpo-32241:
Py_SetProgramName()
andPy_SetPythonHome()
now take theconst wchar *
arguments instead ofwchar *
.
Python 3.7.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2017-12-05
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-32176: co_flags.CO_NOFREE is now always set correctly by the code object constructor based on freevars and cellvars, rather than needing to be set correctly by the caller. This ensures it will be cleared automatically when additional cell references are injected into a modified code object and function.
bpo-10544: Yield expressions are now deprecated in comprehensions and generator expressions. They are still permitted in the definition of the outermost iterable, as that is evaluated directly in the enclosing scope.
bpo-32137: The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of crashing due to a stack overflow.
bpo-32096: Revert memory allocator changes in the C API: move structures back from _PyRuntime to Objects/obmalloc.c. The memory allocators are once again initialized statically, and so PyMem_RawMalloc() and Py_DecodeLocale() can be called before _PyRuntime_Initialize().
bpo-32043: Add a new “developer mode”: new “-X dev” command line option to enable debug checks at runtime.
bpo-32023: SyntaxError is now correctly raised when a generator expression without parenthesis is used instead of an inheritance list in a class definition. The duplication of the parentheses can be omitted only on calls.
bpo-32012: SyntaxError is now correctly raised when a generator expression without parenthesis is passed as an argument, but followed by a trailing comma. A generator expression always needs to be directly inside a set of parentheses and cannot have a comma on either side.
bpo-28180: A new internal
_Py_SetLocaleFromEnv(category)
helper function has been added in order to improve the consistency of behaviour across differentlibc
implementations (e.g. Android doesn’t support setting the locale from the environment by default).bpo-31949: Fixed several issues in printing tracebacks (PyTraceBack_Print()). Setting sys.tracebacklimit to 0 or less now suppresses printing tracebacks. Setting sys.tracebacklimit to None now causes using the default limit. Setting sys.tracebacklimit to an integer larger than LONG_MAX now means using the limit LONG_MAX rather than the default limit. Fixed integer overflows in the case of more than
2**31
traceback items on Windows. Fixed output errors handling.bpo-30696: Fix the interactive interpreter looping endlessly when no memory.
bpo-20047: Bytearray methods partition() and rpartition() now accept only bytes-like objects as separator, as documented. In particular they now raise TypeError rather of returning a bogus result when an integer is passed as a separator.
bpo-21720: BytesWarning no longer emitted when the fromlist argument of
__import__()
or the__all__
attribute of the module contain bytes instances.bpo-31845: Environment variables are once more read correctly at interpreter startup.
bpo-28936: Ensure that lexically first syntax error involving a parameter and
global
ornonlocal
is detected first at a given scope. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-31825: Fixed OverflowError in the ‘unicode-escape’ codec and in codecs.escape_decode() when decode an escaped non-ascii byte.
bpo-31618: The per-frame tracing logic added in 3.7a1 has been altered so that
frame->f_lineno
is updated before either"line"
or"opcode"
events are emitted. Previously, opcode events were emitted first, and therefore would occasionally see stale line numbers on the frame. The behavior of this feature has changed slightly as a result: when bothf_trace_lines
andf_trace_opcodes
are enabled, line events now occur first.bpo-28603: Print the full context/cause chain of exceptions on interpreter exit, even if an exception in the chain is unhashable or compares equal to later ones. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-31786: Fix timeout rounding in the select module to round correctly negative timeouts between -1.0 and 0.0. The functions now block waiting for events as expected. Previously, the call was incorrectly non-blocking. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-31781: Prevent crashes when calling methods of an uninitialized
zipimport.zipimporter
object. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30399: Standard repr() of BaseException with a single argument no longer contains redundant trailing comma.
bpo-31626: Fixed a bug in debug memory allocator. There was a write to freed memory after shrinking a memory block.
bpo-30817:
PyErr_PrintEx()
clears now the ignored exception that may be raised by_PySys_SetObjectId()
, for example when no memory.
Library¶
bpo-28556: Two minor fixes for
typing
module: allow shallow copying instances of generic classes, improve interaction of__init_subclass__
with generics. Original PRs by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-32214: PEP 557, Data Classes. Provides a decorator which adds boilerplate methods to classes which use type annotations so specify fields.
bpo-27240: The header folding algorithm for the new email policies has been rewritten, which also fixes bpo-30788, bpo-31831, and bpo-32182. In particular, RFC2231 folding is now done correctly.
bpo-32186: io.FileIO.readall() and io.FileIO.read() now release the GIL when getting the file size. Fixed hang of all threads with inaccessible NFS server. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-32101: Add
sys.flags.dev_mode
flagbpo-32154: The
asyncio.windows_utils.socketpair()
function has been removed: use directlysocket.socketpair()
which is available on all platforms since Python 3.5 (before, it wasn’t available on Windows).asyncio.windows_utils.socketpair()
was just an alias tosocket.socketpair
on Python 3.5 and newer.bpo-32089: warnings: In development (-X dev) and debug mode (pydebug build), use the “default” action for ResourceWarning, rather than the “always” action, in the default warnings filters.
bpo-32107:
uuid.getnode()
now preferentially returns universally administered MAC addresses if available, over locally administered MAC addresses. This makes a better guarantee for global uniqueness of UUIDs returned fromuuid.uuid1()
. If only locally administered MAC addresses are available, the first such one found is returned.bpo-23033: Wildcard is now supported in hostname when it is one and only character in the left most segment of hostname in second argument of
ssl.match_hostname()
. Patch by Mandeep Singh.bpo-12239: Make
msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()
returnNone
when the value of property isVT_EMPTY
. Initial patch by Mark Mc Mahon.bpo-28334: Use
os.path.expanduser()
to find the~/.netrc
file innetrc.netrc
. If it does not exist,FileNotFoundError
is raised. Patch by Dimitri Merejkowsky.bpo-32121: Made
tracemalloc.Traceback
behave more like the traceback module, sorting the frames from oldest to most recent.Traceback.format()
now accepts negative limit, truncating the result to theabs(limit)
oldest frames. To get the old behaviour, one can use the new most_recent_first argument toTraceback.format()
. (Patch by Jesse Bakker.)bpo-31325: Fix wrong usage of
collections.namedtuple()
in theRobotFileParser.parse()
method. Initial patch by Robin Wellner.bpo-12382:
msilib.OpenDatabase()
now raises a better exception message when it couldn’t open or create an MSI file. Initial patch by William Tisäter.bpo-19610:
setup()
now warns about invalid types for some fields. Thedistutils.dist.Distribution
class now warns whenclassifiers
,keywords
andplatforms
fields are not specified as a list or a string.bpo-32071: Added the
-k
command-line option topython -m unittest
to run only tests that match the given pattern(s).bpo-10049: Added nullcontext no-op context manager to contextlib. This provides a simpler and faster alternative to ExitStack() when handling optional context managers.
bpo-28684: The new test.support.skip_unless_bind_unix_socket() decorator is used here to skip asyncio tests that fail because the platform lacks a functional bind() function for unix domain sockets (as it is the case for non root users on the recent Android versions that run now SELinux in enforcing mode).
bpo-32110:
codecs.StreamReader.read(n)
now returns not more than n characters/bytes for non-negative n. This makes it compatible withread()
methods of other file-like objects.bpo-27535: The warnings module doesn’t leak memory anymore in the hidden warnings registry for the “ignore” action of warnings filters. warn_explicit() function doesn’t add the warning key to the registry anymore for the “ignore” action.
bpo-32088: warnings: When Python is build is debug mode (
Py_DEBUG
),DeprecationWarning
,PendingDeprecationWarning
andImportWarning
warnings are now displayed by default.bpo-1647489: Fixed searching regular expression patterns that could match an empty string. Non-empty string can now be correctly found after matching an empty string.
bpo-25054: Added support of splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string.
bpo-32072: Fixed issues with binary plists: Fixed saving bytearrays. Identical objects will be saved only once. Equal references will be load as identical objects. Added support for saving and loading recursive data structures.
bpo-32069: Drop legacy SSL transport from asyncio, ssl.MemoryBIO is always used anyway.
bpo-32066: asyncio: Support pathlib.Path in create_unix_connection; sock arg should be optional
bpo-32046: Updates 2to3 to convert from operator.isCallable(obj) to callable(obj). Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-32018: inspect.signature should follow PEP 8, if the parameter has an annotation and a default value. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-32025: Add time.thread_time() and time.thread_time_ns()
bpo-32037: Integers that fit in a signed 32-bit integer will be now pickled with protocol 0 using the INT opcode. This will decrease the size of a pickle, speed up pickling and unpickling, and make these integers be unpickled as int instances in Python 2.
bpo-32034: Make asyncio.IncompleteReadError and LimitOverrunError pickleable.
bpo-32015: Fixed the looping of asyncio in the case of reconnection the socket during waiting async read/write from/to the socket.
bpo-32011: Restored support of loading marshal files with the TYPE_INT64 code. These files can be produced in Python 2.7.
bpo-28369: Enhance add_reader/writer check that socket is not used by some transport. Before, only cases when add_reader/writer were called with an int FD were supported. Now the check is implemented correctly for all file-like objects.
bpo-31976: Fix race condition when flushing a file is slow, which can cause a segfault if closing the file from another thread.
bpo-31985: Formally deprecated aifc.openfp, sunau.openfp, and wave.openfp. Since change 7bc817d5ba917528e8bd07ec461c635291e7b06a in 1993, openfp in each of the three modules had been pointing to that module’s open function as a matter of backwards compatibility, though it had been both untested and undocumented.
bpo-21862: cProfile command line now accepts
-m module_name
as an alternative to script path. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-31970: Reduce performance overhead of asyncio debug mode.
bpo-31843: database argument of sqlite3.connect() now accepts a path-like object, instead of just a string.
bpo-31945: Add Configurable blocksize to
HTTPConnection
andHTTPSConnection
for improved upload throughput. Patch by Nir Soffer.bpo-31943: Add a
cancelled()
method toasyncio.Handle
. Patch by Marat Sharafutdinov.bpo-9678: Fixed determining the MAC address in the uuid module: Using ifconfig on NetBSD and OpenBSD. Using arp on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Based on patch by Takayuki Shimizukawa.
bpo-30057: Fix potential missed signal in signal.signal().
bpo-31933: Fix Blake2 params leaf_size and node_offset on big endian platforms. Patch by Jack O’Connor.
bpo-21423: Add an initializer argument to {Process,Thread}PoolExecutor
bpo-31927: Fixed compilation of the socket module on NetBSD 8. Fixed assertion failure or reading arbitrary data when parse a AF_BLUETOOTH address on NetBSD and DragonFly BSD.
bpo-27666: Fixed stack corruption in curses.box() and curses.ungetmouse() when the size of types chtype or mmask_t is less than the size of C long. curses.box() now accepts characters as arguments. Based on patch by Steve Fink.
bpo-31917: Add 3 new clock identifiers:
time.CLOCK_BOOTTIME
,time.CLOCK_PROF
andtime.CLOCK_UPTIME
.bpo-31897: plistlib now catches more errors when read binary plists and raises InvalidFileException instead of unexpected exceptions.
bpo-25720: Fix the method for checking pad state of curses WINDOW. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
bpo-31893: Fixed the layout of the kqueue_event structure on OpenBSD and NetBSD. Fixed the comparison of the kqueue_event objects.
bpo-31891: Fixed building the curses module on NetBSD.
bpo-31884: added required constants to subprocess module for setting priority on windows
bpo-28281: Remove year (1-9999) limits on the Calendar.weekday() function. Patch by Mark Gollahon.
bpo-31702: crypt.mksalt() now allows to specify the number of rounds for SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashing.
bpo-30639:
inspect.getfile()
no longer computes the repr of unknown objects to display in an error message, to protect against badly behaved custom reprs.bpo-30768: Fix the pthread+semaphore implementation of PyThread_acquire_lock_timed() when called with timeout > 0 and intr_flag=0: recompute the timeout if sem_timedwait() is interrupted by a signal (EINTR). See also the PEP 475.
bpo-31854: Add
mmap.ACCESS_DEFAULT
constant.bpo-31834: Use optimized code for BLAKE2 only with SSSE3+. The pure SSE2 implementation is slower than the pure C reference implementation.
bpo-28292: Calendar.itermonthdates() will now consistently raise an exception when a date falls outside of the 0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31 range. To support applications that cannot tolerate such exceptions, the new methods itermonthdays3() and itermonthdays4() are added. The new methods return tuples and are not restricted by the range supported by datetime.date.
bpo-28564: The shutil.rmtree() function has been sped up to 20–40%. This was done using the os.scandir() function.
bpo-28416: Instances of pickle.Pickler subclass with the persistent_id() method and pickle.Unpickler subclass with the persistent_load() method no longer create reference cycles.
bpo-31653: Don’t release the GIL if we can acquire a multiprocessing semaphore immediately.
bpo-28326: Fix multiprocessing.Process when stdout and/or stderr is closed or None.
bpo-20825: Add
subnet_of
andsuperset_of
containment tests toipaddress.IPv6Network
andipaddress.IPv4Network
. Patch by Michel Albert and Cheryl Sabella.bpo-31827: Remove the os.stat_float_times() function. It was introduced in Python 2.3 for backward compatibility with Python 2.2, and was deprecated since Python 3.1.
bpo-31756: Add a
subprocess.Popen(text=False)
keyword argument tosubprocess
functions to be more explicit about when the library should attempt to decode outputs into text. Patch by Andrew Clegg.bpo-31819: Add AbstractEventLoop.sock_recv_into().
bpo-31457: If nested log adapters are used, the inner
process()
methods are no longer omitted.bpo-31457: The
manager
property on LoggerAdapter objects is now properly settable.bpo-31806: Fix timeout rounding in time.sleep(), threading.Lock.acquire() and socket.socket.settimeout() to round correctly negative timeouts between -1.0 and 0.0. The functions now block waiting for events as expected. Previously, the call was incorrectly non-blocking. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-31803: time.clock() and time.get_clock_info(‘clock’) now emit a DeprecationWarning warning.
bpo-31800: Extended support for parsing UTC offsets. strptime ‘%z’ can now parse the output generated by datetime.isoformat, including seconds and microseconds.
bpo-28603: traceback: Fix a TypeError that occurred during printing of exception tracebacks when either the current exception or an exception in its context/cause chain is unhashable. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-30541: Add new function to seal a mock and prevent the automatically creation of child mocks. Patch by Mario Corchero.
bpo-31784: Implement the PEP 564, add new 6 new functions with nanosecond resolution to the
time
module:clock_gettime_ns()
,clock_settime_ns()
,monotonic_ns()
,perf_counter_ns()
,process_time_ns()
,time_ns()
.bpo-30143: 2to3 now generates a code that uses abstract collection classes from collections.abc rather than collections.
bpo-31770: Prevent a crash when calling the
__init__()
method of asqlite3.Cursor
object more than once. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31764: Prevent a crash in
sqlite3.Cursor.close()
in case theCursor
object is uninitialized. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31752: Fix possible crash in timedelta constructor called with custom integers.
bpo-31620: an empty asyncio.Queue now doesn’t leak memory when queue.get pollers timeout
bpo-31690: Allow the flags re.ASCII, re.LOCALE, and re.UNICODE to be used as group flags for regular expressions.
bpo-30349: FutureWarning is now emitted if a regular expression contains character set constructs that will change semantically in the future (nested sets and set operations).
bpo-31664: Added support for the Blowfish hashing in the crypt module.
bpo-31632: Fix method set_protocol() of class _SSLProtocolTransport in asyncio module. This method was previously modifying a wrong reference to the protocol.
bpo-15037: Added a workaround for getkey() in curses for ncurses 5.7 and earlier.
bpo-31307: Allow use of bytes objects for arguments to
configparser.ConfigParser.read()
. Patch by Vincent Michel.bpo-31334: Fix
poll.poll([timeout])
in theselect
module for arbitrary negative timeouts on all OSes where it can only be a non-negative integer or -1. Patch by Riccardo Coccioli.bpo-31310: multiprocessing’s semaphore tracker should be launched again if crashed.
bpo-31308: Make multiprocessing’s forkserver process immune to Ctrl-C and other user interruptions. If it crashes, restart it when necessary.
bpo-31245: Added support for AF_UNIX socket in asyncio
create_datagram_endpoint
.bpo-30553: Add HTTP/2 status code 421 (Misdirected Request) to
http.HTTPStatus
. Patch by Vitor Pereira.
Documentation¶
bpo-32105: Added asyncio.BaseEventLoop.connect_accepted_socket versionadded marker.
Tests¶
bpo-31380: Skip test_httpservers test_undecodable_file on macOS: fails on APFS.
bpo-31705: Skip test_socket.test_sha256() on Linux kernel older than 4.5. The test fails with ENOKEY on kernel 3.10 (on ppc64le). A fix was merged into the kernel 4.5.
bpo-32138: Skip on Android test_faulthandler tests that raise SIGSEGV and remove the test.support.requires_android_level decorator.
bpo-32136: The runtime embedding tests have been split out from
Lib/test/test_capi.py
into a newLib/test/test_embed.py
file.bpo-28668: test.support.requires_multiprocessing_queue is removed. Skip tests with test.support.import_module(‘multiprocessing.synchronize’) instead when the semaphore implementation is broken or missing.
bpo-32126: Skip test_get_event_loop_new_process in test.test_asyncio.test_events when sem_open() is not functional.
bpo-31174: Fix test_tools.test_unparse: DirectoryTestCase now stores the names sample to always test the same files. It prevents false alarms when hunting reference leaks.
Build¶
bpo-28538: Revert the previous changes, the if_nameindex structure is defined by Unified Headers.
bpo-28762: Revert the last commit, the F_LOCK macro is defined by Android Unified Headers.
bpo-29040: Support building Android with Unified Headers. The first NDK release to support Unified Headers is android-ndk-r14.
bpo-32059:
detect_modules()
insetup.py
now also searches the sysroot paths when cross-compiling.bpo-31957: Fixes Windows SDK version detection when building for Windows.
bpo-31609: Fixes quotes in PCbuild/clean.bat
bpo-31934: Abort the build when building out of a not clean source tree.
bpo-31926: Fixed Argument Clinic sometimes causing compilation errors when there was more than one function and/or method in a .c file with the same name.
bpo-28791: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.21.0.
bpo-28791: Update OS X installer to use SQLite 3.21.0.
bpo-28643: Record profile-opt build progress with stamp files.
bpo-31866: Finish removing support for AtheOS.
Windows¶
bpo-1102: Return
None
whenView.Fetch()
returnsERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS
instead of raisingMSIError
. Initial patch by Anthony Tuininga.bpo-31944: Fixes Modify button in Apps and Features dialog.
bpo-20486: Implement the
Database.Close()
method to help closing MSI database objects.bpo-31857: Make the behavior of USE_STACKCHECK deterministic in a multi-threaded environment.
macOS¶
bpo-31392: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2m
IDLE¶
bpo-32207: Improve tk event exception tracebacks in IDLE. When tk event handling is driven by IDLE’s run loop, a confusing and distracting queue.EMPTY traceback context is no longer added to tk event exception tracebacks. The traceback is now the same as when event handling is driven by user code. Patch based on a suggestion by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-32164: Delete unused file idlelib/tabbedpages.py. Use of TabbedPageSet in configdialog was replaced by ttk.Notebook.
bpo-32100: IDLE: Fix old and new bugs in pathbrowser; improve tests. Patch mostly by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31858: IDLE – Restrict shell prompt manipulation to the shell. Editor and output windows only see an empty last prompt line. This simplifies the code and fixes a minor bug when newline is inserted. Sys.ps1, if present, is read on Shell start-up, but is not set or changed.
bpo-31860: The font sample in the IDLE configuration dialog is now editable. Changes persist while IDLE remains open
bpo-31836: Test_code_module now passes if run after test_idle, which sets ps1. The code module uses sys.ps1 if present or sets it to ‘>>> ‘ if not. Test_code_module now properly tests both behaviors. Ditto for ps2.
bpo-28603: Fix a TypeError that caused a shell restart when printing a traceback that includes an exception that is unhashable. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-13802: Use non-Latin characters in the IDLE’s Font settings sample. Even if one selects a font that defines a limited subset of the unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, tcl/tk will use other fonts that define a character. The expanded example give users of non-Latin characters a better idea of what they might see in IDLE’s shell and editors. To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are re-arranged. The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-32159: Remove CVS and Subversion tools: remove svneol.py and treesync.py scripts. CPython migrated from CVS to Subversion, to Mercurial, and then to Git. CVS and Subversion are no longer used to develop CPython.
bpo-30722: Make redemo work with Python 3.6 and newer versions. Also, remove the
LOCALE
option since it doesn’t work with string patterns in Python 3. Patch by Christoph Sarnowski.
C API¶
bpo-20891: Fix PyGILState_Ensure(). When PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-Python thread before PyEval_InitThreads(), only call PyEval_InitThreads() after calling PyThreadState_New() to fix a crash.
bpo-32125: The
Py_UseClassExceptionsFlag
flag has been removed. It was deprecated and wasn’t used anymore since Python 2.0.bpo-25612: Move the current exception state from the frame object to the co-routine. This simplifies the interpreter and fixes a couple of obscure bugs caused by having swap exception state when entering or exiting a generator.
bpo-23699: Add Py_RETURN_RICHCOMPARE macro to reduce boilerplate code in rich comparison functions.
bpo-30697: The
PyExc_RecursionErrorInst
singleton is removed andPyErr_NormalizeException()
does not use it anymore. This singleton is persistent and its members being never cleared may cause a segfault during finalization of the interpreter. See also bpo-22898.
Python 3.7.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2017-10-16
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31558:
gc.freeze()
is a new API that allows for moving all objects currently tracked by the garbage collector to a permanent generation, effectively removing them from future collection events. This can be used to protect those objects from having their PyGC_Head mutated. In effect, this enables great copy-on-write stability at fork().bpo-31642: Restored blocking “from package import module” by setting sys.modules[“package.module”] to None.
bpo-31708: Allow use of asynchronous generator expressions in synchronous functions.
bpo-31709: Drop support of asynchronous __aiter__.
bpo-30404: The -u option now makes the stdout and stderr streams unbuffered rather than line-buffered.
bpo-31619: Fixed a ValueError when convert a string with large number of underscores to integer with binary base.
bpo-31602: Fix an assertion failure in
zipimporter.get_source()
in case of a badzlib.decompress()
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31592: Fixed an assertion failure in Python parser in case of a bad
unicodedata.normalize()
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31588: Raise a
TypeError
with a helpful error message when class creation fails due to a metaclass with a bad__prepare__()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31574: Importlib was instrumented with two dtrace probes to profile import timing.
bpo-31566: Fix an assertion failure in
_warnings.warn()
in case of a bad__name__
global. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31506: Improved the error message logic for
object.__new__
andobject.__init__
.bpo-31505: Fix an assertion failure in
json
, in case_json.make_encoder()
received a badencoder()
argument. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31492: Fix assertion failures in case of failing to import from a module with a bad
__name__
attribute, and in case of failing to access an attribute of such a module. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31478: Fix an assertion failure in
_random.Random.seed()
in case the argument has a bad__abs__()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31336: Speed up class creation by 10-20% by reducing the overhead in the necessary special method lookups. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-31415: Add
-X importtime
option to show how long each import takes. It can be used to optimize application’s startup time. Support thePYTHONPROFILEIMPORTTIME
as an equivalent way to enable this.bpo-31410: Optimized calling wrapper and classmethod descriptors.
bpo-31353: PEP 553 - Add a new built-in called
breakpoint()
which callssys.breakpointhook()
. By default this importspdb
and callspdb.set_trace()
, but users may overridesys.breakpointhook()
to call whatever debugger they want. The original value of the hook is saved insys.__breakpointhook__
.bpo-17852: Maintain a list of open buffered files, flush them before exiting the interpreter. Based on a patch from Armin Rigo.
bpo-31315: Fix an assertion failure in imp.create_dynamic(), when spec.name is not a string. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31311: Fix a crash in the
__setstate__()
method ofctypes._CData
, in case of a bad__dict__
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31293: Fix crashes in true division and multiplication of a timedelta object by a float with a bad as_integer_ratio() method. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31285: Fix an assertion failure in
warnings.warn_explicit
, when the return value of the received loader’sget_source()
has a badsplitlines()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30406: Make
async
andawait
proper keywords, as specified in PEP 492.
Library¶
bpo-30058: Fixed buffer overflow in select.kqueue.control().
bpo-31672:
idpattern
instring.Template
matched some non-ASCII characters. Now it uses-i
regular expression local flag to avoid non-ASCII characters.bpo-31701: On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now ignores MSC and COM exceptions.
bpo-31728: Prevent crashes in
_elementtree
due to unsafe cleanup ofElement.text
andElement.tail
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31671: Now
re.compile()
converts passed RegexFlag to normal int object before compiling. bm_regex_compile benchmark shows 14% performance improvements.bpo-30397: The types of compiled regular objects and match objects are now exposed as
re.Pattern
andre.Match
. This adds information in pydoc output for there
module.bpo-31675: Fixed memory leaks in Tkinter’s methods splitlist() and split() when pass a string larger than 2 GiB.
bpo-31673: Fixed typo in the name of Tkinter’s method adderrorinfo().
bpo-31648: Improvements to path predicates in ElementTree: Allow whitespace around predicate parts, i.e. “[a = ‘text’]” instead of requiring the less readable “[a=’text’]”. Add support for text comparison of the current node, like “[.=’text’]”. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-30806: Fix the string representation of a netrc object.
bpo-31638: Add optional argument
compressed
tozipapp.create_archive
, and add option--compress
to the command line interface ofzipapp
.bpo-25351: Avoid venv activate failures with undefined variables
bpo-20519: Avoid ctypes use (if possible) and improve import time for uuid.
bpo-28293: The regular expression cache is no longer completely dumped when it is full.
bpo-31596: Added pthread_getcpuclockid() to the time module
bpo-27494: Make 2to3 accept a trailing comma in generator expressions. For example,
set(x for x in [],)
is now allowed.bpo-30347: Stop crashes when concurrently iterate over itertools.groupby() iterators.
bpo-30346: An iterator produced by itertools.groupby() iterator now becomes exhausted after advancing the groupby iterator.
bpo-31556: Cancel asyncio.wait_for future faster if timeout <= 0
bpo-31540: Allow passing a context object in
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
constructor. Also, free job resources inconcurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
earlier to improve memory usage when a worker waits for new jobs.bpo-31516:
threading.current_thread()
should not return a dummy thread at shutdown.bpo-31525: In the sqlite module, require the sqlite3_prepare_v2 API. Thus, the sqlite module now requires sqlite version at least 3.3.9.
bpo-26510: argparse subparsers are now required by default. This matches behaviour in Python 2. For optional subparsers, use the new parameter
add_subparsers(required=False)
. Patch by Anthony Sottile. (As of 3.7.0rc1, the default was changed to not required as had been the case since Python 3.3.)bpo-27541: Reprs of subclasses of some collection and iterator classes (
bytearray
,array.array
,collections.deque
,collections.defaultdict
,itertools.count
,itertools.repeat
) now contain actual type name instead of hardcoded names of the base class.bpo-31351: python -m ensurepip now exits with non-zero exit code if pip bootstrapping has failed.
bpo-31389:
pdb.set_trace()
now takes an optional keyword-only argumentheader
. If given, this is printed to the console just before debugging begins.
Documentation¶
Build¶
bpo-31696: Improve compiler version information in
sys.version
when Python is built with Clang.bpo-31625: Stop using ranlib on static libraries. Instead, we assume ar supports the ‘s’ flag.
bpo-31624: Remove support for BSD/OS.
bpo-22140: Prevent double substitution of prefix in python-config.sh.
bpo-31569: Correct PCBuild/ case to PCbuild/ in build scripts and documentation.
bpo-31536: Avoid wholesale rebuild after
make regen-all
if nothing changed.
IDLE¶
bpo-31460: Simplify the API of IDLE’s Module Browser. Passing a widget instead of an flist with a root widget opens the option of creating a browser frame that is only part of a window. Passing a full file name instead of pieces assumed to come from a .py file opens the possibility of browsing python files that do not end in .py.
bpo-31649: IDLE - Make _htest, _utest parameters keyword only.
bpo-31559: Remove test order dependence in idle_test.test_browser.
bpo-31459: Rename IDLE’s module browser from Class Browser to Module Browser. The original module-level class and method browser became a module browser, with the addition of module-level functions, years ago. Nested classes and functions were added yesterday. For back-compatibility, the virtual event <<open-class-browser>>, which appears on the Keys tab of the Settings dialog, is not changed. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31500: Default fonts now are scaled on HiDPI displays.
bpo-1612262: IDLE module browser now shows nested classes and functions. Original patches for code and tests by Guilherme Polo and Cheryl Sabella, respectively.
C API¶
bpo-28280: Make
PyMapping_Keys()
,PyMapping_Values()
andPyMapping_Items()
always return alist
(rather than alist
or atuple
). Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31532: Fix memory corruption due to allocator mix in getpath.c between Py_GetPath() and Py_SetPath()
bpo-25658: Implement PEP 539 for Thread Specific Storage (TSS) API: it is a new Thread Local Storage (TLS) API to CPython which would supersede use of the existing TLS API within the CPython interpreter, while deprecating the existing API. PEP written by Erik M. Bray, patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
Python 3.7.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2017-09-19
Security¶
bpo-29781: SSLObject.version() now correctly returns None when handshake over BIO has not been performed yet.
bpo-29505: Add fuzz tests for float(str), int(str), unicode(str); for oss-fuzz.
bpo-30947: Upgrade libexpat embedded copy from version 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 to get security fixes.
bpo-30730: Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on Windows. Prevent passing other environment variables and command arguments.
bpo-30694: Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple security vulnerabilities including: CVE 2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop DoS), CVE 2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE 2016-0718 (Fix regression bugs from 2.2.0’s fix to CVE 2016-0718) and CVE 2012-0876 (Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE 2016-5300 (Use os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn’t impact Python, since Python already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using
XML_SetHashSalt()
.bpo-30500: Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse fragments. For example,
splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')
now correctly returns the127.0.0.1
host, instead of treating@evil.com
as the host in an authentication (login@host
).bpo-29591: Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes of CVE 2016-0718 and CVE 2016-4472. See https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more information.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31490: Fix an assertion failure in
ctypes
class definition, in case the class has an attribute whose name is specified in_anonymous_
but not in_fields_
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31471: Fix an assertion failure in
subprocess.Popen()
on Windows, in case the env argument has a badkeys()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31418: Fix an assertion failure in
PyErr_WriteUnraisable()
in case of an exception with a bad__module__
attribute. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31416: Fix assertion failures in case of a bad warnings.filters or warnings.defaultaction. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28411: Change direct usage of PyInterpreterState.modules to PyImport_GetModuleDict(). Also introduce more uniformity in other code that deals with sys.modules. This helps reduce complications when working on sys.modules.
bpo-28411: Switch to the abstract API when dealing with
PyInterpreterState.modules
. This allows later support for all dict subclasses and other Mapping implementations. Also add aPyImport_GetModule()
function to reduce a bunch of duplicated code.bpo-31411: Raise a TypeError instead of SystemError in case warnings.onceregistry is not a dictionary. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31344: For finer control of tracing behaviour when testing the interpreter, two new frame attributes have been added to control the emission of particular trace events:
f_trace_lines
(True
by default) to turn off per-line trace events; andf_trace_opcodes
(False
by default) to turn on per-opcode trace events.bpo-31373: Fix several possible instances of undefined behavior due to floating-point demotions.
bpo-30465: Location information (
lineno
andcol_offset
) in f-strings is now (mostly) correct. This fixes tools like flake8 from showing warnings on the wrong line (typically the first line of the file).bpo-30860: Consolidate CPython’s global runtime state under a single struct. This improves discoverability of the runtime state.
bpo-31347: Fix possible undefined behavior in _PyObject_FastCall_Prepend.
bpo-31343: Include sys/sysmacros.h for major(), minor(), and makedev(). GNU C libray plans to remove the functions from sys/types.h.
bpo-31291: Fix an assertion failure in
zipimport.zipimporter.get_data
on Windows, when the return value ofpathname.replace('/','\\')
isn’t a string. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31271: Fix an assertion failure in the
write()
method ofio.TextIOWrapper
, when the encoder doesn’t return a bytes object. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31243: Fix a crash in some methods of
io.TextIOWrapper
, when the decoder’s state is invalid. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30721:
print
now shows correct usage hint for using Python 2 redirection syntax. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-31070: Fix a race condition in importlib _get_module_lock().
bpo-30747: Add a non-dummy implementation of _Py_atomic_store and _Py_atomic_load on MSVC.
bpo-31095: Fix potential crash during GC caused by
tp_dealloc
which doesn’t callPyObject_GC_UnTrack()
.bpo-31071: Avoid masking original TypeError in call with * unpacking when other arguments are passed.
bpo-30978: str.format_map() now passes key lookup exceptions through. Previously any exception was replaced with a KeyError exception.
bpo-30808: Use _Py_atomic API for concurrency-sensitive signal state.
bpo-30876: Relative import from unloaded package now reimports the package instead of failing with SystemError. Relative import from non-package now fails with ImportError rather than SystemError.
bpo-30703: Improve signal delivery. Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling signal-unsafe functions. The tests I’m adding here fail without the rest of the patch, on Linux and OS X. This means our signal delivery logic had defects (some signals could be lost).
bpo-30765: Avoid blocking in pthread_mutex_lock() when PyThread_acquire_lock() is asked not to block.
bpo-31161: Make sure the ‘Missing parentheses’ syntax error message is only applied to SyntaxError, not to subclasses. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-30814: Fixed a race condition when import a submodule from a package.
bpo-30736: The internal unicodedata database has been upgraded to Unicode 10.0.
bpo-30604: Move co_extra_freefuncs from per-thread to per-interpreter to avoid crashes.
bpo-30597:
print
now shows expected input in custom error message when used as a Python 2 statement. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-30682: Removed a too-strict assertion that failed for certain f-strings, such as eval(“f’\n’”) and eval(“f’\r’”).
bpo-30501: The compiler now produces more optimal code for complex condition expressions in the “if”, “while” and “assert” statement, the “if” expression, and generator expressions and comprehensions.
bpo-28180: Implement PEP 538 (legacy C locale coercion). This means that when a suitable coercion target locale is available, both the core interpreter and locale-aware C extensions will assume the use of UTF-8 as the default text encoding, rather than ASCII.
bpo-30486: Allows setting cell values for __closure__. Patch by Lisa Roach.
bpo-30537: itertools.islice now accepts integer-like objects (having an __index__ method) as start, stop, and slice arguments
bpo-25324: Tokens needed for parsing in Python moved to C.
COMMENT
,NL
andENCODING
. This way the tokens and tok_names in the token module don’t get changed when you import the tokenize module.bpo-29104: Fixed parsing backslashes in f-strings.
bpo-27945: Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are mutated during searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by Duane Griffin and Tim Mitchell.
bpo-25794: Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-interned attribute names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-30039: If a KeyboardInterrupt happens when the interpreter is in the middle of resuming a chain of nested ‘yield from’ or ‘await’ calls, it’s now correctly delivered to the innermost frame.
bpo-28974:
object.__format__(x, '')
is now equivalent tostr(x)
rather thanformat(str(self), '')
.bpo-30024: Circular imports involving absolute imports with binding a submodule to a name are now supported.
bpo-12414: sys.getsizeof() on a code object now returns the sizes which includes the code struct and sizes of objects which it references. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-29839: len() now raises ValueError rather than OverflowError if __len__() returned a large negative integer.
bpo-11913: README.rst is now included in the list of distutils standard READMEs and therefore included in source distributions.
bpo-29914: Fixed default implementations of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__(). object.__reduce__() no longer takes arguments, object.__reduce_ex__() now requires one argument.
bpo-29949: Fix memory usage regression of set and frozenset object.
bpo-29935: Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple, list and deque when pass indices of wrong type.
bpo-29816: Shift operation now has less opportunity to raise OverflowError. ValueError always is raised rather than OverflowError for negative counts. Shifting zero with non-negative count always returns zero.
bpo-24821: Fixed the slowing down to 25 times in the searching of some unlucky Unicode characters.
bpo-29102: Add a unique ID to PyInterpreterState. This makes it easier to identify each subinterpreter.
bpo-29894: The deprecation warning is emitted if __complex__ returns an instance of a strict subclass of complex. In a future versions of Python this can be an error.
bpo-29859: Show correct error messages when any of the pthread_* calls in thread_pthread.h fails.
bpo-29849: Fix a memory leak when an ImportError is raised during from import.
bpo-28856: Fix an oversight that %b format for bytes should support objects follow the buffer protocol.
bpo-29723: The
sys.path[0]
initialization change for bpo-29139 caused a regression by revealing an inconsistency in how sys.path is initialized when executing__main__
from a zipfile, directory, or other import location. The interpreter now consistently avoids ever adding the import location’s parent directory tosys.path
, and ensures no othersys.path
entries are inadvertently modified when inserting the import location named on the command line.bpo-29568: Escaped percent “%%” in the format string for classic string formatting no longer allows any characters between two percents.
bpo-29714: Fix a regression that bytes format may fail when containing zero bytes inside.
bpo-29695: bool(), float(), list() and tuple() no longer take keyword arguments. The first argument of int() can now be passes only as positional argument.
bpo-28893: Set correct __cause__ for errors about invalid awaitables returned from __aiter__ and __anext__.
bpo-28876:
bool(range)
works even iflen(range)
raisesOverflowError
.bpo-29683: Fixes to memory allocation in _PyCode_SetExtra. Patch by Brian Coleman.
bpo-29684: Fix minor regression of PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords. It should raise TypeError when kwargs is not a dict. But it might cause segv when args=NULL and kwargs is not a dict.
bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-29607: Fix stack_effect computation for CALL_FUNCTION_EX. Patch by Matthieu Dartiailh.
bpo-29602: Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-29347: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref objects.
bpo-29463: Add
docstring
field to Module, ClassDef, FunctionDef, and AsyncFunctionDef ast nodes. docstring is not first stmt in their body anymore. It affectsco_firstlineno
andco_lnotab
of code object for module and class. (Reverted in bpo-32911.)bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.
bpo-29546: Set the ‘path’ and ‘name’ attribute on ImportError for
from ... import ...
.bpo-29546: Improve from-import error message with location
bpo-29478: If max_line_length=None is specified while using the Compat32 policy, it is no longer ignored. Patch by Mircea Cosbuc.
bpo-29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].
bpo-29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. Warnings could be emitted at compile time.
bpo-29327: Fixed a crash when pass the iterable keyword argument to sorted().
bpo-29034: Fix memory leak and use-after-free in os module (path_converter).
bpo-29159: Fix regression in bytes(x) when x.__index__() raises Exception.
bpo-29049: Call _PyObject_GC_TRACK() lazily when calling Python function. Calling function is up to 5% faster.
bpo-28927: bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex() now ignore all ASCII whitespace, not only spaces. Patch by Robert Xiao.
bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
bpo-25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
bpo-29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate form.
bpo-18896: Python function can now have more than 255 parameters. collections.namedtuple() now supports tuples with more than 255 elements.
bpo-28596: The preferred encoding is UTF-8 on Android. Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.
bpo-28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.
bpo-28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr() must not convert combined table into split table. Patch written by INADA Naoki.
bpo-28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.
bpo-28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
bpo-28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been built with Py_DEBUG defined.
bpo-23722: Rather than silently producing a class that doesn’t support zero-argument
super()
in methods, failing to pass the new__classcell__
namespace entry up totype.__new__
now results in aDeprecationWarning
and a class that supports zero-argumentsuper()
.bpo-28797: Modifying the class __dict__ inside the __set_name__ method of a descriptor that is used inside that class no longer prevents calling the __set_name__ method of other descriptors.
bpo-28799: Remove the
PyEval_GetCallStats()
function and deprecate the untested and undocumentedsys.callstats()
function. Remove theCALL_PROFILE
special build: use thesys.setprofile()
function,cProfile
orprofile
to profile function calls.bpo-12844: More than 255 arguments can now be passed to a function.
bpo-28782: Fix a bug in the implementation
yield from
when checking if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE (bpo-26647).bpo-28774: Fix error position of the unicode error in ASCII and Latin1 encoders when a string returned by the error handler contains multiple non-encodable characters (non-ASCII for the ASCII codec, characters out of the U+0000-U+00FF range for Latin1).
bpo-28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict. Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
bpo-28532: Show sys.version when -V option is supplied twice.
bpo-27100: The with-statement now checks for __enter__ before it checks for __exit__. This gives less confusing error messages when both methods are missing. Patch by Jonathan Ellington.
bpo-28746: Fix the set_inheritable() file descriptor method on platforms that do not have the ioctl FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX commands.
bpo-26920: Fix not getting the locale’s charset upon initializing the interpreter, on platforms that do not have langinfo.
bpo-28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28665: Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.
bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
bpo-28621: Sped up converting int to float by reusing faster bits counting implementation. Patch by Adrian Wielgosik.
bpo-28580: Optimize iterating split table values. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28583: PyDict_SetDefault didn’t combine split table when needed. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28128: Deprecation warning for invalid str and byte escape sequences now prints better information about where the error occurs. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka and Eric Smith.
bpo-28509: dict.update() no longer allocate unnecessary large memory.
bpo-28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug build.
bpo-28517: Fixed of-by-one error in the peephole optimizer that caused keeping unreachable code.
bpo-28214: Improved exception reporting for problematic __set_name__ attributes.
bpo-23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
bpo-28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
bpo-26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future. Original patch by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator type now is disallowed. Calling iter() on range instance is the only way. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original patch by Niklas Koep.
bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of compiling it.
bpo-28201: Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table when hashes have same lower bits.
bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
bpo-26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
bpo-28289: ImportError.__init__ now resets not specified attributes.
bpo-21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with invalid keyword args.
bpo-28203: Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error message. Patch by Soumya Sharma.
bpo-28086: Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was passed unscathed to the C-defined function. Now it is converted to exact tuple.
bpo-28214: Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of the instance.
bpo-27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
bpo-28192: Don’t import readline in isolated mode.
bpo-27441: Remove some redundant assignments to ob_size in longobject.c. Thanks Oren Milman.
bpo-27222: Clean up redundant code in long_rshift function. Thanks Oren Milman.
Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.
bpo-28131: Fix a regression in zipimport’s compile_source(). zipimport should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
bpo-28126: Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can properly optimize memcpy().
bpo-28120: Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to remove a “pending key” (Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26182: Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are used as variable/attribute/class/function name.
bpo-26182: Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.
bpo-28721: Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to handle StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.
bpo-26110: Speed-up method calls: add LOAD_METHOD and CALL_METHOD opcodes.
Library¶
bpo-31499: xml.etree: Fix a crash when a parser is part of a reference cycle.
bpo-31482:
random.seed()
now works with bytes in version=1bpo-28556: typing.get_type_hints now finds the right globalns for classes and modules by default (when no
globalns
was specified by the caller).bpo-28556: Speed improvements to the
typing
module. Original PRs by Ivan Levkivskyi and Mitar.bpo-31544: The C accelerator module of ElementTree ignored exceptions raised when looking up TreeBuilder target methods in XMLParser().
bpo-31234: socket.create_connection() now fixes manually a reference cycle: clear the variable storing the last exception on success.
bpo-31457: LoggerAdapter objects can now be nested.
bpo-31431: SSLContext.check_hostname now automatically sets SSLContext.verify_mode to ssl.CERT_REQUIRED instead of failing with a ValueError.
bpo-31233: socketserver.ThreadingMixIn now keeps a list of non-daemonic threads to wait until all these threads complete in server_close().
bpo-28638: Changed the implementation strategy for collections.namedtuple() to substantially reduce the use of exec() in favor of precomputed methods. As a result, the verbose parameter and _source attribute are no longer supported. The benefits include 1) having a smaller memory footprint for applications using multiple named tuples, 2) faster creation of the named tuple class (approx 4x to 6x depending on how it is measured), and 3) minor speed-ups for instance creation using __new__, _make, and _replace. (The primary patch contributor is Jelle Zijlstra with further improvements by INADA Naoki, Serhiy Storchaka, and Raymond Hettinger.)
bpo-31400: Improves SSL error handling to avoid losing error numbers.
bpo-27629: Make return types of SSLContext.wrap_bio() and SSLContext.wrap_socket() customizable.
bpo-28958: ssl.SSLContext() now uses OpenSSL error information when a context cannot be instantiated.
bpo-28182: The SSL module now raises SSLCertVerificationError when OpenSSL fails to verify the peer’s certificate. The exception contains more information about the error.
bpo-27340: SSLSocket.sendall() now uses memoryview to create slices of data. This fixes support for all bytes-like object. It is also more efficient and avoids costly copies.
bpo-14191: A new function
argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_intermixed_args
provides the ability to parse command lines where there user intermixes options and positional arguments.bpo-31178: Fix string concatenation bug in rare error path in the subprocess module
bpo-31350: Micro-optimize
asyncio._get_running_loop()
to become up to 10% faster.bpo-31170: expat: Update libexpat from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Fix copying of partial characters for UTF-8 input (libexpat bug 115): https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/115
bpo-29136: Add TLS 1.3 cipher suites and OP_NO_TLSv1_3.
bpo-1198569:
string.Template
subclasses can optionally definebraceidpattern
if they want to specify different placeholder patterns inside and outside the braces. If None (the default) it falls back toidpattern
.bpo-31326: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.shutdown() now explicitly closes the call queue. Moreover, shutdown(wait=True) now also join the call queue thread, to prevent leaking a dangling thread.
bpo-27144: The
map()
andas_completed()
iterators inconcurrent.futures
now avoid keeping a reference to yielded objects.bpo-31281: Fix
fileinput.FileInput(files, inplace=True)
whenfiles
containpathlib.Path
objects.bpo-10746: Fix ctypes producing wrong PEP 3118 type codes for integer types.
bpo-27584:
AF_VSOCK
has been added to the socket interface which allows communication between virtual machines and their host.bpo-22536: The subprocess module now sets the filename when FileNotFoundError is raised on POSIX systems due to the executable or cwd not being found.
bpo-29741: Update some methods in the _pyio module to also accept integer types. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31249: concurrent.futures: WorkItem.run() used by ThreadPoolExecutor now breaks a reference cycle between an exception object and the WorkItem object.
bpo-31247: xmlrpc.server now explicitly breaks reference cycles when using sys.exc_info() in code handling exceptions.
bpo-23835: configparser: reading defaults in the
ConfigParser()
constructor is now usingread_dict()
, making its behavior consistent with the rest of the parser. Non-string keys and values in the defaults dictionary are now being implicitly converted to strings. Patch by James Tocknell.bpo-31238: pydoc: the stop() method of the private ServerThread class now waits until DocServer.serve_until_quit() completes and then explicitly sets its docserver attribute to None to break a reference cycle.
bpo-5001: Many asserts in
multiprocessing
are now more informative, and some error types have been changed to more specific ones.bpo-31109: Convert zipimport to use Argument Clinic.
bpo-30102: The ssl and hashlib modules now call OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf() on OpenSSL < 1.1.0. The function detects CPU features and enables optimizations on some CPU architectures such as POWER8. Patch is based on research from Gustavo Serra Scalet.
bpo-18966: Non-daemonic threads created by a multiprocessing.Process are now joined on child exit.
bpo-31183:
dis
now works with asynchronous generator and coroutine objects. Patch by George Collins based on diagnosis by Luciano Ramalho.bpo-5001: There are a number of uninformative asserts in the
multiprocessing
module, as noted in issue 5001. This change fixes two of the most potentially problematic ones, since they are in error-reporting code, in themultiprocessing.managers.convert_to_error
function. (It also makes more informative a ValueError message.) The only potentially problematic change is that the AssertionError is now a TypeError; however, this should also help distinguish it from an AssertionError being reported by the function/its caller (such as in issue 31169). - Patch by Allen W. Smith (drallensmith on github).bpo-31185: Fixed miscellaneous errors in asyncio speedup module.
bpo-31151: socketserver.ForkingMixIn.server_close() now waits until all child processes completed to prevent leaking zombie processes.
bpo-31072: Add an
include_file
parameter tozipapp.create_archive()
bpo-24700: Optimize array.array comparison. It is now from 10x up to 70x faster when comparing arrays holding values of the same integer type.
bpo-31135: ttk: fix the destroy() method of LabeledScale and OptionMenu classes. Call the parent destroy() method even if the used attribute doesn’t exist. The LabeledScale.destroy() method now also explicitly clears label and scale attributes to help the garbage collector to destroy all widgets.
bpo-31107: Fix
copyreg._slotnames()
mangled attribute calculation for classes whose name begins with an underscore. Patch by Shane Harvey.bpo-31080: Allow
logging.config.fileConfig
to accept kwargs and/or args.bpo-30897:
pathlib.Path
objects now include anis_mount()
method (only implemented on POSIX). This is similar toos.path.ismount(p)
. Patch by Cooper Ry Lees.bpo-31061: Fixed a crash when using asyncio and threads.
bpo-30987: Added support for CAN ISO-TP protocol in the socket module.
bpo-30522: Added a
setStream
method tologging.StreamHandler
to allow the stream to be set after creation.bpo-30502: Fix handling of long oids in ssl. Based on patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-5288: Support tzinfo objects with sub-minute offsets.
bpo-30919: Fix shared memory performance regression in multiprocessing in 3.x. Shared memory used anonymous memory mappings in 2.x, while 3.x mmaps actual files. Try to be careful to do as little disk I/O as possible.
bpo-26732: Fix too many fds in processes started with the “forkserver” method. A child process would inherit as many fds as the number of still-running children.
bpo-29403: Fix
unittest.mock
’s autospec to not fail on method-bound builtin functions. Patch by Aaron Gallagher.bpo-30961: Fix decrementing a borrowed reference in tracemalloc.
bpo-19896: Fix multiprocessing.sharedctypes to recognize typecodes
'q'
and'Q'
.bpo-30946: Remove obsolete code in readline module for platforms where GNU readline is older than 2.1 or where select() is not available.
bpo-25684: Change
ttk.OptionMenu
radiobuttons to be unique across instances ofOptionMenu
.bpo-30886: Fix multiprocessing.Queue.join_thread(): it now waits until the thread completes, even if the thread was started by the same process which created the queue.
bpo-29854: Fix segfault in readline when using readline’s history-size option. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-30794: Added multiprocessing.Process.kill method to terminate using the SIGKILL signal on Unix.
bpo-30319: socket.close() now ignores ECONNRESET error.
bpo-30828: Fix out of bounds write in
asyncio.CFuture.remove_done_callback()
.bpo-30302: Use keywords in the
repr
ofdatetime.timedelta
.bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny value. Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(), which is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on some platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero interval, therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it.
bpo-30441: Fix bug when modifying os.environ while iterating over it
bpo-29585: Avoid importing
sysconfig
fromsite
to improve startup speed. Python startup is about 5% faster on Linux and 30% faster on macOS.bpo-29293: Add missing parameter “n” on multiprocessing.Condition.notify(). The doc claims multiprocessing.Condition behaves like threading.Condition, but its notify() method lacked the optional “n” argument (to specify the number of sleepers to wake up) that threading.Condition.notify() accepts.
bpo-30532: Fix email header value parser dropping folding white space in certain cases.
bpo-30596: Add a
close()
method tomultiprocessing.Process
.bpo-9146: Fix a segmentation fault in _hashopenssl when standard hash functions such as md5 are not available in the linked OpenSSL library. As in some special FIPS-140 build environments.
bpo-29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.
bpo-30119: ftplib.FTP.putline() now throws ValueError on commands that contains CR or LF. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-30879: os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes-like argument.
bpo-30746: Prohibited the ‘=’ character in environment variable names in
os.putenv()
andos.spawn*()
.bpo-30664: The description of a unittest subtest now preserves the order of keyword arguments of TestCase.subTest().
bpo-21071: struct.Struct.format type is now
str
instead ofbytes
.bpo-29212: Fix concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor threads to have a non repr() based thread name by default when no thread_name_prefix is supplied. They will now identify themselves as “ThreadPoolExecutor-y_n”.
bpo-29755: Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module. They now always return bytes.
bpo-30616: Functional API of enum allows to create empty enums. Patched by Donghee Na
bpo-30038: Fix race condition between signal delivery and wakeup file descriptor. Patch by Nathaniel Smith.
bpo-23894: lib2to3 now recognizes
rb'...'
andf'...'
strings.bpo-24744: pkgutil.walk_packages function now raises ValueError if path is a string. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-24484: Avoid race condition in multiprocessing cleanup.
bpo-30589: Fix multiprocessing.Process.exitcode to return the opposite of the signal number when the process is killed by a signal (instead of 255) when using the “forkserver” method.
bpo-28994: The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in a callback registered by atexit.
bpo-30508: Don’t log exceptions if Task/Future “cancel()” method was called.
bpo-30645: Fix path calculation in
imp.load_package()
, fixing it for cases when a package is only shipped with bytecodes. Patch by Alexandru Ardelean.bpo-11822: The dis.dis() function now is able to disassemble nested code objects.
bpo-30624: selectors does not take KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit into account, leaving a fd in a bad state in case of error. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-30595: multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader in non-blocking mode if it succeeded to acquire the lock but the acquire took longer than the timeout.
bpo-28556: Updates to typing module: Add generic AsyncContextManager, add support for ContextManager on all versions. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra and Ivan Levkivskyi
bpo-30605: re.compile() no longer raises a BytesWarning when compiling a bytes instance with misplaced inline modifier. Patch by Roy Williams.
bpo-29870: Fix ssl sockets leaks when connection is aborted in asyncio/ssl implementation. Patch by Michaël Sghaïer.
bpo-29743: Closing transport during handshake process leaks open socket. Patch by Nikolay Kim
bpo-27585: Fix waiter cancellation in asyncio.Lock. Patch by Mathieu Sornay.
bpo-30014: modify() method of poll(), epoll() and devpoll() based classes of selectors module is around 10% faster. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-30418: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL on stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe.
bpo-30463: Addded empty __slots__ to abc.ABC. This allows subclassers to deny __dict__ and __weakref__ creation. Patch by Aaron Hall.
bpo-30520: Loggers are now pickleable.
bpo-30557: faulthandler now correctly filters and displays exception codes on Windows
bpo-30526: Add TextIOWrapper.reconfigure() and a TextIOWrapper.write_through attribute.
bpo-30245: Fix possible overflow when organize struct.pack_into error message. Patch by Yuan Liu.
bpo-30378: Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot handle IPv6 addresses.
bpo-16500: Allow registering at-fork handlers.
bpo-30470: Deprecate invalid ctypes call protection on Windows. Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not break from main loop on exception.
bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-30149: inspect.signature() now supports callables with variable-argument parameters wrapped with partialmethod. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-30436: importlib.find_spec() raises ModuleNotFoundError instead of AttributeError if the specified parent module is not a package (i.e. lacks a __path__ attribute).
bpo-30301: Fix AttributeError when using SimpleQueue.empty() under spawn and forkserver start methods.
bpo-30375: Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always point to the line in the user code. Previously they could point into inners of the re module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals.
bpo-30329: imaplib and poplib now catch the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code 10022) on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This error occurs sometimes on SSL connections.
bpo-29196: Removed previously deprecated in Python 2.4 classes Plist, Dict and _InternalDict in the plistlib module. Dict values in the result of functions readPlist() and readPlistFromBytes() are now normal dicts. You no longer can use attribute access to access items of these dictionaries.
bpo-9850: The
macpath
is now deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.8.bpo-30299: Compiling regular expression in debug mode on CPython now displays the compiled bytecode in human readable form.
bpo-30048: Fixed
Task.cancel()
can be ignored when the task is running coroutine and the coroutine returned without any moreawait
.bpo-30266: contextlib.AbstractContextManager now supports anti-registration by setting __enter__ = None or __exit__ = None, following the pattern introduced in bpo-25958. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-30340: Enhanced regular expressions optimization. This increased the performance of matching some patterns up to 25 times.
bpo-30298: Weaken the condition of deprecation warnings for inline modifiers. Now allowed several subsequential inline modifiers at the start of the pattern (e.g.
'(?i)(?s)...'
). In verbose mode whitespaces and comments now are allowed before and between inline modifiers (e.g.'(?x) (?i) (?s)...'
).bpo-30285: Optimized case-insensitive matching and searching of regular expressions.
bpo-29990: Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-29979: rewrite cgi.parse_multipart, reusing the FieldStorage class and making its results consistent with those of FieldStorage for multipart/form-data requests. Patch by Pierre Quentel.
bpo-30243: Removed the __init__ methods of _json’s scanner and encoder. Misusing them could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and encoder objects are completely initialized in the __new__ methods.
bpo-30215: Compiled regular expression objects with the re.LOCALE flag no longer depend on the locale at compile time. Only the locale at matching time affects the result of matching.
bpo-30185: Avoid KeyboardInterrupt tracebacks in forkserver helper process when Ctrl-C is received.
bpo-30103: binascii.b2a_uu() and uu.encode() now support using
'`'
as zero instead of space.bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-30205: Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux.
bpo-30228: The seek() and tell() methods of io.FileIO now set the internal seekable attribute to avoid one syscall on open() (in buffered or text mode).
bpo-30190: unittest’s assertAlmostEqual and assertNotAlmostEqual provide a better message in case of failure which includes the difference between left and right arguments. (patch by Giampaolo Rodola’)
bpo-30101: Add support for curses.A_ITALIC.
bpo-29822: inspect.isabstract() now works during __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.
bpo-29960: Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises an exception. Patch by Bryan Olson.
bpo-30070: Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module.
bpo-22352: Column widths in the output of dis.dis() are now adjusted for large line numbers and instruction offsets.
bpo-30061: Fixed crashes in IOBase methods __next__() and readlines() when readline() or __next__() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed possible other errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), PySequence_Size(), or PyMapping_Size().
bpo-30218: Fix PathLike support for shutil.unpack_archive. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-10076: Compiled regular expression and match objects in the re module now support copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy() (they are considered atomic).
bpo-30068: _io._IOBase.readlines will check if it’s closed first when hint is present.
bpo-29694: Fixed race condition in pathlib mkdir with flags parents=True. Patch by Armin Rigo.
bpo-29692: Fixed arbitrary unchaining of RuntimeError exceptions in contextlib.contextmanager. Patch by Siddharth Velankar.
bpo-26187: Test that sqlite3 trace callback is not called multiple times when schema is changing. Indirectly fixed by switching to use sqlite3_prepare_v2() in bpo-9303. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-30017: Allowed calling the close() method of the zip entry writer object multiple times. Writing to a closed writer now always produces a ValueError.
bpo-29998: Pickling and copying ImportError now preserves name and path attributes.
bpo-29995: re.escape() now escapes only regex special characters.
bpo-29962: Add math.remainder operation, implementing remainder as specified in IEEE 754.
bpo-29649: Improve struct.pack_into() exception messages for problems with the buffer size and offset. Patch by Andrew Nester.
bpo-29654: Support If-Modified-Since HTTP header (browser cache). Patch by Pierre Quentel.
bpo-29931: Fixed comparison check for ipaddress.ip_interface objects. Patch by Sanjay Sundaresan.
bpo-29953: Fixed memory leaks in the replace() method of datetime and time objects when pass out of bound fold argument.
bpo-29942: Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering long runs of empty iterables.
bpo-10030: Sped up reading encrypted ZIP files by 2 times.
bpo-29204: Element.getiterator() and the html parameter of XMLParser() were deprecated only in the documentation (since Python 3.2 and 3.4 correspondingly). Now using them emits a deprecation warning.
bpo-27863: Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions and wrong types.
bpo-25996: Added support of file descriptors in os.scandir() on Unix. os.fwalk() is sped up by 2 times by using os.scandir().
bpo-28699: Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an exception at the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or make the program hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang.
bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected.
bpo-29901: The zipapp module now supports general path-like objects, not just pathlib.Path.
bpo-25803: Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.
bpo-19930: The mode argument of os.makedirs() no longer affects the file permission bits of newly created intermediate-level directories.
bpo-29884: faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown. Patch by Christophe Zeitouny.
bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords are not strings. Patch by Michael Seifert.
bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes “encoding” or “errors” of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
bpo-28692: Using non-integer value for selecting a plural form in gettext is now deprecated.
bpo-26121: Use C library implementation for math functions erf() and erfc().
bpo-29619: os.stat() and os.DirEntry.inode() now convert inode (st_ino) using unsigned integers.
bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array ‘Q’, ‘L’ and ‘I’ from accepting big intables (objects that have __int__) as elements.
bpo-29645: Speed up importing the webbrowser module. webbrowser.register() is now thread-safe.
bpo-28231: The zipfile module now accepts path-like objects for external paths.
bpo-26915: index() and count() methods of collections.abc.Sequence now check identity before checking equality when do comparisons.
bpo-28682: Added support for bytes paths in os.fwalk().
bpo-29728: Add new
socket.TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT
(Linux 3.12) constant. Patch by Nathaniel J. Smith.bpo-29623: Allow use of path-like object as a single argument in ConfigParser.read(). Patch by David Ellis.
bpo-9303: Migrate sqlite3 module to _v2 API. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-28963: Fix out of bound iteration in asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback implemented in C.
bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before all pipes are closed.
bpo-29271: Fix Task.current_task and Task.all_tasks implemented in C to accept None argument as their pure Python implementation.
bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops in child processes.
bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods. Patch by Petr Motejlek.
bpo-7769: Method register_function() of xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher and its subclasses can now be used as a decorator.
bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive().
bpo-28624: Add a test that checks that cwd parameter of Popen() accepts PathLike objects. Patch by Sayan Chowdhury.
bpo-28518: Start a transaction implicitly before a DML statement. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport. Patch by Nikolay Kim.
bpo-16285: urllib.parse.quote is now based on RFC 3986 and hence includes ‘~’ in the set of characters that is not quoted by default. Patch by Christian Theune and Ratnadeep Debnath.
bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() no longer affects a partial object after creation.
bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
bpo-22807: Add uuid.SafeUUID and uuid.UUID.is_safe to relay information from the platform about whether generated UUIDs are generated with a multiprocessing safe method.
bpo-29576: Improve some deprecations in importlib. Some deprecated methods now emit DeprecationWarnings and have better descriptive messages.
bpo-29534: Fixed different behaviour of Decimal.from_float() for _decimal and _pydecimal. Thanks Andrew Nester.
bpo-10379: locale.format_string now supports the ‘monetary’ keyword argument, and locale.format is deprecated.
bpo-29851: importlib.reload() now raises ModuleNotFoundError if the module lacks a spec.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa.
bpo-29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python 3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.
bpo-29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir
bpo-29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of the match object. Based on patch by WGH.
bpo-29377: Add WrapperDescriptorType, MethodWrapperType, and MethodDescriptorType built-in types to types module. Original patch by Manuel Krebber.
bpo-29218: Unused install_misc command is now removed. It has been documented as unused since 2000. Patch by Eric N. Vander Weele.
bpo-29368: The extend() method is now called instead of the append() method when unpickle collections.deque and other list-like objects. This can speed up unpickling to 2 times.
bpo-29338: The help of a builtin or extension class now includes the constructor signature if __text_signature__ is provided for the class.
bpo-29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
bpo-29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at non-breaking spaces.
bpo-28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.
bpo-29197: Removed deprecated function ntpath.splitunc().
bpo-29210: Removed support of deprecated argument “exclude” in tarfile.TarFile.add().
bpo-29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.
bpo-29192: Removed deprecated features in the http.cookies module.
bpo-29193: A format string argument for string.Formatter.format() is now positional-only.
bpo-29195: Removed support of deprecated undocumented keyword arguments in methods of regular expression objects.
bpo-28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache. KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was simultaneously called from different threads with the same uncached arguments.
bpo-20804: The unittest.mock.sentinel attributes now preserve their identity when they are copied or pickled.
bpo-29142: In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
bpo-28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don’t ignore the name parameter anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.
bpo-15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of a context. Patch by Sam Breese.
bpo-28985: Update authorizer constants in sqlite3 module. Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
bpo-29079: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows
bpo-13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
bpo-9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative integers.
bpo-28427: old keys should not remove new values from WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
bpo-28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
bpo-28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
bpo-19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another thread.
bpo-20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when passing a sequence that doesn’t own its elements as limits.
bpo-16255: subprocess.Popen uses /system/bin/sh on Android as the shell, instead of /bin/sh.
bpo-28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some multiprocessing objects such as locks.
bpo-26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android platforms.
bpo-28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer writes the index file when it is not changed. A deprecation warning is now emitted if the index file is missed and recreated in the ‘r’ and ‘w’ modes (will be an error in future Python releases).
bpo-27030: Unknown escapes consisting of
'\'
and an ASCII letter in re.sub() replacement templates regular expressions now are errors.bpo-28835: Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings(): call warnings.showwarning() if it was overridden inside the context manager.
bpo-27172: To assist with upgrades from 2.7, the previously documented deprecation of
inspect.getfullargspec()
has been reversed. This decision may be revisited again after the Python 2.7 branch is no longer officially supported.bpo-28740: Add sys.getandroidapilevel(): return the build time API version of Android as an integer. Function only available on Android.
bpo-26273: Add new
socket.TCP_CONGESTION
(Linux 2.6.13) andsocket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT
(Linux 2.6.37) constants. Patch written by Omar Sandoval.bpo-28752: Restored the __reduce__() methods of datetime objects.
bpo-28727: Regular expression patterns, _sre.SRE_Pattern objects created by re.compile(), become comparable (only x==y and x!=y operators). This change should fix the bpo-18383: don’t duplicate warning filters when the warnings module is reloaded (thing usually only done in unit tests).
bpo-20572: Remove the subprocess.Popen.wait endtime parameter. It was deprecated in 3.4 and undocumented prior to that.
bpo-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
bpo-28548: In the “http.server” module, parse the protocol version if possible, to avoid using HTTP 0.9 in some error responses.
bpo-19717: Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not exist. Patch by Vajrasky Kok
bpo-28563: Fixed possible DoS and arbitrary code execution when handle plural form selections in the gettext module. The expression parser now supports exact syntax supported by GNU gettext.
bpo-28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when the garbage collector is invoked in other thread. Based on patch by Sebastian Cufre.
bpo-27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if given empty data twice. Patch by Benjamin Fogle.
bpo-28549: Fixed segfault in curses’s addch() with ncurses6.
bpo-28449: tarfile.open() with mode “r” or “r:” now tries to open a tar file with compression before trying to open it without compression. Otherwise it had 50% chance failed with ignore_zeros=True.
bpo-23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived browsers. Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.
bpo-24241: The webbrowser in an X environment now prefers using the default browser directly. Also, the webbrowser register() function now has a documented ‘preferred’ argument, to specify browsers to be returned by get() with no arguments. Patch by David Steele
bpo-27939: Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and tkinter.Scale caused by representing the scale as float value internally in Tk. tkinter.IntVar now works if float value is set to underlying Tk variable.
bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar.prweek() no longer prints a space after a weeks’s calendar. calendar.TextCalendar.pryear() no longer prints redundant newline after a year’s calendar. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar.prmonth() no longer prints a space at the start of new line after printing a month’s calendar. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces. Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.
bpo-28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
bpo-28430: Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn’t accept non-None value is passed to it.send(val).
bpo-27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the “!” prefix for readability.
bpo-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin a workaround to Tix library bug.
bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry “./” to ZIP archive.
bpo-25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not found in the string. Error message for invalid group reference now includes the group index and the position of the reference. Based on patch by SilentGhost.
bpo-28469: timeit now uses the sequence 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50,… instead of 1, 10, 100,… for autoranging.
bpo-28115: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now uses argparse. Added support of long options.
bpo-18219: Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns. Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
bpo-28448: Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn’t work on Windows.
bpo-23214: In the “io” module, the argument to BufferedReader and BytesIO’s read1() methods is now optional and can be -1, matching the BufferedIOBase specification.
bpo-28480: Fix error building socket module when multithreading is disabled.
bpo-28240: timeit: remove
-c/--clock
and-t/--time
command line options which were deprecated since Python 3.3.bpo-28240: timeit now repeats the benchmarks 5 times instead of only 3 to make benchmarks more reliable.
bpo-28240: timeit autorange now uses a single loop iteration if the benchmark takes less than 10 seconds, instead of 10 iterations. “python3 -m timeit -s ‘import time’ ‘time.sleep(1)’” now takes 4 seconds instead of 40 seconds.
Distutils.sdist now looks for README and setup.py files with case sensitivity. This behavior matches that found in Setuptools 6.0 and later. See setuptools 100 for rationale.
bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
bpo-20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT handlers.
bpo-27998: Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows. Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-28317: The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.
bpo-28380: unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly support assert_called, assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.
bpo-28229: lzma module now supports pathlib.
bpo-28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
bpo-28225: bz2 module now supports pathlib. Initial patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-28227: gzip now supports pathlib. Patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-28332: Deprecated silent truncations in socket.htons and socket.ntohs. Original patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-27358: Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved error message when passing a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.
bpo-28257: Improved error message when passing a non-iterable as a var-positional argument. Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.
bpo-28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from incorrect pickle data. Based on patch by John Leitch.
bpo-28228: imghdr now supports pathlib.
bpo-28226: compileall now supports pathlib.
bpo-28314: Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method of xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.
bpo-28148: Stop using localtime() and gmtime() in the time module. Introduced platform independent _PyTime_localtime API that is similar to POSIX localtime_r, but available on all platforms. Patch by Ed Schouten.
bpo-28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 and 9999-12. Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so that they don’t call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date under/overflow.
bpo-28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress() methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes. Original patch by John Leitch.
bpo-27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass invalid string-like object as a name. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-18844: random.choices() now has k as a keyword-only argument to improve the readability of common cases and come into line with the signature used in other languages.
bpo-18893: Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by Madison May.
bpo-27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module. Added the master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.
bpo-27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception messages like “Exception: None”. This fixes a regression introduced in 3.5a2.
bpo-25651: Allow false values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().
bpo-27778: Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the getrandom() is interrupted by a signal and a signal handler raises a Python exception.
bpo-28200: Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix path_converter() function).
bpo-25400: RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values for crawl_delay and request_rate. Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.
bpo-27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.
bpo-28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of os.stat(). Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-22493: Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the middle of regular expression now contains a (truncated) regex pattern. Patch by Tim Graham.
bpo-25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when an empty bytestring is passed.
bpo-28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.
bpo-25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin. Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.
bpo-28114: Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte strings. Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
bpo-27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic. Patch by Kevin Conway.
bpo-28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn’t properly supported. Patch by Seth Michael Larson.
bpo-26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__. Patch by iceboy.
bpo-26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.
bpo-28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
bpo-27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors. Patch by Mark Williams.
bpo-28325: Remove vestigial MacOS 9 macurl2path module and its tests.
bpo-28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no loop attached. Patch by Vincent Michel.
bpo-28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport’s FD is used with add_reader, add_writer, etc.
bpo-28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
bpo-28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
bpo-28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
bpo-24142: Reading a corrupt config file left configparser in an invalid state. Original patch by Florian Höch.
bpo-29581: ABCMeta.__new__ now accepts
**kwargs
, allowing abstract base classes to use keyword parameters in __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.bpo-25532: inspect.unwrap() will now only try to unwrap an object sys.getrecursionlimit() times, to protect against objects which create a new object on every attribute access.
bpo-30177: path.resolve(strict=False) no longer cuts the path after the first element not present in the filesystem. Patch by Antoine Pietri.
Documentation¶
bpo-31294: Fix incomplete code snippet in the ZeroMQSocketListener and ZeroMQSocketHandler examples and adapt them to Python 3.
bpo-21649: Add RFC 7525 and Mozilla server side TLS links to SSL documentation.
bpo-31128: Allow the pydoc server to bind to arbitrary hostnames.
bpo-30803: Clarify doc on truth value testing. Original patch by Peter Thomassen.
bpo-30176: Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation.
bpo-30052: the link targets for
bytes()
andbytearray()
are now their respective type definitions, rather than the corresponding builtin function entries. Use bytes and bytearray to reference the latter. In order to ensure this and future cross-reference updates are applied automatically, the daily documentation builds now disable the default output caching features in Sphinx.bpo-26985: Add missing info of code object in inspect documentation.
bpo-19824: Improve the documentation for, and links to, template strings by emphasizing their utility for internationalization, and by clarifying some usage constraints. (See also: bpo-20314, bpo-12518)
bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.
bpo-25008: Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to aiosmtpd, a third-party asyncio-based replacement.
bpo-26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
bpo-29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.
bpo-23722: The data model reference and the porting section in the 3.6 What’s New guide now cover the additional
__classcell__
handling needed for custom metaclasses to fully support PEP 487 and zero-argumentsuper()
.bpo-28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.
Tests¶
bpo-29639: test.support.HOST is now “localhost”, a new HOSTv4 constant has been added for your
127.0.0.1
needs, similar to the existing HOSTv6 constant.bpo-31320: Silence traceback in test_ssl
bpo-31346: Prefer PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT and PROTOCOL_TLS_SERVER protocols for SSLContext.
bpo-25674: Remove sha256.tbs-internet.com ssl test
bpo-30715: Address ALPN callback changes for OpenSSL 1.1.0f. The latest version behaves like OpenSSL 1.0.2 and no longer aborts handshake.
bpo-30822: regrtest: Exclude tzdata from regrtest –all. When running the test suite using –use=all / -u all, exclude tzdata since it makes test_datetime too slow (15-20 min on some buildbots) which then times out on some buildbots. Fix also regrtest command line parser to allow passing -u extralargefile to run test_zipfile64.
bpo-30695: Add the
set_nomemory(start, stop)
andremove_mem_hooks()
functions to the_testcapi
module.bpo-30357: test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz Grzywacz.
bpo-30197: Enhanced functions swap_attr() and swap_item() in the test.support module. They now work when delete replaced attribute or item inside the with statement. The old value of the attribute or item (or None if it doesn’t exist) now will be assigned to the target of the “as” clause, if there is one.
bpo-24932: Use proper command line parsing in _testembed
bpo-28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest command line arguments.
bpo-28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
bpo-26936: Fix the test_socket failures on Android - getservbyname(), getservbyport() and getaddrinfo() are broken on some Android API levels.
bpo-28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or unreadable directories.
bpo-23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.
bpo-26944: Fix test_posix for Android where ‘id -G’ is entirely wrong or missing the effective gid.
bpo-28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.
bpo-28217: Adds _testconsole module to test console input.
bpo-26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
Build¶
bpo-31354: Allow
--with-lto
to be used on all builds, not justmake profile-opt
.bpo-31370: Remove support for building –without-threads. This option is not really useful anymore in the 21st century. Removing lots of conditional paths allows us to simplify the code base, including in difficult to maintain low-level internal code.
bpo-31341: Per PEP 11, support for the IRIX operating system was removed.
bpo-30854: Fix compile error when compiling –without-threads. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
bpo-30687: Locate msbuild.exe on Windows when building rather than vcvarsall.bat
bpo-20210: Support the disabled marker in Setup files. Extension modules listed after this marker are not built at all, neither by the Makefile nor by setup.py.
bpo-29941: Add
--with-assertions
configure flag to explicitly enable Cassert()
checks. Defaults to off.--with-pydebug
implies--with-assertions
.bpo-28787: Fix out-of-tree builds of Python when configured with
--with--dtrace
.bpo-29243: Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during
make test
,make install
and some other make targets when configured with--enable-optimizations
.bpo-23404: Don’t regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore: the action is now explicit. Replace
make touch
withmake regen-all
.bpo-29643: Fix
--enable-optimization
didn’t work.bpo-27593: sys.version and the platform module python_build(), python_branch(), and python_revision() functions now use git information rather than hg when building from a repo.
bpo-29572: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.
bpo-27659: Prohibit implicit C function declarations: use
-Werror=implicit-function-declaration
when possible (GCC and Clang, but it depends on the compiler version). Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.bpo-29384: Remove old Be OS helper scripts.
bpo-26851: Set Android compilation and link flags.
bpo-28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto
bpo-29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
bpo-23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
bpo-28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.
bpo-28538: Fix the compilation error that occurs because if_nameindex() is available on Android API level 24, but the if_nameindex structure is not defined.
bpo-20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
bpo-28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
bpo-10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX. Patch by Tristan Carel and Michael Haubenwallner.
bpo-26359: Rename –with-optimiations to –enable-optimizations.
bpo-28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
bpo-28208: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use SQLite 3.14.2.
bpo-28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
bpo-21124: Fix building the _struct module on Cygwin by passing
NULL
instead of&PyType_Type
to PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.bpo-13756: Fix building extensions modules on Cygwin. Patch by Roumen Petrov, based on original patch by Jason Tishler.
bpo-21085: Add configure check for siginfo_t.si_band, which Cygwin does not provide. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto with review and rebase by Erik Bray.
bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
bpo-26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
bpo-27979: A full copy of libffi is no longer bundled for use when building _ctypes on non-OSX UNIX platforms. An installed copy of libffi is now required when building _ctypes on such platforms.
bpo-15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building outside the source tree.
bpo-28676: Prevent missing ‘getentropy’ declaration warning on macOS. Patch by Gareth Rees.
Windows¶
bpo-31392: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 1.1.0f
bpo-30389: Adds detection of Visual Studio 2017 to distutils on Windows.
bpo-31358: zlib is no longer bundled in the CPython source, instead it is downloaded on demand just like bz2, lzma, OpenSSL, Tcl/Tk, and SQLite.
bpo-31340: Change to building with MSVC v141 (included with Visual Studio 2017)
bpo-30581: os.cpu_count() now returns the correct number of processors on Windows when the number of logical processors is greater than 64.
bpo-30916: Pre-build OpenSSL, Tcl and Tk and include the binaries in the build.
bpo-30731: Add a missing xmlns to python.manifest so that it matches the schema.
bpo-30291: Allow requiring 64-bit interpreters from py.exe using -64 suffix. Contributed by Steve (Gadget) Barnes.
bpo-30362: Adds list options (-0, -0p) to py.exe launcher. Contributed by Steve Barnes.
bpo-23451: Fix socket deprecation warnings in socketmodule.c. Patch by Segev Finer.
bpo-30450: The build process on Windows no longer depends on Subversion, instead pulling external code from GitHub via a Python script. If Python 3.6 is not found on the system (via
py -3.6
), NuGet is used to download a copy of 32-bit Python.bpo-29579: Removes readme.txt from the installer.
bpo-25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default
bpo-28522: Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c
bpo-28402: Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.
bpo-28333: Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
bpo-28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and 64-bit
bpo-28161: Opening CON for write access fails
bpo-28162: WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts with Ctrl+Z
bpo-28163: WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to _open_osfhandle
bpo-28164: _PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths
bpo-28137: Renames Windows path file to ._pth
bpo-28138: Windows ._pth file should allow import site
IDLE¶
bpo-31493: IDLE code context – fix code update and font update timers. Canceling timers prevents a warning message when test_idle completes.
bpo-31488: IDLE - Update non-key options in former extension classes. When applying configdialog changes, call .reload for each feature class. Change ParenMatch so updated options affect existing instances attached to existing editor windows.
bpo-31477: IDLE - Improve rstrip entry in doc. Strip trailing whitespace strips more than blank spaces. Multiline string literals are not skipped.
bpo-31480: IDLE - make tests pass with zzdummy extension disabled by default.
bpo-31421: Document how IDLE runs tkinter programs. IDLE calls tcl/tk update in the background in order to make live interaction and experimentation with tkinter applications much easier.
bpo-31414: IDLE – fix tk entry box tests by deleting first. Adding to an int entry is not the same as deleting and inserting because int(‘’) will fail.
bpo-31051: Rearrange IDLE configdialog GenPage into Window, Editor, and Help sections.
bpo-30617: IDLE - Add docstrings and tests for outwin subclass of editor. Move some data and functions from the class to module level. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31287: IDLE - Do not modify tkinter.message in test_configdialog.
bpo-27099: Convert IDLE’s built-in ‘extensions’ to regular features. About 10 IDLE features were implemented as supposedly optional extensions. Their different behavior could be confusing or worse for users and not good for maintenance. Hence the conversion. The main difference for users is that user configurable key bindings for builtin features are now handled uniformly. Now, editing a binding in a keyset only affects its value in the keyset. All bindings are defined together in the system-specific default keysets in config-extensions.def. All custom keysets are saved as a whole in config-extension.cfg. All take effect as soon as one clicks Apply or Ok. The affected events are ‘<<force-open-completions>>’, ‘<<expand-word>>’, ‘<<force-open-calltip>>’, ‘<<flash-paren>>’, ‘<<format-paragraph>>’, ‘<<run-module>>’, ‘<<check-module>>’, and ‘<<zoom-height>>’. Any (global) customizations made before 3.6.3 will not affect their keyset-specific customization after 3.6.3. and vice versa. Initial patch by Charles Wohlganger.
bpo-31206: IDLE: Factor HighPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31001: Add tests for configdialog highlight tab. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31205: IDLE: Factor KeysPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. The slightly modified tests continue to pass. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31130: IDLE – stop leaks in test_configdialog. Initial patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-31002: Add tests for configdialog keys tab. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-19903: IDLE: Calltips use
inspect.signature
instead ofinspect.getfullargspec
. This improves calltips for builtins converted to use Argument Clinic. Patch by Louie Lu.bpo-31083: IDLE - Add an outline of a TabPage class in configdialog. Update existing classes to match outline. Initial patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31050: Factor GenPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. The slightly modified tests continue to pass. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31004: IDLE - Factor FontPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. Slightly modified tests continue to pass. Fix General tests. Patch mostly by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30781: IDLE - Use ttk widgets in ConfigDialog. Patches by Terry Jan Reedy and Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31060: IDLE - Finish rearranging methods of ConfigDialog Grouping methods pertaining to each tab and the buttons will aid writing tests and improving the tabs and will enable splitting the groups into classes.
bpo-30853: IDLE – Factor a VarTrace class out of ConfigDialog. Instance tracers manages pairs consisting of a tk variable and a callback function. When tracing is turned on, setting the variable calls the function. Test coverage for the new class is 100%.
bpo-31003: IDLE: Add more tests for General tab.
bpo-30993: IDLE - Improve configdialog font page and tests. In configdialog: Document causal pathways in create_font_tab docstring. Simplify some attribute names. Move set_samples calls to var_changed_font (idea from Cheryl Sabella). Move related functions to positions after the create widgets function. In test_configdialog: Fix test_font_set so not order dependent. Fix renamed test_indent_scale so it tests the widget. Adjust tests for movement of set_samples call. Add tests for load functions. Put all font tests in one class and tab indent tests in another. Except for two lines, these tests completely cover the related functions.
bpo-30981: IDLE – Add more configdialog font page tests.
bpo-28523: IDLE: replace ‘colour’ with ‘color’ in configdialog.
bpo-30917: Add tests for idlelib.config.IdleConf. Increase coverage from 46% to 96%. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-30934: Document coverage details for idlelib tests. Add section to idlelib/idle-test/README.txt. Include check that branches are taken both ways. Exclude IDLE-specific code that does not run during unit tests.
bpo-30913: IDLE: Document ConfigDialog tk Vars, methods, and widgets in docstrings This will facilitate improving the dialog and splitting up the class. Original patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30899: IDLE: Add tests for ConfigParser subclasses in config. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-30881: IDLE: Add docstrings to browser.py. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30851: IDLE: Remove unused variables in configdialog. One is a duplicate, one is set but cannot be altered by users. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30870: IDLE: In Settings dialog, select font with Up, Down keys as well as mouse. Initial patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-8231: IDLE: call config.IdleConf.GetUserCfgDir only once.
bpo-30779: IDLE: Factor ConfigChanges class from configdialog, put in config; test. * In config, put dump test code in a function; run it and unittest in ‘if __name__ == ‘__main__’. * Add class config.ConfigChanges based on changes_class_v4.py on bpo issue. * Add class test_config.ChangesTest, partly using configdialog_tests_v1.py. * Revise configdialog to use ConfigChanges; see tracker msg297804. * Revise test_configdialog to match configdialog changes. * Remove configdialog functions unused or moved to ConfigChanges. Cheryl Sabella contributed parts of the patch.
bpo-30777: IDLE: configdialog - Add docstrings and fix comments. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30495: IDLE: Improve textview with docstrings, PEP8 names, and more tests. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30723: IDLE: Make several improvements to parenmatch. Add ‘parens’ style to highlight both opener and closer. Make ‘default’ style, which is not default, a synonym for ‘opener’. Make time-delay work the same with all styles. Add help for config dialog extensions tab, including help for parenmatch. Add new tests. Original patch by Charles Wohlganger.
bpo-30674: IDLE: add docstrings to grep module. Patch by Cheryl Sabella
bpo-21519: IDLE’s basic custom key entry dialog now detects duplicates properly. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-29910: IDLE no longer deletes a character after commenting out a region by a key shortcut. Add
return 'break'
for this and other potential conflicts between IDLE and default key bindings.bpo-30728: Review and change idlelib.configdialog names. Lowercase method and attribute names. Replace ‘colour’ with ‘color’, expand overly cryptic names, delete unneeded underscores. Replace
import *
with specific imports. Patches by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-6739: IDLE: Verify user-entered key sequences by trying to bind them with tk. Add tests for all 3 validation functions. Original patch by G Polo. Tests added by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-15786: Fix several problems with IDLE’s autocompletion box. The following should now work: clicking on selection box items; using the scrollbar; selecting an item by hitting Return. Hangs on MacOSX should no longer happen. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-25514: Add doc subsubsection about IDLE failure to start. Popup no-connection message directs users to this section.
bpo-30642: Fix reference leaks in IDLE tests. Patches by Louie Lu and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30495: Add docstrings for textview.py and use PEP8 names. Patches by Cheryl Sabella and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30290: Help-about: use pep8 names and add tests. Increase coverage to 100%. Patches by Louie Lu, Cheryl Sabella, and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30303: Add _utest option to textview; add new tests. Increase coverage to 100%. Patches by Louie Lu and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-29071: IDLE colors f-string prefixes (but not invalid ur prefixes).
bpo-28572: Add 10% to coverage of IDLE’s test_configdialog. Update and augment description of the configuration system.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-30983: gdb integration commands (py-bt, etc.) work on optimized shared builds now, too. PEP 523 introduced _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault which inlines PyEval_EvalFrameEx on non-debug shared builds. This broke the ability to use py-bt, py-up, and a few other Python-specific gdb integrations. The problem is fixed by only looking for _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault frames in python-gdb.py. Original patch by Bruno “Polaco” Penteado.
bpo-29748: Added the slice index converter in Argument Clinic.
bpo-24037: Argument Clinic now uses the converter
bool(accept={int})
rather thanint
for semantical booleans. This avoids repeating the default value for Python and C and will help in converting tobool
in future.bpo-29367: python-gdb.py now supports also
method-wrapper
(wrapperobject
) objects.bpo-28023: Fix python-gdb.py didn’t support new dict implementation.
bpo-15369: The pybench and pystone microbenchmark have been removed from Tools. Please use the new Python benchmark suite https://github.com/python/pyperformance which is more reliable and includes a portable version of pybench working on Python 2 and Python 3.
bpo-28102: The zipfile module CLI now prints usage to stderr. Patch by Stephen J. Turnbull.
C API¶
bpo-31338: Added the
Py_UNREACHABLE()
macro for code paths which are never expected to be reached. This and a few other useful macros are now documented in the C API manual.bpo-30832: Remove own implementation for thread-local storage. CPython has provided the own implementation for thread-local storage (TLS) on Python/thread.c, it’s used in the case which a platform has not supplied native TLS. However, currently all supported platforms (Windows and pthreads) have provided native TLS and defined the Py_HAVE_NATIVE_TLS macro with unconditional in any case.
bpo-30708: PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() now raises a ValueError if the second argument is NULL and the wchar_t* string contains null characters.
bpo-16500: Deprecate PyOS_AfterFork() and add PyOS_BeforeFork(), PyOS_AfterFork_Parent() and PyOS_AfterFork_Child().
bpo-6532: The type of results of PyThread_start_new_thread() and PyThread_get_thread_ident(), and the id parameter of PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc() changed from “long” to “unsigned long”.
bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is deprecated and replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API is not set or set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not including) or 0x03060100 or higher. Added functions PySlice_Unpack() and PySlice_AdjustIndices().
bpo-29083: Fixed the declaration of some public API functions. PyArg_VaParse() and PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not available in limited API. PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(), PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue() were not available in limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
bpo-28769: The result of PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize() and PyUnicode_AsUTF8() is now of type
const char *
rather ofchar *
.bpo-29058: All stable API extensions added after Python 3.2 are now available only when Py_LIMITED_API is set to the PY_VERSION_HEX value of the minimum Python version supporting this API.
bpo-28822: The index parameters start and end of PyUnicode_FindChar() are now adjusted to behave like
str[start:end]
.bpo-28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions.
bpo-28761: The fields name and doc of structures PyMemberDef, PyGetSetDef, PyStructSequence_Field, PyStructSequence_Desc, and wrapperbase are now of type
const char *
rather ofchar *
.bpo-28748: Private variable _Py_PackageContext is now of type
const char *
rather ofchar *
.bpo-19569: Compiler warnings are now emitted if use most of deprecated functions.
bpo-28426: Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().
Python 3.6.6 final¶
Release date: 2018-06-27
There were no new changes in version 3.6.6.
Python 3.6.6 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-06-11
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33786: Fix asynchronous generators to handle GeneratorExit in athrow() correctly
bpo-30654: Fixed reset of the SIGINT handler to SIG_DFL on interpreter shutdown even when there was a custom handler set previously. Patch by Philipp Kerling.
bpo-33622: Fixed a leak when the garbage collector fails to add an object with the
__del__
method or referenced by it into thegc.garbage
list.PyGC_Collect()
can now be called when an exception is set and preserves it.bpo-31849: Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c.
bpo-33391: Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference().
bpo-28055: Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). Patch by Rolf Eike Beer.
bpo-33231: Fix potential memory leak in
normalizestring()
.bpo-29922: Improved error messages in ‘async with’ when
__aenter__()
or__aexit__()
return non-awaitable object.bpo-33199: Fix
ma_version_tag
in dict implementation is uninitialized when copying from key-sharing dict.bpo-33041: Fixed jumping when the function contains an
async for
loop.bpo-32282: Fix an unnecessary ifdef in the include of VersionHelpers.h in socketmodule on Windows.
bpo-21983: Fix a crash in
ctypes.cast()
in case the type argument is a ctypes structured data type. Patch by Eryk Sun and Oren Milman.
Library¶
bpo-30167: Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber.
bpo-33812: Datetime instance d with non-None tzinfo, but with d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) returning None is now treated as naive by the astimezone() method.
bpo-30805: Avoid race condition with debug logging
bpo-33767: The concatenation (
+
) and repetition (*
) sequence operations now raiseTypeError
instead ofSystemError
when performed onmmap.mmap
objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz.bpo-32684: Fix gather to propagate cancellation of itself even with return_exceptions.
bpo-33674: Fix a race condition in SSLProtocol.connection_made() of asyncio.sslproto: start immediately the handshake instead of using call_soon(). Previously, data_received() could be called before the handshake started, causing the handshake to hang or fail.
bpo-31647: Fixed bug where calling write_eof() on a _SelectorSocketTransport after it’s already closed raises AttributeError.
bpo-33672: Fix Task.__repr__ crash with Cython’s bogus coroutines
bpo-33469: Fix RuntimeError after closing loop that used run_in_executor
bpo-11874: Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts. Avoids bogus assertion errors from custom metavar strings.
bpo-30877: Fixed a bug in the Python implementation of the JSON decoder that prevented the cache of parsed strings from clearing after finishing the decoding. Based on patch by c-fos.
bpo-33548: tempfile._candidate_tempdir_list should consider common TEMP locations
bpo-33542: Prevent
uuid.get_node
from using a DUID instead of a MAC on Windows. Patch by Zvi Effronbpo-26819: Fix race condition with
ReadTransport.resume_reading
in Windows proactor event loop.bpo-28556: Minor fixes in typing module: add annotations to
NamedTuple.__new__
, pass*args
and**kwds
inGeneric.__new__
. Original PRs by Paulius Šarka and Chad Dombrova.bpo-20087: Updated alias mapping with glibc 2.27 supported locales.
bpo-33422: Fix trailing quotation marks getting deleted when looking up byte/string literals on pydoc. Patch by Andrés Delfino.
bpo-33197: Update error message when constructing invalid inspect.Parameters Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-33383: Fixed crash in the get() method of the
dbm.ndbm
database object when it is called with a single argument.bpo-33329: Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs
bpo-991266: Fix quoting of the
Comment
attribute ofhttp.cookies.SimpleCookie
.bpo-33131: Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1.
bpo-33308: Fixed a crash in the
parser
module when converting an ST object to a tree of tuples or lists withline_info=False
andcol_info=True
.bpo-33263: Fix FD leak in
_SelectorSocketTransport
Patch by Vlad Starostin.bpo-33256: Fix display of
<module>
call in the html produced bycgitb.html()
. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.bpo-33203:
random.Random.choice()
now raisesIndexError
for empty sequences consistently even when called from subclasses without agetrandbits()
implementation.bpo-33224: Update difflib.mdiff() for PEP 479. Convert an uncaught StopIteration in a generator into a return-statement.
bpo-33209: End framing at the end of C implementation of
pickle.Pickler.dump()
.bpo-32861: The urllib.robotparser’s
__str__
representation now includes wildcard entries and the “Crawl-delay” and “Request-rate” fields. Patch by Michael Lazar.bpo-33096: Allow ttk.Treeview.insert to insert iid that has a false boolean value. Note iid=0 and iid=False would be same. Patch by Garvit Khatri.
bpo-33127: The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1.
bpo-33021: Release the GIL during fstat() calls, avoiding hang of all threads when calling mmap.mmap(), os.urandom(), and random.seed(). Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-27683: Fix a regression in
ipaddress
that result ofhosts()
is empty when the network is constructed by a tuple containing an integer mask and only 1 bit left for addresses.bpo-32844: Fix wrong redirection of a low descriptor (0 or 1) to stderr in subprocess if another low descriptor is closed.
bpo-31908: Fix output of cover files for
trace
module command-line tool. Previously emitted cover files only when--missing
option was used. Patch by Michael Selik.bpo-31457: If nested log adapters are used, the inner
process()
methods are no longer omitted.bpo-16865: Support arrays >=2GiB in
ctypes
. Patch by Segev Finer.bpo-31238: pydoc: the stop() method of the private ServerThread class now waits until DocServer.serve_until_quit() completes and then explicitly sets its docserver attribute to None to break a reference cycle.
Documentation¶
bpo-33503: Fix broken pypi link
bpo-33421: Add missing documentation for
typing.AsyncContextManager
.bpo-33378: Add Korean language switcher for https://docs.python.org/3/
bpo-33276: Clarify that the
__path__
attribute on modules cannot be just any value.bpo-33201: Modernize documentation for writing C extension types.
bpo-33195: Deprecate
Py_UNICODE
usage inc-api/arg
document.Py_UNICODE
related APIs are deprecated since Python 3.3, but it is missed in the document.bpo-33126: Document PyBuffer_ToContiguous().
bpo-27212: Modify documentation for the
islice()
recipe to consume initial values up to the start index.bpo-28247: Update
zipapp
documentation to describe how to make standalone applications.bpo-18802: Documentation changes for ipaddress. Patch by Jon Foster and Berker Peksag.
bpo-27428: Update documentation to clarify that
WindowsRegistryFinder
implementsMetaPathFinder
. (Patch by Himanshu Lakhara)bpo-8243: Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when writing outside a window, or pad.
bpo-31432: Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode.
Tests¶
Build¶
bpo-5755: Move
-Wstrict-prototypes
option toCFLAGS_NODIST
fromOPT
. This option emitted annoying warnings when building extension modules written in C++.bpo-33614: Ensures module definition files for the stable ABI on Windows are correctly regenerated.
bpo-33522: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services at https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython
bpo-33012: Add
-Wno-cast-function-type
for gcc 8 for silencing warnings about function casts like casting to PyCFunction in method definition lists.bpo-33394: Enable the verbose build for extension modules, when GNU make is passed macros on the command line.
Windows¶
bpo-33184: Update Windows installer to OpenSSL 1.0.2o.
macOS¶
bpo-33184: Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2o.
IDLE¶
bpo-33656: On Windows, add API call saying that tk scales for DPI. On Windows 8.1+ or 10, with DPI compatibility properties of the Python binary unchanged, and a monitor resolution greater than 96 DPI, this should make text and lines sharper. It should otherwise have no effect.
bpo-33768: Clicking on a context line moves that line to the top of the editor window.
bpo-33763: IDLE: Use read-only text widget for code context instead of label widget.
bpo-33664: Scroll IDLE editor text by lines. Previously, the mouse wheel and scrollbar slider moved text by a fixed number of pixels, resulting in partial lines at the top of the editor box. The change also applies to the shell and grep output windows, but not to read-only text views.
bpo-33679: Enable theme-specific color configuration for Code Context. Use the Highlights tab to see the setting for built-in themes or add settings to custom themes.
bpo-33642: Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context. If there is no current context, show a single blank line.
bpo-33628: IDLE: Cleanup codecontext.py and its test.
bpo-33564: IDLE’s code context now recognizes async as a block opener.
bpo-29706: IDLE now colors async and await as keywords in 3.6. They become full keywords in 3.7.
bpo-21474: Update word/identifier definition from ascii to unicode. In text and entry boxes, this affects selection by double-click, movement left/right by control-left/right, and deletion left/right by control-BACKSPACE/DEL.
bpo-33204: IDLE: consistently color invalid string prefixes. A ‘u’ string prefix cannot be paired with either ‘r’ or ‘f’. Consistently color as much of the prefix, starting at the right, as is valid. Revise and extend colorizer test.
bpo-32831: Add docstrings and tests for codecontext.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-33189: pygettext.py now recognizes only literal strings as docstrings and translatable strings, and rejects bytes literals and f-string expressions.
bpo-31920: Fixed handling directories as arguments in the
pygettext
script. Based on patch by Oleg Krasnikov.bpo-29673: Fix pystackv and pystack gdbinit macros.
bpo-32885: Add an
-n
flag forTools/scripts/pathfix.py
to disable automatic backup creation (files with~
suffix).bpo-31583: Fix 2to3 for using with –add-suffix option but without –output-dir option for relative path to files in current directory.
C API¶
bpo-32374: Document that m_traverse for multi-phase initialized modules can be called with m_state=NULL, and add a sanity check
Python 3.6.5 final¶
Release date: 2018-03-28
Tests¶
bpo-32872: Avoid regrtest compatibility issue with namespace packages.
Build¶
bpo-33163: Upgrade pip to 9.0.3 and setuptools to v39.0.1.
Python 3.6.5 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-03-13
Security¶
bpo-33001: Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows
bpo-32981: Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They have been refactored. This resolves CVE 2018-1060 and CVE 2018-1061. Patch by Jamie Davis.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-33026: Fixed jumping out of “with” block by setting f_lineno.
bpo-17288: Prevent jumps from ‘return’ and ‘exception’ trace events.
bpo-32889: Update Valgrind suppression list to account for the rename of
Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANG
toaddress_in_range
.bpo-32650: Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-32685: Improve suggestion when the Python 2 form of print statement is either present on the same line as the header of a compound statement or else terminated by a semi-colon instead of a newline. Patch by Nitish Chandra.
bpo-32583: Fix possible crashing in builtin Unicode decoders caused by write out-of-bound errors when using customized decode error handlers.
bpo-26163: Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced with datasets containing many similar values.
bpo-27169: The
__debug__
constant is now optimized out at compile time. This fixes also bpo-22091.bpo-32329:
sys.flags.hash_randomization
is now properly set to 0 when hash randomization is turned off byPYTHONHASHSEED=0
.bpo-30416: The optimizer is now protected from spending much time doing complex calculations and consuming much memory for creating large constants in constant folding.
bpo-18533:
repr()
on a dict containing its ownvalues()
oritems()
no longer raisesRecursionError
; OrderedDict similarly. Instead, use...
, as for other recursive structures. Patch by Ben North.bpo-32028: Leading whitespace is now correctly ignored when generating suggestions for converting Py2 print statements to Py3 builtin print function calls. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
bpo-32137: The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of crashing due to a stack overflow.
Library¶
bpo-33064: lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after
*args
and**kwargs
in function signatures.bpo-31804: Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed or None at exit.
bpo-33037: Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.
bpo-30353: Fix ctypes pass-by-value for structs on 64-bit Cygwin/MinGW.
bpo-33009: Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.
bpo-32969: Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding documentation.
bpo-32713: Fixed tarfile.itn handling of out-of-bounds float values. Patch by Joffrey Fuhrer.
bpo-30622: The ssl module now detects missing NPN support in LibreSSL.
bpo-32922: dbm.open() now encodes filename with the filesystem encoding rather than default encoding.
bpo-32859: In
os.dup2
, don’t check every call whether thedup3
syscall exists or not.bpo-21060: Rewrite confusing message from setup.py upload from “No dist file created in earlier command” to the more helpful “Must create and upload files in one command”.
bpo-32857: In
tkinter
,after_cancel(None)
now raises aValueError
instead of canceling the first scheduled function. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-32852: Make sure sys.argv remains as a list when running trace.
bpo-32841: Fixed
asyncio.Condition
issue which silently ignored cancellation after notifying and cancelling a conditional lock. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-31787: Fixed refleaks of
__init__()
methods in various modules. (Contributed by Oren Milman)bpo-30157: Fixed guessing quote and delimiter in csv.Sniffer.sniff() when only the last field is quoted. Patch by Jake Davis.
bpo-32394: socket: Remove TCP_FASTOPEN, TCP_KEEPCNT flags on older version Windows during run-time.
bpo-32777: Fix a rare but potential pre-exec child process deadlock in subprocess on POSIX systems when marking file descriptors inheritable on exec in the child process. This bug appears to have been introduced in 3.4.
bpo-32647: The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.
bpo-32734: Fixed
asyncio.Lock()
safety issue which allowed acquiring and locking the same lock multiple times, without it being free. Patch by Bar Harel.bpo-32727: Do not include name field in SMTP envelope from address. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel
bpo-27931: Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-32304: distutils’ upload command no longer corrupts tar files ending with a CR byte, and no longer tries to convert CR to CRLF in any of the upload text fields.
bpo-32502: uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is encountered.
bpo-31848: Fix the error handling in Aifc_read.initfp() when the SSND chunk is not found. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-32555: On FreeBSD and Solaris, os.strerror() now always decode the byte string from the current locale encoding, rather than using ASCII/surrogateescape in some cases.
bpo-32521: The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
bpo-32473: Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
bpo-32521: glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in nis module.
bpo-32228: Ensure that
truncate()
preserves the file position (as reported bytell()
) after writes longer than the buffer size.bpo-26133: Don’t unsubscribe signals in asyncio UNIX event loop on interpreter shutdown.
bpo-32185: The SSL module no longer sends IP addresses in SNI TLS extension on platforms with OpenSSL 1.0.2+ or inet_pton.
bpo-32323:
urllib.parse.urlsplit()
does not convert zone-id (scope) to lower case for scoped IPv6 addresses in hostnames now.bpo-32302: Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT v140.
bpo-32255: A single empty field is now always quoted when written into a CSV file. This allows to distinguish an empty row from a row consisting of a single empty field. Patch by Licht Takeuchi.
bpo-32277: Raise
NotImplementedError
instead ofSystemError
on platforms wherechmod(..., follow_symlinks=False)
is not supported. Patch by Anthony Sottile.bpo-32199: The getnode() ip getter now uses ‘ip link’ instead of ‘ip link list’.
bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on Linux. Tests by Victor Stinner.
bpo-31900: The
locale.localeconv()
function now sets temporarily theLC_CTYPE
locale to theLC_NUMERIC
locale to decodedecimal_point
andthousands_sep
byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and theLC_NUMERIC
locale is different than theLC_CTYPE
locale. This temporary change affects other threads. Same change for thestr.format()
method when formatting a number (int
,float
,float
and subclasses) with then
type (ex:'{:n}'.format(1234)
).bpo-31802: Importing native path module (
posixpath
,ntpath
) now works even if theos
module still is not imported.
Documentation¶
bpo-17232: Clarify docs for -O and -OO. Patch by Terry Reedy.
bpo-32800: Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.
bpo-8722: Document
__getattr__()
behavior when propertyget()
method raisesAttributeError
.bpo-32614: Modify RE examples in documentation to use raw strings to prevent
DeprecationWarning
and add text to REGEX HOWTO to highlight the deprecation.bpo-31972: Improve docstrings for
pathlib.PurePath
subclasses.bpo-17799: Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and their C-API counterparts regarding which type of events are received in each function. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
Tests¶
bpo-32517: Fix failing
test_asyncio
on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport ofKqueueSelector
loop was not being closed.bpo-32721: Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
bpo-32252: Fix faulthandler_suppress_crash_report() used to prevent core dump files when testing crashes. getrlimit() returns zero on success.
bpo-31518: Debian Unstable has disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for SSLv23_METHOD(). Change TLS/SSL protocol of some tests to PROTOCOL_TLS or PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2 to make them pass on Debian.
Build¶
bpo-32635: Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of libcrypt at the system.
Windows¶
bpo-33016: Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in nt._getfinalpathname
bpo-32903: Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current directory is set to a UNC path.
bpo-31966: Fixed WindowsConsoleIO.write() for writing empty data.
bpo-32409: Ensures activate.bat can handle Unicode contents.
bpo-32457: Improves handling of denormalized executable path when launching Python.
bpo-32370: Use the correct encoding for ipconfig output in the uuid module. Patch by Segev Finer.
bpo-29248: Fix
os.readlink()
on Windows, which was mistakenly treating thePrintNameOffset
field of the reparse data buffer as a number of characters instead of bytes. Patch by Craig Holmquist and SSE4.bpo-32588: Create standalone _distutils_findvs module.
macOS¶
bpo-32726: Provide an additional, more modern macOS installer variant that supports macOS 10.9+ systems in 64-bit mode only. Upgrade the supplied third-party libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.2n, XZ 5.2.3, and SQLite 3.22.0. The 10.9+ installer now links with and supplies its own copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.8.
IDLE¶
bpo-32984: Set
__file__
while running a startup file. Like Python, IDLE optionally runs one startup file in the Shell window before presenting the first interactive input prompt. For IDLE,-s
runs a file named in environmental variableIDLESTARTUP
orPYTHONSTARTUP
;-r file
runsfile
. Python sets__file__
to the startup file name before running the file and unsets it before the first prompt. IDLE now does the same when run normally, without the-n
option.bpo-32940: Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.
bpo-32916: Change
str
tocode
in pyparse.bpo-32905: Remove unused code in pyparse module.
bpo-32874: Add tests for pyparse.
bpo-32837: Using the system and place-dependent default encoding for open() is a bad idea for IDLE’s system and location-independent files.
bpo-32826: Add “encoding=utf-8” to open() in IDLE’s test_help_about. GUI test test_file_buttons() only looks at initial ascii-only lines, but failed on systems where open() defaults to ‘ascii’ because readline() internally reads and decodes far enough ahead to encounter a non-ascii character in CREDITS.txt.
bpo-32765: Update configdialog General tab docstring to add new widgets to the widget list.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-24960: 2to3 and lib2to3 can now read pickled grammar files using pkgutil.get_data() rather than probing the filesystem. This lets 2to3 and lib2to3 work when run from a zipfile.
bpo-32222: Fix pygettext not extracting docstrings for functions with type annotated arguments. Patch by Toby Harradine.
C API¶
bpo-29084: Undocumented C API for OrderedDict has been excluded from the limited C API. It was added by mistake and actually never worked in the limited C API.
Python 3.6.4 final¶
Release date: 2017-12-18
There were no new code changes in version 3.6.4 since v3.6.4rc1.
Python 3.6.4 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-12-05
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-32176: co_flags.CO_NOFREE is now always set correctly by the code object constructor based on freevars and cellvars, rather than needing to be set correctly by the caller. This ensures it will be cleared automatically when additional cell references are injected into a modified code object and function.
bpo-31949: Fixed several issues in printing tracebacks (PyTraceBack_Print()). Setting sys.tracebacklimit to 0 or less now suppresses printing tracebacks. Setting sys.tracebacklimit to None now causes using the default limit. Setting sys.tracebacklimit to an integer larger than LONG_MAX now means using the limit LONG_MAX rather than the default limit. Fixed integer overflows in the case of more than
2**31
traceback items on Windows. Fixed output errors handling.bpo-30696: Fix the interactive interpreter looping endlessly when no memory.
bpo-20047: Bytearray methods partition() and rpartition() now accept only bytes-like objects as separator, as documented. In particular they now raise TypeError rather of returning a bogus result when an integer is passed as a separator.
bpo-31852: Fix a segmentation fault caused by a combination of the async soft keyword and continuation lines.
bpo-21720: BytesWarning no longer emitted when the fromlist argument of
__import__()
or the__all__
attribute of the module contain bytes instances.bpo-31825: Fixed OverflowError in the ‘unicode-escape’ codec and in codecs.escape_decode() when decode an escaped non-ascii byte.
bpo-28603: Print the full context/cause chain of exceptions on interpreter exit, even if an exception in the chain is unhashable or compares equal to later ones. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-31786: Fix timeout rounding in the select module to round correctly negative timeouts between -1.0 and 0.0. The functions now block waiting for events as expected. Previously, the call was incorrectly non-blocking. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-31642: Restored blocking “from package import module” by setting sys.modules[“package.module”] to None.
bpo-31626: Fixed a bug in debug memory allocator. There was a write to freed memory after shrinking a memory block.
bpo-31619: Fixed a ValueError when convert a string with large number of underscores to integer with binary base.
bpo-31592: Fixed an assertion failure in Python parser in case of a bad
unicodedata.normalize()
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31588: Raise a
TypeError
with a helpful error message when class creation fails due to a metaclass with a bad__prepare__()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31566: Fix an assertion failure in
_warnings.warn()
in case of a bad__name__
global. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31505: Fix an assertion failure in
json
, in case_json.make_encoder()
received a badencoder()
argument. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31492: Fix assertion failures in case of failing to import from a module with a bad
__name__
attribute, and in case of failing to access an attribute of such a module. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31490: Fix an assertion failure in
ctypes
class definition, in case the class has an attribute whose name is specified in_anonymous_
but not in_fields_
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31478: Fix an assertion failure in
_random.Random.seed()
in case the argument has a bad__abs__()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31315: Fix an assertion failure in imp.create_dynamic(), when spec.name is not a string. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31311: Fix a crash in the
__setstate__()
method ofctypes._CData
, in case of a bad__dict__
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31293: Fix crashes in true division and multiplication of a timedelta object by a float with a bad as_integer_ratio() method. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31285: Fix an assertion failure in
warnings.warn_explicit
, when the return value of the received loader’sget_source()
has a badsplitlines()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30817:
PyErr_PrintEx()
clears now the ignored exception that may be raised by_PySys_SetObjectId()
, for example when no memory.
Library¶
bpo-28556: Two minor fixes for
typing
module: allow shallow copying instances of generic classes, improve interaction of__init_subclass__
with generics. Original PRs by Ivan Levkivskyi.bpo-27240: The header folding algorithm for the new email policies has been rewritten, which also fixes bpo-30788, bpo-31831, and bpo-32182. In particular, RFC2231 folding is now done correctly.
bpo-32186: io.FileIO.readall() and io.FileIO.read() now release the GIL when getting the file size. Fixed hang of all threads with inaccessible NFS server. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-12239: Make
msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()
returnNone
when the value of property isVT_EMPTY
. Initial patch by Mark Mc Mahon.bpo-31325: Fix wrong usage of
collections.namedtuple()
in theRobotFileParser.parse()
method. Initial patch by Robin Wellner.bpo-12382:
msilib.OpenDatabase()
now raises a better exception message when it couldn’t open or create an MSI file. Initial patch by William Tisäter.bpo-32110:
codecs.StreamReader.read(n)
now returns not more than n characters/bytes for non-negative n. This makes it compatible withread()
methods of other file-like objects.bpo-32072: Fixed issues with binary plists: Fixed saving bytearrays. Identical objects will be saved only once. Equal references will be load as identical objects. Added support for saving and loading recursive data structures.
bpo-32034: Make asyncio.IncompleteReadError and LimitOverrunError pickleable.
bpo-32015: Fixed the looping of asyncio in the case of reconnection the socket during waiting async read/write from/to the socket.
bpo-32011: Restored support of loading marshal files with the TYPE_INT64 code. These files can be produced in Python 2.7.
bpo-31970: Reduce performance overhead of asyncio debug mode.
bpo-9678: Fixed determining the MAC address in the uuid module: Using ifconfig on NetBSD and OpenBSD. Using arp on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Based on patch by Takayuki Shimizukawa.
bpo-30057: Fix potential missed signal in signal.signal().
bpo-31933: Fix Blake2 params leaf_size and node_offset on big endian platforms. Patch by Jack O’Connor.
bpo-31927: Fixed compilation of the socket module on NetBSD 8. Fixed assertion failure or reading arbitrary data when parse a AF_BLUETOOTH address on NetBSD and DragonFly BSD.
bpo-27666: Fixed stack corruption in curses.box() and curses.ungetmouse() when the size of types chtype or mmask_t is less than the size of C long. curses.box() now accepts characters as arguments. Based on patch by Steve Fink.
bpo-31897: plistlib now catches more errors when read binary plists and raises InvalidFileException instead of unexpected exceptions.
bpo-25720: Fix the method for checking pad state of curses WINDOW. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
bpo-31893: Fixed the layout of the kqueue_event structure on OpenBSD and NetBSD. Fixed the comparison of the kqueue_event objects.
bpo-31891: Fixed building the curses module on NetBSD.
bpo-28416: Instances of pickle.Pickler subclass with the persistent_id() method and pickle.Unpickler subclass with the persistent_load() method no longer create reference cycles.
bpo-28326: Fix multiprocessing.Process when stdout and/or stderr is closed or None.
bpo-31457: If nested log adapters are used, the inner
process()
methods are no longer omitted.bpo-31457: The
manager
property on LoggerAdapter objects is now properly settable.bpo-31806: Fix timeout rounding in time.sleep(), threading.Lock.acquire() and socket.socket.settimeout() to round correctly negative timeouts between -1.0 and 0.0. The functions now block waiting for events as expected. Previously, the call was incorrectly non-blocking. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
bpo-28603: traceback: Fix a TypeError that occurred during printing of exception tracebacks when either the current exception or an exception in its context/cause chain is unhashable. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-30058: Fixed buffer overflow in select.kqueue.control().
bpo-31770: Prevent a crash when calling the
__init__()
method of asqlite3.Cursor
object more than once. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31672:
idpattern
instring.Template
matched some non-ASCII characters. Now it uses-i
regular expression local flag to avoid non-ASCII characters.bpo-31764: Prevent a crash in
sqlite3.Cursor.close()
in case theCursor
object is uninitialized. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31752: Fix possible crash in timedelta constructor called with custom integers.
bpo-31701: On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now ignores MSC and COM exceptions.
bpo-31728: Prevent crashes in
_elementtree
due to unsafe cleanup ofElement.text
andElement.tail
. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31620: an empty asyncio.Queue now doesn’t leak memory when queue.get pollers timeout
bpo-31632: Fix method set_protocol() of class _SSLProtocolTransport in asyncio module. This method was previously modifying a wrong reference to the protocol.
bpo-31675: Fixed memory leaks in Tkinter’s methods splitlist() and split() when pass a string larger than 2 GiB.
bpo-31673: Fixed typo in the name of Tkinter’s method adderrorinfo().
bpo-30806: Fix the string representation of a netrc object.
bpo-15037: Added a workaround for getkey() in curses for ncurses 5.7 and earlier.
bpo-25351: Avoid venv activate failures with undefined variables
bpo-25532: inspect.unwrap() will now only try to unwrap an object sys.getrecursionlimit() times, to protect against objects which create a new object on every attribute access.
bpo-30347: Stop crashes when concurrently iterate over itertools.groupby() iterators.
bpo-31516:
threading.current_thread()
should not return a dummy thread at shutdown.bpo-31351: python -m ensurepip now exits with non-zero exit code if pip bootstrapping has failed.
bpo-31482:
random.seed()
now works with bytes in version=1bpo-31334: Fix
poll.poll([timeout])
in theselect
module for arbitrary negative timeouts on all OSes where it can only be a non-negative integer or -1. Patch by Riccardo Coccioli.bpo-31310: multiprocessing’s semaphore tracker should be launched again if crashed.
bpo-31308: Make multiprocessing’s forkserver process immune to Ctrl-C and other user interruptions. If it crashes, restart it when necessary.
Documentation¶
bpo-32105: Added asyncio.BaseEventLoop.connect_accepted_socket versionadded marker.
bpo-31537: Fix incorrect usage of
get_history_length
in readline documentation example code. Patch by Brad Smith.bpo-30085: The operator functions without double underscores are preferred for clarity. The one with underscores are only kept for back-compatibility.
Tests¶
bpo-31380: Skip test_httpservers test_undecodable_file on macOS: fails on APFS.
bpo-31705: Skip test_socket.test_sha256() on Linux kernel older than 4.5. The test fails with ENOKEY on kernel 3.10 (on ppc64le). A fix was merged into the kernel 4.5.
bpo-31174: Fix test_tools.test_unparse: DirectoryTestCase now stores the names sample to always test the same files. It prevents false alarms when hunting reference leaks.
bpo-30695: Add the
set_nomemory(start, stop)
andremove_mem_hooks()
functions to the_testcapi
module.
Build¶
bpo-32059:
detect_modules()
insetup.py
now also searches the sysroot paths when cross-compiling.bpo-31957: Fixes Windows SDK version detection when building for Windows.
bpo-31609: Fixes quotes in PCbuild/clean.bat
bpo-31934: Abort the build when building out of a not clean source tree.
bpo-31926: Fixed Argument Clinic sometimes causing compilation errors when there was more than one function and/or method in a .c file with the same name.
bpo-28791: Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.21.0.
bpo-28791: Update OS X installer to use SQLite 3.21.0.
bpo-22140: Prevent double substitution of prefix in python-config.sh.
bpo-31536: Avoid wholesale rebuild after
make regen-all
if nothing changed.
Windows¶
macOS¶
bpo-31392: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2m
IDLE¶
bpo-32207: Improve tk event exception tracebacks in IDLE. When tk event handling is driven by IDLE’s run loop, a confusing and distracting queue.EMPTY traceback context is no longer added to tk event exception tracebacks. The traceback is now the same as when event handling is driven by user code. Patch based on a suggestion by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-32164: Delete unused file idlelib/tabbedpages.py. Use of TabbedPageSet in configdialog was replaced by ttk.Notebook.
bpo-32100: IDLE: Fix old and new bugs in pathbrowser; improve tests. Patch mostly by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31858: IDLE – Restrict shell prompt manipulation to the shell. Editor and output windows only see an empty last prompt line. This simplifies the code and fixes a minor bug when newline is inserted. Sys.ps1, if present, is read on Shell start-up, but is not set or changed.
bpo-31860: The font sample in the IDLE configuration dialog is now editable. Changes persist while IDLE remains open
bpo-31836: Test_code_module now passes if run after test_idle, which sets ps1. The code module uses sys.ps1 if present or sets it to ‘>>> ‘ if not. Test_code_module now properly tests both behaviors. Ditto for ps2.
bpo-28603: Fix a TypeError that caused a shell restart when printing a traceback that includes an exception that is unhashable. Patch by Zane Bitter.
bpo-13802: Use non-Latin characters in the IDLE’s Font settings sample. Even if one selects a font that defines a limited subset of the unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, tcl/tk will use other fonts that define a character. The expanded example give users of non-Latin characters a better idea of what they might see in IDLE’s shell and editors. To make room for the expanded sample, frames on the Font tab are re-arranged. The Font/Tabs help explains a bit about the additions.
bpo-31460: Simplify the API of IDLE’s Module Browser. Passing a widget instead of an flist with a root widget opens the option of creating a browser frame that is only part of a window. Passing a full file name instead of pieces assumed to come from a .py file opens the possibility of browsing python files that do not end in .py.
bpo-31649: IDLE - Make _htest, _utest parameters keyword only.
bpo-31559: Remove test order dependence in idle_test.test_browser.
bpo-31459: Rename IDLE’s module browser from Class Browser to Module Browser. The original module-level class and method browser became a module browser, with the addition of module-level functions, years ago. Nested classes and functions were added yesterday. For back-compatibility, the virtual event <<open-class-browser>>, which appears on the Keys tab of the Settings dialog, is not changed. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31500: Default fonts now are scaled on HiDPI displays.
bpo-1612262: IDLE module browser now shows nested classes and functions. Original patches for code and tests by Guilherme Polo and Cheryl Sabella, respectively.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-30722: Make redemo work with Python 3.6 and newer versions. Also, remove the
LOCALE
option since it doesn’t work with string patterns in Python 3. Patch by Christoph Sarnowski.
C API¶
bpo-20891: Fix PyGILState_Ensure(). When PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-Python thread before PyEval_InitThreads(), only call PyEval_InitThreads() after calling PyThreadState_New() to fix a crash.
bpo-31532: Fix memory corruption due to allocator mix in getpath.c between Py_GetPath() and Py_SetPath()
bpo-30697: The
PyExc_RecursionErrorInst
singleton is removed andPyErr_NormalizeException()
does not use it anymore. This singleton is persistent and its members being never cleared may cause a segfault during finalization of the interpreter. See also bpo-22898.
Python 3.6.3 final¶
Release date: 2017-10-03
Library¶
bpo-31641: Re-allow arbitrary iterables in
concurrent.futures.as_completed()
. Fixes regression in 3.6.3rc1.
Build¶
Python 3.6.3 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-09-18
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31471: Fix an assertion failure in
subprocess.Popen()
on Windows, in case the env argument has a badkeys()
method. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31418: Fix an assertion failure in
PyErr_WriteUnraisable()
in case of an exception with a bad__module__
attribute. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31416: Fix assertion failures in case of a bad warnings.filters or warnings.defaultaction. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31411: Raise a TypeError instead of SystemError in case warnings.onceregistry is not a dictionary. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-31373: Fix several possible instances of undefined behavior due to floating-point demotions.
bpo-30465: Location information (
lineno
andcol_offset
) in f-strings is now (mostly) correct. This fixes tools like flake8 from showing warnings on the wrong line (typically the first line of the file).bpo-31343: Include sys/sysmacros.h for major(), minor(), and makedev(). GNU C libray plans to remove the functions from sys/types.h.
bpo-31291: Fix an assertion failure in
zipimport.zipimporter.get_data
on Windows, when the return value ofpathname.replace('/','\\')
isn’t a string. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31271: Fix an assertion failure in the
write()
method ofio.TextIOWrapper
, when the encoder doesn’t return a bytes object. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-31243: Fix a crash in some methods of
io.TextIOWrapper
, when the decoder’s state is invalid. Patch by Oren Milman.bpo-30721:
print
now shows correct usage hint for using Python 2 redirection syntax. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.bpo-31070: Fix a race condition in importlib _get_module_lock().
bpo-31095: Fix potential crash during GC caused by
tp_dealloc
which doesn’t callPyObject_GC_UnTrack()
.bpo-31071: Avoid masking original TypeError in call with * unpacking when other arguments are passed.
bpo-30978: str.format_map() now passes key lookup exceptions through. Previously any exception was replaced with a KeyError exception.
bpo-30808: Use _Py_atomic API for concurrency-sensitive signal state.
bpo-30876: Relative import from unloaded package now reimports the package instead of failing with SystemError. Relative import from non-package now fails with ImportError rather than SystemError.
bpo-30703: Improve signal delivery. Avoid using Py_AddPendingCall from signal handler, to avoid calling signal-unsafe functions. The tests I’m adding here fail without the rest of the patch, on Linux and OS X. This means our signal delivery logic had defects (some signals could be lost).
bpo-30765: Avoid blocking in pthread_mutex_lock() when PyThread_acquire_lock() is asked not to block.
bpo-31161: Make sure the ‘Missing parentheses’ syntax error message is only applied to SyntaxError, not to subclasses. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-30814: Fixed a race condition when import a submodule from a package.
bpo-30597:
print
now shows expected input in custom error message when used as a Python 2 statement. Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
Library¶
bpo-31499: xml.etree: Fix a crash when a parser is part of a reference cycle.
bpo-28556: typing.get_type_hints now finds the right globalns for classes and modules by default (when no
globalns
was specified by the caller).bpo-28556: Speed improvements to the
typing
module. Original PRs by Ivan Levkivskyi and Mitar.bpo-31544: The C accelerator module of ElementTree ignored exceptions raised when looking up TreeBuilder target methods in XMLParser().
bpo-31234: socket.create_connection() now fixes manually a reference cycle: clear the variable storing the last exception on success.
bpo-31457: LoggerAdapter objects can now be nested.
bpo-31400: Improves SSL error handling to avoid losing error numbers.
bpo-28958: ssl.SSLContext() now uses OpenSSL error information when a context cannot be instantiated.
bpo-27340: SSLSocket.sendall() now uses memoryview to create slices of data. This fixes support for all bytes-like object. It is also more efficient and avoids costly copies.
bpo-31178: Fix string concatenation bug in rare error path in the subprocess module
bpo-31350: Micro-optimize
asyncio._get_running_loop()
to become up to 10% faster.bpo-31170: expat: Update libexpat from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Fix copying of partial characters for UTF-8 input (libexpat bug 115): https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/115
bpo-29136: Add TLS 1.3 cipher suites and OP_NO_TLSv1_3.
bpo-29212: Fix concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor threads to have a non repr() based thread name by default when no thread_name_prefix is supplied. They will now identify themselves as “ThreadPoolExecutor-y_n”.
bpo-9146: Fix a segmentation fault in _hashopenssl when standard hash functions such as md5 are not available in the linked OpenSSL library. As in some special FIPS-140 build environments.
bpo-27144: The
map()
andas_completed()
iterators inconcurrent.futures
now avoid keeping a reference to yielded objects.bpo-10746: Fix ctypes producing wrong PEP 3118 type codes for integer types.
bpo-22536: The subprocess module now sets the filename when FileNotFoundError is raised on POSIX systems due to the executable or cwd not being found.
bpo-31249: concurrent.futures: WorkItem.run() used by ThreadPoolExecutor now breaks a reference cycle between an exception object and the WorkItem object.
bpo-31247: xmlrpc.server now explicitly breaks reference cycles when using sys.exc_info() in code handling exceptions.
bpo-30102: The ssl and hashlib modules now call OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf() on OpenSSL < 1.1.0. The function detects CPU features and enables optimizations on some CPU architectures such as POWER8. Patch is based on research from Gustavo Serra Scalet.
bpo-31185: Fixed miscellaneous errors in asyncio speedup module.
bpo-31135: ttk: fix the destroy() method of LabeledScale and OptionMenu classes. Call the parent destroy() method even if the used attribute doesn’t exist. The LabeledScale.destroy() method now also explicitly clears label and scale attributes to help the garbage collector to destroy all widgets.
bpo-31107: Fix
copyreg._slotnames()
mangled attribute calculation for classes whose name begins with an underscore. Patch by Shane Harvey.bpo-31061: Fixed a crash when using asyncio and threads.
bpo-30502: Fix handling of long oids in ssl. Based on patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-30119: ftplib.FTP.putline() now throws ValueError on commands that contains CR or LF. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-30595: multiprocessing.Queue.get() with a timeout now polls its reader in non-blocking mode if it succeeded to acquire the lock but the acquire took longer than the timeout.
bpo-29403: Fix
unittest.mock
’s autospec to not fail on method-bound builtin functions. Patch by Aaron Gallagher.bpo-30961: Fix decrementing a borrowed reference in tracemalloc.
bpo-25684: Change
ttk.OptionMenu
radiobuttons to be unique across instances ofOptionMenu
.bpo-30886: Fix multiprocessing.Queue.join_thread(): it now waits until the thread completes, even if the thread was started by the same process which created the queue.
bpo-29854: Fix segfault in readline when using readline’s history-size option. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-30319: socket.close() now ignores ECONNRESET error.
bpo-30828: Fix out of bounds write in
asyncio.CFuture.remove_done_callback()
.bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny value. Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(), which is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on some platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero interval, therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it.
bpo-30441: Fix bug when modifying os.environ while iterating over it
bpo-30532: Fix email header value parser dropping folding white space in certain cases.
bpo-30879: os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes-like argument.
bpo-30746: Prohibited the ‘=’ character in environment variable names in
os.putenv()
andos.spawn*()
.bpo-29755: Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module. They now always return bytes.
Documentation¶
Tests¶
bpo-31320: Silence traceback in test_ssl
bpo-25674: Remove sha256.tbs-internet.com ssl test
bpo-30715: Address ALPN callback changes for OpenSSL 1.1.0f. The latest version behaves like OpenSSL 1.0.2 and no longer aborts handshake.
bpo-30822: regrtest: Exclude tzdata from regrtest –all. When running the test suite using –use=all / -u all, exclude tzdata since it makes test_datetime too slow (15-20 min on some buildbots) which then times out on some buildbots. Fix also regrtest command line parser to allow passing -u extralargefile to run test_zipfile64.
Build¶
bpo-30854: Fix compile error when compiling –without-threads. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto.
Windows¶
bpo-30389: Adds detection of Visual Studio 2017 to distutils on Windows.
bpo-31340: Change to building with MSVC v141 (included with Visual Studio 2017)
bpo-30581: os.cpu_count() now returns the correct number of processors on Windows when the number of logical processors is greater than 64.
bpo-30731: Add a missing xmlns to python.manifest so that it matches the schema.
IDLE¶
bpo-31493: IDLE code context – fix code update and font update timers. Canceling timers prevents a warning message when test_idle completes.
bpo-31488: IDLE - Update non-key options in former extension classes. When applying configdialog changes, call .reload for each feature class. Change ParenMatch so updated options affect existing instances attached to existing editor windows.
bpo-31477: IDLE - Improve rstrip entry in doc. Strip trailing whitespace strips more than blank spaces. Multiline string literals are not skipped.
bpo-31480: IDLE - make tests pass with zzdummy extension disabled by default.
bpo-31421: Document how IDLE runs tkinter programs. IDLE calls tcl/tk update in the background in order to make live interaction and experimentation with tkinter applications much easier.
bpo-31414: IDLE – fix tk entry box tests by deleting first. Adding to an int entry is not the same as deleting and inserting because int(‘’) will fail.
bpo-31051: Rearrange IDLE configdialog GenPage into Window, Editor, and Help sections.
bpo-30617: IDLE - Add docstrings and tests for outwin subclass of editor. Move some data and functions from the class to module level. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31287: IDLE - Do not modify tkinter.message in test_configdialog.
bpo-27099: Convert IDLE’s built-in ‘extensions’ to regular features. About 10 IDLE features were implemented as supposedly optional extensions. Their different behavior could be confusing or worse for users and not good for maintenance. Hence the conversion. The main difference for users is that user configurable key bindings for builtin features are now handled uniformly. Now, editing a binding in a keyset only affects its value in the keyset. All bindings are defined together in the system-specific default keysets in config-extensions.def. All custom keysets are saved as a whole in config-extension.cfg. All take effect as soon as one clicks Apply or Ok. The affected events are ‘<<force-open-completions>>’, ‘<<expand-word>>’, ‘<<force-open-calltip>>’, ‘<<flash-paren>>’, ‘<<format-paragraph>>’, ‘<<run-module>>’, ‘<<check-module>>’, and ‘<<zoom-height>>’. Any (global) customizations made before 3.6.3 will not affect their keyset-specific customization after 3.6.3. and vice versa. Initial patch by Charles Wohlganger.
bpo-31206: IDLE: Factor HighPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31001: Add tests for configdialog highlight tab. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31205: IDLE: Factor KeysPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. The slightly modified tests continue to pass. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31130: IDLE – stop leaks in test_configdialog. Initial patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-31002: Add tests for configdialog keys tab. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-19903: IDLE: Calltips use
inspect.signature
instead ofinspect.getfullargspec
. This improves calltips for builtins converted to use Argument Clinic. Patch by Louie Lu.bpo-31083: IDLE - Add an outline of a TabPage class in configdialog. Update existing classes to match outline. Initial patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31050: Factor GenPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. The slightly modified tests continue to pass. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31004: IDLE - Factor FontPage(Frame) class from ConfigDialog. Slightly modified tests continue to pass. Fix General tests. Patch mostly by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30781: IDLE - Use ttk widgets in ConfigDialog. Patches by Terry Jan Reedy and Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-31060: IDLE - Finish rearranging methods of ConfigDialog Grouping methods pertaining to each tab and the buttons will aid writing tests and improving the tabs and will enable splitting the groups into classes.
bpo-30853: IDLE – Factor a VarTrace class out of ConfigDialog. Instance tracers manages pairs consisting of a tk variable and a callback function. When tracing is turned on, setting the variable calls the function. Test coverage for the new class is 100%.
bpo-31003: IDLE: Add more tests for General tab.
bpo-30993: IDLE - Improve configdialog font page and tests. In configdialog: Document causal pathways in create_font_tab docstring. Simplify some attribute names. Move set_samples calls to var_changed_font (idea from Cheryl Sabella). Move related functions to positions after the create widgets function. In test_configdialog: Fix test_font_set so not order dependent. Fix renamed test_indent_scale so it tests the widget. Adjust tests for movement of set_samples call. Add tests for load functions. Put all font tests in one class and tab indent tests in another. Except for two lines, these tests completely cover the related functions.
bpo-30981: IDLE – Add more configdialog font page tests.
bpo-28523: IDLE: replace ‘colour’ with ‘color’ in configdialog.
bpo-30917: Add tests for idlelib.config.IdleConf. Increase coverage from 46% to 96%. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-30934: Document coverage details for idlelib tests. Add section to idlelib/idle-test/README.txt. Include check that branches are taken both ways. Exclude IDLE-specific code that does not run during unit tests.
bpo-30913: IDLE: Document ConfigDialog tk Vars, methods, and widgets in docstrings This will facilitate improving the dialog and splitting up the class. Original patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30899: IDLE: Add tests for ConfigParser subclasses in config. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-30881: IDLE: Add docstrings to browser.py. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30851: IDLE: Remove unused variables in configdialog. One is a duplicate, one is set but cannot be altered by users. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30870: IDLE: In Settings dialog, select font with Up, Down keys as well as mouse. Initial patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-8231: IDLE: call config.IdleConf.GetUserCfgDir only once.
bpo-30779: IDLE: Factor ConfigChanges class from configdialog, put in config; test. * In config, put dump test code in a function; run it and unittest in ‘if __name__ == ‘__main__’. * Add class config.ConfigChanges based on changes_class_v4.py on bpo issue. * Add class test_config.ChangesTest, partly using configdialog_tests_v1.py. * Revise configdialog to use ConfigChanges; see tracker msg297804. * Revise test_configdialog to match configdialog changes. * Remove configdialog functions unused or moved to ConfigChanges. Cheryl Sabella contributed parts of the patch.
bpo-30777: IDLE: configdialog - Add docstrings and fix comments. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30495: IDLE: Improve textview with docstrings, PEP8 names, and more tests. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
bpo-30723: IDLE: Make several improvements to parenmatch. Add ‘parens’ style to highlight both opener and closer. Make ‘default’ style, which is not default, a synonym for ‘opener’. Make time-delay work the same with all styles. Add help for config dialog extensions tab, including help for parenmatch. Add new tests. Original patch by Charles Wohlganger.
bpo-30674: IDLE: add docstrings to grep module. Patch by Cheryl Sabella
bpo-21519: IDLE’s basic custom key entry dialog now detects duplicates properly. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-29910: IDLE no longer deletes a character after commenting out a region by a key shortcut. Add
return 'break'
for this and other potential conflicts between IDLE and default key bindings.bpo-30728: Review and change idlelib.configdialog names. Lowercase method and attribute names. Replace ‘colour’ with ‘color’, expand overly cryptic names, delete unneeded underscores. Replace
import *
with specific imports. Patches by Cheryl Sabella.bpo-6739: IDLE: Verify user-entered key sequences by trying to bind them with tk. Add tests for all 3 validation functions. Original patch by G Polo. Tests added by Cheryl Sabella.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-30983: gdb integration commands (py-bt, etc.) work on optimized shared builds now, too. PEP 523 introduced _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault which inlines PyEval_EvalFrameEx on non-debug shared builds. This broke the ability to use py-bt, py-up, and a few other Python-specific gdb integrations. The problem is fixed by only looking for _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault frames in python-gdb.py. Original patch by Bruno “Polaco” Penteado.
Python 3.6.2 final¶
Release date: 2017-07-17
No changes since release candidate 2
Python 3.6.2 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2017-07-07
Security¶
bpo-30730: Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on Windows. Prevent passing other environment variables and command arguments.
bpo-30694: Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple security vulnerabilities including: CVE 2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop DoS), CVE 2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE 2016-0718 (Fix regression bugs from 2.2.0’s fix to CVE 2016-0718) and CVE 2012-0876 (Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE 2016-5300 (Use os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn’t impact Python, since Python already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using
XML_SetHashSalt()
.bpo-30500: Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse fragments. For example,
splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')
now correctly returns the127.0.0.1
host, instead of treating@evil.com
as the host in an authentication (login@host
).
Python 3.6.2 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-06-17
Security¶
bpo-29591: Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes of CVE 2016-0718 and CVE 2016-4472. See https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more information.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-30682: Removed a too-strict assertion that failed for certain f-strings, such as eval(“f’\n’”) and eval(“f’\r’”).
bpo-30604: Move co_extra_freefuncs to not be per-thread to avoid crashes
bpo-29104: Fixed parsing backslashes in f-strings.
bpo-27945: Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are mutated during searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by Duane Griffin and Tim Mitchell.
bpo-25794: Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-interned attribute names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-30039: If a KeyboardInterrupt happens when the interpreter is in the middle of resuming a chain of nested ‘yield from’ or ‘await’ calls, it’s now correctly delivered to the innermost frame.
bpo-12414: sys.getsizeof() on a code object now returns the sizes which includes the code struct and sizes of objects which it references. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-29949: Fix memory usage regression of set and frozenset object.
bpo-29935: Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple, list and deque when pass indices of wrong type.
bpo-29859: Show correct error messages when any of the pthread_* calls in thread_pthread.h fails.
bpo-28876:
bool(range)
works even iflen(range)
raisesOverflowError
.bpo-29600: Fix wrapping coroutine return values in StopIteration.
bpo-28856: Fix an oversight that %b format for bytes should support objects follow the buffer protocol.
bpo-29714: Fix a regression that bytes format may fail when containing zero bytes inside.
bpo-29478: If max_line_length=None is specified while using the Compat32 policy, it is no longer ignored. Patch by Mircea Cosbuc.
Library¶
bpo-30616: Functional API of enum allows to create empty enums. Patched by Donghee Na
bpo-30038: Fix race condition between signal delivery and wakeup file descriptor. Patch by Nathaniel Smith.
bpo-23894: lib2to3 now recognizes
rb'...'
andf'...'
strings.bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected.
bpo-30149: inspect.signature() now supports callables with variable-argument parameters wrapped with partialmethod. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-30645: Fix path calculation in imp.load_package(), fixing it for cases when a package is only shipped with bytecodes. Patch by Alexandru Ardelean.
bpo-29931: Fixed comparison check for ipaddress.ip_interface objects. Patch by Sanjay Sundaresan.
bpo-30605: re.compile() no longer raises a BytesWarning when compiling a bytes instance with misplaced inline modifier. Patch by Roy Williams.
bpo-24484: Avoid race condition in multiprocessing cleanup (#2159)
bpo-28994: The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in a callback registered by atexit.
bpo-30508: Don’t log exceptions if Task/Future “cancel()” method was called.
bpo-28556: Updates to typing module: Add generic AsyncContextManager, add support for ContextManager on all versions. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra and Ivan Levkivskyi
bpo-29870: Fix ssl sockets leaks when connection is aborted in asyncio/ssl implementation. Patch by Michaël Sghaïer.
bpo-29743: Closing transport during handshake process leaks open socket. Patch by Nikolay Kim
bpo-27585: Fix waiter cancellation in asyncio.Lock. Patch by Mathieu Sornay.
bpo-30418: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL on stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe.
bpo-29822: inspect.isabstract() now works during __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.
bpo-29581: ABCMeta.__new__ now accepts
**kwargs
, allowing abstract base classes to use keyword parameters in __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.bpo-30557: faulthandler now correctly filters and displays exception codes on Windows
bpo-30378: Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot handle IPv6 addresses.
bpo-29960: Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises an exception. Patch by Bryan Olson.
bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not break from main loop on exception.
bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-30301: Fix AttributeError when using SimpleQueue.empty() under spawn and forkserver start methods.
bpo-30329: imaplib and poplib now catch the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code 10022) on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This error occurs sometimes on SSL connections.
bpo-30375: Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always point to the line in the user code. Previously they could point into inners of the re module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals.
bpo-30048: Fixed
Task.cancel()
can be ignored when the task is running coroutine and the coroutine returned without any moreawait
.bpo-30266: contextlib.AbstractContextManager now supports anti-registration by setting __enter__ = None or __exit__ = None, following the pattern introduced in bpo-25958. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-30298: Weaken the condition of deprecation warnings for inline modifiers. Now allowed several subsequential inline modifiers at the start of the pattern (e.g.
'(?i)(?s)...'
). In verbose mode whitespaces and comments now are allowed before and between inline modifiers (e.g.'(?x) (?i) (?s)...'
).bpo-29990: Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-26293: Change resulted because of zipfile breakage. (See also: bpo-29094)
bpo-30243: Removed the __init__ methods of _json’s scanner and encoder. Misusing them could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and encoder objects are completely initialized in the __new__ methods.
bpo-30185: Avoid KeyboardInterrupt tracebacks in forkserver helper process when Ctrl-C is received.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-30205: Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux.
bpo-30070: Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module.
bpo-30061: Fixed crashes in IOBase methods __next__() and readlines() when readline() or __next__() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed possible other errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), PySequence_Size(), or PyMapping_Size().
bpo-30017: Allowed calling the close() method of the zip entry writer object multiple times. Writing to a closed writer now always produces a ValueError.
bpo-30068: _io._IOBase.readlines will check if it’s closed first when hint is present.
bpo-29694: Fixed race condition in pathlib mkdir with flags parents=True. Patch by Armin Rigo.
bpo-29692: Fixed arbitrary unchaining of RuntimeError exceptions in contextlib.contextmanager. Patch by Siddharth Velankar.
bpo-29998: Pickling and copying ImportError now preserves name and path attributes.
bpo-29953: Fixed memory leaks in the replace() method of datetime and time objects when pass out of bound fold argument.
bpo-29942: Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering long runs of empty iterables.
bpo-27863: Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions and wrong types.
bpo-28699: Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an exception at the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or make the program hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang.
bpo-25803: Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.
bpo-29884: faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown. Patch by Christophe Zeitouny.
bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords are not strings. Patch by Michael Seifert.
bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport. Patch by Nikolay Kim.
bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes “encoding” or “errors” of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array ‘Q’, ‘L’ and ‘I’ from accepting big intables (objects that have __int__) as elements. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28231: The zipfile module now accepts path-like objects for external paths.
bpo-26915: index() and count() methods of collections.abc.Sequence now check identity before checking equality when do comparisons.
bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods. Patch by Petr Motejlek.
bpo-30177: path.resolve(strict=False) no longer cuts the path after the first element not present in the filesystem. Patch by Antoine Pietri.
IDLE¶
bpo-15786: Fix several problems with IDLE’s autocompletion box. The following should now work: clicking on selection box items; using the scrollbar; selecting an item by hitting Return. Hangs on MacOSX should no longer happen. Patch by Louie Lu.
bpo-25514: Add doc subsubsection about IDLE failure to start. Popup no-connection message directs users to this section.
bpo-30642: Fix reference leaks in IDLE tests. Patches by Louie Lu and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30495: Add docstrings for textview.py and use PEP8 names. Patches by Cheryl Sabella and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30290: Help-about: use pep8 names and add tests. Increase coverage to 100%. Patches by Louie Lu, Cheryl Sabella, and Terry Jan Reedy.
bpo-30303: Add _utest option to textview; add new tests. Increase coverage to 100%. Patches by Louie Lu and Terry Jan Reedy.
C API¶
bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() no longer replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API is not set.
Build¶
bpo-29941: Add
--with-assertions
configure flag to explicitly enable Cassert()
checks. Defaults to off.--with-pydebug
implies--with-assertions
.bpo-28787: Fix out-of-tree builds of Python when configured with
--with--dtrace
.bpo-29243: Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during
make test
,make install
and some other make targets when configured with--enable-optimizations
.bpo-23404: Don’t regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore: the action is now explicit. Replace
make touch
withmake regen-all
.bpo-29643: Fix
--enable-optimization
didn’t work.
Documentation¶
bpo-30176: Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation.
bpo-30052: the link targets for
bytes()
andbytearray()
are now their respective type definitions, rather than the corresponding builtin function entries. Use bytes and bytearray to reference the latter. In order to ensure this and future cross-reference updates are applied automatically, the daily documentation builds now disable the default output caching features in Sphinx.bpo-26985: Add missing info of code object in inspect documentation.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-29367: python-gdb.py now supports also
method-wrapper
(wrapperobject
) objects.
Tests¶
bpo-30357: test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz Grzywacz.
bpo-30197: Enhanced functions swap_attr() and swap_item() in the test.support module. They now work when delete replaced attribute or item inside the with statement. The old value of the attribute or item (or None if it doesn’t exist) now will be assigned to the target of the “as” clause, if there is one.
Windows¶
bpo-30687: Locate msbuild.exe on Windows when building rather than vcvarsall.bat
bpo-30450: The build process on Windows no longer depends on Subversion, instead pulling external code from GitHub via a Python script. If Python 3.6 is not found on the system (via
py -3.6
), NuGet is used to download a copy of 32-bit Python.
Python 3.6.1 final¶
Release date: 2017-03-21
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-29723: The
sys.path[0]
initialization change for bpo-29139 caused a regression by revealing an inconsistency in how sys.path is initialized when executing__main__
from a zipfile, directory, or other import location. The interpreter now consistently avoids ever adding the import location’s parent directory tosys.path
, and ensures no othersys.path
entries are inadvertently modified when inserting the import location named on the command line.
Build¶
bpo-27593: fix format of git information used in sys.version
Fix incompatible comment in python.h
Python 3.6.1 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-03-04
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-28893: Set correct __cause__ for errors about invalid awaitables returned from __aiter__ and __anext__.
bpo-29683: Fixes to memory allocation in _PyCode_SetExtra. Patch by Brian Coleman.
bpo-29684: Fix minor regression of PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords. It should raise TypeError when kwargs is not a dict. But it might cause segv when args=NULL and kwargs is not a dict.
bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-29607: Fix stack_effect computation for CALL_FUNCTION_EX. Patch by Matthieu Dartiailh.
bpo-29602: Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-29347: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref objects.
bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.
bpo-29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].
bpo-29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. Warnings could be emitted at compile time.
bpo-29327: Fixed a crash when pass the iterable keyword argument to sorted().
bpo-29034: Fix memory leak and use-after-free in os module (path_converter).
bpo-29159: Fix regression in bytes(x) when x.__index__() raises Exception.
bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
bpo-25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
bpo-29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate form.
bpo-26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.
bpo-28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.
bpo-28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.
bpo-28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
bpo-28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been built with Py_DEBUG defined.
bpo-28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict. Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
Library¶
bpo-29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.
bpo-29623: Allow use of path-like object as a single argument in ConfigParser.read(). Patch by David Ellis.
bpo-28963: Fix out of bound iteration in asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback implemented in C.
bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before all pipes are closed.
bpo-29271: Fix Task.current_task and Task.all_tasks implemented in C to accept None argument as their pure Python implementation.
bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops in child processes.
bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive().
bpo-28624: Add a test that checks that cwd parameter of Popen() accepts PathLike objects. Patch by Sayan Chowdhury.
bpo-28518: Start a transaction implicitly before a DML statement. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() no longer affects a partial object after creation.
bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa.
bpo-29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python 3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.
bpo-29519: Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter shutdown when used with a rare combination of multiprocessing and custom codecs.
bpo-29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir
bpo-29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of the match object. Based on patch by WGH.
bpo-29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
bpo-29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at non-breaking spaces.
bpo-28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.
bpo-29316: Restore the provisional status of typing module, add corresponding note to documentation. Patch by Ivan L.
bpo-29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.
bpo-29011: Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the typing module.
bpo-28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache. KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was simultaneously called from different threads with the same uncached arguments.
bpo-29142: In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
bpo-28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don’t ignore the name parameter anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.
bpo-29203: functools.lru_cache() now respects PEP 468 and preserves the order of keyword arguments. f(a=1, b=2) is now cached separately from f(b=2, a=1) since both calls could potentially give different results.
bpo-15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of a context. Patch by Sam Breese.
bpo-29094: Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object and modes “w” and “x” now are relative to the start of the file.
bpo-29085: Allow random.Random.seed() to use high quality OS randomness rather than the pid and time.
bpo-29061: Fixed bug in secrets.randbelow() which would hang when given a negative input. Patch by Brendan Donegan.
bpo-29079: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows
bpo-13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
bpo-29119: Fix weakrefs in the pure python version of collections.OrderedDict move_to_end() method. Contributed by Andra Bogildea.
bpo-9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative integers.
bpo-28427: old keys should not remove new values from WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
bpo-28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
bpo-29055: Neaten-up empty population error on random.choice() by suppressing the upstream exception.
bpo-28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
bpo-19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another thread.
bpo-20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when passing a sequence that doesn’t own its elements as limits.
bpo-28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some multiprocessing objects such as locks.
bpo-28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer writes the index file when it is not changed.
bpo-26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android platforms.
IDLE¶
Windows¶
bpo-29579: Removes readme.txt from the installer
bpo-29326: Ignores blank lines in ._pth files (Patch by Alexey Izbyshev)
bpo-28164: Correctly handle special console filenames (patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-29409: Implement PEP 529 for io.FileIO (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-29392: Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module.
bpo-25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.
C API¶
bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API is not set or set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not including) or 0x03060100 or higher.
bpo-29083: Fixed the declaration of some public API functions. PyArg_VaParse() and PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not available in limited API. PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(), PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue() were not available in limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
bpo-29058: All stable API extensions added after Python 3.2 are now available only when Py_LIMITED_API is set to the PY_VERSION_HEX value of the minimum Python version supporting this API.
Documentation¶
bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.
bpo-25008: Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to aiosmtpd, a third-party asyncio-based replacement.
bpo-26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
bpo-29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.
Tests¶
bpo-28087: Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on macOS. Skip some tests of select.poll when running on macOS due to unresolved issues with the underlying system poll function on some macOS versions.
bpo-29571: to match the behaviour of the
re.LOCALE
flag, test_re.test_locale_flag now useslocale.getpreferredencoding(False)
to determine the candidate encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly skip the test when the default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)bpo-28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest command line arguments.
bpo-28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
bpo-26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
Build¶
bpo-27593: sys.version and the platform module python_build(), python_branch(), and python_revision() functions now use git information rather than hg when building from a repo.
bpo-29572: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.
bpo-26851: Set Android compilation and link flags.
bpo-28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto
bpo-29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
bpo-23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
bpo-28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.
bpo-28538: Fix the compilation error that occurs because if_nameindex() is available on Android API level 24, but the if_nameindex structure is not defined.
bpo-20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
bpo-28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
Python 3.6.0 final¶
Release date: 2016-12-23
No changes since release candidate 2
Python 3.6.0 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2016-12-16
Core and Builtins¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-28770: Fix python-gdb.py for fastcalls.
Windows¶
bpo-28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder.
Build¶
bpo-28898: Prevent gdb build errors due to HAVE_LONG_LONG redefinition.
Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2016-12-06
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23722: Rather than silently producing a class that doesn’t support zero-argument
super()
in methods, failing to pass the new__classcell__
namespace entry up totype.__new__
now results in aDeprecationWarning
and a class that supports zero-argumentsuper()
.bpo-28797: Modifying the class __dict__ inside the __set_name__ method of a descriptor that is used inside that class no longer prevents calling the __set_name__ method of other descriptors.
bpo-28782: Fix a bug in the implementation
yield from
when checking if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE (bpo-26647).
Library¶
bpo-27030: Unknown escapes in re.sub() replacement template are allowed again. But they still are deprecated and will be disabled in 3.7.
bpo-28835: Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings(): call warnings.showwarning() if it was overridden inside the context manager.
bpo-27172: To assist with upgrades from 2.7, the previously documented deprecation of
inspect.getfullargspec()
has been reversed. This decision may be revisited again after the Python 2.7 branch is no longer officially supported.bpo-26273: Add new
socket.TCP_CONGESTION
(Linux 2.6.13) andsocket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT
(Linux 2.6.37) constants. Patch written by Omar Sandoval.bpo-24142: Reading a corrupt config file left configparser in an invalid state. Original patch by Florian Höch.
bpo-28843: Fix asyncio C Task to handle exceptions __traceback__.
C API¶
bpo-28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions.
Documentation¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-28023: Fix python-gdb.py didn’t support new dict implementation.
Python 3.6.0 beta 4¶
Release date: 2016-11-21
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-28532: Show sys.version when -V option is supplied twice.
bpo-27100: The with-statement now checks for __enter__ before it checks for __exit__. This gives less confusing error messages when both methods are missing. Patch by Jonathan Ellington.
bpo-28746: Fix the set_inheritable() file descriptor method on platforms that do not have the ioctl FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX commands.
bpo-26920: Fix not getting the locale’s charset upon initializing the interpreter, on platforms that do not have langinfo.
bpo-28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
bpo-28665: Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.
bpo-28583: PyDict_SetDefault didn’t combine split table when needed. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27243: Change PendingDeprecationWarning -> DeprecationWarning. As it was agreed in the issue, __aiter__ returning an awaitable should result in PendingDeprecationWarning in 3.5 and in DeprecationWarning in 3.6.
bpo-26182: Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.
bpo-28721: Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to handle StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.
Library¶
bpo-28752: Restored the __reduce__() methods of datetime objects.
bpo-28727: Regular expression patterns, _sre.SRE_Pattern objects created by re.compile(), become comparable (only x==y and x!=y operators). This change should fix the bpo-18383: don’t duplicate warning filters when the warnings module is reloaded (thing usually only done in unit tests).
bpo-20572: The subprocess.Popen.wait method’s undocumented endtime parameter now raises a DeprecationWarning.
bpo-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
bpo-19717: Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not exist. Patch by Vajrasky Kok
bpo-28563: Fixed possible DoS and arbitrary code execution when handle plural form selections in the gettext module. The expression parser now supports exact syntax supported by GNU gettext.
bpo-28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when the garbage collector is invoked in other thread. Based on patch by Sebastian Cufre.
bpo-28600: Optimize loop.call_soon.
bpo-28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if called from coroutines/callbacks.
bpo-28634: Fix asyncio.isfuture() to support unittest.Mock.
bpo-26081: Fix refleak in _asyncio.Future.__iter__().throw.
bpo-28639: Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool Patch by Justin Mayfield.
bpo-28652: Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not support.
bpo-28653: Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache.
bpo-28703: Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects.
bpo-28704: Fix create_unix_server to support Path-like objects (PEP 519).
bpo-28720: Add collections.abc.AsyncGenerator.
Documentation¶
bpo-28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.
Tests¶
Build¶
Python 3.6.0 beta 3¶
Release date: 2016-10-31
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-28128: Deprecation warning for invalid str and byte escape sequences now prints better information about where the error occurs. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka and Eric Smith.
bpo-28509: dict.update() no longer allocate unnecessary large memory.
bpo-28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug build.
bpo-28517: Fixed of-by-one error in the peephole optimizer that caused keeping unreachable code.
bpo-28214: Improved exception reporting for problematic __set_name__ attributes.
bpo-23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
bpo-28471: Fix “Python memory allocator called without holding the GIL” crash in socket.setblocking.
Library¶
bpo-27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if given empty data twice. Patch by Benjamin Fogle.
bpo-28549: Fixed segfault in curses’s addch() with ncurses6.
bpo-28449: tarfile.open() with mode “r” or “r:” now tries to open a tar file with compression before trying to open it without compression. Otherwise it had 50% chance failed with ignore_zeros=True.
bpo-23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived browsers. Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.
bpo-27939: Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and tkinter.Scale caused by representing the scale as float value internally in Tk. tkinter.IntVar now works if float value is set to underlying Tk variable.
bpo-18844: The various ways of specifying weights for random.choices() now produce the same result sequences.
bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar().prmonth() no longer prints a space at the start of new line after printing a month’s calendar. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces. Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.
bpo-28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
bpo-28430: Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn’t accept non-None value is passed to it.send(val).
bpo-27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the “!” prefix for readability.
bpo-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin a workaround to Tix library bug.
bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry “./” to ZIP archive.
bpo-25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not found in the string. Error message for invalid group reference now includes the group index and the position of the reference. Based on patch by SilentGhost.
bpo-18219: Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns. Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
bpo-28448: Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn’t work on Windows.
bpo-28480: Fix error building socket module when multithreading is disabled.
bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.
bpo-20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT handlers.
bpo-28492: Fix how StopIteration exception is raised in _asyncio.Future.
bpo-28500: Fix asyncio to handle async gens GC from another thread.
bpo-26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all children are done. Patch by Johannes Ebke.
bpo-26796: Don’t configure the number of workers for default threadpool executor. Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.
bpo-28544: Implement asyncio.Task in C.
Windows¶
bpo-28522: Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c
Build¶
Tests¶
Python 3.6.0 beta 2¶
Release date: 2016-10-10
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
bpo-26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future. Original patch by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator type now is deprecated. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original patch by Niklas Koep.
bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of compiling it.
bpo-28201: Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table when hashes have same lower bits.
bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
bpo-26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
bpo-21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with invalid keyword args.
bpo-28203: Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error message. Patch by Soumya Sharma.
bpo-28086: Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was passed unscathed to the C-defined function. Now it is converted to exact tuple.
bpo-28214: Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of the instance.
bpo-27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
bpo-28192: Don’t import readline in isolated mode.
Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.
bpo-28131: Fix a regression in zipimport’s compile_source(). zipimport should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
bpo-28126: Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can properly optimize memcpy().
bpo-28120: Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to remove a “pending key” (Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26182: Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are used as variable/attribute/class/function name.
Library¶
bpo-27998: Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows. Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-28317: The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.
bpo-26293: Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start of the file. Offsets in ZIP file now are relative to the start of the archive in conforming to the specification.
bpo-28380: unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly support assert_called, assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.
bpo-27181: remove statistics.geometric_mean and defer until 3.7.
bpo-28229: lzma module now supports pathlib.
bpo-28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
bpo-28225: bz2 module now supports pathlib. Initial patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-28227: gzip now supports pathlib. Patch by Ethan Furman.
bpo-27358: Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved error message when passing a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.
bpo-28257: Improved error message when passing a non-iterable as a var-positional argument. Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.
bpo-28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from incorrect pickle data. Based on patch by John Leitch.
bpo-28228: imghdr now supports pathlib.
bpo-28226: compileall now supports pathlib.
bpo-28314: Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method of xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.
bpo-28148: Stop using localtime() and gmtime() in the time module. Introduced platform independent _PyTime_localtime API that is similar to POSIX localtime_r, but available on all platforms. Patch by Ed Schouten.
bpo-28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 and 9999-12. Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so that they don’t call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date under/overflow.
bpo-28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress() methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes. Original patch by John Leitch.
bpo-27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass invalid string-like object as a name. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-18844: random.choices() now has k as a keyword-only argument to improve the readability of common cases and come into line with the signature used in other languages.
bpo-18893: Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by Madison May.
bpo-27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module. Added the master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.
bpo-27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception messages like “Exception: None”. This fixes a regression introduced in 3.5a2.
bpo-25651: Allow false values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().
bpo-27778: Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the getrandom() is interrupted by a signal and a signal handler raises a Python exception.
bpo-28200: Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix path_converter() function).
bpo-25400: RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values for crawl_delay and request_rate. Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.
bpo-27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.
bpo-28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of os.stat(). Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-22493: Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the middle of regular expression now contains a (truncated) regex pattern. Patch by Tim Graham.
bpo-25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when an empty bytestring is passed.
bpo-28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.
bpo-25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin. Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.
bpo-28114: Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte strings. Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
bpo-27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic. Patch by Kevin Conway.
bpo-28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn’t properly supported. Patch by Seth Michael Larson.
bpo-26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__. Patch by iceboy.
bpo-26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.
bpo-28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
bpo-27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors. Patch by Mark Williams.
bpo-28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no loop attached. Patch by Vincent Michel.
bpo-28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport’s FD is used with add_reader, add_writer, etc.
bpo-28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
bpo-28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
bpo-28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
Windows¶
bpo-28402: Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.
bpo-28333: Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
bpo-28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and 64-bit
bpo-28161: Opening CON for write access fails
bpo-28162: WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts with Ctrl+Z
bpo-28163: WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to _open_osfhandle
bpo-28164: _PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths
bpo-28137: Renames Windows path file to ._pth
bpo-28138: Windows ._pth file should allow import site
C API¶
bpo-28426: Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().
Build¶
bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
bpo-26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
bpo-15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building outside the source tree.
Tests¶
bpo-28217: Adds _testconsole module to test console input.
Python 3.6.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2016-09-12
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23722: The __class__ cell used by zero-argument super() is now initialized from type.__new__ rather than __build_class__, so class methods relying on that will now work correctly when called from metaclass methods during class creation. Patch by Martin Teichmann.
bpo-25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
bpo-27080: Implement formatting support for PEP 515. Initial patch by Chris Angelico.
bpo-27199: In tarfile, expose copyfileobj bufsize to improve throughput. Patch by Jason Fried.
bpo-27948: In f-strings, only allow backslashes inside the braces (where the expressions are). This is a breaking change from the 3.6 alpha releases, where backslashes are allowed anywhere in an f-string. Also, require that expressions inside f-strings be enclosed within literal braces, and not escapes like
f'\x7b"hi"\x7d'
.bpo-28046: Remove platform-specific directories from sys.path.
bpo-28071: Add early-out for differencing from an empty set.
bpo-25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename (patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-25856: The __module__ attribute of extension classes and functions now is interned. This leads to more compact pickle data with protocol 4.
bpo-27213: Rework CALL_FUNCTION* opcodes to produce shorter and more efficient bytecode. Patch by Demur Rumed, design by Serhiy Storchaka, reviewed by Serhiy Storchaka and Victor Stinner.
bpo-26331: Implement tokenizing support for PEP 515. Patch by Georg Brandl.
bpo-27999: Make “global after use” a SyntaxError, and ditto for nonlocal. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-27985: Implement PEP 526 – Syntax for Variable Annotations. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-26058: Add a new private version to the builtin dict type, incremented at each dictionary creation and at each dictionary change. Implementation of the PEP 509.
bpo-27364: A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now generates a DeprecationWarning. Patch by Emanuel Barry.
bpo-27350:
dict
implementation is changed like PyPy. It is more compact and preserves insertion order. (Concept developed by Raymond Hettinger and patch by Inada Naoki.)bpo-27911: Remove unnecessary error checks in
exec_builtin_or_dynamic()
.bpo-27078: Added BUILD_STRING opcode. Optimized f-strings evaluation.
bpo-17884: Python now requires systems with inttypes.h and stdint.h
bpo-27961: Require platforms to support
long long
. Python hasn’t compiled withoutlong long
for years, so this is basically a formality.bpo-27355: Removed support for Windows CE. It was never finished, and Windows CE is no longer a relevant platform for Python.
Implement PEP 523.
bpo-27870: A left shift of zero by a large integer no longer attempts to allocate large amounts of memory.
bpo-25402: In int-to-decimal-string conversion, improve the estimate of the intermediate memory required, and remove an unnecessarily strict overflow check. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-27214: In long_invert, be more careful about modifying object returned by long_add, and remove an unnecessary check for small longs. Thanks Oren Milman for analysis and patch.
bpo-27506: Support passing the bytes/bytearray.translate() “delete” argument by keyword.
bpo-27812: Properly clear out a generator’s frame’s backreference to the generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().
bpo-27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.
bpo-27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check after use of ‘def’ in _PyState_AddModule(). Initial patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-27792: The modulo operation applied to
bool
and otherint
subclasses now always returns anint
. Previously the return type depended on the input values. Patch by Xiang Zhang.bpo-26984: int() now always returns an instance of exact int.
bpo-25604: Fix a minor bug in integer true division; this bug could potentially have caused off-by-one-ulp results on platforms with unreliable ldexp implementations.
bpo-24254: Make class definition namespace ordered by default.
bpo-27662: Fix an overflow check in
List_New
: the original code was checking againstPy_SIZE_MAX
instead of the correct upper bound ofPy_SSIZE_T_MAX
. Patch by Xiang Zhang.bpo-27782: Multi-phase extension module import now correctly allows the
m_methods
field to be used to add module level functions to instances of non-module types returned fromPy_create_mod
. Patch by Xiang Zhang.bpo-27936: The round() function accepted a second None argument for some types but not for others. Fixed the inconsistency by accepting None for all numeric types.
bpo-27487: Warn if a submodule argument to “python -m” or runpy.run_module() is found in sys.modules after parent packages are imported, but before the submodule is executed.
bpo-27157: Make only type() itself accept the one-argument form. Patch by Eryk Sun and Emanuel Barry.
bpo-27558: Fix a SystemError in the implementation of “raise” statement. In a brand new thread, raise a RuntimeError since there is no active exception to reraise. Patch written by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c
Library¶
bpo-28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args
bpo-28485: Always raise ValueError for negative compileall.compile_dir(workers=…) parameter, even when multithreading is unavailable.
bpo-28037: Use sqlite3_get_autocommit() instead of setting Connection->inTransaction manually.
bpo-25283: Attributes tm_gmtoff and tm_zone are now available on all platforms in the return values of time.localtime() and time.gmtime().
bpo-24454: Regular expression match object groups are now accessible using __getitem__. “mo[x]” is equivalent to “mo.group(x)”.
bpo-10740: sqlite3 no longer implicitly commit an open transaction before DDL statements.
bpo-17941: Add a module parameter to collections.namedtuple().
bpo-22493: Inline flags now should be used only at the start of the regular expression. Deprecation warning is emitted if uses them in the middle of the regular expression.
bpo-26885: xmlrpc now supports unmarshalling additional data types used by Apache XML-RPC implementation for numerics and None.
bpo-28070: Fixed parsing inline verbose flag in regular expressions.
bpo-19500: Add client-side SSL session resumption to the ssl module.
bpo-28022: Deprecate ssl-related arguments in favor of SSLContext. The deprecation include manual creation of SSLSocket and certfile/keyfile (or similar) in ftplib, httplib, imaplib, smtplib, poplib and urllib.
bpo-28043: SSLContext has improved default settings: OP_NO_SSLv2, OP_NO_SSLv3, OP_NO_COMPRESSION, OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE, OP_SINGLE_DH_USE, OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE and HIGH ciphers without MD5.
bpo-24693: Changed some RuntimeError’s in the zipfile module to more appropriate types. Improved some error messages and debugging output.
bpo-17909:
json.load
andjson.loads
now support binary input encoded as UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-27137: the pure Python fallback implementation of
functools.partial
now matches the behaviour of its accelerated C counterpart for subclassing, pickling and text representation purposes. Patch by Emanuel Barry and Serhiy Storchaka.Fix possible integer overflows and crashes in the mmap module with unusual usage patterns.
bpo-1703178: Fix the ability to pass the –link-objects option to the distutils build_ext command.
bpo-28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in range between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.
bpo-18401: Pdb now supports the ‘readrc’ keyword argument to control whether .pdbrc files should be read. Patch by Martin Matusiak and Sam Kimbrel.
bpo-25969: Update the lib2to3 grammar to handle the unpacking generalizations added in 3.5.
bpo-14977: mailcap now respects the order of the lines in the mailcap files (“first match”), as required by RFC 1542. Patch by Michael Lazar.
bpo-28082: Convert re flag constants to IntFlag.
bpo-28025: Convert all ssl module constants to IntEnum and IntFlags. SSLContext properties now return flags and enums.
bpo-23591: Add Flag, IntFlag, and auto() to enum module.
bpo-433028: Added support of modifier spans in regular expressions.
bpo-24594: Validates persist parameter when opening MSI database
bpo-17582: xml.etree.ElementTree nows preserves whitespaces in attributes (Patch by Duane Griffin. Reviewed and approved by Stefan Behnel.)
bpo-28047: Fixed calculation of line length used for the base64 CTE in the new email policies.
bpo-27576: Fix call order in OrderedDict.__init__().
email.generator.DecodedGenerator now supports the policy keyword.
bpo-28027: Remove undocumented modules from
Lib/plat-*
: IN, CDROM, DLFCN, TYPES, CDIO, and STROPTS.bpo-27445: Don’t pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload(). Patch by Claude Paroz.
bpo-24277: The new email API is no longer provisional, and the docs have been reorganized and rewritten to emphasize the new API.
bpo-22450: urllib now includes an
Accept: */*
header among the default headers. This makes the results of REST API requests more consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are involved.lib2to3.pgen3.driver.load_grammar() now creates a stable cache file between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the hash randomization setting.
bpo-28005: Allow ImportErrors in encoding implementation to propagate.
bpo-26667: Support path-like objects in importlib.util.
bpo-27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source pointers in the “ctypes” and “array” modules.
bpo-22233: Break email header lines only on the RFC specified CR and LF characters, not on arbitrary unicode line breaks. This also fixes a bug in HTTP header parsing.
bpo-27331: The email.mime classes now all accept an optional policy keyword.
bpo-27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list.
bpo-16113: Add SHA-3 and SHAKE support to hashlib module.
Eliminate a tautological-pointer-compare warning in _scproxy.c.
bpo-27776: The
os.urandom()
function does now block on Linux 3.17 and newer until the system urandom entropy pool is initialized to increase the security. This change is part of the PEP 524.bpo-27778: Expose the Linux
getrandom()
syscall as a newos.getrandom()
function. This change is part of the PEP 524.bpo-27691: Fix ssl module’s parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative name fields in X.509 certs.
bpo-18844: Add random.choices().
bpo-25761: Improved error reporting about truncated pickle data in C implementation of unpickler. UnpicklingError is now raised instead of AttributeError and ValueError in some cases.
bpo-26798: Add BLAKE2 (blake2b and blake2s) to hashlib.
bpo-26032: Optimized globbing in pathlib by using os.scandir(); it is now about 1.5–4 times faster.
bpo-25596: Optimized glob() and iglob() functions in the glob module; they are now about 3–6 times faster.
bpo-27928: Add scrypt (password-based key derivation function) to hashlib module (requires OpenSSL 1.1.0).
bpo-27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module’s default cipher list to counter measure sweet32 attack (CVE 2016-2183).
bpo-27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module’s default cipher list. (Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL).
bpo-25387: Check return value of winsound.MessageBeep.
bpo-27866: Add SSLContext.get_ciphers() method to get a list of all enabled ciphers.
bpo-27744: Add AF_ALG (Linux Kernel crypto) to socket module.
bpo-26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0.
bpo-11620: Fix support for SND_MEMORY in winsound.PlaySound. Based on a patch by Tim Lesher.
bpo-11734: Add support for IEEE 754 half-precision floats to the struct module. Based on a patch by Eli Stevens.
bpo-27919: Deprecated
extra_path
distribution option in distutils packaging.bpo-23229: Add new
cmath
constants:cmath.inf
andcmath.nan
to matchmath.inf
andmath.nan
, and alsocmath.infj
andcmath.nanj
to match the format used by complex repr.bpo-27842: The csv.DictReader now returns rows of type OrderedDict. (Contributed by Steve Holden.)
Remove support for passing a file descriptor to os.access. It never worked but previously didn’t raise.
bpo-12885: Fix error when distutils encounters symlink.
bpo-27881: Fixed possible bugs when setting sqlite3.Connection.isolation_level. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27861: Fixed a crash in sqlite3.Connection.cursor() when a factory creates not a cursor. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-19884: Avoid spurious output on OS X with Gnu Readline.
bpo-27706: Restore deterministic behavior of random.Random().seed() for string seeds using seeding version 1. Allows sequences of calls to random() to exactly match those obtained in Python 2. Patch by Nofar Schnider.
bpo-10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit(). Statements should not be reset after a commit.
bpo-12319: Chunked transfer encoding support added to http.client.HTTPConnection requests. The urllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler class does not enforce a Content-Length header any more. If a HTTP request has a file or iterable body, but no Content-Length header, the library now falls back to use chunked transfer-encoding.
A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing: - Collection (only for 3.6) (bpo-27598) - Add FrozenSet to __all__ (upstream #261) - fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259) - Remove the dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252)
bpo-27832: Make
_normalize
parameter toFraction
constructor keyword-only, so thatFraction(2, 3, 4)
now raisesTypeError
.bpo-27539: Fix unnormalised
Fraction.__pow__
result in the case of negative exponent and negative base.bpo-21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using CTEs.
bpo-27819: In distutils sdists, simply produce the “gztar” (gzipped tar format) distributions on all platforms unless “formats” is supplied.
bpo-2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which the user does not have permission to access.
bpo-9998: On Linux, ctypes.util.find_library now looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH for shared libraries.
bpo-27573: exit message for code.interact is now configurable.
bpo-27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener. Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and patch.
bpo-6766: Distributed reference counting added to multiprocessing to support nesting of shared values / proxy objects.
bpo-21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message. Thanks to Wojciech Walczak for patch.
asyncio: Add set_protocol / get_protocol to Transports.
bpo-27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.
IDLE¶
bpo-15308: Add ‘interrupt execution’ (^C) to Shell menu. Patch by Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.
bpo-27922: Stop IDLE tests from ‘flashing’ gui widgets on the screen.
bpo-27891: Consistently group and sort imports within idlelib modules.
bpo-17642: add larger font sizes for classroom projection.
Add version to title of IDLE help window.
bpo-25564: In section on IDLE – console differences, mention that using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.
bpo-27821: Fix 3.6.0a3 regression that prevented custom key sets from being selected when no custom theme was defined.
C API¶
Tests¶
bpo-27427: Additional tests for the math module. Patch by Francisco Couzo.
bpo-27953: Skip math and cmath tests that fail on OS X 10.4 due to a poor libm implementation of tan.
bpo-26040: Improve test_math and test_cmath coverage and rigour. Patch by Jeff Allen.
bpo-27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for “dangling threads”, since the dangling threads are weak references.
Build¶
bpo-27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa Roach)
bpo-27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py
bpo-27976: Deprecate building _ctypes with the bundled copy of libffi on non-OSX UNIX platforms.
bpo-27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as required for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when
--with-optimizations
is enabled. Also improve our ability to find the llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.bpo-21590: Support for DTrace and SystemTap probes.
bpo-26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in modules.
bpo-26359: Add the –with-optimizations flag to turn on LTO and PGO build support when available.
bpo-27917: Set platform triplets for Android builds.
bpo-25825: Update references to the $(LIBPL) installation path on AIX. This path was changed in 3.2a4.
Update OS X installer to use SQLite 3.14.1 and XZ 5.2.2.
bpo-21122: Fix LTO builds on OS X.
bpo-17128: Build OS X installer with a private copy of OpenSSL. Also provide a sample Install Certificates command script to install a set of root certificates from the third-party certifi module.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-27952: Get Tools/scripts/fixcid.py working with Python 3 and the current “re” module, avoid invalid Python backslash escapes, and fix a bug parsing escaped C quote signs.
Windows¶
bpo-28065: Update xz dependency to 5.2.2 and build it from source.
bpo-25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom install.
bpo-1602: Windows console doesn’t input or print Unicode (PEP 528)
bpo-27781: Change file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 (PEP 529)
bpo-27731: Opt-out of MAX_PATH on Windows 10
bpo-6135: Adds encoding and errors parameters to subprocess.
bpo-27959: Adds oem encoding, alias ansi to mbcs, move aliasmbcs to codec lookup.
bpo-27982: The functions of the winsound module now accept keyword arguments.
bpo-20366: Build full text search support into SQLite on Windows.
bpo-27756: Adds new icons for Python files and processes on Windows. Designs by Cherry Wang.
bpo-27883: Update sqlite to 3.14.1.0 on Windows.
Python 3.6.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2016-08-15
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27704: Optimized creating bytes and bytearray from byte-like objects and iterables. Speed up to 3 times for short objects. Original patch by Naoki Inada.
bpo-26823: Large sections of repeated lines in tracebacks are now abbreviated as “[Previous line repeated {count} more times]” by the builtin traceback rendering. Patch by Emanuel Barry.
bpo-27574: Decreased an overhead of parsing keyword arguments in functions implemented with using Argument Clinic.
bpo-22557: Now importing already imported modules is up to 2.5 times faster.
bpo-17596: Include <wincrypt.h> to help with Min GW building.
bpo-17599: On Windows, rename the privately defined REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER structure to avoid conflicting with the definition from Min GW.
bpo-27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27581: Don’t rely on wrapping for overflow check in PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-1621: Avoid signed integer overflow in list and tuple operations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up “__import__” in globals or builtins for importing submodules or “from import”. Fixed a crash if raise a warning about unabling to resolve package from __spec__ or __package__.
bpo-27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
bpo-27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError instead of SystemError.
bpo-27366: Implemented PEP 487 (Simpler customization of class creation). Upon subclassing, the __init_subclass__ classmethod is called on the base class. Descriptors are initialized with __set_name__ after class creation.
Library¶
bpo-26027: Add PEP 519/__fspath__() support to the os and os.path modules. Includes code from Jelle Zijlstra. (See also: bpo-27524)
bpo-27598: Add Collections to collections.abc. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi, docs by Neil Girdhar.
bpo-25958: Support “anti-registration” of special methods from various ABCs, like __hash__, __iter__ or __len__. All these (and several more) can be set to None in an implementation class and the behavior will be as if the method is not defined at all. (Previously, this mechanism existed only for __hash__, to make mutable classes unhashable.) Code contributed by Andrew Barnert and Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-16764: Support keyword arguments to zlib.decompress(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27736: Prevent segfault after interpreter re-initialization due to ref count problem introduced in code for bpo-27038 in 3.6.0a3. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-25628: The verbose and rename parameters for collections.namedtuple are now keyword-only.
bpo-12345: Add mathematical constant tau to math and cmath. See also PEP 628.
bpo-26823: traceback.StackSummary.format now abbreviates large sections of repeated lines as “[Previous line repeated {count} more times]” (this change then further affects other traceback display operations in the module). Patch by Emanuel Barry.
bpo-27664: Add to concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor() the ability to specify a thread name prefix.
bpo-27181: Add geometric_mean and harmonic_mean to statistics module.
bpo-27573: code.interact now prints an message when exiting.
bpo-6422: Add autorange method to timeit.Timer objects.
bpo-27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in _ssl.wrap_socket().
bpo-26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for subclasses of property() and other data descriptors. Removes the never publicly used, never documented unittest.mock.DescriptorTypes tuple.
bpo-26754: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects as path in compile() and similar functions is now deprecated.
bpo-26800: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects as paths in os functions is now deprecated.
bpo-26981: Add _order_ compatibility shim to enum.Enum for Python 2/3 code bases.
bpo-27661: Added tzinfo keyword argument to datetime.combine.
In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or window.instr() is passed a negative value.
bpo-27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in operator.methodcaller.
bpo-27774: Fix possible Py_DECREF on unowned object in _sre.
bpo-27760: Fix possible integer overflow in binascii.b2a_qp.
bpo-27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for large record lengths.
bpo-27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE 2016-1000110). Ignore the HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates that the script is in CGI mode.
bpo-7063: Remove dead code from the “array” module’s slice handling. Patch by Chuck.
bpo-27656: Do not assume sched.h defines any SCHED_* constants.
bpo-27130: In the “zlib” module, fix handling of large buffers (typically 4 GiB) when compressing and decompressing. Previously, inputs were limited to 4 GiB, and compression and decompression operations did not properly handle results of 4 GiB.
Expose the EPOLLEXCLUSIVE constant (when it is defined) in the select module.
bpo-27567: Expose the EPOLLRDHUP and POLLRDHUP constants in the select module.
bpo-1621: Avoid signed int negation overflow in the “audioop” module.
bpo-27533: Release GIL in nt._isdir
bpo-17711: Fixed unpickling by the persistent ID with protocol 0. Original patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
bpo-27522: Avoid an unintentional reference cycle in email.feedparser.
bpo-27512: Fix a segfault when os.fspath() called an __fspath__() method that raised an exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
IDLE¶
bpo-27714: text_textview and test_autocomplete now pass when re-run in the same process. This occurs when test_idle fails when run with the -w option but without -jn. Fix warning from test_config.
bpo-27621: Put query response validation error messages in the query box itself instead of in a separate messagebox. Redo tests to match. Add Mac OSX refinements. Original patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-27620: Escape key now closes Query box as cancelled.
bpo-27609: IDLE: tab after initial whitespace should tab, not autocomplete. This fixes problem with writing docstrings at least twice indented.
bpo-27609: Explicitly return None when there are also non-None returns. In a few cases, reverse a condition and eliminate a return.
bpo-25507: IDLE no longer runs buggy code because of its tkinter imports. Users must include the same imports required to run directly in Python.
bpo-27173: Add ‘IDLE Modern Unix’ to the built-in key sets. Make the default key set depend on the platform. Add tests for the changes to the config module.
bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
Tests¶
bpo-25805: Skip a test in test_pkgutil as needed that doesn’t work when
__name__ == __main__
. Patch by SilentGhost.bpo-27472: Add test.support.unix_shell as the path to the default shell.
bpo-27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that changed in Expat 2.2.0.
bpo-27594: Prevent assertion error when running test_ast with coverage enabled: ensure code object has a valid first line number. Patch suggested by Ivan Levkivskyi.
Windows¶
Build¶
bpo-27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating importlib’s bootstrap files. Patch by Xiang Zhang
bpo-25825: Correct the references to Modules/python.exp, which is required on AIX. The references were accidentally changed in 3.5.0a1.
bpo-27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from being cross-compiled.
bpo-26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program to be used for file generation during the build.
bpo-10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X. Also update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround.
Python 3.6.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2016-07-11
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray concatenations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-23034: The output of a special Python build with defined COUNT_ALLOCS, SHOW_ALLOC_COUNT or SHOW_TRACK_COUNT macros is now off by default. It can be re-enabled using the “-X showalloccount” option. It now outputs to stderr instead of stdout.
bpo-27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a negative integer for a resized bytearray.
bpo-27007: The fromhex() class methods of bytes and bytearray subclasses now return an instance of corresponding subclass.
Library¶
bpo-26844: Fix error message for imp.find_module() to refer to ‘path’ instead of ‘name’. Patch by Lev Maximov.
bpo-23804: Fix SSL zero-length recv() calls to not block and not raise an error about unclean EOF.
bpo-27466: Change time format returned by http.cookie.time2netscape, confirming the netscape cookie format and making it consistent with documentation.
bpo-21708: Deprecated dbm.dumb behavior that differs from common dbm behavior: creating a database in ‘r’ and ‘w’ modes and modifying a database in ‘r’ mode.
bpo-26721: Change the socketserver.StreamRequestHandler.wfile attribute to implement BufferedIOBase. In particular, the write() method no longer does partial writes.
bpo-22115: Added methods trace_add, trace_remove and trace_info in the tkinter.Variable class. They replace old methods trace_variable, trace, trace_vdelete and trace_vinfo that use obsolete Tcl commands and might not work in future versions of Tcl. Fixed old tracing methods: trace_vdelete() with wrong mode no longer break tracing, trace_vinfo() now always returns a list of pairs of strings, tracing in the “u” mode now works.
bpo-26243: Only the level argument to zlib.compress() is keyword argument now. The first argument is positional-only.
bpo-27038: Expose the DirEntry type as os.DirEntry. Code patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-27186: Update os.fspath()/PyOS_FSPath() to check the return value of __fspath__() to be either str or bytes.
bpo-18726: All optional parameters of the dump(), dumps(), load() and loads() functions and JSONEncoder and JSONDecoder class constructors in the json module are now keyword-only.
bpo-27319: Methods selection_set(), selection_add(), selection_remove() and selection_toggle() of ttk.TreeView now allow passing multiple items as multiple arguments instead of passing them as a tuple. Deprecated undocumented ability of calling the selection() method with arguments.
bpo-27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and ispunct().
bpo-27294: Numerical state in the repr for Tkinter event objects is now represented as a combination of known flags.
bpo-27177: Match objects in the re module now support index-like objects as group indices. Based on patches by Jeroen Demeyer and Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26754: Some functions (compile() etc) accepted a filename argument encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like objects are accepted.
bpo-26536: socket.ioctl now supports SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH. Patch by Daniel Stokes.
bpo-27048: Prevents distutils failing on Windows when environment variables contain non-ASCII characters
bpo-27330: Fixed possible leaks in the ctypes module.
bpo-27238: Got rid of bare excepts in the turtle module. Original patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-27122: When an exception is raised within the context being managed by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack generators catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the original exception when exiting, let the new chained one through. This avoids the PEP 479 bug described in issue25782.
bpo-16864: sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid now supports REPLACE statement. Initial patch by Alex LordThorsen.
bpo-26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id’s containing spaces.
bpo-8637: Honor a pager set by the env var MANPAGER (in preference to one set by the env var PAGER).
bpo-16182: Fix various functions in the “readline” module to use the locale encoding, and fix get_begidx() and get_endidx() to return code point indexes.
bpo-27392: Add loop.connect_accepted_socket(). Patch by Jim Fulton.
IDLE¶
bpo-27477: IDLE search dialogs now use ttk widgets.
bpo-27173: Add ‘IDLE Modern Unix’ to the built-in key sets. Make the default key set depend on the platform. Add tests for the changes to the config module.
bpo-27452: make command line “idle-test> python test_help.py” work. __file__ is relative when python is started in the file’s directory.
bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
bpo-27380: IDLE: add query.py with base Query dialog and ttk widgets. Module had subclasses SectionName, ModuleName, and HelpSource, which are used to get information from users by configdialog and file =>Load Module. Each subclass has itw own validity checks. Using ModuleName allows users to edit bad module names instead of starting over. Add tests and delete the two files combined into the new one.
bpo-27372: Test_idle no longer changes the locale.
bpo-27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor names.
bpo-27245: IDLE: Cleanly delete custom themes and key bindings. Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a cascade of warnings was emitted. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-24137: Run IDLE, test_idle, and htest with tkinter default root disabled. Fix code and tests that fail with this restriction. Fix htests to not create a second and redundant root and mainloop.
bpo-27310: Fix IDLE.app failure to launch on OS X due to vestigial import.
C API¶
bpo-26754: PyUnicode_FSDecoder() accepted a filename argument encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like objects are accepted.
Build¶
bpo-28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for generated include files when building outside the source tree.
bpo-27442: Expose the Android API level that python was built against, in sysconfig.get_config_vars() as ‘ANDROID_API_LEVEL’.
bpo-27434: The interpreter that runs the cross-build, found in PATH, must now be of the same feature version (e.g. 3.6) as the source being built.
bpo-26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
bpo-23968: Rename the platform directory from plat-$(MACHDEP) to plat-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET). Rename the config directory (LIBPL) from config-$(LDVERSION) to config-$(LDVERSION)-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET). Install the platform specific _sysconfigdata module into the platform directory and rename it to include the ABIFLAGS.
Don’t use largefile support for GNU/Hurd.
Tools/Demos¶
Documentation¶
Tests¶
bpo-27027: Added test.support.is_android that is True when this is an Android build.
Python 3.6.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2016-06-13
Security¶
bpo-26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE 2015-1283.
Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib, CVE 2016-0772. Reported by Team Oststrom.
bpo-26839: On Linux,
os.urandom()
now callsgetrandom()
withGRND_NONBLOCK
to fall back on reading/dev/urandom
if the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27095: Simplified MAKE_FUNCTION and removed MAKE_CLOSURE opcodes. Patch by Demur Rumed.
bpo-27190: Raise NotSupportedError if sqlite3 is older than 3.3.1. Patch by Dave Sawyer.
bpo-27286: Fixed compiling BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode. Calling function with generalized unpacking (PEP 448) and conflicting keyword names could cause undefined behavior.
bpo-27140: Added BUILD_CONST_KEY_MAP opcode.
bpo-27186: Add support for os.PathLike objects to open() (part of PEP 519).
bpo-27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open()) returns a negative number without setting an exception.
bpo-26983: float() now always return an instance of exact float. The deprecation warning is emitted if __float__ returns an instance of a strict subclass of float. In a future versions of Python this can be an error.
bpo-27097: Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to optimized instruction decoding. Based on patch by Demur Rumed.
bpo-26647: Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode. Patch by Demur Rumed.
bpo-23275: Allow assigning to an empty target list in round brackets: () = iterable.
bpo-27243: Update the __aiter__ protocol: instead of returning an awaitable that resolves to an asynchronous iterator, the asynchronous iterator should be returned directly. Doing the former will trigger a PendingDeprecationWarning.
Library¶
Comment out socket (SO_REUSEPORT) and posix (O_SHLOCK, O_EXLOCK) constants exposed on the API which are not implemented on GNU/Hurd. They would not work at runtime anyway.
bpo-27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets are now more meaningful and recognizable.
bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive ElementTree.Element and functools.partial objects.
bpo-27294: Improved repr for Tkinter event objects.
bpo-20508: Improve exception message of IPv{4,6}Network.__getitem__. Patch by Gareth Rees.
bpo-21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property. It was documented since 07a5610bae9d. Initial patch by Roger Luethi.
bpo-27029: Removed deprecated support of universal newlines mode from ZipFile.open().
bpo-27030: Unknown escapes consisting of
'\'
and an ASCII letter in regular expressions now are errors. The re.LOCALE flag now can be used only with bytes patterns.bpo-27186: Add os.PathLike support to DirEntry (part of PEP 519). Initial patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses correctly. Initial patch by ingrid.
bpo-27186: Add os.PathLike support to pathlib, removing its provisional status (part of PEP 519). Initial patch by Dusty Phillips.
bpo-27186: Add support for os.PathLike objects to os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() (part of PEP 519).
bpo-27186: Introduce os.PathLike and os.fspath() (part of PEP 519).
A new version of typing.py provides several new classes and features: @overload outside stubs, Reversible, DefaultDict, Text, ContextManager, Type[], NewType(), TYPE_CHECKING, and numerous bug fixes (note that some of the new features are not yet implemented in mypy or other static analyzers). Also classes for PEP 492 (Awaitable, AsyncIterable, AsyncIterator) have been added (in fact they made it into 3.5.1 but were never mentioned).
bpo-25738: Stop http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error() from sending a message body for 205 Reset Content. Also, don’t send Content header fields in responses that don’t have a body. Patch by Susumu Koshiba.
bpo-21313: Fix the “platform” module to tolerate when sys.version contains truncated build information.
bpo-23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented APIs for the following modules: cgi, mailbox, mimetypes, plistlib and smtpd. Patches by Jacek Kołodziej.
bpo-27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams with a predefined zdict. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24291: Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to completely write data to the client. Previously it could do partial writes and truncate data. Also, wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can now handle stdout doing partial writes, but this is deprecated.
bpo-21272: Use _sysconfigdata.py to initialize distutils.sysconfig.
bpo-19611:
inspect
now reports the implicit.0
parameters generated by the compiler for comprehension and generator expression scopes as if they were positional-only parameters calledimplicit0
. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.bpo-26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate() is called in more/all circumstances.
signal, socket, and ssl module IntEnum constant name lookups now return a consistent name for values having multiple names. Ex: signal.Signals(6) now refers to itself as signal.SIGALRM rather than flipping between that and signal.SIGIOT based on the interpreter’s hash randomization seed.
bpo-27167: Clarify the subprocess.CalledProcessError error message text when the child process died due to a signal.
bpo-25931: Don’t define socketserver.Forking* names on platforms such as Windows that do not support os.fork().
bpo-21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError. Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-26526: Replace custom parse tree validation in the parser module with a simple DFA validator.
bpo-27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with PermissionError
bpo-18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings and simplefilter. Based on patch by Alex Shkop.
bpo-23026: winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for REG_QWORD type.
bpo-26741: subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning warning if the child process is still running.
bpo-27056: Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10% faster to deserialize a lot of small objects.
bpo-21271: New keyword only parameters in reset_mock call.
IDLE¶
bpo-5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11. This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps, and ttk widgets. Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-24750: Switch all scrollbars in IDLE to ttk versions. Where needed, minimal tests are added to cover changes.
bpo-24759: IDLE requires tk 8.5 and availability ttk widgets. Delete now unneeded tk version tests and code for older versions. Add test for IDLE syntax colorizer.
bpo-27239: idlelib.macosx.isXyzTk functions initialize as needed.
bpo-27262: move Aqua unbinding code, which enable context menus, to macosx.
bpo-24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
bpo-27196: Stop ‘ThemeChanged’ warnings when running IDLE tests. These persisted after other warnings were suppressed in #20567. Apply Serhiy Storchaka’s update_idletasks solution to four test files. Record this additional advice in idle_test/README.txt
bpo-20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding tk warning messages from tests. Apply advice to several IDLE tests.
bpo-24225: Update idlelib/README.txt with new file names and event handlers.
bpo-27156: Remove obsolete code not used by IDLE.
bpo-27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes. Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function.
bpo-24225: Rename many
idlelib/*.py
andidle_test/test_*.py
files. Edit files to replace old names with new names when the old name referred to the module rather than the class it contained. See the issue and IDLE section in What’s New in 3.6 for more.bpo-26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
bpo-21939: Add test for IDLE’s percolator. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-21676: Add test for IDLE’s replace dialog. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-18410: Add test for IDLE’s search dialog. Original patch by Westley Martínez.
bpo-21703: Add test for undo delegator. Patch mostly by Saimadhav Heblikar .
bpo-27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
bpo-23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.
Documentation¶
bpo-16484: Change the default PYTHONDOCS URL to “https:”, and fix the resulting links to use lowercase. Patch by Sean Rodman, test by Kaushik Nadikuditi.
bpo-24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.
bpo-22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules. Patch by Yoni Lavi.
Tests¶
Windows¶
bpo-27064: The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3. The Windows launcher
py.exe
no longer prefers an installed Python 2 version over Python 3 by default when used interactively.bpo-17500: Remove unused and outdated icons. (See also: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945)
Build¶
C API¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-26282: Argument Clinic now supports positional-only and keyword parameters in the same function.
Python 3.6.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2016-05-16
Security¶
bpo-26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with http.server on Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in 3.3.4rc1 and 3.4.0rc1. Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
bpo-26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows cert store is empty. Patch by Baji.
bpo-25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in ssl.enum_certificates.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with the “N” format unit.
bpo-26991: Fix possible refleak when creating a function with annotations.
bpo-27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127. Based on patch by Joe Jevnik.
bpo-23640: int.from_bytes() no longer bypasses constructors for subclasses.
bpo-27005: Optimized the float.fromhex() class method for exact float. It is now 2 times faster.
bpo-18531: Single var-keyword argument of dict subtype was passed unscathed to the C-defined function. Now it is converted to exact dict.
bpo-26811: gc.get_objects() no longer contains a broken tuple with NULL pointer.
bpo-20120: Use RawConfigParser for .pypirc parsing, removing support for interpolation unintentionally added with move to Python 3. Behavior no longer does any interpolation in .pypirc files, matching behavior in Python 2.7 and Setuptools 19.0.
bpo-26249: Memory functions of the
PyMem_Malloc()
domain (PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM
) now use the pymalloc allocator rather than systemmalloc()
. Applications callingPyMem_Malloc()
without holding the GIL can now crash: usePYTHONMALLOC=debug
environment variable to validate the usage of memory allocators in your application.bpo-26802: Optimize function calls only using unpacking like
func(*tuple)
(no other positional argument, no keyword): avoid copying the tuple. Patch written by Joe Jevnik.bpo-26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection.
bpo-26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called multiple times. NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not endorsed!
bpo-27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().
bpo-25339: PYTHONIOENCODING now has priority over locale in setting the error handler for stdin and stdout.
bpo-26494: Fixed crash on iterating exhausting iterators. Affected classes are generic sequence iterators, iterators of str, bytes, bytearray, list, tuple, set, frozenset, dict, OrderedDict, corresponding views and os.scandir() iterator.
bpo-26574: Optimize
bytes.replace(b'', b'.')
andbytearray.replace(b'', b'.')
. Patch written by Josh Snider.bpo-26581: If coding cookie is specified multiple times on a line in Python source code file, only the first one is taken to account.
bpo-19711: Add tests for reloading namespace packages.
bpo-21099: Switch applicable importlib tests to use PEP 451 API.
bpo-26563: Debug hooks on Python memory allocators now raise a fatal error if functions of the
PyMem_Malloc()
family are called without holding the GIL.bpo-26564: On error, the debug hooks on Python memory allocators now use the
tracemalloc
module to get the traceback where a memory block was allocated.bpo-26558: The debug hooks on Python memory allocator
PyObject_Malloc()
now detect when functions are called without holding the GIL.bpo-26516: Add
PYTHONMALLOC
environment variable to set the Python memory allocators and/or install debug hooks.bpo-26516: The
PyMem_SetupDebugHooks()
function can now also be used on Python compiled in release mode.bpo-26516: The
PYTHONMALLOCSTATS
environment variable can now also be used on Python compiled in release mode. It now has no effect if set to an empty string.bpo-26516: In debug mode, debug hooks are now also installed on Python memory allocators when Python is configured without pymalloc.
bpo-26464: Fix str.translate() when string is ASCII and first replacements removes character, but next replacement uses a non-ASCII character or a string longer than 1 character. Regression introduced in Python 3.5.0.
bpo-22836: Ensure exception reports from PyErr_Display() and PyErr_WriteUnraisable() are sensible even when formatting them produces secondary errors. This affects the reports produced by sys.__excepthook__() and when __del__() raises an exception.
bpo-26302: Correct behavior to reject comma as a legal character for cookie names.
bpo-26136: Upgrade the warning when a generator raises StopIteration from PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning. Patch by Anish Shah.
bpo-26204: The compiler now ignores all constant statements: bytes, str, int, float, complex, name constants (None, False, True), Ellipsis and ast.Constant; not only str and int. For example,
1.0
is now ignored indef f(): 1.0
.bpo-4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star (
*
) unpacking in function calls. Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and Daniel Urban.bpo-26146: Add a new kind of AST node:
ast.Constant
. It can be used by external AST optimizers, but the compiler does not emit directly such node.bpo-23601: Sped-up allocation of dict key objects by using Python’s small object allocator. (Contributed by Julian Taylor.)
bpo-18018: Import raises ImportError instead of SystemError if a relative import is attempted without a known parent package.
bpo-25843: When compiling code, don’t merge constants if they are equal but have a different types. For example,
f1, f2 = lambda: 1, lambda: 1.0
is now correctly compiled to two different functions:f1()
returns1
(int
) andf2()
returns1.0
(float
), even if1
and1.0
are equal.bpo-26107: The format of the
co_lnotab
attribute of code objects changes to support negative line number delta.bpo-26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() function to get the current Python thread state, but don’t issue a fatal error if it is NULL. This new function must be used instead of accessing directly the _PyThreadState_Current variable. The variable is no more exposed since Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact implementation of atomic C types, to avoid compiler issues.
bpo-25791: If __package__ != __spec__.parent or if neither __package__ or __spec__ are defined then ImportWarning is raised.
bpo-22995: [UPDATE] Comment out the one of the pickleability tests in _PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based projects.
bpo-25961: Disallowed null characters in the type name.
bpo-25973: Fix segfault when an invalid nonlocal statement binds a name starting with two underscores.
bpo-22995: Instances of extension types with a state that aren’t subclasses of list or dict and haven’t implemented any pickle-related methods (__reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__, __getnewargs_ex__, or __getstate__), can no longer be pickled. Including memoryview.
bpo-20440: Massive replacing unsafe attribute setting code with special macro Py_SETREF.
bpo-25766: Special method __bytes__() now works in str subclasses.
bpo-25421: __sizeof__ methods of builtin types now use dynamic basic size. This allows sys.getsize() to work correctly with their subclasses with __slots__ defined.
bpo-25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8 cache.
bpo-5319: New Py_FinalizeEx() API allowing Python to set an exit status of 120 on failure to flush buffered streams.
bpo-25485: telnetlib.Telnet is now a context manager.
bpo-24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is freed inside __getattr__.
bpo-24731: Fixed crash on converting objects with special methods __bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of subclasses of bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and float correspondingly.
bpo-25630: Fix a possible segfault during argument parsing in functions that accept filesystem paths.
bpo-23564: Fixed a partially broken sanity check in the _posixsubprocess internals regarding how fds_to_pass were passed to the child. The bug had no actual impact as subprocess.py already avoided it.
bpo-25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code with a null byte.
bpo-25462: The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most operations in C implementation of OrderedDict.
bpo-22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now rejects builtin types with not defined __new__.
bpo-24802: Avoid buffer overreads when int(), float(), compile(), exec() and eval() are passed bytes-like objects. These objects are not necessarily terminated by a null byte, but the functions assumed they were.
bpo-25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of “arg” node when compiling AST from Python objects.
bpo-24726: Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict that was mutated by direct calls of dict methods.
bpo-25449: Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now raises KeyError in C implementations as well as in Python implementation.
bpo-25395: Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures were garbage collected.
bpo-25401: Optimize bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex(): they are now between 2x and 3.5x faster.
bpo-25399: Optimize bytearray % args using the new private _PyBytesWriter API. Formatting is now between 2.5 and 5 times faster.
bpo-25274: sys.setrecursionlimit() now raises a RecursionError if the new recursion limit is too low depending at the current recursion depth. Modify also the “lower-water mark” formula to make it monotonic. This mark is used to decide when the overflowed flag of the thread state is reset.
bpo-24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when sys.stdout.fileno() fails.
bpo-25349: Optimize bytes % args using the new private _PyBytesWriter API. Formatting is now up to 2 times faster.
bpo-24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from being subclassed through multiple inheritance.
bpo-25301: The UTF-8 decoder is now up to 15 times as fast for error handlers:
ignore
,replace
andsurrogateescape
.bpo-24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data.
bpo-25267: The UTF-8 encoder is now up to 75 times as fast for error handlers:
ignore
,replace
,surrogateescape
,surrogatepass
. Patch co-written with Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no longer formatted twice.
bpo-25227: Optimize ASCII and latin1 encoders with the
surrogateescape
error handler: the encoders are now up to 3 times as fast. Initial patch written by Serhiy Storchaka.bpo-25003: On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the getrandom() function instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is blocking to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn’t need such high-quality entropy.
bpo-9232: Modify Python’s grammar to allow trailing commas in the argument list of a function declaration. For example, “def f(*, a = 3,): pass” is now legal. Patch from Mark Dickinson.
bpo-24965: Implement PEP 498 “Literal String Interpolation”. This allows you to embed expressions inside f-strings, which are converted to normal strings at run time. Given x=3, then f’value={x}’ == ‘value=3’. Patch by Eric V. Smith.
bpo-26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with dictionary views and tuples.
bpo-26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in zipimporter.get_data().
bpo-25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline.
bpo-26288: Optimize PyLong_AsDouble.
bpo-26289: Optimize floor and modulo division for single-digit longs. Microbenchmarks show 2-2.5x improvement. Built-in ‘divmod’ function is now also ~10% faster. (See also: bpo-26315)
bpo-25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited more than once.
Library¶
bpo-27057: Fix os.set_inheritable() on Android, ioctl() is blocked by SELinux and fails with EACCESS. The function now falls back to fcntl(). Patch written by Michał Bednarski.
bpo-27014: Fix infinite recursion using typing.py. Thanks to Kalle Tuure!
bpo-27031: Removed dummy methods in Tkinter widget classes: tk_menuBar() and tk_bindForTraversal().
bpo-14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target only has a query string. Original fix by Ján Janech.
bpo-17214: The “urllib.request” module now percent-encodes non-ASCII bytes found in redirect target URLs. Some servers send Location header fields with non-ASCII bytes, but “http.client” requires the request target to be ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised. Based on patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-27033: The default value of the decode_data parameter for smtpd.SMTPChannel and smtpd.SMTPServer constructors is changed to False.
bpo-27034: Removed deprecated class asynchat.fifo.
bpo-26870: Added readline.set_auto_history(), which can stop entries being automatically added to the history list. Based on patch by Tyler Crompton.
bpo-26039: zipfile.ZipFile.open() can now be used to write data into a ZIP file, as well as for extracting data. Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-26892: Honor debuglevel flag in urllib.request.HTTPHandler. Patch contributed by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-22274: In the subprocess module, allow stderr to be redirected to stdout even when stdout is not redirected. Patch by Akira Li.
bpo-26807: mock_open ‘files’ no longer error on readline at end of file. Patch from Yolanda Robla.
bpo-25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor.
bpo-26977: Removed unnecessary, and ignored, call to sum of squares helper in statistics.pvariance.
bpo-26002: Use bisect in statistics.median instead of a linear search. Patch by Upendra Kuma.
bpo-25974: Make use of new Decimal.as_integer_ratio() method in statistics module. Patch by Stefan Krah.
bpo-26881: The modulefinder module now supports extended opcode arguments.
bpo-23815: Fixed crashes related to directly created instances of types in _tkinter and curses.panel modules.
bpo-17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword arguments. Patch by Georg Brandl.
bpo-26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags instead of silently return incorrect result.
bpo-26915: The __contains__ methods in the collections ABCs now check for identity before checking equality. This better matches the behavior of the concrete classes, allows sensible handling of NaNs, and makes it easier to reason about container invariants.
bpo-26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.
bpo-24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in
ctypes.util
. The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches for thecrle
program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by Kees Bos.bpo-26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host checking against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24902: Print server URL on http.server startup. Initial patch by Felix Kaiser.
bpo-25788: fileinput.hook_encoded() now supports an “errors” argument for passing to open. Original patch by Joseph Hackman.
bpo-26634: recursive_repr() now sets __qualname__ of wrapper. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26804: urllib.request will prefer lower_case proxy environment variables over UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones. Patch contributed by Hans-Peter Jansen.
bpo-26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-stringified differing items (like bytes in the -b mode). This affects assertListEqual() and assertTupleEqual().
bpo-26041: Remove “will be removed in Python 3.7” from deprecation messages of platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution(). Patch by Kumaripaba Miyurusara Athukorala.
bpo-26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no longer silently ignore keyword arguments.
bpo-26733: Disassembling a class now disassembles class and static methods. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26801: Fix error handling in
shutil.get_terminal_size()
, catchAttributeError
instead ofNameError
. Patch written by Emanuel Barry.bpo-24838: tarfile’s ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate name and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like utf-8.
bpo-26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
bpo-26782: Add STARTUPINFO to subprocess.__all__ on Windows.
bpo-26404: Add context manager to socketserver. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-26735: Fix
os.urandom()
on Solaris 11.3 and newer when reading more than 1,024 bytes: callgetrandom()
multiple times with a limit of 1024 bytes per call.bpo-26585: Eliminate http.server._quote_html() and use html.escape(quote=False). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26685: Raise OSError if closing a socket fails.
bpo-16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Geoff Wilson.
bpo-26587: the site module now allows .pth files to specify files to be added to sys.path (e.g. zip files).
bpo-25609: Introduce contextlib.AbstractContextManager and typing.ContextManager.
bpo-26709: Fixed Y2038 problem in loading binary PLists.
bpo-23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by installing our own SIGWINCH handler. Patch by Eric Price.
bpo-25951: Change SSLSocket.sendall() to return None, as explicitly documented for plain socket objects. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-26586: In http.server, respond with “413 Request header fields too large” if there are too many header fields to parse, rather than killing the connection and raising an unhandled exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26676: Added missing XMLPullParser to ElementTree.__all__.
bpo-22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and BufferedWriter.readable() to always return False.
bpo-26492: Exhausted iterator of array.array now conforms with the behavior of iterators of other mutable sequences: it lefts exhausted even if iterated array is extended.
bpo-26641: doctest.DocFileTest and doctest.testfile() now support packages (module splitted into multiple directories) for the package parameter.
bpo-25195: Fix a regression in mock.MagicMock. _Call is a subclass of tuple (changeset 3603bae63c13 only works for classes) so we need to implement __ne__ ourselves. Patch by Andrew Plummer.
bpo-26644: Raise ValueError rather than SystemError when a negative length is passed to SSLSocket.recv() or read().
bpo-23804: Fix SSL recv(0) and read(0) methods to return zero bytes instead of up to 1024.
bpo-26616: Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method.
bpo-26637: The
importlib
module now emits anImportError
rather than aTypeError
if__import__()
is tried during the Python shutdown process butsys.path
is already cleared (set toNone
).bpo-21925:
warnings.formatwarning()
now catches exceptions when callinglinecache.getline()
andtracemalloc.get_object_traceback()
to be able to logResourceWarning
emitted late during the Python shutdown process.bpo-23848: On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now also installs an exception handler to dump the traceback of all Python threads on any Windows exception, not only on UNIX signals (SIGSEGV, SIGFPE, SIGABRT).
bpo-26530: Add C functions
_PyTraceMalloc_Track()
and_PyTraceMalloc_Untrack()
to track memory blocks using thetracemalloc
module. Add_PyTraceMalloc_GetTraceback()
to get the traceback of an object.bpo-26588: The _tracemalloc now supports tracing memory allocations of multiple address spaces (domains).
bpo-24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the search mode when compiled with Readline 7.
bpo-26590: Implement a safe finalizer for the _socket.socket type. It now releases the GIL to close the socket.
bpo-18787: spwd.getspnam() now raises a PermissionError if the user doesn’t have privileges.
bpo-26560: Avoid potential ValueError in BaseHandler.start_response. Initial patch by Peter Inglesby.
bpo-26567: Add a new function
PyErr_ResourceWarning()
function to pass the destroyed object. Add a source attribute towarnings.WarningMessage
. Add warnings._showwarnmsg() which uses tracemalloc to get the traceback where source object was allocated.bpo-26569: Fix
pyclbr.readmodule()
andpyclbr.readmodule_ex()
to support importing packages.bpo-26499: Account for remaining Content-Length in HTTPResponse.readline() and read1(). Based on patch by Silent Ghost. Also document that HTTPResponse now supports these methods.
bpo-25320: Handle sockets in directories unittest discovery is scanning. Patch from Victor van den Elzen.
bpo-16181: cookiejar.http2time() now returns None if year is higher than datetime.MAXYEAR.
bpo-26513: Fixes platform module detection of Windows Server
bpo-23718: Fixed parsing time in week 0 before Jan 1. Original patch by Tamás Bence Gedai.
bpo-26323: Add Mock.assert_called() and Mock.assert_called_once() methods to unittest.mock. Patch written by Amit Saha.
bpo-20589: Invoking Path.owner() and Path.group() on Windows now raise NotImplementedError instead of ImportError.
bpo-26177: Fixed the keys() method for Canvas and Scrollbar widgets.
bpo-15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in fileinput. The bufsize parameter is now deprecated and ignored.
bpo-19475: Added an optional argument timespec to the datetime isoformat() method to choose the precision of the time component.
bpo-2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls. Initial patch by Mathieu Dupuy.
bpo-26167: Minimized overhead in copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy(). Optimized copying and deepcopying bytearrays, NotImplemented, slices, short lists, tuples, dicts, sets.
bpo-25718: Fixed pickling and copying the accumulate() iterator with total is None.
bpo-26475: Fixed debugging output for regular expressions with the (?x) flag.
bpo-26482: Allowed pickling recursive dequeues.
bpo-26335: Make mmap.write() return the number of bytes written like other write methods. Patch by Jakub Stasiak.
bpo-26457: Fixed the subnets() methods in IP network classes for the case when resulting prefix length is equal to maximal prefix length. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26385: Remove the file if the internal open() call in NamedTemporaryFile() fails. Patch by Silent Ghost.
bpo-26402: Fix XML-RPC client to retry when the server shuts down a persistent connection. This was a regression related to the new http.client.RemoteDisconnected exception in 3.5.0a4.
bpo-25913: Leading
<~
is optional now in base64.a85decode() with adobe=True. Patch by Swati Jaiswal.bpo-26186: Remove an invalid type check in importlib.util.LazyLoader.
bpo-26367: importlib.__import__() raises ImportError like builtins.__import__() when
level
is specified but without an accompanying package specified.bpo-26309: In the “socketserver” module, shut down the request (closing the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-23430: Change the socketserver module to only catch exceptions raised from a request handler that are derived from Exception (instead of BaseException). Therefore SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt no longer trigger the handle_error() method, and will now to stop a single-threaded server.
bpo-25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree depth.
bpo-25994: Added the close() method and the support of the context manager protocol for the os.scandir() iterator.
bpo-23992: multiprocessing: make MapResult not fail-fast upon exception.
bpo-26243: Support keyword arguments to zlib.compress(). Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-26117: The os.scandir() iterator now closes file descriptor not only when the iteration is finished, but when it was failed with error.
bpo-25949: __dict__ for an OrderedDict instance is now created only when needed.
bpo-25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on Windows.
bpo-26045: Add UTF-8 suggestion to error message when posting a non-Latin-1 string with http.client.
bpo-26039: Added zipfile.ZipInfo.from_file() and zipinfo.ZipInfo.is_dir(). Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-12923: Reset FancyURLopener’s redirect counter even if there is an exception. Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco.
bpo-25945: Fixed a crash when unpickle the functools.partial object with wrong state. Fixed a leak in failed functools.partial constructor. “args” and “keywords” attributes of functools.partial have now always types tuple and dict correspondingly.
bpo-26202: copy.deepcopy() now correctly copies range() objects with non-atomic attributes.
bpo-23076: Path.glob() now raises a ValueError if it’s called with an invalid pattern. Patch by Thomas Nyberg.
bpo-19883: Fixed possible integer overflows in zipimport.
bpo-26227: On Windows, getnameinfo(), gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname_ex() functions of the socket module now decode the hostname from the ANSI code page rather than UTF-8.
bpo-26099: The site module now writes an error into stderr if sitecustomize module can be imported but executing the module raise an ImportError. Same change for usercustomize.
bpo-26147: xmlrpc now works with strings not encodable with used non-UTF-8 encoding.
bpo-25935: Garbage collector now breaks reference loops with OrderedDict.
bpo-16620: Fixed AttributeError in msilib.Directory.glob().
bpo-26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles created in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower).
bpo-26129: Deprecated accepting non-integers in grp.getgrgid().
bpo-25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.
bpo-25822: Add docstrings to the fields of urllib.parse results. Patch contributed by Swati Jaiswal.
bpo-22642: Convert trace module option parsing mechanism to argparse. Patch contributed by SilentGhost.
bpo-24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars appearing before $() vars.
bpo-26069: Remove the deprecated apis in the trace module.
bpo-22138: Fix mock.patch behavior when patching descriptors. Restore original values after patching. Patch contributed by Sean McCully.
bpo-25672: In the ssl module, enable the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode option if it is safe to do so.
bpo-26012: Don’t traverse into symlinks for
**
pattern in pathlib.Path.[r]glob().bpo-24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with pathlib.Path.[r]glob(). Patch by Ulrich Petri.
bpo-21815: Accept ] characters in the data portion of imap responses, in order to handle the flags with square brackets accepted and produced by servers such as gmail.
bpo-25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have a buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility).
bpo-25971: Optimized creating Fractions from floats by 2 times and from Decimals by 3 times.
bpo-25802: Document as deprecated the remaining implementations of importlib.abc.Loader.load_module().
bpo-25928: Add Decimal.as_integer_ratio().
bpo-25447: Copying the lru_cache() wrapper object now always works, independently from the type of the wrapped object (by returning the original object unchanged).
bpo-25768: Have the functions in compileall return booleans instead of ints and add proper documentation and tests for the return values.
bpo-24103: Fixed possible use after free in ElementTree.XMLPullParser.
bpo-25860: os.fwalk() no longer skips remaining directories when error occurs. Original patch by Samson Lee.
bpo-25914: Fixed and simplified OrderedDict.__sizeof__.
bpo-25869: Optimized deepcopying ElementTree; it is now 20 times faster.
bpo-25873: Optimized iterating ElementTree. Iterating elements Element.iter() is now 40% faster, iterating text Element.itertext() is now up to 2.5 times faster.
bpo-25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration.
bpo-22227: The TarFile iterator is reimplemented using generator. This implementation is simpler that using class.
bpo-25638: Optimized ElementTree.iterparse(); it is now 2x faster. Optimized ElementTree parsing; it is now 10% faster.
bpo-25761: Improved detecting errors in broken pickle data.
bpo-25717: Restore the previous behaviour of tolerating most fstat() errors when opening files. This was a regression in 3.5a1, and stopped anonymous temporary files from working in special cases.
bpo-24903: Fix regression in number of arguments compileall accepts when ‘-d’ is specified. The check on the number of arguments has been dropped completely as it never worked correctly anyway.
bpo-25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused by fork() failure when preexec_fn is used.
bpo-25771: Tweak the exception message for importlib.util.resolve_name() when ‘package’ isn’t specified but necessary.
bpo-6478: _strptime’s regexp cache now is reset after changing timezone with time.tzset().
bpo-14285: When executing a package with the “python -m package” option, and package initialization fails, a proper traceback is now reported. The “runpy” module now lets exceptions from package initialization pass back to the caller, rather than raising ImportError.
bpo-19771: Also in runpy and the “-m” option, omit the irrelevant message “… is a package and cannot be directly executed” if the package could not even be initialized (e.g. due to a bad
*.pyc
file).bpo-25177: Fixed problem with the mean of very small and very large numbers. As a side effect, statistics.mean and statistics.variance should be significantly faster.
bpo-25718: Fixed copying object with state with boolean value is false.
bpo-10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents. Based on patch by Marian Ganisin.
bpo-7990: dir() on ElementTree.Element now lists properties: “tag”, “text”, “tail” and “attrib”. Original patch by Santoso Wijaya.
bpo-25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when unpickling invalid data including tuple instructions.
bpo-25663: In the Readline completer, avoid listing duplicate global names, and search the global namespace before searching builtins.
bpo-25688: Fixed file leak in ElementTree.iterparse() raising an error.
bpo-23914: Fixed SystemError raised by unpickler on broken pickle data.
bpo-25691: Fixed crash on deleting ElementTree.Element attributes.
bpo-25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory entries. Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
bpo-25626: Change three zlib functions to accept sizes that fit in Py_ssize_t, but internally cap those sizes to UINT_MAX. This resolves a regression in 3.5 where GzipFile.read() failed to read chunks larger than 2 or 4 GiB. The change affects the zlib.Decompress.decompress() max_length parameter, the zlib.decompress() bufsize parameter, and the zlib.Decompress.flush() length parameter.
bpo-25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by os.makedirs(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio.
bpo-6973: When we know a subprocess.Popen process has died, do not allow the send_signal(), terminate(), or kill() methods to do anything as they could potentially signal a different process.
bpo-23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented APIs for the following modules: calendar, csv, enum, fileinput, ftplib, logging, optparse, tarfile, threading and wave. Also added a test.support.check__all__() helper. Patches by Jacek Kołodziej, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues and Joel Taddei.
bpo-25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per attribute. Also complete names of attributes such as properties and slots which are listed by dir() but not yet created on an instance.
bpo-25498: Fix a crash when garbage-collecting ctypes objects created by wrapping a memoryview. This was a regression made in 3.5a1. Based on patch by Eryksun.
bpo-25584: Added “escape” to the __all__ list in the glob module.
bpo-25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with
**
.bpo-25446: Fix regression in smtplib’s AUTH LOGIN support.
bpo-18010: Fix the pydoc web server’s module search function to handle exceptions from importing packages.
bpo-25554: Got rid of circular references in regular expression parsing.
bpo-18973: Command-line interface of the calendar module now uses argparse instead of optparse.
bpo-25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b’’ instead of ‘’ at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode. Patch by Ryosuke Ito.
bpo-25503: Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of properties. Original patch by John Mark Vandenberg.
bpo-25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4.
bpo-21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace. Based on patch by Robert Li.
bpo-25447: The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and pickled (by returning the original object unchanged).
bpo-25390: typing: Don’t crash on Union[str, Pattern].
bpo-25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is closed.
bpo-25410: Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of OrderedDict.
bpo-25411: Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better use of the email package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch.
Move the imp module from a PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning.
bpo-25407: Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed in Python 3.6.
bpo-25406: Fixed a bug in C implementation of OrderedDict.move_to_end() that caused segmentation fault or hang in iterating after moving several items to the start of ordered dict.
bpo-25382: pickletools.dis() now outputs implicit memo index for the MEMOIZE opcode.
bpo-25357: Add an optional newline parameter to binascii.b2a_base64(). base64.b64encode() uses it to avoid a memory copy.
bpo-24164: Objects that need calling
__new__
with keyword arguments, can now be pickled using pickle protocols older than protocol version 4.bpo-25364: zipfile now works in threads disabled builds.
bpo-25328: smtpd’s SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError if both decode_data and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true.
bpo-16099: RobotFileParser now supports Crawl-delay and Request-rate extensions. Patch by Nikolay Bogoychev.
bpo-25316: distutils raises OSError instead of DistutilsPlatformError when MSVC is not installed.
bpo-25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in pickletools.opcodes.
bpo-23972: Updates asyncio datagram create method allowing reuseport and reuseaddr socket options to be set prior to binding the socket. Mirroring the existing asyncio create_server method the reuseaddr option for datagram sockets defaults to True if the O/S is ‘posix’ (except if the platform is Cygwin). Patch by Chris Laws.
bpo-25304: Add asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(). This lets you submit a coroutine to a loop from another thread, returning a concurrent.futures.Future. By Vincent Michel.
bpo-25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
bpo-25287: Don’t add crypt.METHOD_CRYPT to crypt.methods if it’s not supported. Check if it is supported, it may not be supported on OpenBSD for example.
bpo-23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning wrong results in some cases.
bpo-25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the module in inconsistent state.
bpo-25011: rlcompleter now omits private and special attribute names unless the prefix starts with underscores.
bpo-25209: rlcompleter now can add a space or a colon after completed keyword.
bpo-22241: timezone.utc name is now plain ‘UTC’, not ‘UTC-00:00’.
bpo-23517: fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods of datetime.datetime now round microseconds to nearest with ties going to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), as round(float), instead of rounding towards -Infinity (ROUND_FLOOR).
bpo-23552: Timeit now warns when there is substantial (4x) variance between best and worst times. Patch from Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-24633: site-packages/README -> README.txt.
bpo-24879: help() and pydoc can now list named tuple fields in the order they were defined rather than alphabetically. The ordering is determined by the _fields attribute if present.
bpo-24874: Improve speed of itertools.cycle() and make its pickle more compact.
Fix crash in itertools.cycle.__setstate__() when the first argument wasn’t a list.
bpo-20059: urllib.parse raises ValueError on all invalid ports. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-24360: Improve __repr__ of argparse.Namespace() for invalid identifiers. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
bpo-23426: run_setup was broken in distutils. Patch from Alexander Belopolsky.
bpo-13938: 2to3 converts StringTypes to a tuple. Patch from Mark Hammond.
bpo-2091: open() accepted a ‘U’ mode string containing ‘+’, but ‘U’ can only be used with ‘r’. Patch from Jeff Balogh and John O’Connor.
bpo-8585: improved tests for zipimporter2. Patch from Mark Lawrence.
bpo-18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely. Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.
bpo-24426: Fast searching optimization in regular expressions now works for patterns that starts with capturing groups. Fast searching optimization now can’t be disabled at compile time.
bpo-23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi
bpo-13248: Remove deprecated inspect.getmoduleinfo function.
bpo-25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer().
bpo-25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating ssl.SSLContext.
bpo-25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
bpo-25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn’t appear to be nonblocking.
bpo-25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying condition should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock.
Skip getaddrinfo if host is already resolved. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26050: Add asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() method. Patch by Марк Коренберг.
bpo-25924: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on OS X versions 10.5 or higher. Original patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26406: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on current versions of OpenBSD and NetBSD. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26848: Fix asyncio/subprocess.communicate() to handle empty input. Patch by Jack O’Connor.
bpo-27040: Add loop.get_exception_handler method
bpo-27041: asyncio: Add loop.create_future method
IDLE¶
bpo-20640: Add tests for idlelib.configHelpSourceEdit. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
In the ‘IDLE-console differences’ section of the IDLE doc, clarify how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.
bpo-25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing. Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.
bpo-25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ‘ to ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with ‘ascii’. Re-encode CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with ‘utf-8’.
bpo-15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process) before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process). This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.
bpo-24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button (15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455). The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes. 1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit). 2. In gui.run, allow any existing interaction to terminate first.
Change ‘The program’ to ‘Your program’ in an IDLE ‘kill program?’ message to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running user program, not IDLE itself.
bpo-24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark. Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.
bpo-24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted list. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.
bpo-24820: IDLE now has an ‘IDLE Dark’ built-in text color theme. It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background. Strings, comments, keywords, … are still green, red, orange, … . To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the ‘Save as New Custom Theme’ button and enter a new name, such as ‘Custom Dark’. The custom theme will work with any IDLE release, and can be modified.
bpo-25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter. ‘IDLE’ now means ‘Integrated Development and Learning Environment’.
bpo-24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget. For Mac OSX, make them a ‘sheet’. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor. When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header at the top of the screen.
bpo-25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
bpo-21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.
bpo-22820: Explain need for print when running file from Idle editor.
bpo-25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.
bpo-25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. Some were missing and notes were not correct.
bpo-24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
bpo-25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
bpo-16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display. The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released. The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Rose Roseman. The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.
bpo-24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.
bpo-24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).
Documentation¶
bpo-26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if possible.
bpo-6953: Rework the Readline module documentation to group related functions together, and add more details such as what underlying Readline functions and variables are accessed.
bpo-23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding cdll.msvcrt.
bpo-24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in the “threading” and “_thread” modules. Patch from Mattip.
bpo-26014: Update 3.x packaging documentation: * “See also” links to the new docs are now provided in the legacy pages * links to setuptools documentation have been updated
Tests¶
bpo-21916: Added tests for the turtle module. Patch by ingrid, Gregory Loyse and Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-26295: When using “python3 -m test –testdir=TESTDIR”, regrtest doesn’t add “test.” prefix to test module names.
bpo-26523: The multiprocessing thread pool (multiprocessing.dummy.Pool) was untested.
bpo-26015: Added new tests for pickling iterators of mutable sequences.
bpo-26325: Added test.support.check_no_resource_warning() to check that no ResourceWarning is emitted.
bpo-25940: Changed test_ssl to use its internal local server more. This avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root certificate.
bpo-25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from test_collections into separate file test_ordered_dict.
bpo-25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses.
bpo-25188: Add -P/–pgo to test.regrtest to suppress error output when running the test suite for the purposes of a PGO build. Initial patch by Alecsandru Patrascu.
bpo-22806: Add
python -m test --list-tests
command to list tests.bpo-18174:
python -m test --huntrleaks ...
now also checks for leak of file descriptors. Patch written by Richard Oudkerk.bpo-25260: Fix
python -m test --coverage
on Windows. Remove the list of ignored directories.PCbuild\rt.bat
now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9.bpo-26583: Skip test_timestamp_overflow in test_import if bytecode files cannot be written.
Build¶
bpo-21277: Don’t try to link _ctypes with a ffi_convenience library.
bpo-26884: Fix linking extension modules for cross builds. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-26932: Fixed support of RTLD_* constants defined as enum values, not via macros (in particular on Android). Patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-22359: Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when cross-compiling. The output of these programs is normally saved with the source code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native build. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-21668: Link audioop, _datetime, _ctypes_test modules to libm, except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-25702: A –with-lto configure option has been added that will enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-opt. Some compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable code when using LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before relying on it. It can provide a few % speed up over profile-opt alone.
bpo-26624: Adds validation of ucrtbase[d].dll version with warning for old versions.
bpo-17603: Avoid error about nonexistent fileblocks.o file by using a lower-level check for st_blocks in struct stat.
bpo-26079: Fixing the build output folder for tix-8.4.3.6. Patch by Bjoern Thiel.
bpo-26465: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
bpo-25348: Added
--pgo
and--pgo-job
arguments toPCbuild\build.bat
for building with Profile-Guided Optimization. The oldPCbuild\build_pgo.bat
script is removed.bpo-25827: Add support for building with ICC to
configure
, including a new--with-icc
flag.bpo-25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9.
bpo-24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors when external libraries are not available.
bpo-24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building extensions. Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math and cmath builds were concurrent.
bpo-26465: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
bpo-26268: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2f.
bpo-25136: Support Apple Xcode 7’s new textual SDK stub libraries.
bpo-24324: Do not enable unreachable code warnings when using gcc as the option does not work correctly in older versions of gcc and has been silently removed as of gcc-4.5.
Windows¶
bpo-27053: Updates make_zip.py to correctly generate library ZIP file.
bpo-26268: Update the prepare_ssl.py script to handle OpenSSL releases that don’t include the contents of the include directory (that is, 1.0.2e and later).
bpo-26071: bdist_wininst created binaries fail to start and find 32bit Python
bpo-26073: Update the list of magic numbers in launcher
bpo-26065: Excludes venv from library when generating embeddable distro.
bpo-25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don’t get C types once when the Python code is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can change if python-gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable. Patch written by Thomas Ilsche.
bpo-26271: Fix the Freeze tool to properly use flags passed through configure. Patch by Daniel Shaulov.
bpo-26489: Add dictionary unpacking support to Tools/parser/unparse.py. Patch by Guo Ci Teo.
bpo-26316: Fix variable name typo in Argument Clinic.
bpo-25440: Fix output of python-config –extension-suffix.
bpo-25154: The pyvenv script has been deprecated in favour of
python3 -m venv
.
C API¶
bpo-26312: SystemError is now raised in all programming bugs with using PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(). RuntimeError did raised before in some programming bugs.
bpo-26198: ValueError is now raised instead of TypeError on buffer overflow in parsing “es#” and “et#” format units. SystemError is now raised instead of TypeError on programmatical error in parsing format string.
Python 3.5.5 final¶
Release date: 2018-02-04
There were no new changes in version 3.5.5.
Python 3.5.5 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2018-01-23
Security¶
bpo-32551: The
sys.path[0]
initialization change for bpo-29139 caused a regression by revealing an inconsistency in how sys.path is initialized when executing__main__
from a zipfile, directory, or other import location. This is considered a potential security issue, as it may lead to privileged processes unexpectedly loading code from user controlled directories in situations where that was not previously the case. The interpreter now consistently avoids ever adding the import location’s parent directory tosys.path
, and ensures no othersys.path
entries are inadvertently modified when inserting the import location named on the command line. (Originally reported as bpo-29723 against Python 3.6rc1, but it was missed at the time that the then upcoming Python 3.5.4 release would also be affected)bpo-30657: Fixed possible integer overflow in PyBytes_DecodeEscape, CVE 2017-1000158. Original patch by Jay Bosamiya; rebased to Python 3 by Miro Hrončok.
bpo-30947: Upgrade libexpat embedded copy from version 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 to get security fixes.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-31095: Fix potential crash during GC caused by
tp_dealloc
which doesn’t callPyObject_GC_UnTrack()
.
Library¶
bpo-32072: Fixed issues with binary plists: Fixed saving bytearrays. Identical objects will be saved only once. Equal references will be load as identical objects. Added support for saving and loading recursive data structures.
bpo-31170: expat: Update libexpat from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Fix copying of partial characters for UTF-8 input (libexpat bug 115): https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/115
Python 3.5.4 final¶
Release date: 2017-08-07
Library¶
bpo-30119: ftplib.FTP.putline() now throws ValueError on commands that contains CR or LF. Patch by Donghee Na.
Python 3.5.4 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-07-23
Security¶
bpo-30730: Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on Windows. Prevent passing other environment variables and command arguments.
bpo-30694: Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple security vulnerabilities including: CVE 2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop DoS), CVE 2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE 2016-0718 (Fix regression bugs from 2.2.0’s fix to CVE 2016-0718) and CVE 2012-0876 (Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE 2016-5300 (Use os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn’t impact Python, since Python already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using
XML_SetHashSalt()
.bpo-30500: Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse fragments. For example,
splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')
now correctly returns the127.0.0.1
host, instead of treating@evil.com
as the host in an authentication (login@host
).bpo-29591: Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes of CVE 2016-0718 and CVE 2016-4472. See https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more information.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-30876: Relative import from unloaded package now reimports the package instead of failing with SystemError. Relative import from non-package now fails with ImportError rather than SystemError.
bpo-30765: Avoid blocking in pthread_mutex_lock() when PyThread_acquire_lock() is asked not to block.
bpo-27945: Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are mutated during searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by Duane Griffin and Tim Mitchell.
bpo-25794: Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-interned attribute names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-29935: Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple, list and deque when pass indices of wrong type.
bpo-28876:
bool(range)
works even iflen(range)
raisesOverflowError
.bpo-29600: Fix wrapping coroutine return values in StopIteration.
bpo-29537: Restore runtime compatibility with bytecode files generated by CPython 3.5.0 to 3.5.2, and adjust the eval loop to avoid the problems that could be caused by the malformed variant of the BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode that they may contain. Patch by Petr Viktorin, Serhiy Storchaka, and Nick Coghlan.
bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__. Patch by Martijn Pieters.
bpo-29602: Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-29347: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref objects.
bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.
bpo-29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].
bpo-29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. Warnings could be emitted at compile time.
bpo-29478: If max_line_length=None is specified while using the Compat32 policy, it is no longer ignored. Patch by Mircea Cosbuc.
Library¶
bpo-29403: Fix
unittest.mock
’s autospec to not fail on method-bound builtin functions. Patch by Aaron Gallagher.bpo-30961: Fix decrementing a borrowed reference in tracemalloc.
bpo-30886: Fix multiprocessing.Queue.join_thread(): it now waits until the thread completes, even if the thread was started by the same process which created the queue.
bpo-29854: Fix segfault in readline when using readline’s history-size option. Patch by Nir Soffer.
bpo-30807: signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny value. Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(), which is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on some platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero interval, therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it.
bpo-30441: Fix bug when modifying os.environ while iterating over it
bpo-30532: Fix email header value parser dropping folding white space in certain cases.
bpo-29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.
bpo-30879: os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes-like argument.
bpo-30746: Prohibited the ‘=’ character in environment variable names in
os.putenv()
andos.spawn*()
.bpo-29755: Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module. They now always return bytes.
bpo-30645: Fix path calculation in imp.load_package(), fixing it for cases when a package is only shipped with bytecodes. Patch by Alexandru Ardelean.
bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected.
bpo-30149: inspect.signature() now supports callables with variable-argument parameters wrapped with partialmethod. Patch by Donghee Na.
bpo-29931: Fixed comparison check for ipaddress.ip_interface objects. Patch by Sanjay Sundaresan.
bpo-24484: Avoid race condition in multiprocessing cleanup.
bpo-28994: The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in a callback registered by atexit.
bpo-30508: Don’t log exceptions if Task/Future “cancel()” method was called.
bpo-28556: Updates to typing module: Add generic AsyncContextManager, add support for ContextManager on all versions. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra and Ivan Levkivskyi
bpo-29870: Fix ssl sockets leaks when connection is aborted in asyncio/ssl implementation. Patch by Michaël Sghaïer.
bpo-29743: Closing transport during handshake process leaks open socket. Patch by Nikolay Kim
bpo-27585: Fix waiter cancellation in asyncio.Lock. Patch by Mathieu Sornay.
bpo-30418: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL on stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe.
bpo-30378: Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot handle IPv6 addresses.
bpo-29960: Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises an exception. Patch by Bryan Olson.
bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not break from main loop on exception.
bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-30301: Fix AttributeError when using SimpleQueue.empty() under spawn and forkserver start methods.
bpo-30329: imaplib and poplib now catch the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code 10022) on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This error occurs sometimes on SSL connections.
bpo-30375: Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always point to the line in the user code. Previously they could point into inners of the re module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals.
bpo-30048: Fixed
Task.cancel()
can be ignored when the task is running coroutine and the coroutine returned without any moreawait
.bpo-29990: Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma Lin.
bpo-26293: Change resulted because of zipfile breakage. (See also: bpo-29094)
bpo-30243: Removed the __init__ methods of _json’s scanner and encoder. Misusing them could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and encoder objects are completely initialized in the __new__ methods.
bpo-30185: Avoid KeyboardInterrupt tracebacks in forkserver helper process when Ctrl-C is received.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-30205: Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux.
bpo-30070: Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module.
bpo-30061: Fixed crashes in IOBase methods __next__() and readlines() when readline() or __next__() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed possible other errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), PySequence_Size(), or PyMapping_Size().
bpo-30068: _io._IOBase.readlines will check if it’s closed first when hint is present.
bpo-29694: Fixed race condition in pathlib mkdir with flags parents=True. Patch by Armin Rigo.
bpo-29692: Fixed arbitrary unchaining of RuntimeError exceptions in contextlib.contextmanager. Patch by Siddharth Velankar.
bpo-29998: Pickling and copying ImportError now preserves name and path attributes.
bpo-29942: Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering long runs of empty iterables.
bpo-27863: Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions and wrong types.
bpo-28699: Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an exception at the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or make the program hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang.
bpo-25803: Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.
bpo-29884: faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown. Patch by Christophe Zeitouny.
bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords are not strings. Patch by Michael Seifert.
bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport. Patch by Nikolay Kim.
bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes “encoding” or “errors” of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array ‘Q’, ‘L’ and ‘I’ from accepting big intables (objects that have __int__) as elements. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods. Patch by Petr Motejlek.
bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before all pipes are closed.
bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops in child processes.
bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive().
bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
bpo-28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don’t ignore the name parameter anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.
bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() no longer affects a partial object after creation.
bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa.
bpo-29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python 3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.
bpo-29519: Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter shutdown when used with a rare combination of multiprocessing and custom codecs.
bpo-29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir
bpo-29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of the match object. Based on patch by WGH.
bpo-29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
bpo-29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at non-breaking spaces.
bpo-28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.
bpo-29011: Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the typing module.
bpo-29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.
bpo-28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache. KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was simultaneously called from different threads with the same uncached arguments.
bpo-29142: In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
Documentation¶
bpo-30176: Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation.
bpo-26985: Add missing info of code object in inspect documentation.
bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.
bpo-25008: Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to aiosmtpd, a third-party asyncio-based replacement.
bpo-26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
bpo-29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.
Tests¶
bpo-30822: Fix regrtest command line parser to allow passing -u extralargefile to run test_zipfile64.
bpo-30383: regrtest: Enhance regrtest and backport features from the master branch. Add options: –coverage, –testdir, –list-tests (list test files, don’t run them), –list-cases (list test identifiers, don’t run them, bpo-30523), –matchfile (load a list of test filters from a text file, bpo-30540), –slowest (alias to –slow). Enhance output: add timestamp, test result, currently running tests, “Tests result: xxx” summary with total duration, etc. Fix reference leak hunting in regrtest, –huntrleaks: regrtest now warms up caches, create explicitly all internal singletons which are created on demand to prevent false positives when checking for reference leaks. (bpo-30675).
bpo-30357: test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz Grzywacz.
bpo-28087: Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on macOS. Skip some tests of select.poll when running on macOS due to unresolved issues with the underlying system poll function on some macOS versions.
bpo-30197: Enhanced functions swap_attr() and swap_item() in the test.support module. They now work when delete replaced attribute or item inside the with statement. The old value of the attribute or item (or None if it doesn’t exist) now will be assigned to the target of the “as” clause, if there is one.
bpo-29571: to match the behaviour of the
re.LOCALE
flag, test_re.test_locale_flag now useslocale.getpreferredencoding(False)
to determine the candidate encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly skip the test when the default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)
Build¶
bpo-29243: Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during
make test
,make install
and some other make targets when configured with--enable-optimizations
.bpo-23404: Don’t regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore: the action is now explicit. Replace
make touch
withmake regen-all
.bpo-29643: Fix
--enable-optimization
didn’t work.
Windows¶
C API¶
bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API is set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not including) or 0x03060100 or higher.
bpo-29083: Fixed the declaration of some public API functions. PyArg_VaParse() and PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not available in limited API. PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(), PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue() were not available in limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
Python 3.5.3 final¶
Release date: 2017-01-17
There were no code changes between 3.5.3rc1 and 3.5.3 final.
Python 3.5.3 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2017-01-02
Security¶
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-29073: bytearray formatting no longer truncates on first null byte.
bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
bpo-28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr() must not convert combined table into split table.
bpo-25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
bpo-29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate form.
bpo-28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
bpo-28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy bug caused by a monkey-patched len() function.
bpo-28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
bpo-28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug build.
bpo-23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
bpo-28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0. Patch by Oren Milman.
bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original patch by Niklas Koep.
bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of compiling it.
bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
bpo-26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
bpo-21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with invalid keyword args.
bpo-28203: Fix incorrect type in error message from
complex(1.0, {2:3})
. Patch by Soumya Sharma.bpo-27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
bpo-28131: Fix a regression in zipimport’s compile_source(). zipimport should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
bpo-25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
bpo-25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename (patch by Eryk Sun)
bpo-28189: dictitems_contains no longer swallows compare errors. (Patch by Xiang Zhang)
bpo-27812: Properly clear out a generator’s frame’s backreference to the generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().
bpo-27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.
bpo-27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check after use of ‘def’ in _PyState_AddModule(). Initial patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-26020: set literal evaluation order did not match documented behaviour.
bpo-27782: Multi-phase extension module import now correctly allows the
m_methods
field to be used to add module level functions to instances of non-module types returned fromPy_create_mod
. Patch by Xiang Zhang.bpo-27936: The round() function accepted a second None argument for some types but not for others. Fixed the inconsistency by accepting None for all numeric types.
bpo-27487: Warn if a submodule argument to “python -m” or runpy.run_module() is found in sys.modules after parent packages are imported, but before the submodule is executed.
bpo-27558: Fix a SystemError in the implementation of “raise” statement. In a brand new thread, raise a RuntimeError since there is no active exception to reraise. Patch written by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up “__import__” in globals or builtins for importing submodules or “from import”. Fixed handling an error of non-string package name.
bpo-27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
bpo-27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError instead of SystemError.
bpo-27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray concatenations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27581: Don’t rely on wrapping for overflow check in PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a negative integer for a resized bytearray.
bpo-27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c
Library¶
bpo-15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of a context. Patch by Sam Breese.
bpo-29094: Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object and modes “w” and “x” now are relative to the start of the file.
bpo-13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
bpo-29119: Fix weakrefs in the pure python version of collections.OrderedDict move_to_end() method. Contributed by Andra Bogildea.
bpo-9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative integers.
bpo-28427: old keys should not remove new values from WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
bpo-28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
bpo-28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
bpo-19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another thread.
bpo-20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when pass a sequence that doesn’t own its elements as limits.
bpo-28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some multiprocessing objects such as locks.
bpo-28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer writes the index file when it is not changed.
bpo-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
bpo-28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args
bpo-28485: Always raise ValueError for negative compileall.compile_dir(workers=…) parameter, even when multithreading is unavailable.
bpo-28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when the garbage collector is invoked in other thread. Based on patch by Sebastian Cufre.
bpo-27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if given empty data twice. Patch by Benjamin Fogle.
bpo-28549: Fixed segfault in curses’s addch() with ncurses6.
bpo-28449: tarfile.open() with mode “r” or “r:” now tries to open a tar file with compression before trying to open it without compression. Otherwise it had 50% chance failed with ignore_zeros=True.
bpo-23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived browsers. Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.
bpo-27939: Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and tkinter.Scale caused by representing the scale as float value internally in Tk. tkinter.IntVar now works if float value is set to underlying Tk variable.
bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar().prmonth() no longer prints a space at the start of new line after printing a month’s calendar. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces. Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.
bpo-28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
bpo-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin a workaround to Tix library bug.
bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer add entry “./” to ZIP archive.
bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.
bpo-20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT handlers.
bpo-26293: Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start of the file. Offsets in ZIP file now are relative to the start of the archive in conforming to the specification.
bpo-28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
bpo-28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from incorrect pickle data. Based on patch by John Leitch.
Fix possible integer overflows and crashes in the mmap module with unusual usage patterns.
bpo-1703178: Fix the ability to pass the –link-objects option to the distutils build_ext command.
bpo-28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 and 9999-12. Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so that they don’t call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date under/overflow.
bpo-28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress() methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes. Original patch by John Leitch.
bpo-27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass invalid string-like object as a name. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-18893: Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by Madison May.
bpo-27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module.
bpo-27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception messages like “Exception: None”. This fixes a regression introduced in 3.5a2.
bpo-25651: Allow false values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().
bpo-27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.
bpo-28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of os.stat(). Patch by Eryk Sun.
bpo-25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when an empty bytestring is passed.
bpo-28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.
bpo-25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin. Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.
bpo-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
bpo-19003: m email.generator now replaces only
\r
and/or\n
line endings, per the RFC, instead of all unicode line endings.bpo-28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in range between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.
bpo-25969: Update the lib2to3 grammar to handle the unpacking generalizations added in 3.5.
bpo-14977: mailcap now respects the order of the lines in the mailcap files (“first match”), as required by RFC 1542. Patch by Michael Lazar.
bpo-24594: Validates persist parameter when opening MSI database
bpo-17582: xml.etree.ElementTree nows preserves whitespaces in attributes (Patch by Duane Griffin. Reviewed and approved by Stefan Behnel.)
bpo-28047: Fixed calculation of line length used for the base64 CTE in the new email policies.
bpo-27445: Don’t pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload(). Patch by Claude Paroz.
bpo-22450: urllib now includes an
Accept: */*
header among the default headers. This makes the results of REST API requests more consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are involved.lib2to3.pgen3.driver.load_grammar() now creates a stable cache file between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the hash randomization setting.
bpo-27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source pointers in the “ctypes” and “array” modules.
bpo-22233: Break email header lines only on the RFC specified CR and LF characters, not on arbitrary unicode line breaks. This also fixes a bug in HTTP header parsing.
bpo-27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list.
bpo-27691: Fix ssl module’s parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative name fields in X.509 certs.
bpo-27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module’s default cipher list to counter measure sweet32 attack (CVE 2016-2183).
bpo-27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module’s default cipher list. (Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL).
bpo-26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0.
Remove support for passing a file descriptor to os.access. It never worked but previously didn’t raise.
bpo-12885: Fix error when distutils encounters symlink.
bpo-27881: Fixed possible bugs when setting sqlite3.Connection.isolation_level. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-27861: Fixed a crash in sqlite3.Connection.cursor() when a factory creates not a cursor. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-19884: Avoid spurious output on OS X with Gnu Readline.
bpo-27706: Restore deterministic behavior of random.Random().seed() for string seeds using seeding version 1. Allows sequences of calls to random() to exactly match those obtained in Python 2. Patch by Nofar Schnider.
bpo-10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit(). Statements should not be reset after a commit.
A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing: Collection (only for 3.6) (bpo-27598). Add FrozenSet to __all__ (upstream #261). Fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259). Remove the dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252).
bpo-27539: Fix unnormalised
Fraction.__pow__
result in the case of negative exponent and negative base.bpo-21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using CTEs.
bpo-2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which the user does not have permission to access.
bpo-27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in _ssl.wrap_socket().
bpo-26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.
In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or window.instr() is passed a negative value.
bpo-27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in operator.methodcaller.
bpo-27774: Fix possible Py_DECREF on unowned object in _sre.
bpo-27760: Fix possible integer overflow in binascii.b2a_qp.
bpo-27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for large record lengths.
bpo-27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE 2016-1000110). Ignore the HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates that the script is in CGI mode.
bpo-27656: Do not assume sched.h defines any SCHED_* constants.
bpo-27130: In the “zlib” module, fix handling of large buffers (typically 4 GiB) when compressing and decompressing. Previously, inputs were limited to 4 GiB, and compression and decompression operations did not properly handle results of 4 GiB.
bpo-27533: Release GIL in nt._isdir
bpo-17711: Fixed unpickling by the persistent ID with protocol 0. Original patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
bpo-27522: Avoid an unintentional reference cycle in email.feedparser.
bpo-26844: Fix error message for imp.find_module() to refer to ‘path’ instead of ‘name’. Patch by Lev Maximov.
bpo-23804: Fix SSL zero-length recv() calls to not block and not raise an error about unclean EOF.
bpo-27466: Change time format returned by http.cookie.time2netscape, confirming the netscape cookie format and making it consistent with documentation.
bpo-26664: Fix activate.fish by removing mis-use of
$
.bpo-22115: Fixed tracing Tkinter variables: trace_vdelete() with wrong mode no longer break tracing, trace_vinfo() now always returns a list of pairs of strings, tracing in the “u” mode now works.
Fix a scoping issue in importlib.util.LazyLoader which triggered an UnboundLocalError when lazy-loading a module that was already put into sys.modules.
bpo-27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and ispunct().
bpo-26754: Some functions (compile() etc) accepted a filename argument encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like objects are accepted.
bpo-27048: Prevents distutils failing on Windows when environment variables contain non-ASCII characters
bpo-27330: Fixed possible leaks in the ctypes module.
bpo-27238: Got rid of bare excepts in the turtle module. Original patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-27122: When an exception is raised within the context being managed by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack generators catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the original exception when exiting, let the new chained one through. This avoids the PEP 479 bug described in issue25782.
bpo-26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id’s containing spaces.
bpo-16182: Fix various functions in the “readline” module to use the locale encoding, and fix get_begidx() and get_endidx() to return code point indexes.
bpo-27392: Add loop.connect_accepted_socket(). Patch by Jim Fulton.
bpo-27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener. Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and patch.
bpo-21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message. Thanks to Wojciech Walczak for patch.
bpo-27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.
bpo-27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic. Patch by Kevin Conway.
bpo-28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn’t properly supported. Patch by Seth Michael Larson.
bpo-26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__. Patch by iceboy.
bpo-26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.
bpo-28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
bpo-27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors. Patch by Mark Williams.
bpo-28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no loop attached. Patch by Vincent Michel.
bpo-28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport’s FD is used with add_reader, add_writer, etc.
bpo-28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
bpo-28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
bpo-28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by Коренберг Марк.
bpo-27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
bpo-26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all children are done. Patch by Johannes Ebke.
bpo-26796: Don’t configure the number of workers for default threadpool executor. Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.
bpo-28600: Optimize loop.call_soon().
bpo-28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if called from coroutines/callbacks.
bpo-28639: Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool Patch by Justin Mayfield.
bpo-28652: Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not support.
bpo-28653: Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache.
bpo-28703: Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects.
bpo-24142: Reading a corrupt config file left the parser in an invalid state. Original patch by Florian Höch.
bpo-28990: Fix SSL hanging if connection is closed before handshake completed. (Patch by HoHo-Ho)
IDLE¶
bpo-15308: Add ‘interrupt execution’ (^C) to Shell menu. Patch by Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.
bpo-27922: Stop IDLE tests from ‘flashing’ gui widgets on the screen.
Add version to title of IDLE help window.
bpo-25564: In section on IDLE – console differences, mention that using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.
bpo-27714: text_textview and test_autocomplete now pass when re-run in the same process. This occurs when test_idle fails when run with the -w option but without -jn. Fix warning from test_config.
bpo-25507: IDLE no longer runs buggy code because of its tkinter imports. Users must include the same imports required to run directly in Python.
bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
bpo-27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor names.
bpo-27245: IDLE: Cleanly delete custom themes and key bindings. Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a cascade of warnings was emitted. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
C API¶
Documentation¶
bpo-28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.
Tests¶
bpo-28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l/-M in regrtest command line arguments.
bpo-28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or unreadable directories.
bpo-23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.
bpo-28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.
bpo-27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for “dangling threads”, since the dangling threads are weak references.
bpo-27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that changed in Expat 2.2.0.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-27952: Get Tools/scripts/fixcid.py working with Python 3 and the current “re” module, avoid invalid Python backslash escapes, and fix a bug parsing escaped C quote signs.
bpo-27332: Fixed the type of the first argument of module-level functions generated by Argument Clinic. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
bpo-27418: Fixed Tools/importbench/importbench.py.
Windows¶
bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
bpo-28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and 64-bit
bpo-25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom install.
bpo-27469: Adds a shell extension to the launcher so that drag and drop works correctly.
bpo-27309: Enabled proper Windows styles in python[w].exe manifest.
Build¶
bpo-29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
bpo-23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
bpo-10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX. Patch by Tristan Carel and Michael Haubenwallner.
bpo-26359: Rename –with-optimiations to –enable-optimizations.
bpo-28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
bpo-28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
bpo-26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
bpo-28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for generated include files when building outside the source tree.
bpo-15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building outside the source tree.
bpo-27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa Roach)
bpo-27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py
bpo-27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as required for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than make time when –with-optimizations is enabled. Also improve our ability to find the llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.
bpo-26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in modules.
bpo-26359: Add the –with-optimizations configure flag.
bpo-27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating importlib’s bootstrap files. Patch by Xiang Zhang
bpo-25825: Correct the references to Modules/python.exp and ld_so_aix, which are required on AIX. This updates references to an installation path that was changed in 3.2a4, and undoes changed references to the build tree that were made in 3.5.0a1.
bpo-27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from being cross-compiled.
bpo-26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program to be used for file generation during the build.
bpo-10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X. Also update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround.
bpo-28676: Prevent missing ‘getentropy’ declaration warning on macOS. Patch by Gareth Rees.
Python 3.5.2 final¶
Release date: 2016-06-26
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
Tests¶
bpo-26867: Ubuntu’s openssl OP_NO_SSLv3 is forced on by default; fix test.
IDLE¶
bpo-27365: Allow non-ascii in idlelib/NEWS.txt - minimal part for 3.5.2.
Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2016-06-12
Security¶
bpo-26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE 2015-1283.
Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib, CVE 2016-0772. Reported by Team Oststrom.
bpo-26839: On Linux,
os.urandom()
now callsgetrandom()
withGRND_NONBLOCK
to fall back on reading/dev/urandom
if the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley.bpo-26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with http.server on Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in 3.3.4rc1 and 3.4.0rc1. Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
bpo-26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows cert store is empty. Patch by Baji.
bpo-25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in ssl.enum_certificates.
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open()) returns a negative number without setting an exception.
bpo-20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with the “N” format unit.
bpo-26991: Fix possible refleak when creating a function with annotations.
bpo-27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127. Patch by Joe Jevnik.
bpo-23640: int.from_bytes() no longer bypasses constructors for subclasses.
bpo-26811: gc.get_objects() no longer contains a broken tuple with NULL pointer.
bpo-20120: Use RawConfigParser for .pypirc parsing, removing support for interpolation unintentionally added with move to Python 3. Behavior no longer does any interpolation in .pypirc files, matching behavior in Python 2.7 and Setuptools 19.0.
bpo-26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection.
bpo-26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called multiple times. NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not endorsed!
bpo-25339: PYTHONIOENCODING now has priority over locale in setting the error handler for stdin and stdout.
bpo-26494: Fixed crash on iterating exhausting iterators. Affected classes are generic sequence iterators, iterators of str, bytes, bytearray, list, tuple, set, frozenset, dict, OrderedDict, corresponding views and os.scandir() iterator.
bpo-26581: If coding cookie is specified multiple times on a line in Python source code file, only the first one is taken to account.
bpo-26464: Fix str.translate() when string is ASCII and first replacements removes character, but next replacement uses a non-ASCII character or a string longer than 1 character. Regression introduced in Python 3.5.0.
bpo-22836: Ensure exception reports from PyErr_Display() and PyErr_WriteUnraisable() are sensible even when formatting them produces secondary errors. This affects the reports produced by sys.__excepthook__() and when __del__() raises an exception.
bpo-26302: Correct behavior to reject comma as a legal character for cookie names.
bpo-4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star (
*
) unpacking in function calls. Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and Daniel Urban.bpo-27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().
bpo-26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() function to get the current Python thread state, but don’t issue a fatal error if it is NULL. This new function must be used instead of accessing directly the _PyThreadState_Current variable. The variable is no more exposed since Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact implementation of atomic C types, to avoid compiler issues.
bpo-26194: Deque.insert() gave odd results for bounded deques that had reached their maximum size. Now an IndexError will be raised when attempting to insert into a full deque.
bpo-25843: When compiling code, don’t merge constants if they are equal but have a different types. For example,
f1, f2 = lambda: 1, lambda: 1.0
is now correctly compiled to two different functions:f1()
returns1
(int
) andf2()
returns1.0
(int
), even if1
and1.0
are equal.bpo-22995: [UPDATE] Comment out the one of the pickleability tests in _PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based projects.
bpo-25961: Disallowed null characters in the type name.
bpo-25973: Fix segfault when an invalid nonlocal statement binds a name starting with two underscores.
bpo-22995: Instances of extension types with a state that aren’t subclasses of list or dict and haven’t implemented any pickle-related methods (__reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__, __getnewargs_ex__, or __getstate__), can no longer be pickled. Including memoryview.
bpo-20440: Massive replacing unsafe attribute setting code with special macro Py_SETREF.
bpo-25766: Special method __bytes__() now works in str subclasses.
bpo-25421: __sizeof__ methods of builtin types now use dynamic basic size. This allows sys.getsize() to work correctly with their subclasses with __slots__ defined.
bpo-25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8 cache.
bpo-24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is freed inside __getattr__.
bpo-24731: Fixed crash on converting objects with special methods __bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of subclasses of bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and float correspondingly.
bpo-26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with dictionary views and tuples.
bpo-26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in zipimporter.get_data().
bpo-25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline.
bpo-25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited more than once.
bpo-27243: Update the __aiter__ protocol: instead of returning an awaitable that resolves to an asynchronous iterator, the asynchronous iterator should be returned directly. Doing the former will trigger a PendingDeprecationWarning.
Library¶
bpo-21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property. It was documented since 07a5610bae9d. Initial patch by Roger Luethi.
bpo-20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses correctly. Initial patch by ingrid.
A new version of typing.py provides several new classes and features: @overload outside stubs, Reversible, DefaultDict, Text, ContextManager, Type[], NewType(), TYPE_CHECKING, and numerous bug fixes (note that some of the new features are not yet implemented in mypy or other static analyzers). Also classes for PEP 492 (Awaitable, AsyncIterable, AsyncIterator) have been added (in fact they made it into 3.5.1 but were never mentioned).
bpo-25738: Stop http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error() from sending a message body for 205 Reset Content. Also, don’t send Content header fields in responses that don’t have a body. Patch by Susumu Koshiba.
bpo-21313: Fix the “platform” module to tolerate when sys.version contains truncated build information.
bpo-27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams with a predefined zdict. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24291: Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to completely write data to the client. Previously it could do partial writes and truncate data. Also, wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can now handle stdout doing partial writes, but this is deprecated.
bpo-26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate() is called in more/all circumstances.
bpo-21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError. Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with PermissionError
bpo-18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings and simplefilter. Based on patch by Alex Shkop.
bpo-27057: Fix os.set_inheritable() on Android, ioctl() is blocked by SELinux and fails with EACCESS. The function now falls back to fcntl(). Patch written by Michał Bednarski.
bpo-27014: Fix infinite recursion using typing.py. Thanks to Kalle Tuure!
bpo-14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target only has a query string. Original fix by Ján Janech.
bpo-17214: The “urllib.request” module now percent-encodes non-ASCII bytes found in redirect target URLs. Some servers send Location header fields with non-ASCII bytes, but “http.client” requires the request target to be ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised. Based on patch by Christian Heimes.
bpo-26892: Honor debuglevel flag in urllib.request.HTTPHandler. Patch contributed by Chi Hsuan Yen.
bpo-22274: In the subprocess module, allow stderr to be redirected to stdout even when stdout is not redirected. Patch by Akira Li.
bpo-26807: mock_open ‘files’ no longer error on readline at end of file. Patch from Yolanda Robla.
bpo-25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor.
bpo-26977: Removed unnecessary, and ignored, call to sum of squares helper in statistics.pvariance.
bpo-26881: The modulefinder module now supports extended opcode arguments.
bpo-23815: Fixed crashes related to directly created instances of types in _tkinter and curses.panel modules.
bpo-17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword arguments. Patch by Georg Brandl.
bpo-26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags instead of silently return incorrect result.
bpo-26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.
bpo-24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in
ctypes.util
. The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches for thecrle
program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by Kees Bos.bpo-26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host checking against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26634: recursive_repr() now sets __qualname__ of wrapper. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26804: urllib.request will prefer lower_case proxy environment variables over UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones. Patch contributed by Hans-Peter Jansen.
bpo-26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-stringified differing items (like bytes in the -b mode). This affects assertListEqual() and assertTupleEqual().
bpo-26041: Remove “will be removed in Python 3.7” from deprecation messages of platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution(). Patch by Kumaripaba Miyurusara Athukorala.
bpo-26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no longer silently ignore keyword arguments.
bpo-26733: Disassembling a class now disassembles class and static methods. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26801: Fix error handling in
shutil.get_terminal_size()
, catchAttributeError
instead ofNameError
. Patch written by Emanuel Barry.bpo-24838: tarfile’s ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate name and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like utf-8.
bpo-26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8. Patch by Anthony Sottile.
bpo-26735: Fix
os.urandom()
on Solaris 11.3 and newer when reading more than 1,024 bytes: callgetrandom()
multiple times with a limit of 1024 bytes per call.bpo-16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Geoff Wilson.
bpo-26709: Fixed Y2038 problem in loading binary PLists.
bpo-23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by installing our own SIGWINCH handler. Patch by Eric Price.
bpo-26586: In http.server, respond with “413 Request header fields too large” if there are too many header fields to parse, rather than killing the connection and raising an unhandled exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and BufferedWriter.readable() to always return False.
bpo-25195: Fix a regression in mock.MagicMock. _Call is a subclass of tuple (changeset 3603bae63c13 only works for classes) so we need to implement __ne__ ourselves. Patch by Andrew Plummer.
bpo-26644: Raise ValueError rather than SystemError when a negative length is passed to SSLSocket.recv() or read().
bpo-23804: Fix SSL recv(0) and read(0) methods to return zero bytes instead of up to 1024.
bpo-26616: Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method.
bpo-21925:
warnings.formatwarning()
now catches exceptions onlinecache.getline(...)
to be able to logResourceWarning
emitted late during the Python shutdown process.bpo-24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the search mode when compiled with Readline 7.
bpo-26560: Avoid potential ValueError in BaseHandler.start_response. Initial patch by Peter Inglesby.
bpo-26569: Fix
pyclbr.readmodule()
andpyclbr.readmodule_ex()
to support importing packages.bpo-26499: Account for remaining Content-Length in HTTPResponse.readline() and read1(). Based on patch by Silent Ghost. Also document that HTTPResponse now supports these methods.
bpo-25320: Handle sockets in directories unittest discovery is scanning. Patch from Victor van den Elzen.
bpo-16181: cookiejar.http2time() now returns None if year is higher than datetime.MAXYEAR.
bpo-26513: Fixes platform module detection of Windows Server
bpo-23718: Fixed parsing time in week 0 before Jan 1. Original patch by Tamás Bence Gedai.
bpo-20589: Invoking Path.owner() and Path.group() on Windows now raise NotImplementedError instead of ImportError.
bpo-26177: Fixed the keys() method for Canvas and Scrollbar widgets.
bpo-15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in the fileinput module. The bufsize parameter is no longer used.
bpo-2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls. Initial patch by Mathieu Dupuy.
bpo-25718: Fixed pickling and copying the accumulate() iterator with total is None.
bpo-26475: Fixed debugging output for regular expressions with the (?x) flag.
bpo-26457: Fixed the subnets() methods in IP network classes for the case when resulting prefix length is equal to maximal prefix length. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
bpo-26385: Remove the file if the internal open() call in NamedTemporaryFile() fails. Patch by Silent Ghost.
bpo-26402: Fix XML-RPC client to retry when the server shuts down a persistent connection. This was a regression related to the new http.client.RemoteDisconnected exception in 3.5.0a4.
bpo-25913: Leading
<~
is optional now in base64.a85decode() with adobe=True. Patch by Swati Jaiswal.bpo-26186: Remove an invalid type check in importlib.util.LazyLoader.
bpo-26367: importlib.__import__() raises SystemError like builtins.__import__() when
level
is specified but without an accompanying package specified.bpo-26309: In the “socketserver” module, shut down the request (closing the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false. Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
bpo-25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree depth.
bpo-26117: The os.scandir() iterator now closes file descriptor not only when the iteration is finished, but when it was failed with error.
bpo-25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on Windows.
bpo-26045: Add UTF-8 suggestion to error message when posting a non-Latin-1 string with http.client.
bpo-12923: Reset FancyURLopener’s redirect counter even if there is an exception. Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco.
bpo-25945: Fixed a crash when unpickle the functools.partial object with wrong state. Fixed a leak in failed functools.partial constructor. “args” and “keywords” attributes of functools.partial have now always types tuple and dict correspondingly.
bpo-26202: copy.deepcopy() now correctly copies range() objects with non-atomic attributes.
bpo-23076: Path.glob() now raises a ValueError if it’s called with an invalid pattern. Patch by Thomas Nyberg.
bpo-19883: Fixed possible integer overflows in zipimport.
bpo-26227: On Windows, getnameinfo(), gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname_ex() functions of the socket module now decode the hostname from the ANSI code page rather than UTF-8.
bpo-26147: xmlrpc now works with strings not encodable with used non-UTF-8 encoding.
bpo-25935: Garbage collector now breaks reference loops with OrderedDict.
bpo-16620: Fixed AttributeError in msilib.Directory.glob().
bpo-26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles created in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower).
bpo-25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.
bpo-17633: Improve zipimport’s support for namespace packages.
bpo-24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars appearing before $() vars.
bpo-22138: Fix mock.patch behavior when patching descriptors. Restore original values after patching. Patch contributed by Sean McCully.
bpo-25672: In the ssl module, enable the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode option if it is safe to do so.
bpo-26012: Don’t traverse into symlinks for
**
pattern in pathlib.Path.[r]glob().bpo-24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with pathlib.Path.[r]glob(). Patch by Ulrich Petri.
bpo-25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have a buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility).
bpo-25447: Copying the lru_cache() wrapper object now always works, independently from the type of the wrapped object (by returning the original object unchanged).
bpo-24103: Fixed possible use after free in ElementTree.XMLPullParser.
bpo-25860: os.fwalk() no longer skips remaining directories when error occurs. Original patch by Samson Lee.
bpo-25914: Fixed and simplified OrderedDict.__sizeof__.
bpo-25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration.
bpo-25717: Restore the previous behaviour of tolerating most fstat() errors when opening files. This was a regression in 3.5a1, and stopped anonymous temporary files from working in special cases.
bpo-24903: Fix regression in number of arguments compileall accepts when ‘-d’ is specified. The check on the number of arguments has been dropped completely as it never worked correctly anyway.
bpo-25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused by fork() failure when preexec_fn is used.
bpo-6478: _strptime’s regexp cache now is reset after changing timezone with time.tzset().
bpo-14285: When executing a package with the “python -m package” option, and package initialization fails, a proper traceback is now reported. The “runpy” module now lets exceptions from package initialization pass back to the caller, rather than raising ImportError.
bpo-19771: Also in runpy and the “-m” option, omit the irrelevant message “… is a package and cannot be directly executed” if the package could not even be initialized (e.g. due to a bad
*.pyc
file).bpo-25177: Fixed problem with the mean of very small and very large numbers. As a side effect, statistics.mean and statistics.variance should be significantly faster.
bpo-25718: Fixed copying object with state with boolean value is false.
bpo-10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents. Based on patch by Marian Ganisin.
bpo-25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when unpickling invalid data including tuple instructions.
bpo-25663: In the Readline completer, avoid listing duplicate global names, and search the global namespace before searching builtins.
bpo-25688: Fixed file leak in ElementTree.iterparse() raising an error.
bpo-23914: Fixed SystemError raised by unpickler on broken pickle data.
bpo-25691: Fixed crash on deleting ElementTree.Element attributes.
bpo-25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory entries. Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
Skip getaddrinfo if host is already resolved. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26050: Add asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() method. Patch by Марк Коренберг.
bpo-25924: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on OS X versions 10.5 or higher. Original patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26406: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on current versions of OpenBSD and NetBSD. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
bpo-26848: Fix asyncio/subprocess.communicate() to handle empty input. Patch by Jack O’Connor.
bpo-27040: Add loop.get_exception_handler method
bpo-27041: asyncio: Add loop.create_future method
bpo-27223: asyncio: Fix _read_ready and _write_ready to respect _conn_lost. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
bpo-22970: asyncio: Fix inconsistency cancelling Condition.wait. Patch by David Coles.
IDLE¶
bpo-5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11. This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps, and ttk widgets. Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
bpo-27196: Stop ‘ThemeChanged’ warnings when running IDLE tests. These persisted after other warnings were suppressed in #20567. Apply Serhiy Storchaka’s update_idletasks solution to four test files. Record this additional advice in idle_test/README.txt
bpo-20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding tk warning messages from tests. Apply advice to several IDLE tests.
bpo-27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes. Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function.
bpo-26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
bpo-21939: Add test for IDLE’s percolator. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-21676: Add test for IDLE’s replace dialog. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-18410: Add test for IDLE’s search dialog. Original patch by Westley Martínez.
bpo-21703: Add test for IDLE’s undo delegator. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar .
bpo-27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
bpo-23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.
bpo-20640: Add tests for idlelib.configHelpSourceEdit. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
In the ‘IDLE-console differences’ section of the IDLE doc, clarify how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.
bpo-25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing. Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.
bpo-25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ‘ to ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with ‘ascii’. Re-encode CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with ‘utf-8’.
Documentation¶
bpo-19489: Moved the search box from the sidebar to the header and footer of each page. Patch by Ammar Askar.
bpo-24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.
bpo-26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if possible.
bpo-6953: Rework the Readline module documentation to group related functions together, and add more details such as what underlying Readline functions and variables are accessed.
bpo-23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding cdll.msvcrt.
bpo-25500: Fix documentation to not claim that __import__ is searched for in the global scope.
bpo-26014: Update 3.x packaging documentation: * “See also” links to the new docs are now provided in the legacy pages * links to setuptools documentation have been updated
Tests¶
bpo-21916: Added tests for the turtle module. Patch by ingrid, Gregory Loyse and Jelle Zijlstra.
bpo-26523: The multiprocessing thread pool (multiprocessing.dummy.Pool) was untested.
bpo-26015: Added new tests for pickling iterators of mutable sequences.
bpo-26325: Added test.support.check_no_resource_warning() to check that no ResourceWarning is emitted.
bpo-25940: Changed test_ssl to use self-signed.pythontest.net. This avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root certificate.
bpo-25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from test_collections into separate file test_ordered_dict.
bpo-26583: Skip test_timestamp_overflow in test_import if bytecode files cannot be written.
Build¶
bpo-26884: Fix linking extension modules for cross builds. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-22359: Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when cross-compiling. The output of these programs is normally saved with the source code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native build. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-21668: Link audioop, _datetime, _ctypes_test modules to libm, except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-25702: A –with-lto configure option has been added that will enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-opt. Some compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable code when using LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before relying on it. It can provide a few % speed up over profile-opt alone.
bpo-26624: Adds validation of ucrtbase[d].dll version with warning for old versions.
bpo-17603: Avoid error about nonexistent fileblocks.o file by using a lower-level check for st_blocks in struct stat.
bpo-26079: Fixing the build output folder for tix-8.4.3.6. Patch by Bjoern Thiel.
bpo-26465: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
bpo-24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building extensions. Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math and cmath builds were concurrent.
bpo-25348: Added
--pgo
and--pgo-job
arguments toPCbuild\build.bat
for building with Profile-Guided Optimization. The oldPCbuild\build_pgo.bat
script is now deprecated, and simply callsPCbuild\build.bat --pgo %*
.bpo-25827: Add support for building with ICC to
configure
, including a new--with-icc
flag.bpo-25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9.
bpo-26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
bpo-26268: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2f.
bpo-25136: Support Apple Xcode 7’s new textual SDK stub libraries.
bpo-24324: Do not enable unreachable code warnings when using gcc as the option does not work correctly in older versions of gcc and has been silently removed as of gcc-4.5.
Windows¶
bpo-27053: Updates make_zip.py to correctly generate library ZIP file.
bpo-26268: Update the prepare_ssl.py script to handle OpenSSL releases that don’t include the contents of the include directory (that is, 1.0.2e and later).
bpo-26071: bdist_wininst created binaries fail to start and find 32bit Python
bpo-26073: Update the list of magic numbers in launcher
bpo-26065: Excludes venv from library when generating embeddable distro.
bpo-17500: Remove unused and outdated icons. (See also: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945)
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don’t get C types once when the Python code is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can change if python-gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable. Patch written by Thomas Ilsche.
bpo-26271: Fix the Freeze tool to properly use flags passed through configure. Patch by Daniel Shaulov.
bpo-26489: Add dictionary unpacking support to Tools/parser/unparse.py. Patch by Guo Ci Teo.
bpo-26316: Fix variable name typo in Argument Clinic.
Python 3.5.1 final¶
Release date: 2015-12-06
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8 cache.
Windows¶
bpo-25715: Python 3.5.1 installer shows wrong upgrade path and incorrect logic for launcher detection.
Python 3.5.1 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2015-11-22
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-25630: Fix a possible segfault during argument parsing in functions that accept filesystem paths.
bpo-23564: Fixed a partially broken sanity check in the _posixsubprocess internals regarding how fds_to_pass were passed to the child. The bug had no actual impact as subprocess.py already avoided it.
bpo-25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code with a null byte.
bpo-25462: The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most operations in C implementation of OrderedDict.
bpo-22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now rejects builtin types with not defined __new__.
bpo-25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of “arg” node when compiling AST from Python objects.
bpo-24802: Avoid buffer overreads when int(), float(), compile(), exec() and eval() are passed bytes-like objects. These objects are not necessarily terminated by a null byte, but the functions assumed they were.
bpo-24726: Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict that was mutated by direct calls of dict methods.
bpo-25449: Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now raises KeyError in C implementations as well as in Python implementation.
bpo-25395: Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures were garbage collected.
bpo-25274: sys.setrecursionlimit() now raises a RecursionError if the new recursion limit is too low depending at the current recursion depth. Modify also the “lower-water mark” formula to make it monotonic. This mark is used to decide when the overflowed flag of the thread state is reset.
bpo-24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when sys.stdout.fileno() fails.
bpo-24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from being subclassed through multiple inheritance.
bpo-24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data.
bpo-25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no longer formatted twice.
bpo-25003: On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the getrandom() function instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is blocking to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn’t need such high-quality entropy.
bpo-25182: The stdprinter (used as sys.stderr before the io module is imported at startup) now uses the backslashreplace error handler.
bpo-25131: Make the line number and column offset of set/dict literals and comprehensions correspond to the opening brace.
bpo-25150: Hide the private
_Py_atomic_xxx
symbols from the public Python.h header to fix a compilation error with OpenMP. PyThreadState_GET() becomes an alias to PyThreadState_Get() to avoid ABI incompatibilities.
Library¶
bpo-25626: Change three zlib functions to accept sizes that fit in Py_ssize_t, but internally cap those sizes to UINT_MAX. This resolves a regression in 3.5 where GzipFile.read() failed to read chunks larger than 2 or 4 GiB. The change affects the zlib.Decompress.decompress() max_length parameter, the zlib.decompress() bufsize parameter, and the zlib.Decompress.flush() length parameter.
bpo-25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by os.makedirs(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
bpo-25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio.
bpo-6973: When we know a subprocess.Popen process has died, do not allow the send_signal(), terminate(), or kill() methods to do anything as they could potentially signal a different process.
bpo-25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per attribute.
bpo-25498: Fix a crash when garbage-collecting ctypes objects created by wrapping a memoryview. This was a regression made in 3.5a1. Based on patch by Eryksun.
bpo-25584: Added “escape” to the __all__ list in the glob module.
bpo-25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with
**
.bpo-25446: Fix regression in smtplib’s AUTH LOGIN support.
bpo-18010: Fix the pydoc web server’s module search function to handle exceptions from importing packages.
bpo-25554: Got rid of circular references in regular expression parsing.
bpo-25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b’’ instead of ‘’ at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode. Patch by Ryosuke Ito.
bpo-25503: Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of properties. Original patch by John Mark Vandenberg.
bpo-25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4.
bpo-21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace. Based on patch by Robert Li.
bpo-25447: The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and pickled (by returning the original object unchanged).
bpo-25390: typing: Don’t crash on Union[str, Pattern].
bpo-25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is closed.
bpo-25410: Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of OrderedDict.
bpo-25411: Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better use of the email package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch.
bpo-25407: Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed in Python 3.6.
bpo-25406: Fixed a bug in C implementation of OrderedDict.move_to_end() that caused segmentation fault or hang in iterating after moving several items to the start of ordered dict.
bpo-25364: zipfile now works in threads disabled builds.
bpo-25328: smtpd’s SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError if both decode_data and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true.
bpo-25316: distutils raises OSError instead of DistutilsPlatformError when MSVC is not installed.
bpo-25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in pickletools.opcodes.
bpo-23972: Updates asyncio datagram create method allowing reuseport and reuseaddr socket options to be set prior to binding the socket. Mirroring the existing asyncio create_server method the reuseaddr option for datagram sockets defaults to True if the O/S is ‘posix’ (except if the platform is Cygwin). Patch by Chris Laws.
bpo-25304: Add asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(). This lets you submit a coroutine to a loop from another thread, returning a concurrent.futures.Future. By Vincent Michel.
bpo-25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
bpo-24483: C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now calculates key’s hash only once.
bpo-22958: Constructor and update method of weakref.WeakValueDictionary now accept the self and the dict keyword arguments.
bpo-22609: Constructor of collections.UserDict now accepts the self keyword argument.
bpo-25111: Fixed comparison of traceback.FrameSummary.
bpo-25262: Added support for BINBYTES8 opcode in Python implementation of unpickler. Highest 32 bits of 64-bit size for BINUNICODE8 and BINBYTES8 opcodes no longer silently ignored on 32-bit platforms in C implementation.
bpo-25034: Fix string.Formatter problem with auto-numbering and nested format_specs. Patch by Anthon van der Neut.
bpo-25233: Rewrite the guts of asyncio.Queue and asyncio.Semaphore to be more understandable and correct.
bpo-25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the module in inconsistent state.
bpo-23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning wrong results in some cases.
bpo-23329: Allow the ssl module to be built with older versions of LibreSSL.
Prevent overflow in _Unpickler_Read.
bpo-25047: The XML encoding declaration written by Element Tree now respects the letter case given by the user. This restores the ability to write encoding names in uppercase like “UTF-8”, which worked in Python 2.
bpo-25135: Make deque_clear() safer by emptying the deque before clearing. This helps avoid possible reentrancy issues.
bpo-19143: platform module now reads Windows version from kernel32.dll to avoid compatibility shims.
bpo-25092: Fix datetime.strftime() failure when errno was already set to EINVAL.
bpo-23517: Fix rounding in fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods of datetime.datetime: microseconds are now rounded to nearest with ties going to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), instead of being rounding towards minus infinity (ROUND_FLOOR). It’s important that these methods use the same rounding mode than datetime.timedelta to keep the property: (datetime(1970,1,1) + timedelta(seconds=t)) == datetime.utcfromtimestamp(t). It also the rounding mode used by round(float) for example.
bpo-25155: Fix datetime.datetime.now() and datetime.datetime.utcnow() on Windows to support date after year 2038. It was a regression introduced in Python 3.5.0.
bpo-25108: Omitted internal frames in traceback functions print_stack(), format_stack(), and extract_stack() called without arguments.
bpo-25118: Fix a regression of Python 3.5.0 in os.waitpid() on Windows.
bpo-24684: socket.socket.getaddrinfo() now calls PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() instead of calling the encode() method of the host, to handle correctly custom string with an encode() method which doesn’t return a byte string. The encoder of the IDNA codec is now called directly instead of calling the encode() method of the string.
bpo-25060: Correctly compute stack usage of the BUILD_MAP opcode.
bpo-24857: Comparing call_args to a long sequence now correctly returns a boolean result instead of raising an exception. Patch by A Kaptur.
bpo-23144: Make sure that HTMLParser.feed() returns all the data, even when convert_charrefs is True.
bpo-24982: shutil.make_archive() with the “zip” format now adds entries for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file.
bpo-25019: Fixed a crash caused by setting non-string key of expat parser. Based on patch by John Leitch.
bpo-16180: Exit pdb if file has syntax error, instead of trapping user in an infinite loop. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-24891: Fix a race condition at Python startup if the file descriptor of stdin (0), stdout (1) or stderr (2) is closed while Python is creating sys.stdin, sys.stdout and sys.stderr objects. These attributes are now set to None if the creation of the object failed, instead of raising an OSError exception. Initial patch written by Marco Paolini.
bpo-24992: Fix error handling and a race condition (related to garbage collection) in collections.OrderedDict constructor.
bpo-24881: Fixed setting binary mode in Python implementation of FileIO on Windows and Cygwin. Patch from Akira Li.
bpo-25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer().
bpo-25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating ssl.SSLContext.
bpo-25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
bpo-25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn’t appear to be nonblocking.
bpo-25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying condition should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock.
bpo-21112: Fix regression in unittest.expectedFailure on subclasses. Patch from Berker Peksag.
bpo-24764: cgi.FieldStorage.read_multi() now ignores the Content-Length header in part headers. Patch written by Peter Landry and reviewed by Pierre Quentel.
bpo-24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index(). Found by John Leitch and Bryce Darling.
bpo-24774: Fix docstring in http.server.test. Patch from Chiu-Hsiang Hsu.
bpo-21159: Improve message in configparser.InterpolationMissingOptionError. Patch from Łukasz Langa.
bpo-20362: Honour TestCase.longMessage correctly in assertRegex. Patch from Ilia Kurenkov.
bpo-23572: Fixed functools.singledispatch on classes with false metaclasses. Patch by Ethan Furman.
asyncio: ensure_future() now accepts awaitable objects.
IDLE¶
bpo-15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process) before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process). This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.
bpo-24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button (15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455). The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes. 1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit). 2. In gui.run, allow any existing interaction to terminate first.
Change ‘The program’ to ‘Your program’ in an IDLE ‘kill program?’ message to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running user program, not IDLE itself.
bpo-24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark. Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.
bpo-24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted list. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.
bpo-24820: IDLE now has an ‘IDLE Dark’ built-in text color theme. It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background. Strings, comments, keywords, … are still green, red, orange, … . To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the ‘Save as New Custom Theme’ button and enter a new name, such as ‘Custom Dark’. The custom theme will work with any IDLE release, and can be modified.
bpo-25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter. ‘IDLE’ now means ‘Integrated Development and Learning Environment’.
bpo-24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget. For Mac OSX, make them a ‘sheet’. Patch by Mark Roseman.
bpo-25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor. When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header at the top of the screen.
bpo-25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
bpo-21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.
bpo-22820: Explain need for print when running file from Idle editor.
bpo-25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.
bpo-25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. Some were missing and notes were not correct.
bpo-24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
bpo-25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
bpo-16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display. The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released. The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Mark Roseman. The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.
bpo-24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.
bpo-24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).
Documentation¶
bpo-22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules. Patch by Yoni Lavi.
bpo-12067: Rewrite Comparisons section in the Expressions chapter of the language reference. Some of the details of comparing mixed types were incorrect or ambiguous. NotImplemented is only relevant at a lower level than the Expressions chapter. Added details of comparing range() objects, and default behaviour and consistency suggestions for user-defined classes. Patch from Andy Maier.
bpo-24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in the “threading” and “_thread” modules. Patch from Mattip.
bpo-23725: Overhaul tempfile docs. Note deprecated status of mktemp. Patch from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
bpo-24808: Update the types of some PyTypeObject fields. Patch by Joseph Weston.
bpo-22812: Fix unittest discovery examples. Patch from Pam McA’Nulty.
Tests¶
bpo-25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses.
bpo-25099: Make test_compileall not fail when an entry on sys.path cannot be written to (commonly seen in administrative installs on Windows).
bpo-23919: Prevents assert dialogs appearing in the test suite.
PCbuild\rt.bat
now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9.
Build¶
bpo-24915: Add LLVM support for PGO builds and use the test suite to generate the profile data. Initial patch by Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel.
bpo-24910: Windows MSIs now have unique display names.
bpo-24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors when external libraries are not available.
Windows¶
bpo-25450: Updates shortcuts to start Python in installation directory.
bpo-25164: Changes default all-users install directory to match per-user directory.
bpo-25143: Improves installer error messages for unsupported platforms.
bpo-25163: Display correct directory in installer when using non-default settings.
bpo-25361: Disables use of SSE2 instructions in Windows 32-bit build
bpo-25089: Adds logging to installer for case where launcher is not selected on upgrade.
bpo-25165: Windows uninstallation should not remove launcher if other versions remain
bpo-25112: py.exe launcher is missing icons
bpo-25102: Windows installer does not precompile for -O or -OO.
bpo-25081: Makes Back button in installer go back to upgrade page when upgrading.
bpo-25091: Increases font size of the installer.
bpo-25126: Clarifies that the non-web installer will download some components.
bpo-25213: Restores requestedExecutionLevel to manifest to disable UAC virtualization.
bpo-25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-25440: Fix output of python-config –extension-suffix.
Python 3.5.0 final¶
Release date: 2015-09-13
Build¶
bpo-25071: Windows installer should not require TargetDir parameter when installing quietly.
Python 3.5.0 release candidate 4¶
Release date: 2015-09-09
Library¶
bpo-25029: Fixes MemoryError in test_strptime.
Build¶
bpo-25027: Reverts partial-static build options and adds vcruntime140.dll to Windows installation.
Python 3.5.0 release candidate 3¶
Release date: 2015-09-07
Core and Builtins¶
Library¶
bpo-24917: time_strftime() buffer over-read.
bpo-24748: To resolve a compatibility problem found with py2exe and pywin32, imp.load_dynamic() once again ignores previously loaded modules to support Python modules replacing themselves with extension modules. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
bpo-24635: Fixed a bug in typing.py where isinstance([], typing.Iterable) would return True once, then False on subsequent calls.
bpo-24989: Fixed buffer overread in BytesIO.readline() if a position is set beyond size. Based on patch by John Leitch.
bpo-24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index(). Found by John Leitch and Bryce Darling.
Python 3.5.0 release candidate 2¶
Release date: 2015-08-25
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24769: Interpreter now starts properly when dynamic loading is disabled. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
bpo-21167: NAN operations are now handled correctly when python is compiled with ICC even if -fp-model strict is not specified.
bpo-24492: A “package” lacking a __name__ attribute when trying to perform a
from .. import ...
statement will trigger an ImportError instead of an AttributeError.
Library¶
Python 3.5.0 release candidate 1¶
Release date: 2015-08-09
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24667: Resize odict in all cases that the underlying dict resizes.
Library¶
bpo-24824: Signatures of codecs.encode() and codecs.decode() now are compatible with pydoc.
bpo-24634: Importing uuid should not try to load libc on Windows
bpo-24798: _msvccompiler.py doesn’t properly support manifests
bpo-4395: Better testing and documentation of binary operators. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23973: Update typing.py from GitHub repo.
bpo-23004: mock_open() now reads binary data correctly when the type of read_data is bytes. Initial patch by Aaron Hill.
bpo-23888: Handle fractional time in cookie expiry. Patch by ssh.
bpo-23652: Make it possible to compile the select module against the libc headers from the Linux Standard Base, which do not include some EPOLL macros. Patch by Matt Frank.
bpo-22932: Fix timezones in email.utils.formatdate. Patch from Dmitry Shachnev.
bpo-23779: imaplib raises TypeError if authenticator tries to abort. Patch from Craig Holmquist.
bpo-23319: Fix ctypes.BigEndianStructure, swap correctly bytes. Patch written by Matthieu Gautier.
bpo-23254: Document how to close the TCPServer listening socket. Patch from Martin Panter.
bpo-19450: Update Windows and OS X installer builds to use SQLite 3.8.11.
bpo-17527: Add PATCH to wsgiref.validator. Patch from Luca Sbardella.
bpo-24791: Fix grammar regression for call syntax: ‘g(*a or b)’.
IDLE¶
bpo-23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in name. Patch by Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi.
bpo-24745: Idle editor default font. Switch from Courier to platform-sensitive TkFixedFont. This should not affect current customized font selections. If there is a problem, edit $HOME/.idlerc/config-main.cfg and remove ‘
fontxxx
’ entries from [Editor Window]. Patch by Mark Roseman.bpo-21192: Idle editor. When a file is run, put its name in the restart bar. Do not print false prompts. Original patch by Adnan Umer.
bpo-13884: Idle menus. Remove tearoff lines. Patch by Roger Serwy.
Documentation¶
bpo-24129: Clarify the reference documentation for name resolution. This includes removing the assumption that readers will be familiar with the name resolution scheme Python used prior to the introduction of lexical scoping for function namespaces. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
bpo-20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
bpo-23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan.
bpo-24729: Correct IO tutorial to match implementation regarding encoding parameter to open function.
Tests¶
bpo-24751: When running regrtest with the
-w
command line option, a test run is no longer marked as a failure if all tests succeed when re-run.
Python 3.5.0 beta 4¶
Release date: 2015-07-26
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23573: Restored optimization of bytes.rfind() and bytearray.rfind() for single-byte argument on Linux.
bpo-24569: Make PEP 448 dictionary evaluation more consistent.
bpo-24583: Fix crash when set is mutated while being updated.
bpo-24407: Fix crash when dict is mutated while being updated.
bpo-24619: New approach for tokenizing async/await. As a consequence, it is now possible to have one-line ‘async def foo(): await ..’ functions.
bpo-24687: Plug refleak on SyntaxError in function parameters annotations.
bpo-15944: memoryview: Allow arbitrary formats when casting to bytes. Patch by Martin Panter.
Library¶
bpo-23441: rcompleter now prints a tab character instead of displaying possible completions for an empty word. Initial patch by Martin Sekera.
bpo-24683: Fixed crashes in _json functions called with arguments of inappropriate type.
bpo-21697: shutil.copytree() now correctly handles symbolic links that point to directories. Patch by Eduardo Seabra and Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-14373: Fixed segmentation fault when gc.collect() is called during constructing lru_cache (C implementation).
bpo-24695: Fix a regression in traceback.print_exception(). If exc_traceback is None we shouldn’t print a traceback header like described in the documentation.
bpo-24620: Random.setstate() now validates the value of state last element.
bpo-22485: Fixed an issue that caused
inspect.getsource
to return incorrect results on nested functions.bpo-22153: Improve unittest docs. Patch from Martin Panter and evilzero.
bpo-24580: Symbolic group references to open group in re patterns now are explicitly forbidden as well as numeric group references.
bpo-24206: Fixed __eq__ and __ne__ methods of inspect classes.
bpo-24631: Fixed regression in the timeit module with multiline setup.
bpo-18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely. Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.
bpo-23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi
bpo-24608: chunk.Chunk.read() now always returns bytes, not str.
bpo-18684: Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module.
bpo-24259: tarfile now raises a ReadError if an archive is truncated inside a data segment.
bpo-15014: SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954’s optional initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command.
bpo-24669: Fix inspect.getsource() for ‘async def’ functions. Patch by Kai Groner.
bpo-24688: ast.get_docstring() for ‘async def’ functions.
Build¶
bpo-24603: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2d.
Python 3.5.0 beta 3¶
Release date: 2015-07-05
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24467: Fixed possible buffer over-read in bytearray. The bytearray object now always allocates place for trailing null byte and it’s buffer now is always null-terminated.
Upgrade to Unicode 8.0.0.
bpo-24345: Add Py_tp_finalize slot for the stable ABI.
bpo-24400: Introduce a distinct type for PEP 492 coroutines; add types.CoroutineType, inspect.getcoroutinestate, inspect.getcoroutinelocals; coroutines no longer use CO_GENERATOR flag; sys.set_coroutine_wrapper works only for ‘async def’ coroutines; inspect.iscoroutine no longer uses collections.abc.Coroutine, it’s intended to test for pure ‘async def’ coroutines only; add new opcode: GET_YIELD_FROM_ITER; fix generators wrapper used in types.coroutine to be instance of collections.abc.Generator; collections.abc.Awaitable and collections.abc.Coroutine can no longer be used to detect generator-based coroutines–use inspect.isawaitable instead.
bpo-24450: Add gi_yieldfrom to generators and cr_await to coroutines. Contributed by Benno Leslie and Yury Selivanov.
bpo-19235: Add new RecursionError exception. Patch by Georg Brandl.
Library¶
bpo-21750: mock_open.read_data can now be read from each instance, as it could in Python 3.3.
bpo-24552: Fix use after free in an error case of the _pickle module.
bpo-24514: tarfile now tolerates number fields consisting of only whitespace.
bpo-19176: Fixed doctype() related bugs in C implementation of ElementTree. A deprecation warning no longer issued by XMLParser subclass with default doctype() method. Direct call of doctype() now issues a warning. Parser’s doctype() now is not called if target’s doctype() is called. Based on patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-20387: Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize for tab-indented blocks.
bpo-24456: Fixed possible buffer over-read in adpcm2lin() and lin2adpcm() functions of the audioop module.
bpo-24336: The contextmanager decorator now works with functions with keyword arguments called “func” and “self”. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-24522: Fix possible integer overflow in json accelerator module.
bpo-24489: ensure a previously set C errno doesn’t disturb cmath.polar().
bpo-24408: Fixed AttributeError in measure() and metrics() methods of tkinter.Font.
bpo-14373: C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now can be used with methods.
bpo-24347: Set KeyError if PyDict_GetItemWithError returns NULL.
bpo-24348: Drop superfluous incref/decref.
bpo-24359: Check for changed OrderedDict size during iteration.
bpo-24368: Support keyword arguments in OrderedDict methods.
bpo-24362: Simplify the C OrderedDict fast nodes resize logic.
bpo-24377: Fix a ref leak in OrderedDict.__repr__.
bpo-24369: Defend against key-changes during iteration.
Tests¶
Documentation¶
Build¶
bpo-24432: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2c.
Python 3.5.0 beta 2¶
Release date: 2015-05-31
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24284: The startswith and endswith methods of the str class no longer return True when finding the empty string and the indexes are completely out of range.
bpo-24115: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue(), PyObject_Not(), PyObject_IsInstance(), PyObject_RichCompareBool() and _PyDict_Contains() to check for and handle errors correctly.
bpo-24328: Fix importing one character extension modules.
bpo-11205: In dictionary displays, evaluate the key before the value.
bpo-24285: Fixed regression that prevented importing extension modules from inside packages. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
Library¶
bpo-23247: Fix a crash in the StreamWriter.reset() of CJK codecs.
bpo-24270: Add math.isclose() and cmath.isclose() functions as per PEP 485. Contributed by Chris Barker and Tal Einat.
bpo-5633: Fixed timeit when the statement is a string and the setup is not.
bpo-24326: Fixed audioop.ratecv() with non-default weightB argument. Original patch by David Moore.
bpo-16991: Add a C implementation of OrderedDict.
bpo-23934: Fix inspect.signature to fail correctly for builtin types lacking signature information. Initial patch by James Powell.
Python 3.5.0 beta 1¶
Release date: 2015-05-24
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-24276: Fixed optimization of property descriptor getter.
bpo-24268: PEP 489: Multi-phase extension module initialization. Patch by Petr Viktorin.
bpo-23955: Add pyvenv.cfg option to suppress registry/environment lookup for generating sys.path on Windows.
bpo-24257: Fixed system error in the comparison of faked types.SimpleNamespace.
bpo-22939: Fixed integer overflow in iterator object. Patch by Clement Rouault.
bpo-23985: Fix a possible buffer overrun when deleting a slice from the front of a bytearray and then appending some other bytes data.
bpo-24102: Fixed exception type checking in standard error handlers.
bpo-15027: The UTF-32 encoder is now 3x to 7x faster.
bpo-23290: Optimize set_merge() for cases where the target is empty. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka.)
bpo-2292: PEP 448: Additional Unpacking Generalizations.
bpo-24096: Make warnings.warn_explicit more robust against mutation of the warnings.filters list.
bpo-23996: Avoid a crash when a delegated generator raises an unnormalized StopIteration exception. Patch by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-23910: Optimize property() getter calls. Patch by Joe Jevnik.
bpo-23911: Move path-based importlib bootstrap code to a separate frozen module.
bpo-24192: Fix namespace package imports.
bpo-24022: Fix tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code.
bpo-9951: Added a hex() method to bytes, bytearray, and memoryview.
bpo-22906: PEP 479: Change StopIteration handling inside generators.
bpo-24017: PEP 492: Coroutines with async and await syntax.
Library¶
bpo-14373: Added C implementation of functools.lru_cache(). Based on patches by Matt Joiner and Alexey Kachayev.
bpo-24230: The tempfile module now accepts bytes for prefix, suffix and dir parameters and returns bytes in such situations (matching the os module APIs).
bpo-22189: collections.UserString now supports __getnewargs__(), __rmod__(), casefold(), format_map(), isprintable(), and maketrans(). Patch by Joe Jevnik.
bpo-24244: Prevents termination when an invalid format string is encountered on Windows in strftime.
bpo-23973: PEP 484: Add the typing module.
bpo-23086: The collections.abc.Sequence() abstract base class added start and stop parameters to the index() mixin. Patch by Devin Jeanpierre.
bpo-20035: Replaced the
tkinter._fix
module used for setting up the Tcl/Tk environment on Windows with a private function in the_tkinter
module that makes no permanent changes to the environment.bpo-24257: Fixed segmentation fault in sqlite3.Row constructor with faked cursor type.
bpo-15836: assertRaises(), assertRaisesRegex(), assertWarns() and assertWarnsRegex() assertments now check the type of the first argument to prevent possible user error. Based on patch by Daniel Wagner-Hall.
bpo-9858: Add missing method stubs to _io.RawIOBase. Patch by Laura Rupprecht.
bpo-22955: attrgetter, itemgetter and methodcaller objects in the operator module now support pickling. Added readable and evaluable repr for these objects. Based on patch by Josh Rosenberg.
bpo-22107: tempfile.gettempdir() and tempfile.mkdtemp() now try again when a directory with the chosen name already exists on Windows as well as on Unix. tempfile.mkstemp() now fails early if parent directory is not valid (not exists or is a file) on Windows.
bpo-23780: Improved error message in os.path.join() with single argument.
bpo-6598: Increased time precision and random number range in email.utils.make_msgid() to strengthen the uniqueness of the message ID.
bpo-24091: Fixed various crashes in corner cases in C implementation of ElementTree.
bpo-21931: msilib.FCICreate() now raises TypeError in the case of a bad argument instead of a ValueError with a bogus FCI error number. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
bpo-13866: quote_via argument added to urllib.parse.urlencode.
bpo-20098: New mangle_from policy option for email, default True for compat32, but False for all other policies.
bpo-24211: The email library now supports RFC 6532: it can generate headers using utf-8 instead of encoded words.
bpo-16314: Added support for the LZMA compression in distutils.
bpo-21804: poplib now supports RFC 6856 (UTF8).
bpo-18682: Optimized pprint functions for builtin scalar types.
bpo-22027: smtplib now supports RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8).
bpo-23488: Random generator objects now consume 2x less memory on 64-bit.
bpo-1322: platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution() functions are now deprecated. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-22486: Added the math.gcd() function. The fractions.gcd() function now is deprecated. Based on patch by Mark Dickinson.
bpo-24064: Property() docstrings are now writeable. (Patch by Berker Peksag.)
bpo-22681: Added support for the koi8_t encoding.
bpo-22682: Added support for the kz1048 encoding.
bpo-23796: peek and read1 methods of BufferedReader now raise ValueError if they called on a closed object. Patch by John Hergenroeder.
bpo-21795: smtpd now supports the 8BITMIME extension whenever the new decode_data constructor argument is set to False.
bpo-24155: optimize heapq.heapify() for better cache performance when heapifying large lists.
bpo-21800: imaplib now supports RFC 5161 (enable), RFC 6855 (utf8/internationalized email) and automatically encodes non-ASCII usernames and passwords to UTF8.
bpo-20274: When calling a _sqlite.Connection, it now complains if passed any keyword arguments. Previously it silently ignored them.
bpo-20274: Remove ignored and erroneous “kwargs” parameters from three METH_VARARGS methods on _sqlite.Connection.
bpo-24134: assertRaises(), assertRaisesRegex(), assertWarns() and assertWarnsRegex() checks now emits a deprecation warning when callable is None or keyword arguments except msg is passed in the context manager mode.
bpo-24018: Add a collections.abc.Generator abstract base class. Contributed by Stefan Behnel.
bpo-23880: Tkinter’s getint() and getdouble() now support Tcl_Obj. Tkinter’s getdouble() now supports any numbers (in particular int).
bpo-22619: Added negative limit support in the traceback module. Based on patch by Dmitry Kazakov.
bpo-24094: Fix possible crash in json.encode with poorly behaved dict subclasses.
bpo-9246: On POSIX, os.getcwd() now supports paths longer than 1025 bytes. Patch written by William Orr.
bpo-17445: add difflib.diff_bytes() to support comparison of byte strings (fixes a regression from Python 2).
bpo-23917: Fall back to sequential compilation when ProcessPoolExecutor doesn’t exist. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-23008: Fixed resolving attributes with boolean value is False in pydoc.
Fix asyncio issue 235: LifoQueue and PriorityQueue’s put didn’t increment unfinished tasks (this bug was introduced when JoinableQueue was merged with Queue).
bpo-23908: os functions now reject paths with embedded null character on Windows instead of silently truncating them.
bpo-23728: binascii.crc_hqx() could return an integer outside of the range 0-0xffff for empty data.
bpo-23887: urllib.error.HTTPError now has a proper repr() representation. Patch by Berker Peksag.
asyncio: New event loop APIs: set_task_factory() and get_task_factory().
asyncio: async() function is deprecated in favour of ensure_future().
bpo-24178: asyncio.Lock, Condition, Semaphore, and BoundedSemaphore support new ‘async with’ syntax. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-24179: Support ‘async for’ for asyncio.StreamReader. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-24184: Add AsyncIterator and AsyncIterable ABCs to collections.abc. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-22547: Implement informative __repr__ for inspect.BoundArguments. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-24190: Implement inspect.BoundArgument.apply_defaults() method. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-20691: Add ‘follow_wrapped’ argument to inspect.Signature.from_callable() and inspect.signature(). Contributed by Yury Selivanov.
bpo-24248: Deprecate inspect.Signature.from_function() and inspect.Signature.from_builtin().
bpo-23898: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs() to support attributes with overloaded __eq__ and __bool__. Patch by Mike Bayer.
bpo-24298: Fix inspect.signature() to correctly unwrap wrappers around bound methods.
IDLE¶
bpo-23184: remove unused names and imports in idlelib. Initial patch by Al Sweigart.
Tests¶
Documentation¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-24000: Improved Argument Clinic’s mapping of converters to legacy “format units”. Updated the documentation to match.
bpo-24001: Argument Clinic converters now use accept={type} instead of types={‘type’} to specify the types the converter accepts.
bpo-23330: h2py now supports arbitrary filenames in #include.
bpo-24031: make patchcheck now supports git checkouts, too.
Python 3.5.0 alpha 4¶
Release date: 2015-04-19
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-22980: Under Linux, GNU/KFreeBSD and the Hurd, C extensions now include the architecture triplet in the extension name, to make it easy to test builds for different ABIs in the same working tree. Under OS X, the extension name now includes PEP 3149-style information.
bpo-22631: Added Linux-specific socket constant CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES. Patch courtesy of Joe Jevnik.
bpo-23726: Don’t enable GC for user subclasses of non-GC types that don’t add any new fields. Patch by Eugene Toder.
bpo-23309: Avoid a deadlock at shutdown if a daemon thread is aborted while it is holding a lock to a buffered I/O object, and the main thread tries to use the same I/O object (typically stdout or stderr). A fatal error is emitted instead.
bpo-22977: Fixed formatting Windows error messages on Wine. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23466: %c, %o, %x, and %X in bytes formatting now raise TypeError on non-integer input.
bpo-24044: Fix possible null pointer dereference in list.sort in out of memory conditions.
bpo-21354: PyCFunction_New function is exposed by python DLL again.
Library¶
bpo-23840: tokenize.open() now closes the temporary binary file on error to fix a resource warning.
bpo-16914: new debuglevel 2 in smtplib adds timestamps to debug output.
bpo-7159: urllib.request now supports sending auth credentials automatically after the first 401. This enhancement is a superset of the enhancement from bpo-19494 and supersedes that change.
bpo-23703: Fix a regression in urljoin() introduced in 901e4e52b20a. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-4254: Adds _curses.update_lines_cols(). Patch by Arnon Yaari
bpo-19933: Provide default argument for ndigits in round. Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-23193: Add a numeric_owner parameter to tarfile.TarFile.extract and tarfile.TarFile.extractall. Patch by Michael Vogt and Eric Smith.
bpo-23342: Add a subprocess.run() function than returns a CalledProcess instance for a more consistent API than the existing call* functions.
bpo-21217: inspect.getsourcelines() now tries to compute the start and end lines from the code object, fixing an issue when a lambda function is used as decorator argument. Patch by Thomas Ballinger and Allison Kaptur.
bpo-24521: Fix possible integer overflows in the pickle module.
bpo-22931: Allow ‘[’ and ‘]’ in cookie values.
The keywords attribute of functools.partial is now always a dictionary.
bpo-23811: Add missing newline to the PyCompileError error message. Patch by Alex Shkop.
bpo-21116: Avoid blowing memory when allocating a multiprocessing shared array that’s larger than 50% of the available RAM. Patch by Médéric Boquien.
bpo-22982: Improve BOM handling when seeking to multiple positions of a writable text file.
bpo-23464: Removed deprecated asyncio JoinableQueue.
bpo-23529: Limit the size of decompressed data when reading from GzipFile, BZ2File or LZMAFile. This defeats denial of service attacks using compressed bombs (i.e. compressed payloads which decompress to a huge size). Patch by Martin Panter and Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-21859: Added Python implementation of io.FileIO.
bpo-23865: close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent and more robust at shutdown. If they need to release multiple resources, all are released even if errors occur.
bpo-23400: Raise same exception on both Python 2 and 3 if sem_open is not available. Patch by Davin Potts.
bpo-10838: The subprocess now module includes SubprocessError and TimeoutError in its list of exported names for the users wild enough to use
from subprocess import *
.bpo-23411: Added DefragResult, ParseResult, SplitResult, DefragResultBytes, ParseResultBytes, and SplitResultBytes to urllib.parse.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23881: urllib.request.ftpwrapper constructor now closes the socket if the FTP connection failed to fix a ResourceWarning.
bpo-23853:
socket.socket.sendall()
does no more reset the socket timeout each time data is sent successfully. The socket timeout is now the maximum total duration to send all data.bpo-22721: An order of multiline pprint output of set or dict containing orderable and non-orderable elements no longer depends on iteration order of set or dict.
bpo-15133: _tkinter.tkapp.getboolean() now supports Tcl_Obj and always returns bool. tkinter.BooleanVar now validates input values (accepted bool, int, str, and Tcl_Obj). tkinter.BooleanVar.get() now always returns bool.
bpo-10590: xml.sax.parseString() now supports string argument.
bpo-23338: Fixed formatting ctypes error messages on Cygwin. Patch by Makoto Kato.
bpo-15582: inspect.getdoc() now follows inheritance chains.
bpo-2175: SAX parsers now support a character stream of InputSource object.
bpo-16840: Tkinter now supports 64-bit integers added in Tcl 8.4 and arbitrary precision integers added in Tcl 8.5.
bpo-23834: Fix socket.sendto(), use the C Py_ssize_t type to store the result of sendto() instead of the C int type.
bpo-23618:
socket.socket.connect()
now waits until the connection completes instead of raisingInterruptedError
if the connection is interrupted by signals, signal handlers don’t raise an exception and the socket is blocking or has a timeout.socket.socket.connect()
still raiseInterruptedError
for non-blocking sockets.bpo-21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5.
bpo-23836: Fix the faulthandler module to handle reentrant calls to its signal handlers.
bpo-23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty result on MemoryError.
bpo-10395: Added os.path.commonpath(). Implemented in posixpath and ntpath. Based on patch by Rafik Draoui.
bpo-23611: Serializing more “lookupable” objects (such as unbound methods or nested classes) now are supported with pickle protocols < 4.
bpo-13583: sqlite3.Row now supports slice indexing.
bpo-18473: Fixed 2to3 and 3to2 compatible pickle mappings. Fixed ambiguous reverse mappings. Added many new mappings. Import mapping is no longer applied to modules already mapped with full name mapping.
bpo-23485: select.select() is now retried automatically with the recomputed timeout when interrupted by a signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception. This change is part of the PEP 475.
bpo-23752: When built from an existing file descriptor, io.FileIO() now only calls fstat() once. Before fstat() was called twice, which was not necessary.
bpo-23704: collections.deque() objects now support __add__, __mul__, and __imul__().
bpo-23171: csv.Writer.writerow() now supports arbitrary iterables.
bpo-23745: The new email header parser now handles duplicate MIME parameter names without error, similar to how get_param behaves.
bpo-22117: Fix os.utime(), it now rounds the timestamp towards minus infinity (-inf) instead of rounding towards zero.
bpo-23310: Fix MagicMock’s initializer to work with __methods__, just like configure_mock(). Patch by Kasia Jachim.
Build¶
Tests¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-18128: pygettext now uses standard +NNNN format in the POT-Creation-Date header.
bpo-23935: Argument Clinic’s understanding of format units accepting bytes, bytearrays, and buffers is now consistent with both the documentation and the implementation.
bpo-23944: Argument Clinic now wraps long impl prototypes at column 78.
bpo-20586: Argument Clinic now ensures that functions without docstrings have signatures.
bpo-23492: Argument Clinic now generates argument parsing code with PyArg_Parse instead of PyArg_ParseTuple if possible.
bpo-23500: Argument Clinic is now smarter about generating the “#ifndef” (empty) definition of the methoddef macro: it’s only generated once, even if Argument Clinic processes the same symbol multiple times, and it’s emitted at the end of all processing rather than immediately after the first use.
C API¶
bpo-23998: PyImport_ReInitLock() now checks for lock allocation error
Python 3.5.0 alpha 3¶
Release date: 2015-03-28
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23573: Increased performance of string search operations (str.find, str.index, str.count, the in operator, str.split, str.partition) with arguments of different kinds (UCS1, UCS2, UCS4).
bpo-23753: Python doesn’t support anymore platforms without stat() or fstat(), these functions are always required.
bpo-23681: The -b option now affects comparisons of bytes with int.
bpo-23632: Memoryviews now allow tuple indexing (including for multi-dimensional memoryviews).
bpo-23192: Fixed generator lambdas. Patch by Bruno Cauet.
bpo-23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-sized objects.
Library¶
bpo-14260: The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern object now is non-modifiable mapping.
bpo-23792: Ignore KeyboardInterrupt when the pydoc pager is active. This mimics the behavior of the standard unix pagers, and prevents pipepager from shutting down while the pager itself is still running.
bpo-23775: pprint() of OrderedDict now outputs the same representation as repr().
bpo-23765: Removed IsBadStringPtr calls in ctypes
bpo-22364: Improved some re error messages using regex for hints.
bpo-23742: ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single quotes.
bpo-21717: The zipfile.ZipFile.open function now supports ‘x’ (exclusive creation) mode.
bpo-21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
bpo-23622: Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of
'\'
and ASCII letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be forbidden in Python 3.6.bpo-23671: string.Template now allows specifying the “self” parameter as a keyword argument. string.Formatter now allows specifying the “self” and the “format_string” parameters as keyword arguments.
bpo-23502: The pprint module now supports mapping proxies.
bpo-17530: pprint now wraps long bytes objects and bytearrays.
bpo-22687: Fixed some corner cases in breaking words in tetxtwrap. Got rid of quadratic complexity in breaking long words.
bpo-4727: The copy module now uses pickle protocol 4 (PEP 3154) and supports copying of instances of classes whose __new__ method takes keyword-only arguments.
bpo-23491: Added a zipapp module to support creating executable zip file archives of Python code. Registered “.pyz” and “.pyzw” extensions on Windows for these archives (PEP 441).
bpo-23657: Avoid explicit checks for str in zipapp, adding support for pathlib.Path objects as arguments.
bpo-23688: Added support of arbitrary bytes-like objects and avoided unnecessary copying of memoryview in gzip.GzipFile.write(). Original patch by Wolfgang Maier.
bpo-23252: Added support for writing ZIP files to unseekable streams.
bpo-23647: Increase imaplib’s MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes.
bpo-23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now sets Content-Length to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid 411 errors from some web servers.
bpo-22351: The nntplib.NNTP constructor no longer leaves the connection and socket open until the garbage collector cleans them up. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23704: collections.deque() objects now support methods for index(), insert(), and copy(). This allows deques to be registered as a MutableSequence and it improves their substitutability for lists.
bpo-23715:
signal.sigwaitinfo()
andsignal.sigtimedwait()
are now retried when interrupted by a signal not in the sigset parameter, if the signal handler does not raise an exception. signal.sigtimedwait() recomputes the timeout with a monotonic clock when it is retried.bpo-23001: Few functions in modules mmap, ossaudiodev, socket, ssl, and codecs, that accepted only read-only bytes-like object now accept writable bytes-like object too.
bpo-23646: If time.sleep() is interrupted by a signal, the sleep is now retried with the recomputed delay, except if the signal handler raises an exception (PEP 475).
bpo-23136: _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0, including Dec 30 of previous year. Based on patch by Jim Carroll.
bpo-23700: Iterator of NamedTemporaryFile now keeps a reference to NamedTemporaryFile instance. Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
bpo-22903: The fake test case created by unittest.loader when it fails importing a test module is now picklable.
bpo-22181: On Linux, os.urandom() now uses the new getrandom() syscall if available, syscall introduced in the Linux kernel 3.17. It is more reliable and more secure, because it avoids the need of a file descriptor and waits until the kernel has enough entropy.
bpo-2211: Updated the implementation of the http.cookies.Morsel class. Setting attributes key, value and coded_value directly now is deprecated. update() and setdefault() now transform and check keys. Comparing for equality now takes into account attributes key, value and coded_value. copy() now returns a Morsel, not a dict. repr() now contains all attributes. Optimized checking keys and quoting values. Added new tests. Original patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-18983: Allow selection of output units in timeit. Patch by Julian Gindi.
bpo-23631: Fix traceback.format_list when a traceback has been mutated.
bpo-23568: Add rdivmod support to MagicMock() objects. Patch by Håkan Lövdahl.
bpo-2052: Add charset parameter to HtmlDiff.make_file().
bpo-23668: Support os.truncate and os.ftruncate on Windows.
bpo-23138: Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in cookiejar. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23051: multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and imap_unordered() now handle exceptions raised by an iterator. Patch by Alon Diamant and Davin Potts.
bpo-23581: Add matmul support to MagicMock. Patch by Håkan Lövdahl.
bpo-23566: enable(), register(), dump_traceback() and dump_traceback_later() functions of faulthandler now accept file descriptors. Patch by Wei Wu.
bpo-22928: Disabled HTTP header injections in http.client. Original patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23615: Modules bz2, tarfile and tokenize now can be reloaded with imp.reload(). Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-23605: os.walk() now calls os.scandir() instead of os.listdir(). The usage of os.scandir() reduces the number of calls to os.stat(). Initial patch written by Ben Hoyt.
Build¶
bpo-23585: make patchcheck will ensure the interpreter is built.
Tests¶
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-22826: The result of open() in Tools/freeze/bkfile.py is now better compatible with regular files (in particular it now supports the context management protocol).
Python 3.5.0 alpha 2¶
Release date: 2015-03-09
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23571: PyObject_Call() and PyCFunction_Call() now raise a SystemError if a function returns a result and raises an exception. The SystemError is chained to the previous exception.
Library¶
bpo-22524: New os.scandir() function, part of the PEP 471: “os.scandir() function – a better and faster directory iterator”. Patch written by Ben Hoyt.
bpo-23103: Reduced the memory consumption of IPv4Address and IPv6Address.
bpo-21793: BaseHTTPRequestHandler again logs response code as numeric, not as stringified enum. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23476: In the ssl module, enable OpenSSL’s X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST flag on certificate stores when it is available.
bpo-23576: Avoid stalling in SSL reads when EOF has been reached in the SSL layer but the underlying connection hasn’t been closed.
bpo-23504: Added an __all__ to the types module.
bpo-23563: Optimized utility functions in urllib.parse.
bpo-7830: Flatten nested functools.partial.
bpo-20204: Added the __module__ attribute to _tkinter classes.
bpo-19980: Improved help() for non-recognized strings. help(‘’) now shows the help on str. help(‘help’) now shows the help on help(). Original patch by Mark Lawrence.
bpo-23521: Corrected pure python implementation of timedelta division. Eliminated OverflowError from
timedelta * float
for some floats; Corrected rounding in timedelta true division.bpo-21619: Popen objects no longer leave a zombie after exit in the with statement if the pipe was broken. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22936: Make it possible to show local variables in tracebacks for both the traceback module and unittest.
bpo-15955: Add an option to limit the output size in bz2.decompress(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-6639: Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError after closing the window.
bpo-814253: Group references and conditional group references now work in lookbehind assertions in regular expressions. (See also: bpo-9179)
bpo-23215: Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that ignores errors consumed too much memory and raised SystemError or MemoryError. Original patch by Aleksi Torhamo.
bpo-5700: io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file. flush() was not called in close() if closefd=False.
bpo-23374: Fixed pydoc failure with non-ASCII files when stdout encoding differs from file system encoding (e.g. on Mac OS).
bpo-23481: Remove RC4 from the SSL module’s default cipher list.
bpo-21548: Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules with empty docstrings.
bpo-22885: Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the dbm.dumb module. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-23239: ssl.match_hostname() now supports matching of IP addresses.
bpo-23146: Fix mishandling of absolute Windows paths with forward slashes in pathlib.
bpo-23096: Pickle representation of floats with protocol 0 now is the same for both Python and C implementations.
bpo-19105: pprint now more efficiently uses free space at the right.
bpo-14910: Add allow_abbrev parameter to argparse.ArgumentParser. Patch by Jonathan Paugh, Steven Bethard, paul j3 and Daniel Eriksson.
bpo-21717: tarfile.open() now supports ‘x’ (exclusive creation) mode.
bpo-23344: marshal.dumps() is now 20-25% faster on average.
bpo-20416: marshal.dumps() with protocols 3 and 4 is now 40-50% faster on average.
bpo-23421: Fixed compression in tarfile CLI. Patch by wdv4758h.
bpo-23367: Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module.
bpo-23361: Fix possible overflow in Windows subprocess creation code.
logging.handlers.QueueListener now takes a respect_handler_level keyword argument which, if set to True, will pass messages to handlers taking handler levels into account.
bpo-19705: turtledemo now has a visual sorting algorithm demo. Original patch from Jason Yeo.
bpo-23801: Fix issue where cgi.FieldStorage did not always ignore the entire preamble to a multipart body.
Build¶
C API¶
bpo-20204: Deprecation warning is now raised for builtin types without the __module__ attribute.
Windows¶
Python 3.5.0 alpha 1¶
Release date: 2015-02-08
Core and Builtins¶
bpo-23285: PEP 475 - EINTR handling.
bpo-22735: Fix many edge cases (including crashes) involving custom mro() implementations.
bpo-22896: Avoid using PyObject_AsCharBuffer(), PyObject_AsReadBuffer() and PyObject_AsWriteBuffer().
bpo-21295: Revert some changes (bpo-16795) to AST line numbers and column offsets that constituted a regression.
bpo-22986: Allow changing an object’s __class__ between a dynamic type and static type in some cases.
bpo-15859: PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS() and PyUnicode_EncodeCodePage() now raise an exception if the object is not a Unicode object. For PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), it was already the case on platforms other than Windows. Patch written by Campbell Barton.
bpo-21408: The default __ne__() now returns NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. Original patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-23321: Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler returned replacement string longer than malformed input data.
bpo-22286: The “backslashreplace” error handlers now works with decoding and translating.
bpo-23253: Delay-load ShellExecute[AW] in os.startfile for reduced startup overhead on Windows.
bpo-22038: pyatomic.h now uses stdatomic.h or GCC built-in functions for atomic memory access if available. Patch written by Vitor de Lima and Gustavo Temple.
bpo-20284: %-interpolation (aka printf) formatting added for bytes and bytearray.
bpo-23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
bpo-20335: bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors is specified with non-string argument. Based on patch by Renaud Blanch.
bpo-22834: If the current working directory ends up being set to a non-existent directory then import will no longer raise FileNotFoundError.
bpo-22869: Move the interpreter startup & shutdown code to a new dedicated pylifecycle.c module
bpo-22847: Improve method cache efficiency.
bpo-22335: Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to 0x7fffffff bytes on a 32-bit platform.
bpo-22653: Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a reentrant dict insertion in debug mode.
bpo-22643: Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower, title, swapcase, casefold).
bpo-17636: Circular imports involving relative imports are now supported.
bpo-22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex number by (nan+0j).
bpo-21052: Do not raise ImportWarning when sys.path_hooks or sys.meta_path are set to None.
bpo-16518: Use ‘bytes-like object required’ in error messages that previously used the far more cryptic “‘x’ does not support the buffer protocol.
bpo-22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in “backslashreplace”, “xmlcharrefreplace”, and “surrogatepass” error handlers.
bpo-22540: speed up
PyObject_IsInstance
andPyObject_IsSubclass
in the common case that the second argument has metaclasstype
.bpo-18711: Add a new
PyErr_FormatV
function, similar toPyErr_Format
but accepting ava_list
argument.bpo-22520: Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a unicode object.
bpo-22519: Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr.
bpo-22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.
bpo-16324: _charset parameter of MIMEText now also accepts email.charset.Charset instances. Initial patch by Claude Paroz.
bpo-1764286: Fix inspect.getsource() to support decorated functions. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-18554: os.__all__ includes posix functions.
bpo-21391: Use os.path.abspath in the shutil module.
bpo-11471: avoid generating a JUMP_FORWARD instruction at the end of an if-block if there is no else-clause. Original patch by Eugene Toder.
bpo-22215: Now ValueError is raised instead of TypeError when str or bytes argument contains not permitted null character or byte.
bpo-22258: Fix the internal function set_inheritable() on Illumos. This platform exposes the function
ioctl(FIOCLEX)
, but calling it fails with errno is ENOTTY: “Inappropriate ioctl for device”. set_inheritable() now falls back to the slowerfcntl()
(F_GETFD
and thenF_SETFD
).bpo-21389: Displaying the __qualname__ of the underlying function in the repr of a bound method.
bpo-22206: Using pthread, PyThread_create_key() now sets errno to ENOMEM and returns -1 (error) on integer overflow.
bpo-20184: Argument Clinic based signature introspection added for 30 of the builtin functions.
bpo-22116: C functions and methods (of the ‘builtin_function_or_method’ type) can now be weakref’ed. Patch by Wei Wu.
bpo-22077: Improve index error messages for bytearrays, bytes, lists, and tuples by adding ‘or slices’. Added ‘, not <typename>’ for bytearrays. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-20179: Apply Argument Clinic to bytes and bytearray. Patch by Tal Einat.
bpo-22082: Clear interned strings in slotdefs.
Upgrade Unicode database to Unicode 7.0.0.
bpo-21897: Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure variables when frame.clear() has been called.
bpo-21205: Add a new
__qualname__
attribute to generator, the qualified name, and use it in the representation of a generator (repr(gen)
). The default name of the generator (__name__
attribute) is now get from the function instead of the code. Usegen.gi_code.co_name
to get the name of the code.bpo-21669: With the aid of heuristics in SyntaxError.__init__, the parser now attempts to generate more meaningful (or at least more search engine friendly) error messages when “exec” and “print” are used as statements.
bpo-21642: In the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written with no space between itself and the
else
keyword (e.g.True if 42else False
) to be valid syntax.bpo-21523: Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of some opcodes in the compiler. This also fixes a quadratic compilation time issue noticeable when compiling code with a large number of “and” and “or” operators.
bpo-21418: Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python).
bpo-21425: Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive interpreter.
bpo-21435: In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in cyclic trash a bad pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle flaw in internal iteration logic.
bpo-21377: PyBytes_Concat() now tries to concatenate in-place when the first argument has a reference count of 1. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-20355: -W command line options now have higher priority than the PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable. Patch by Arfrever.
bpo-21274: Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c.
bpo-20904: Support setting FPU precision on m68k.
bpo-21209: Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the yield from syntax.
bpo-21193: pow(a, b, c) now raises ValueError rather than TypeError when b is negative. Patch by Josh Rosenberg.
bpo-21176: PEP 465: Add the ‘@’ operator for matrix multiplication.
bpo-21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.
bpo-19537: Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k. Patch by Andreas Schwab.
bpo-20929: Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number.
bpo-20731: Properly position in source code files even if they are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of subclasses. Patch by Peter Ingebretson.
bpo-8297: Attributes missing from modules now include the module name in the error text. Original patch by ysj.ray.
bpo-19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now raise TypeError on non-integer input.
bpo-19655: The ASDL parser - used by the build process to generate code for managing the Python AST in C - was rewritten. The new parser is self contained and does not require to carry long the spark.py parser-generator library; spark.py was removed from the source base.
bpo-12546: Allow
\x00
to be used as a fill character when using str, int, float, and complex __format__ methods.bpo-20480: Add ipaddress.reverse_pointer. Patch by Leon Weber.
bpo-13598: Modify string.Formatter to support auto-numbering of replacement fields. It now matches the behavior of str.format() in this regard. Patches by Phil Elson and Ramchandra Apte.
bpo-8931: Make alternate formatting (‘#’) for type ‘c’ raise an exception. In versions prior to 3.5, ‘#’ with ‘c’ had no effect. Now specifying it is an error. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
bpo-23165: Perform overflow checks before allocating memory in the _Py_char2wchar function.
Library¶
bpo-23399: pyvenv creates relative symlinks where possible.
bpo-20289: cgi.FieldStorage() now supports the context management protocol.
bpo-13128: Print response headers for CONNECT requests when debuglevel > 0. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-15381: Optimized io.BytesIO to make less allocations and copyings.
bpo-22818: Splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string now raises a warning. Patterns that can only match empty strings are now rejected.
bpo-23099: Closing io.BytesIO with exported buffer is rejected now to prevent corrupting exported buffer.
bpo-23326: Removed __ne__ implementations. Since fixing default __ne__ implementation in bpo-21408 they are redundant.
bpo-23363: Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations.
bpo-23364: Fix possible overflow in itertools.product.
bpo-23366: Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations.
bpo-23369: Fixed possible integer overflow in _json.encode_basestring_ascii.
bpo-23353: Fix the exception handling of generators in PyEval_EvalFrameEx(). At entry, save or swap the exception state even if PyEval_EvalFrameEx() is called with throwflag=0. At exit, the exception state is now always restored or swapped, not only if why is WHY_YIELD or WHY_RETURN. Patch co-written with Antoine Pitrou.
bpo-14099: Restored support of writing ZIP files to tellable but non-seekable streams.
bpo-14099: Writing to ZipFile and reading multiple ZipExtFiles is threadsafe now.
bpo-19361: JSON decoder now raises JSONDecodeError instead of ValueError.
bpo-18518: timeit now rejects statements which can’t be compiled outside a function or a loop (e.g. “return” or “break”).
bpo-23094: Fixed readline with frames in Python implementation of pickle.
bpo-23268: Fixed bugs in the comparison of ipaddress classes.
bpo-21408: Removed incorrect implementations of __ne__() which didn’t returned NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. The default __ne__() now works correctly.
bpo-19996:
email.feedparser.FeedParser
now handles (malformed) headers with no key rather than assuming the body has started.bpo-20188: Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the ssl module.
bpo-23133: Pickling of ipaddress objects now produces more compact and portable representation.
bpo-23248: Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master.
bpo-23266: Much faster implementation of ipaddress.collapse_addresses() when there are many non-consecutive addresses.
bpo-23098: 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module.
bpo-21817: When an exception is raised in a task submitted to a ProcessPoolExecutor, the remote traceback is now displayed in the parent process. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-15955: Add an option to limit output size when decompressing LZMA data. Patch by Nikolaus Rath and Martin Panter.
bpo-23250: In the http.cookies module, capitalize “HttpOnly” and “Secure” as they are written in the standard.
bpo-23063: In the distutils’ check command, fix parsing of reST with code or code-block directives.
bpo-23209: selectors.BaseSelector.get_key() now raises a RuntimeError if the selector is closed. And selectors.BaseSelector.close() now clears its internal reference to the selector mapping to break a reference cycle. Initial patch written by Martin Richard. (See also: bpo-23225)
bpo-17911: Provide a way to seed the linecache for a PEP-302 module without actually loading the code.
bpo-17911: Provide a new object API for traceback, including the ability to not lookup lines at all until the traceback is actually rendered, without any trace of the original objects being kept alive.
bpo-19777: Provide a home() classmethod on Path objects. Contributed by Victor Salgado and Mayank Tripathi.
bpo-23206: Make
json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)
as fast as the default case ofensure_ascii=True
. Patch by Naoki Inada.bpo-23185: Add math.inf and math.nan constants.
bpo-23186: Add ssl.SSLObject.shared_ciphers() and ssl.SSLSocket.shared_ciphers() to fetch the client’s list ciphers sent at handshake.
bpo-23143: Remove compatibility with OpenSSLs older than 0.9.8.
bpo-23132: Improve performance and introspection support of comparison methods created by functool.total_ordering.
bpo-19776: Add an expanduser() method on Path objects.
bpo-23112: Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string and fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash.
bpo-21793: Added http.HTTPStatus enums (i.e. HTTPStatus.OK, HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND). Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23093: In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached streams.
bpo-23111: In the ftplib, make ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 the default protocol version.
bpo-22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(), instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
bpo-19104: pprint now produces evaluable output for wrapped strings.
bpo-23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22783: Pickling now uses the NEWOBJ opcode instead of the NEWOBJ_EX opcode if possible.
bpo-15513: Added a __sizeof__ implementation for pickle classes.
bpo-19858: pickletools.optimize() now aware of the MEMOIZE opcode, can produce more compact result and no longer produces invalid output if input data contains MEMOIZE opcodes together with PUT or BINPUT opcodes.
bpo-22095: Fixed HTTPConnection.set_tunnel with default port. The port value in the host header was set to “None”. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when the program is run with pythonw.exe.
bpo-21775: shutil.copytree(): fix crash when copying to VFAT. An exception handler assumed that OSError objects always have a ‘winerror’ attribute. That is not the case, so the exception handler itself raised AttributeError when run on Linux (and, presumably, any other non-Windows OS). Patch by Greg Ward.
bpo-1218234: Fix inspect.getsource() to load updated source of reloaded module. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
bpo-21740: Support wrapped callables in doctest. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-23009: Make sure selectors.EpollSelector.select() works when no FD is registered.
bpo-22959: In the constructor of http.client.HTTPSConnection, prefer the context’s check_hostname attribute over the check_hostname parameter.
bpo-22696: Add function
sys.is_finalizing()
to know about interpreter shutdown.bpo-16043: Add a default limit for the amount of data xmlrpclib.gzip_decode will return. This resolves CVE 2013-1753.
bpo-14099: ZipFile.open() no longer reopen the underlying file. Objects returned by ZipFile.open() can now operate independently of the ZipFile even if the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first argument to the constructor.
bpo-22966: Fix __pycache__ pyc file name clobber when pyc_compile is asked to compile a source file containing multiple dots in the source file name.
bpo-21971: Update turtledemo doc and add module to the index.
bpo-21032: Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails. Original patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22407: Deprecated the use of re.LOCALE flag with str patterns or re.ASCII. It was newer worked.
bpo-22902: The “ip” command is now used on Linux to determine MAC address in uuid.getnode(). Pach by Bruno Cauet.
bpo-22960: Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy constructor.
bpo-22389: Add contextlib.redirect_stderr().
bpo-21356: Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The availability of the function is checked during the compilation. Patch written by Bernard Spil.
bpo-22915: SAX parser now supports files opened with file descriptor or bytes path.
bpo-22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the collections module now accept the self keyword argument.
bpo-22940: Add readline.append_history_file.
bpo-19676: Added the “namereplace” error handler.
bpo-22788: Add context parameter to logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.
bpo-22921: Allow SSLContext to take the hostname parameter even if OpenSSL doesn’t support SNI.
bpo-22894: TestCase.subTest() would cause the test suite to be stopped when in failfast mode, even in the absence of failures.
bpo-22796: HTTP cookie parsing is now stricter, in order to protect against potential injection attacks.
bpo-22370: Windows detection in pathlib is now more robust.
bpo-22841: Reject coroutines in asyncio add_signal_handler(). Patch by Ludovic.Gasc.
bpo-19494: Added urllib.request.HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler. Patch by Matej Cepl.
bpo-22578: Added attributes to the re.error class.
bpo-22849: Fix possible double free in the io.TextIOWrapper constructor.
bpo-12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular expressions.
bpo-22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian platforms.
bpo-21650: Add an
--sort-keys
option tojson.tool
CLI.bpo-22824: Updated reprlib output format for sets to use set literals. Patch contributed by Berker Peksag.
bpo-22824: Updated reprlib output format for arrays to display empty arrays without an unnecessary empty list. Suggested by Serhiy Storchaka.
bpo-22406: Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x. Based on patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-17293: uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using netstat. Based on patch by Aivars Kalvāns.
bpo-22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments.
bpo-22417: Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476).
bpo-22775: Fixed unpickling of http.cookies.SimpleCookie with protocol 2 and above. Patch by Tim Graham.
bpo-22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in SysLogHandler.emit().
bpo-22665: Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to shutil.__all__.
bpo-6623: Remove deprecated Netrc class in the ftplib module. Patch by Matt Chaput.
bpo-17381: Fixed handling of case-insensitive ranges in regular expressions.
bpo-22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale.
bpo-22759: Query methods on pathlib.Path() (exists(), is_dir(), etc.) now return False when the underlying stat call raises NotADirectoryError.
bpo-8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking doesn’t work. This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox shared folders.
bpo-22217: Implemented reprs of classes in the zipfile module.
bpo-22457: Honour load_tests in the start_dir of discovery.
bpo-18216: gettext now raises an error when a .mo file has an unsupported major version number. Patch by Aaron Hill.
bpo-13918: Provide a locale.delocalize() function which can remove locale-specific number formatting from a string representing a number, without then converting it to a specific type. Patch by Cédric Krier.
bpo-22676: Make the pickling of global objects which don’t have a __module__ attribute less slow.
bpo-18853: Fixed ResourceWarning in shlex.__nain__.
bpo-9351: Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser are no longer ignored when also set on the parent parser.
bpo-7559: unittest test loading ImportErrors are reported as import errors with their import exception rather than as attribute errors after the import has already failed.
bpo-19746: Make it possible to examine the errors from unittest discovery without executing the test suite. The new
errors
attribute onTestLoader
exposes these non-fatal errors encountered during discovery.bpo-21991: Make email.headerregistry’s header ‘params’ attributes be read-only (MappingProxyType). Previously the dictionary was modifiable but a new one was created on each access of the attribute.
bpo-22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library. It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually.
bpo-22641: In asyncio, the default SSL context for client connections is now created using ssl.create_default_context(), for stronger security.
bpo-17401: Include closefd in io.FileIO repr.
bpo-21338: Add silent mode for compileall. quiet parameters of compile_{dir, file, path} functions now have a multilevel value. Also, -q option of the CLI now have a multilevel value. Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
bpo-20152: Convert the array and cmath modules to Argument Clinic.
bpo-18643: Add socket.socketpair() on Windows.
bpo-22435: Fix a file descriptor leak when socketserver bind fails.
bpo-13096: Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large values.
bpo-11694: Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński and Claudiu Popa.
bpo-19380: Optimized parsing of regular expressions.
bpo-1519638: Now unmatched groups are replaced with empty strings in re.sub() and re.subn().
bpo-18615: sndhdr.what/whathdr now return a namedtuple.
bpo-22462: Fix pyexpat’s creation of a dummy frame to make it appear in exception tracebacks.
bpo-21965: Add support for in-memory SSL to the ssl module. Patch by Geert Jansen.
bpo-21173: Fix len() on a WeakKeyDictionary when .clear() was called with an iterator alive.
bpo-11866: Eliminated race condition in the computation of names for new threads.
bpo-21905: Avoid RuntimeError in pickle.whichmodule() when sys.modules is mutated while iterating. Patch by Olivier Grisel.
bpo-11271: concurrent.futures.Executor.map() now takes a chunksize argument to allow batching of tasks in child processes and improve performance of ProcessPoolExecutor. Patch by Dan O’Reilly.
bpo-21883: os.path.join() and os.path.relpath() now raise a TypeError with more helpful error message for unsupported or mismatched types of arguments.
bpo-22219: The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file.
bpo-22449: In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the environmental variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows.
bpo-22508: The email.__version__ variable has been removed; the email code is no longer shipped separately from the stdlib, and __version__ hasn’t been updated in several releases.
bpo-20076: Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table.
bpo-20079: Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table.
bpo-20218: Added convenience methods read_text/write_text and read_bytes/ write_bytes to pathlib.Path objects.
bpo-22396: On 32-bit AIX platform, don’t expose os.posix_fadvise() nor os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers are wrong.
bpo-22517: When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its weakrefs.
bpo-22437: Number of capturing groups in regular expression is no longer limited by 100.
bpo-17442: InteractiveInterpreter now displays the full chained traceback in its showtraceback method, to match the built in interactive interpreter.
bpo-23392: Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*.
bpo-10510: distutils register and upload methods now use HTML standards compliant CRLF line endings.
bpo-9850: Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component. Patch by Oleg Oshmyan.
bpo-5309: distutils’ build and build_ext commands now accept a
-j
option to enable parallel building of extension modules.bpo-22448: Improve canceled timer handles cleanup to prevent unbound memory usage. Patch by Joshua Moore-Oliva.
bpo-22427: TemporaryDirectory no longer attempts to clean up twice when used in the with statement in generator.
bpo-22362: Forbidden ambiguous octal escapes out of range 0-0o377 in regular expressions.
bpo-20912: Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and MS-DOS directory attributes.
bpo-21866: ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central directory records if allowZip64 is false.
bpo-22278: Fix urljoin problem with relative urls, a regression observed after changes to issue22118 were submitted.
bpo-22415: Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in the re module. Removed trailing spaces in debugging output.
bpo-22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled AttributeError when sys.stderr is None.
bpo-21332: Ensure that
bufsize=1
in subprocess.Popen() selects line buffering, rather than block buffering. Patch by Akira Li.bpo-21091: Fix API bug: email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment is now a method.
bpo-21079: Fix email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment to return the correct result when the header has parameters as well as a value.
bpo-22247: Add NNTPError to nntplib.__all__.
bpo-22366: urllib.request.urlopen will accept a context object (SSLContext) as an argument which will then be used for HTTPS connection. Patch by Alex Gaynor.
bpo-4180: The warnings registries are now reset when the filters are modified.
bpo-22419: Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to 65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch contributed by Devin Cook.
Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined with non-standard cookie handling in some web browsers. Reported by Sergey Bobrov.
bpo-20537: logging methods now accept an exception instance as well as a Boolean value or exception tuple. Thanks to Yury Selivanov for the patch.
bpo-22384: An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the program when it is run with pythonw.exe.
bpo-22168: Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas on OS X.
bpo-21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null character instead of truncating it. Based on patch by Victor Stinner.
bpo-13968: The glob module now supports recursive search in subdirectories using the
**
pattern.bpo-21951: Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with empty string or tuple argument.
bpo-21951: Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash if the memory allocation fails.
bpo-22338: Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation failure.
bpo-12410: imaplib.IMAP4 now supports the context management protocol. Original patch by Tarek Ziadé.
bpo-21270: We now override tuple methods in mock.call objects so that they can be used as normal call attributes.
bpo-16662:
load_tests()
is now unconditionally run when it is present in a package’s__init__.py
.TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule()
still accepts use_load_tests, but it is deprecated and ignored. A new keyword-only attributepattern
is added and documented. Patch given by Robert Collins, tweaked by Barry Warsaw.bpo-22226: First letter no longer is stripped from the “status” key in the result of Treeview.heading().
bpo-19524: Fixed resource leak in the HTTP connection when an invalid response is received. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-20421: Add a .version() method to SSL sockets exposing the actual protocol version in use.
bpo-19546: configparser exceptions no longer expose implementation details. Chained KeyErrors are removed, which leads to cleaner tracebacks. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-22051: turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them. Initialization of variables and gui setup should be done in main(), which is called each time a demo is run, but not on import.
bpo-21933: Turtledemo users can change the code font size with a menu selection or control(command) ‘-’ or ‘+’ or control-mousewheel. Original patch by Lita Cho.
bpo-21597: The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the drawing canvas can now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse. The code text pane can be widened to easily view or copy the full width of the text. The canvas can be widened on small screens. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
bpo-18132: Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window is shrunk. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.
bpo-22043: time.monotonic() is now always available.
threading.Lock.acquire()
,threading.RLock.acquire()
and socket operations now use a monotonic clock, instead of the system clock, when a timeout is used.bpo-21527: Add a default number of workers to ThreadPoolExecutor equal to 5 times the number of CPUs. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-22216: smtplib now resets its state more completely after a quit. The most obvious consequence of the previous behavior was a STARTTLS failure during a connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls sequence.
bpo-22098: ctypes’ BigEndianStructure and LittleEndianStructure now define an empty __slots__ so that subclasses don’t always get an instance dict. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-22185: Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait() caused by mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock. Patch by Doug Zongker.
bpo-22287: On UNIX, _PyTime_gettimeofday() now uses clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) if available. As a side effect, Python now depends on the librt library on Solaris and on Linux (only with glibc older than 2.17).
bpo-22182: Use e.args to unpack exceptions correctly in distutils.file_util.move_file. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
The webbrowser module now uses subprocess’s start_new_session=True rather than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call.
bpo-22042: signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd) now raises an exception if the file descriptor is in blocking mode.
bpo-16808: inspect.stack() now returns a named tuple instead of a tuple. Patch by Daniel Shahaf.
bpo-22236: Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode.
bpo-2527: Add a globals argument to timeit functions, in order to override the globals namespace in which the timed code is executed. Patch by Ben Roberts.
bpo-22118: Switch urllib.parse to use RFC 3986 semantics for the resolution of relative URLs, rather than RFCs 1808 and 2396. Patch by Demian Brecht.
bpo-21549: Added the “members” parameter to TarFile.list().
bpo-19628: Allow compileall recursion depth to be specified with a -r option.
bpo-15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows.
bpo-22068: Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter.
bpo-22165: SimpleHTTPRequestHandler now supports undecodable file names.
bpo-15381: Optimized line reading in io.BytesIO.
bpo-8797: Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately. Initial patch by Sam Bull.
bpo-20729: Restored the use of lazy iterkeys()/itervalues()/iteritems() in the mailbox module.
bpo-21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(n2) behavior when parsing long line. Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.
bpo-22184: The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier and clearer error message when the user forgets the required parameters.
bpo-17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on AIX. Based on patch by Delhallt.
bpo-21725: Added support for RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8) in smtpd.
bpo-22176: Update the ctypes module’s libffi to v3.1. This release adds support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian architectures.
bpo-5411: Added support for the “xztar” format in the shutil module.
bpo-21121: Don’t force 3rd party C extensions to be built with -Werror=declaration-after-statement.
bpo-21975: Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row). sqlite3.Row is now initialized in the __new__() method.
bpo-20170: Convert posixmodule to use Argument Clinic.
bpo-21539: Add an exists_ok argument to
Pathlib.mkdir()
to mimicmkdir -p
andos.makedirs()
functionality. When true, ignoreFileExistsErrors
. Patch by Berker Peksag.bpo-22127: Bypass IDNA for pure-ASCII host names in the socket module (in particular for numeric IPs).
bpo-21047: set the default value for the convert_charrefs argument of HTMLParser to True. Patch by Berker Peksag.
Add an __all__ to html.entities.
bpo-15114: the strict mode and argument of HTMLParser, HTMLParser.error, and the HTMLParserError exception have been removed.
bpo-22085: Dropped support of Tk 8.3 in Tkinter.
bpo-21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to Tk. In particular this allows initializing images from binary data.
bpo-22003: When initialized from a bytes object, io.BytesIO() now defers making a copy until it is mutated, improving performance and memory use on some use cases. Patch by David Wilson.
bpo-22018: On Windows, signal.set_wakeup_fd() now also supports sockets. A side effect is that Python depends to the WinSock library.
bpo-22054: Add os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions to get and set the blocking mode of a file descriptor (False if the O_NONBLOCK flag is set, True otherwise). These functions are not available on Windows.
bpo-17172: Make turtledemo start as active on OS X even when run with subprocess. Patch by Lita Cho.
bpo-21704: Fix build error for _multiprocessing when semaphores are not available. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
bpo-20173: Convert sha1, sha256, sha512 and md5 to ArgumentClinic. Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don’t fail with OverflowError on closed socket. repr(socket.socket) already works fine.
bpo-22033: Reprs of most Python implemented classes now contain actual class name instead of hardcoded one.
bpo-21947: The dis module can now disassemble generator-iterator objects based on their gi_code attribute. Patch by Clement Rouault.
bpo-16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores BlockingIOError exceptions.
bpo-22044: Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method. Patch by Tom Flanagan.
bpo-19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not a terminal to not write the ANSI sequence
"\033[1034h"
into stdout. This sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color”) to enable support of 8 bit characters.bpo-4350: Removed a number of out-of-dated and non-working for a long time Tkinter methods.
bpo-6167: Scrollbar.activate() now returns the name of active element if the argument is not specified. Scrollbar.set() now always accepts only 2 arguments.
bpo-15275: Clean up and speed up the ntpath module.
bpo-21888: plistlib’s load() and loads() now work if the fmt parameter is specified.
bpo-22032: __qualname__ instead of __name__ is now always used to format fully qualified class names of Python implemented classes.
bpo-22031: Reprs now always use hexadecimal format with the “0x” prefix when contain an id in form “ at 0x…”.
bpo-22018: signal.set_wakeup_fd() now raises an OSError instead of a ValueError on
fstat()
failure.bpo-21044: tarfile.open() now handles fileobj with an integer ‘name’ attribute. Based on patch by Antoine Pietri.
bpo-21966: Respect -q command-line option when code module is ran.
bpo-19076: Don’t pass the redundant ‘file’ argument to self.error().
bpo-16382: Improve exception message of warnings.warn() for bad category. Initial patch by Phil Elson.
bpo-21932: os.read() now uses a
Py_ssize_t()
type instead of int for the size to support reading more than 2 GB at once. On Windows, the size is truncated to INT_MAX. As any call to os.read(), the OS may read less bytes than the number of requested bytes.bpo-21942: Fixed source file viewing in pydoc’s server mode on Windows.
bpo-11259: asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a ValueError if the number of received bytes is negative.
bpo-12523: asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it doesn’t get a bytes string
bpo-21707: Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code().
bpo-20639: calling Path.with_suffix(‘’) allows removing the suffix again. Patch by July Tikhonov.
bpo-21714: Disallow the construction of invalid paths using Path.with_name(). Original patch by Antony Lee.
bpo-15014: Added ‘auth’ method to smtplib to make implementing auth mechanisms simpler, and used it internally in the login method.
bpo-21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when
None
is passed as aREG_BINARY
value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman.bpo-21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before, it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed.
bpo-5800: headers parameter of wsgiref.headers.Headers is now optional. Initial patch by Pablo Torres Navarrete and SilentGhost.
bpo-21781: ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB.
bpo-21679: Prevent extraneous fstat() calls during open(). Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
bpo-21863: cProfile now displays the module name of C extension functions, in addition to their own name.
bpo-11453: asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed file_wrapper object is destroyed. The destructor now closes the file if needed. The close() method can now be called twice: the second call does nothing.
bpo-21858: Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3 module.
bpo-21476: Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is discarded after parsing, so the input file isn’t unexpectedly closed.
bpo-20295: imghdr now recognizes OpenEXR format images.
bpo-21729: Used the “with” statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure files closing. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-21491: socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.
bpo-21719: Added the
st_file_attributes
field to os.stat_result on Windows.bpo-21832: Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.
bpo-21722: The distutils “upload” command now exits with a non-zero return code when uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler.
bpo-21723: asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float) for the maximum size. Patch written by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-21711: support for “site-python” directories has now been removed from the site module (it was deprecated in 3.4).
bpo-17552: new socket.sendfile() method allowing a file to be sent over a socket by using high-performance os.sendfile() on UNIX. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-18039: dbm.dump.open() now always creates a new database when the flag has the value ‘n’. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-21326: Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop. run_forever() and run_until_complete() methods of asyncio.BaseEventLoop now raise an exception if the event loop was closed.
bpo-21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths before checking for a CGI script at that path.
bpo-21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
bpo-21256: Printout of keyword args should be in deterministic order in a mock function call. This will help to write better doctests.
bpo-21677: Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close() methods.
bpo-11709: Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a valid file.
bpo-21515: tempfile.TemporaryFile now uses os.O_TMPFILE flag is available.
bpo-13223: Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods that use ‘self’ in the example code is generated correctly.
bpo-21463: In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache.
bpo-21618: The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that were inherited by the calling process and already higher than POSIX resource limits would otherwise allow. On systems with a functioning /proc/self/fd or /dev/fd interface the max is now ignored and all fds are closed.
bpo-20383: Introduce importlib.util.module_from_spec() as the preferred way to create a new module.
bpo-21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms.
bpo-14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack error bubble up as this “bad data” appears in many real world zip files in the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.
bpo-13742: Added “key” and “reverse” parameters to heapq.merge(). (First draft of patch contributed by Simon Sapin.)
bpo-21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.
bpo-3015:
_tkinter.create()
now createstkapp
object withwantobjects=1
by default.bpo-10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particular it supports reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-18807: If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than symlinking.
bpo-20197: Added support for the WebP image type in the imghdr module. Patch by Fabrice Aneche and Claudiu Popa.
bpo-21513: Speedup some properties of IP addresses (IPv4Address, IPv6Address) such as .is_private or .is_multicast.
bpo-21137: Improve the repr for threading.Lock() and its variants by showing the “locked” or “unlocked” status. Patch by Berker Peksag.
bpo-21538: The plistlib module now supports loading of binary plist files when reference or offset size is not a power of two.
bpo-21455: Add a default backlog to socket.listen().
bpo-21525: Most Tkinter methods which accepted tuples now accept lists too.
bpo-22166: With the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec helping function, test_codecs now clears the encoding caches to avoid the appearance of a reference leak
bpo-22236: Tkinter tests now don’t reuse default root window. New root window is created for every test class.
bpo-10744: Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial shape.
bpo-20826: Optimize ipaddress.collapse_addresses().
bpo-21487: Optimize ipaddress.summarize_address_range() and ipaddress.{IPv4Network,IPv6Network}.subnets().
bpo-21486: Optimize parsing of netmasks in ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network.
bpo-13916: Disallowed the surrogatepass error handler for non UTF-* encodings.
bpo-20998: Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character pattern with ignore case. Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
bpo-21075: fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if binary mode is specified. Patch by Sam Kimbrel.
bpo-19775: Add a samefile() method to pathlib Path objects. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-21226: Set up modules properly in PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject (and friends).
bpo-21398: Fix a unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.
bpo-16531: ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network now accept an (address, netmask) tuple argument, so as to easily construct network objects from existing addresses.
bpo-21156: importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() is now a staticmethod.
bpo-21424: Simplified and optimized heaqp.nlargest() and nmsmallest() to make fewer tuple comparisons.
bpo-21396: Fix TextIOWrapper(…, write_through=True) to not force a flush() on the underlying binary stream. Patch by akira.
bpo-18314: Unlink now removes junctions on Windows. Patch by Kim Gräsman
bpo-21088: Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0. In porting to Argument Clinic, the first two arguments were reversed.
bpo-21407: _decimal: The module now supports function signatures.
bpo-10650: Remove the non-standard ‘watchexp’ parameter from the Decimal.quantize() method in the Python version. It had never been present in the C version.
bpo-21469: Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist prior to returning True in can_fetch().
bpo-19414: Have the OrderedDict mark deleted links as unusable. This gives an early failure if the link is deleted during iteration.
bpo-21421: Add __slots__ to the MappingViews ABC. Patch by Josh Rosenberg.
bpo-21101: Eliminate double hashing in the C speed-up code for collections.Counter().
bpo-21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source iterator when the slice is exhausted. Patch by Anton Afanasyev.
bpo-21057: TextIOWrapper now allows the underlying binary stream’s read() or read1() method to return an arbitrary bytes-like object (such as a memoryview). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-20951: SSLSocket.send() now raises either SSLWantReadError or SSLWantWriteError on a non-blocking socket if the operation would block. Previously, it would return 0. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
bpo-13248: removed previously deprecated asyncore.dispatcher __getattr__ cheap inheritance hack.
bpo-9815: assertRaises now tries to clear references to local variables in the exception’s traceback.
bpo-19940: ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() now interprets the given time string in the UTC timezone (as specified in RFC 5280), not the local timezone.
bpo-13204: Calling sys.flags.__new__ would crash the interpreter, now it raises a TypeError.
bpo-19385: Make operations on a closed dbm.dumb database always raise the same exception.
bpo-21207: Detect when the os.urandom cached fd has been closed or replaced, and open it anew.
bpo-21291: subprocess’s Popen.wait() is now thread safe so that multiple threads may be calling wait() or poll() on a Popen instance at the same time without losing the Popen.returncode value.
bpo-21127: Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass instances (such as
numpy.str_
).bpo-15002: urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper (and _TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle file descriptor close. Patch contributed by Christian Theune.
bpo-12220: mindom now raises a custom ValueError indicating it doesn’t support spaces in URIs instead of letting a ‘split’ ValueError bubble up.
bpo-21068: The ssl.PROTOCOL* constants are now enum members.
bpo-21276: posixmodule: Don’t define USE_XATTRS on KFreeBSD and the Hurd.
bpo-21262: New method assert_not_called for Mock. It raises AssertionError if the mock has been called.
bpo-21238: New keyword argument
unsafe
to Mock. It raisesAttributeError
incase of an attribute startswith assert or assret.bpo-20896: ssl.get_server_certificate() now uses PROTOCOL_SSLv23, not PROTOCOL_SSLv3, for maximum compatibility.
bpo-21239: patch.stopall() didn’t work deterministically when the same name was patched more than once.
bpo-21203: Updated fileConfig and dictConfig to remove inconsistencies. Thanks to Jure Koren for the patch.
bpo-21222: Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec now works.
bpo-21197: Add lib64 -> lib symlink in venvs on 64-bit non-OS X POSIX.
bpo-17498: Some SMTP servers disconnect after certain errors, violating strict RFC conformance. Instead of losing the error code when we issue the subsequent RSET, smtplib now returns the error code and defers raising the SMTPServerDisconnected error until the next command is issued.
bpo-17826: setting an iterable side_effect on a mock function created by create_autospec now works. Patch by Kushal Das.
bpo-7776: Fix
Host:
header and reconnection when using http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.bpo-20968: unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division. Patch by Johannes Baiter.
bpo-21529: Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken. (See also: CVE 2014-4616)
bpo-21169: getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the input stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the replace error handler.
bpo-21171: Fixed undocumented filter API of the rot13 codec. Patch by Berker Peksag.
bpo-20539: Improved math.factorial error message for large positive inputs and changed exception type (OverflowError -> ValueError) for large negative inputs.
bpo-21172: isinstance check relaxed from dict to collections.Mapping.
bpo-21155: asyncio.EventLoop.create_unix_server() now raises a ValueError if path and sock are specified at the same time.
bpo-21136: Avoid unnecessary normalization of Fractions resulting from power and other operations. Patch by Raymond Hettinger.
bpo-17621: Introduce importlib.util.LazyLoader.
bpo-21076: signal module constants were turned into enums. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-20636: Improved the repr of Tkinter widgets.
bpo-19505: The items, keys, and values views of OrderedDict now support reverse iteration using reversed().
bpo-21149: Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch.
bpo-21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in
tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
, close the file descriptor ifio.open()
failsbpo-21200: Return None from pkgutil.get_loader() when __spec__ is missing.
bpo-21013: Enhance ssl.create_default_context() when used for server side sockets to provide better security by default.
bpo-20145:
assertRaisesRegex
andassertWarnsRegex
now raise aTypeError
if the second argument is not a string or compiled regex.bpo-20633: Replace relative import by absolute import.
bpo-20980: Stop wrapping exception when using ThreadPool.
bpo-21082: In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True.
bpo-20990: Fix issues found by pyflakes for multiprocessing.
bpo-21015: SSL contexts will now automatically select an elliptic curve for ECDH key exchange on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later, and otherwise default to “prime256v1”.
bpo-21000: Improve the command-line interface of json.tool.
bpo-20995: Enhance default ciphers used by the ssl module to enable better security and prioritize perfect forward secrecy.
bpo-20884: Don’t assume that __file__ is defined on importlib.__init__.
bpo-21499: Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api tests.
bpo-20627: xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy is now a context manager.
bpo-19165: The formatter module now raises DeprecationWarning instead of PendingDeprecationWarning.
bpo-13936: Remove the ability of datetime.time instances to be considered false in boolean contexts.
bpo-18931: selectors module now supports /dev/poll on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola’.
bpo-19977: When the
LC_TYPE
locale is the POSIX locale (C
locale),sys.stdin
andsys.stdout
are now using thesurrogateescape
error handler, instead of thestrict
error handler.bpo-20574: Implement incremental decoder for cp65001 code (Windows code page 65001, Microsoft UTF-8).
bpo-20879: Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to not waste memory if these modules are not used.
bpo-19157: Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for IPv6 in ipaddress.
bpo-11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.
bpo-4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful “error: None” messages anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated.
bpo-20875: Prevent possible gzip “‘read’ is not defined” NameError. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-11558:
email.message.Message.attach
now returns a more useful error message ifattach
is called on a message for whichis_multipart
is False.bpo-20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters as documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as deprecated aliases.
bpo-20778: Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules.
bpo-20791: copy.copy() now doesn’t make a copy when the input is a bytes object. Initial patch by Peter Otten.
bpo-19748: On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for year outsize range [1902; 2037].
bpo-19573: inspect.signature: Use enum for parameter kind constants.
bpo-20726: inspect.signature: Make Signature and Parameter picklable.
bpo-17373: Add inspect.Signature.from_callable method.
bpo-20378: Improve repr of inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter.
bpo-20816: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for missing keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
bpo-20817: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more than 3 arguments are missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
bpo-6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance. (Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d’Arc, with suggested wording by David Gutteridge)
bpo-21117: Fix inspect.signature to better support functools.partial. Due to the specifics of functools.partial implementation, positional-or-keyword arguments passed as keyword arguments become keyword-only.
bpo-20334: inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter are now hashable. Thanks to Antony Lee for bug reports and suggestions.
bpo-15916: doctest.DocTestSuite returns an empty unittest.TestSuite instead of raising ValueError if it finds no tests
bpo-21209: Fix asyncio.tasks.CoroWrapper to workaround a bug in yield-from implementation in CPythons prior to 3.4.1.
asyncio: Add gi_{frame,running,code} properties to CoroWrapper (upstream bpo-163).
bpo-21311: Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard compiler configurations. Patch by John Szakmeister.
bpo-11571: Ensure that the turtle window becomes the topmost window when launched on OS X.
bpo-21801: Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of Signature.
bpo-21923: Prevent AttributeError in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler due to possible uninitialized _config_vars.
bpo-21323: Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories, broken by the fix for security bpo-19435. Patch by Zach Byrne.
bpo-22733: Fix ffi_prep_args not zero-extending argument values correctly on 64-bit Windows.
bpo-23302: Default to TCP_NODELAY=1 upon establishing an HTTPConnection. Removed use of hard-coded MSS as it’s an optimization that’s no longer needed with Nagle disabled.
IDLE¶
bpo-20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences dialog to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog. Patch by Tal Einat.
bpo-16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new information.
bpo-3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu. Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg. Original patch by Tal Einat.
bpo-16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise, from a shell, output window, or ‘Untitled’ editor, Idle no longer displays an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened.
bpo-4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the name you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems automatically add .txt when type is Text files.
bpo-21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module. To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle.
bpo-17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove ‘Python’, move version to end.
bpo-14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear when inserting or deleting lines.
bpo-17172: Turtledemo can now be run from Idle. Currently, the entry is on the Help menu, but it may move to Run. Patch by Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho.
bpo-21765: Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser.
bpo-21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.
bpo-21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
bpo-12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.
bpo-21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is still in progress no longer closes Idle.
bpo-18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.
bpo-18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.
bpo-18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.
bpo-21477: htest.py - Improve framework, complete set of tests. Patches by Saimadhav Heblikar
bpo-18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests.
bpo-21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation.
bpo-21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width.
bpo-17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.
bpo-23180: Rename IDLE “Windows” menu item to “Window”. Patch by Al Sweigart.
Build¶
bpo-15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the configure script.
bpo-22935: Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn’t support SSL 3.
bpo-22592: Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python. The distutils module still supports it to build extensions.
bpo-22591: Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler (MS-DOS port of GCC).
bpo-16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by Jonathan Hosmer.
bpo-22359: Remove incorrect uses of recursive make. Patch by Jonas Wagner.
bpo-21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and above. Patch by Zachary Turner.
bpo-18093: the programs that embed the CPython runtime are now in a separate “Programs” directory, rather than being kept in the Modules directory.
bpo-15759: “make suspicious”, “make linkcheck” and “make doctest” in Doc/ now display special message when and only when there are failures.
bpo-21141: The Windows build process no longer attempts to find Perl, instead relying on OpenSSL source being configured and ready to build. The
PCbuild\build_ssl.py
script has been re-written and re-named toPCbuild\prepare_ssl.py
, and takes care of configuring OpenSSL source for both 32 and 64 bit platforms. OpenSSL sources obtained from svn.python.org will always be pre-configured and ready to build.bpo-21037: Add a build option to enable AddressSanitizer support.
bpo-19962: The Windows build process now creates “python.bat” in the root of the source tree, which passes all arguments through to the most recently built interpreter.
bpo-21285: Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search in a ncursesw directory.
bpo-15234: For BerkeleyDB and Sqlite, only add the found library and include directories if they aren’t already being searched. This avoids an explicit runtime library dependency.
bpo-17861: Tools/scripts/generate_opcode_h.py automatically regenerates Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the latter gets any change.
bpo-20644: OS X installer build support for documentation build changes in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin.
bpo-20022: Eliminate use of deprecated bundlebuilder in OS X builds.
bpo-15968: Incorporated Tcl, Tk, and Tix builds into the Windows build solution.
bpo-17095: Fix Modules/Setup shared support.
bpo-21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.
bpo-21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of python –generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.
bpo-18096: Fix library order returned by python-config.
bpo-17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds.
bpo-22919: Windows build updated to support VC 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015), which will be used for the official release.
bpo-21236: Build _msi.pyd with cabinet.lib instead of fci.lib
bpo-17128: Use private version of OpenSSL for OS X 10.5+ installer.
C API¶
bpo-14203: Remove obsolete support for view==NULL in PyBuffer_FillInfo(), bytearray_getbuffer(), bytesiobuf_getbuffer() and array_buffer_getbuf(). All functions now raise BufferError in that case.
bpo-22445: PyBuffer_IsContiguous() now implements precise contiguity tests, compatible with NumPy’s NPY_RELAXED_STRIDES_CHECKING compilation flag. Previously the function reported false negatives for corner cases.
bpo-22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has no dynamically allocated bases.
bpo-22453: Removed non-documented macro PyObject_REPR().
bpo-18395: Rename
_Py_char2wchar()
toPy_DecodeLocale()
, rename_Py_wchar2char()
toPy_EncodeLocale()
, and document these functions.bpo-21233: Add new C functions: PyMem_RawCalloc(), PyMem_Calloc(), PyObject_Calloc(), _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) is now using
calloc()
instead ofmalloc()
for large objects which is faster and use less memory.bpo-20942: PyImport_ImportFrozenModuleObject() no longer sets __file__ to match what importlib does; this affects _frozen_importlib as well as any module loaded using imp.init_frozen().
Documentation¶
bpo-19548: Update the codecs module documentation to better cover the distinction between text encodings and other codecs, together with other clarifications. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22394: Doc/Makefile now supports
make venv PYTHON=../python
to create a venv for generating the documentation, e.g.,make html PYTHON=venv/bin/python3
.bpo-21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC 7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.
bpo-21777: The binary sequence methods on bytes and bytearray are now documented explicitly, rather than assuming users will be able to derive the expected behaviour from the behaviour of the corresponding str methods.
bpo-6916: undocument deprecated asynchat.fifo class.
bpo-17386: Expanded functionality of the
Doc/make.bat
script to make it much more comparable toDoc/Makefile
.bpo-21312: Update the thread_foobar.h template file to include newer threading APIs. Patch by Jack McCracken.
bpo-21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to mention the ability to load the OS certificates.
bpo-20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and PurePath.with_suffix().
bpo-19407: New package installation and distribution guides based on the Python Packaging Authority tools. Existing guides have been retained as legacy links from the distutils docs, as they still contain some required reference material for tool developers that isn’t recorded anywhere else.
bpo-19697: Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None.
Tests¶
bpo-18982: Add tests for CLI of the calendar module.
bpo-19548: Added some additional checks to test_codecs to ensure that statements in the updated documentation remain accurate. Patch by Martin Panter.
bpo-22838: All test_re tests now work with unittest test discovery.
bpo-22173: Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery.
bpo-16000: Convert test_curses to use unittest.
bpo-21456: Skip two tests in test_urllib2net.py if _ssl module not present. Patch by Remi Pointel.
bpo-20746: Fix test_pdb to run in refleak mode (-R). Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
bpo-22060: test_ctypes has been somewhat cleaned up and simplified; it now uses unittest test discovery to find its tests.
bpo-22104: regrtest.py no longer holds a reference to the suite of tests loaded from test modules that don’t define test_main().
bpo-22111: Assorted cleanups in test_imaplib. Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
bpo-22002: Added
load_package_tests
function to test.support and used it to implement/augment test discovery in test_asyncio, test_email, test_importlib, test_json, and test_tools.bpo-21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings. Thanks to William Orr.
bpo-21918: Converted test_tools from a module to a package containing separate test files for each tested script.
bpo-9554: Use modern unittest features in test_argparse. Initial patch by Denver Coneybeare and Radu Voicilas.
bpo-20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine) does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.
bpo-19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly rather than silently.
bpo-18492: All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by regrtest.py.
bpo-21634: Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead of true division to benchmark integers instead of floating-point numbers. Set pystone version to 1.2. Patch written by Lennart Regebro.
bpo-21605: Added tests for Tkinter images.
bpo-21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
bpo-19925: Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
bpo-21522: Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(), PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().
bpo-17756: Fix test_code test when run from the installed location.
bpo-17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location.
bpo-18604: Consolidated checks for GUI availability. All platforms now at least check whether Tk can be instantiated when the GUI resource is requested.
bpo-21275: Fix a socket test on KFreeBSD.
bpo-21223: Pass test_site/test_startup_imports when some of the extensions are built as builtins.
bpo-20635: Added tests for Tk geometry managers.
Add test case for freeze.
bpo-20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.
bpo-21097: Move test_namespace_pkgs into test_importlib.
bpo-21503: Use test_both() consistently in test_importlib.
bpo-20939: Avoid various network test failures due to new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org: use http://www.example.com instead.
bpo-20668: asyncio tests no longer rely on tests.txt file. (Patch by Vajrasky Kok)
bpo-21093: Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a copy of libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib.
bpo-22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests.
bpo-23211: Workaround test_logging failure on some OS X 10.6 systems.
bpo-23345: Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level values (like 0.9.8zc).
Tools/Demos¶
bpo-22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set.
bpo-22615: Argument Clinic now supports the “type” argument for the int converter. This permits using the int converter with enums and typedefs.
bpo-20076: The makelocalealias.py script no longer ignores UTF-8 mapping.
bpo-20079: The makelocalealias.py script now can parse the SUPPORTED file from glibc sources and supports command line options for source paths.
bpo-22201: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly extracts ZIP files with directory entries. Patch by Ryan Wilson.
bpo-22120: For functions using an unsigned integer return converter, Argument Clinic now generates a cast to that type for the comparison to -1 in the generated code. (This suppresses a compilation warning.)
bpo-18974: Tools/scripts/diff.py now uses argparse instead of optparse.
bpo-21906: Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3. Patch by Zachary Ware.
bpo-21629: Fix Argument Clinic’s “–converters” feature.
Add support for
yield from
to 2to3.Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to 2to3.
bpo-16047: Fix module exception list and __file__ handling in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.
bpo-11824: Consider ABI tags in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.
bpo-20535: PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
Windows¶
bpo-23260: Update Windows installer
The bundled version of Tcl/Tk has been updated to 8.6.3. The most visible result of this change is the addition of new native file dialogs when running on Windows Vista or newer. See Tcl/Tk’s TIP 432 for more information. Also, this version of Tcl/Tk includes support for Windows 10.
bpo-17896: The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources to be in
PCbuild\..\externals
rather thanPCbuild\..\..
.bpo-17717: The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from svn.python.org to build OpenSSL.
bpo-21907: Improved the batch scripts provided for building Python.
bpo-22644: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1j.
bpo-10747: Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu. Patch by Olive Kilburn.
bpo-22980: .pyd files with a version and platform tag (for example, “.cp35-win32.pyd”) will now be loaded in preference to those without tags.
(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)