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changeset: 89843:b7f2b1bd49f3 user: Victor Stinner victor.stinner@gmail.com date: Tue Mar 18 08:59:30 2014 +0100 files: Misc/NEWS description: Restore removed NEWS items 3.4.1rc1 into 3.5.0alpha1 sections diff -r b31441753abc -r b7f2b1bd49f3 Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS Tue Mar 18 07:47:35 2014 +0100 +++ b/Misc/NEWS Tue Mar 18 08:59:30 2014 +0100 @@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #20929: Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number. + +- Issue #20731: Properly position in source code files even if they + are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of + subclasses. Patch by Peter Ingebretson. + Library ------- @@ -25,6 +33,58 @@ initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to not waste memory if these modules are not used. +- Issue #19157: Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for IPv6 + in ipaddress. + +- Issue #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. + +- Issue #4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages + anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated. + +- Issue #20875: Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined" NameError. + Patch by Claudiu Popa. + +- Issue #11558: ``email.message.Message.attach`` now returns a more + useful error message if ``attach`` is called on a message for which + ``is_multipart`` is False. + +- Issue #20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters + as documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as + deprecated aliases. + +- Issue #20778: Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules. + +- Issue #20791: copy.copy() now doesn't make a copy when the input is + a bytes object. Initial patch by Peter Otten. + +- Issue #19748: On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for year + outsize range [1902; 2037]. + +Documentation +------------- + +- Issue #20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and + PurePath.with_suffix(). + +- Issue #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. + +Tests +----- + +- Issue #20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl. + +Tools/Demos +----------- + +- Issue #20535: PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script. + Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis. + What's New in Python 3.4.0? =========================== /victor.stinner@gmail.com