[Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0a2 (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon Sep 9 16:54:22 CEST 2013

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:45:51 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Le Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:30:50 +0200, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> a écrit : > 2013/9/9 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>: > > Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, > > including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. Major new > > features and changes in the 3.4 release series so far include: > > > > * PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default > > in subprocesses > > The title of the PEP is "Make newly created file descriptors > non-inheritable". It has an impact on all functions creating files and > sockets not only the subprocess module.

I don't think Larry's description is wrong. "Non-inheritable" is a shorthand for "non-inheritable in subprocesses" with "subprocesses" taken in the general sense (i.e. not only created with the subprocess module).

Not wrong, but definitely confusing. It is worth clarifying somehow that this does not apply only to the subprocess module, which is what a naive (or fast) reader will assume.

--David

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