Merge tag 'v3.9.0a1'

573 files changed, 6113 insertions, 1382 deletions

diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index ad5599462a..7dd3dd1a41 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        9
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION        0
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.9.0a0"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.9.0a1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index d3559e445a..c3fe079894 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Jun  4 19:40:37 2019
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Nov 19 11:42:25 2019
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -744,10 +744,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'returned.\n'
                      '\n'
                      'The "__dir__" function should accept no arguments, and '
-                     'return a list\n'
-                     'of strings that represents the names accessible on '
-                     'module. If present,\n'
-                     'this function overrides the standard "dir()" search on a '
+                     'return a\n'
+                     'sequence of strings that represents the names accessible '
+                     'on module. If\n'
+                     'present, this function overrides the standard "dir()" '
+                     'search on a\n'
                      'module.\n'
                      '\n'
                      'For a more fine grained customization of the module '
@@ -808,21 +809,34 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'whose name is\n'
                      'the key of the property in the owner class’ "__dict__".\n'
                      '\n'
-                     'object.__get__(self, instance, owner)\n'
+                     'object.__get__(self, instance, owner=None)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Called to get the attribute of the owner class (class '
                      'attribute\n'
                      '   access) or of an instance of that class (instance '
                      'attribute\n'
-                     '   access). *owner* is always the owner class, while '
-                     '*instance* is the\n'
-                     '   instance that the attribute was accessed through, or '
-                     '"None" when\n'
-                     '   the attribute is accessed through the *owner*.  This '
-                     'method should\n'
-                     '   return the (computed) attribute value or raise an '
-                     '"AttributeError"\n'
-                     '   exception.\n'
+                     '   access). The optional *owner* argument is the owner '
+                     'class, while\n'
+                     '   *instance* is the instance that the attribute was '
+                     'accessed through,\n'
+                     '   or "None" when the attribute is accessed through the '
+                     '*owner*.\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '   This method should return the computed attribute '
+                     'value or raise an\n'
+                     '   "AttributeError" exception.\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '   **PEP 252** specifies that "__get__()" is callable '
+                     'with one or two\n'
+                     '   arguments.  Python’s own built-in descriptors support '
+                     'this\n'
+                     '   specification; however, it is likely that some '
+                     'third-party tools\n'
+                     '   have descriptors that require both arguments.  '
+                     'Python’s own\n'
+                     '   "__getattribute__()" implementation always passes in '
+                     'both arguments\n'
+                     '   whether they are required or not.\n'
                      '\n'
                      'object.__set__(self, instance, value)\n'
                      '\n'
@@ -830,6 +844,12 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'of the owner\n'
                      '   class to a new value, *value*.\n'
                      '\n'
+                     '   Note, adding "__set__()" or "__delete__()" changes '
+                     'the kind of\n'
+                     '   descriptor to a “data descriptor”.  See Invoking '
+                     'Descriptors for\n'
+                     '   more details.\n'
+                     '\n'
                      'object.__delete__(self, instance)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Called to delete the attribute on an instance '
@@ -938,12 +958,13 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'define both\n'
                      '"__get__()" and "__set__()", while non-data descriptors '
                      'have just the\n'
-                     '"__get__()" method.  Data descriptors with "__set__()" '
-                     'and "__get__()"\n'
-                     'defined always override a redefinition in an instance '
-                     'dictionary.  In\n'
-                     'contrast, non-data descriptors can be overridden by '
-                     'instances.\n'
+                     '"__get__()" method.  Data descriptors with "__get__()" '
+                     'and "__set__()"\n'
+                     '(and/or "__delete__()") defined always override a '
+                     'redefinition in an\n'
+                     'instance dictionary.  In contrast, non-data descriptors '
+                     'can be\n'
+                     'overridden by instances.\n'
                      '\n'
                      'Python methods (including "staticmethod()" and '
                      '"classmethod()") are\n'
@@ -1070,7 +1091,13 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'attributes created by\n'
                      '  slots (the other bases must have empty slot layouts) - '
                      'violations\n'
-                     '  raise "TypeError".\n',
+                     '  raise "TypeError".\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '* If an iterator is used for *__slots__* then a '
+                     'descriptor is\n'
+                     '  created for each of the iterator’s values. However, '
+                     'the *__slots__*\n'
+                     '  attribute will be an empty iterator.\n',
  'attribute-references': 'Attribute references\n'
                          '********************\n'
                          '\n'
@@ -1829,6 +1856,12 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                 'all false.\n'
                 '  This behavior is compliant with IEEE 754.\n'
                 '\n'
+                '* "None" and "NotImplemented" are singletons.  **PEP 8** '
+                'advises\n'
+                '  that comparisons for singletons should always be done with '
+                '"is" or\n'
+                '  "is not", never the equality operators.\n'
+                '\n'
                 '* Binary sequences (instances of "bytes" or "bytearray") can '
                 'be\n'
                 '  compared within and across their types.  They compare\n'
@@ -1854,38 +1887,13 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                 '  these types raises "TypeError".\n'
                 '\n'
                 '  Sequences compare lexicographically using comparison of\n'
-                '  corresponding elements, whereby reflexivity of the elements '
-                'is\n'
-                '  enforced.\n'
-                '\n'
-                '  In enforcing reflexivity of elements, the comparison of '
-                'collections\n'
-                '  assumes that for a collection element "x", "x == x" is '
-                'always true.\n'
-                '  Based on that assumption, element identity is compared '
-                'first, and\n'
-                '  element comparison is performed only for distinct '
-                'elements.  This\n'
-                '  approach yields the same result as a strict element '
-                'comparison\n'
-                '  would, if the compared elements are reflexive.  For '
-                'non-reflexive\n'
-                '  elements, the result is different than for strict element\n'
-                '  comparison, and may be surprising:  The non-reflexive '
-                'not-a-number\n'
-                '  values for example result in the following comparison '
-                'behavior when\n'
-                '  used in a list:\n'
-                '\n'
-                "     >>> nan = float('NaN')\n"
-                '     >>> nan is nan\n'
-                '     True\n'
-                '     >>> nan == nan\n'
-                '     False                 <-- the defined non-reflexive '
-                'behavior of NaN\n'
-                '     >>> [nan] == [nan]\n'
-                '     True                  <-- list enforces reflexivity and '
-                'tests identity first\n'
+                '  corresponding elements.  The built-in containers typically '
+                'assume\n'
+                '  identical objects are equal to themselves.  That lets them '
+                'bypass\n'
+                '  equality tests for identical objects to improve performance '
+                'and to\n'
+                '  maintain their internal invariants.\n'
                 '\n'
                 '  Lexicographical comparison between built-in collections '
                 'works as\n'
@@ -3126,13 +3134,15 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'returning\n'
                   '   it.\n'
                   '\n'
-                  '   If "__new__()" returns an instance of *cls*, then the '
-                  'new\n'
-                  '   instance’s "__init__()" method will be invoked like\n'
-                  '   "__init__(self[, ...])", where *self* is the new '
-                  'instance and the\n'
-                  '   remaining arguments are the same as were passed to '
-                  '"__new__()".\n'
+                  '   If "__new__()" is invoked during object construction and '
+                  'it returns\n'
+                  '   an instance or subclass of *cls*, then the new '
+                  'instance’s\n'
+                  '   "__init__()" method will be invoked like '
+                  '"__init__(self[, ...])",\n'
+                  '   where *self* is the new instance and the remaining '
+                  'arguments are\n'
+                  '   the same as were passed to the object constructor.\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   If "__new__()" does not return an instance of *cls*, '
                   'then the new\n'
@@ -3500,10 +3510,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '   hashable by an "isinstance(obj, '
                   'collections.abc.Hashable)" call.\n'
                   '\n'
-                  '   Note: By default, the "__hash__()" values of str, bytes '
-                  'and\n'
-                  '     datetime objects are “salted” with an unpredictable '
-                  'random value.\n'
+                  '   Note: By default, the "__hash__()" values of str and '
+                  'bytes\n'
+                  '     objects are “salted” with an unpredictable random '
+                  'value.\n'
                   '     Although they remain constant within an individual '
                   'Python\n'
                   '     process, they are not predictable between repeated '
@@ -3758,6 +3768,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '\n'
              "      import pdb; pdb.Pdb(skip=['django.*']).set_trace()\n"
              '\n'
+             '   Raises an auditing event "pdb.Pdb" with no arguments.\n'
+             '\n'
              '   New in version 3.1: The *skip* argument.\n'
              '\n'
              '   New in version 3.2: The *nosigint* argument.  Previously, a '
@@ -4289,7 +4301,14 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
          'section The standard type hierarchy.  (To summarize, the key type\n'
          'should be *hashable*, which excludes all mutable objects.)  Clashes\n'
          'between duplicate keys are not detected; the last datum (textually\n'
-         'rightmost in the display) stored for a given key value prevails.\n',
+         'rightmost in the display) stored for a given key value prevails.\n'
+         '\n'
+         'Changed in version 3.8: Prior to Python 3.8, in dict '
+         'comprehensions,\n'
+         'the evaluation order of key and value was not well-defined.  In\n'
+         'CPython, the value was evaluated before the key.  Starting with '
+         '3.8,\n'
+         'the key is evaluated before the value, as proposed by **PEP 572**.\n',
  'dynamic-features': 'Interaction with dynamic features\n'
                      '*********************************\n'
                      '\n'
@@ -4430,9 +4449,13 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
               '(a\n'
               'command specified on the interpreter command line with the '
               '"-c"\n'
-              'option) is a code block.  The string argument passed to the '
-              'built-in\n'
-              'functions "eval()" and "exec()" is a code block.\n'
+              'option) is a code block. A module run as a top level script (as '
+              'module\n'
+              '"__main__") from the command line using a "-m" argument is also '
+              'a code\n'
+              'block. The string argument passed to the built-in functions '
+              '"eval()"\n'
+              'and "exec()" is a code block.\n'
               '\n'
               'A code block is executed in an *execution frame*.  A frame '
               'contains\n'
@@ -5090,7 +5113,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'Meaning                                                    '
                   '|\n'
                   '   '
-                  '+===========+============================================================+\n'
+                  '|===========|============================================================|\n'
                   '   | "\'<\'"     | Forces the field to be left-aligned '
                   'within the available   |\n'
                   '   |           | space (this is the default for most '
@@ -5139,7 +5162,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'Meaning                                                    '
                   '|\n'
                   '   '
-                  '+===========+============================================================+\n'
+                  '|===========|============================================================|\n'
                   '   | "\'+\'"     | indicates that a sign should be used for '
                   'both positive as  |\n'
                   '   |           | well as negative '
@@ -5243,7 +5266,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'Meaning                                                    '
                   '|\n'
                   '   '
-                  '+===========+============================================================+\n'
+                  '|===========|============================================================|\n'
                   '   | "\'s\'"     | String format. This is the default type '
                   'for strings and    |\n'
                   '   |           | may be '
@@ -5263,7 +5286,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'Meaning                                                    '
                   '|\n'
                   '   '
-                  '+===========+============================================================+\n'
+                  '|===========|============================================================|\n'
                   '   | "\'b\'"     | Binary format. Outputs the number in '
                   'base 2.               |\n'
                   '   '
@@ -5325,7 +5348,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'Meaning                                                    '
                   '|\n'
                   '   '
-                  '+===========+============================================================+\n'
+                  '|===========|============================================================|\n'
                   '   | "\'e\'"     | Exponent notation. Prints the number in '
                   'scientific         |\n'
                   '   |           | notation using the letter ‘e’ to indicate '
@@ -5364,30 +5387,34 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   'the result      |\n'
                   '   |           | formatted with presentation type "\'e\'" '
                   'and precision "p-1" |\n'
-                  '   |           | would have exponent "exp".  Then if "-4 <= '
-                  'exp < p", the   |\n'
-                  '   |           | number is formatted with presentation type '
-                  '"\'f\'" and       |\n'
-                  '   |           | precision "p-1-exp".  Otherwise, the '
-                  'number is formatted   |\n'
-                  '   |           | with presentation type "\'e\'" and '
-                  'precision "p-1". In both  |\n'
-                  '   |           | cases insignificant trailing zeros are '
-                  'removed from the    |\n'
+                  '   |           | would have exponent "exp".  Then, if "m <= '
+                  'exp < p", where |\n'
+                  '   |           | "m" is -4 for floats and -6 for '
+                  '"Decimals", the number is  |\n'
+                  '   |           | formatted with presentation type "\'f\'" '
+                  'and precision       |\n'
+                  '   |           | "p-1-exp".  Otherwise, the number is '
+                  'formatted with        |\n'
+                  '   |           | presentation type "\'e\'" and precision '
+                  '"p-1". In both cases |\n'
+                  '   |           | insignificant trailing zeros are removed '
+                  'from the          |\n'
                   '   |           | significand, and the decimal point is also '
                   'removed if      |\n'
                   '   |           | there are no remaining digits following '
-                  'it.  Positive and  |\n'
-                  '   |           | negative infinity, positive and negative '
-                  'zero, and nans,   |\n'
-                  '   |           | are formatted as "inf", "-inf", "0", "-0" '
-                  'and "nan"        |\n'
-                  '   |           | respectively, regardless of the '
-                  'precision.  A precision of |\n'
-                  '   |           | "0" is treated as equivalent to a '
-                  'precision of "1". The    |\n'
-                  '   |           | default precision is '
-                  '"6".                                  |\n'
+                  'it, unless the     |\n'
+                  '   |           | "\'#\'" option is used.  Positive and '
+                  'negative infinity,     |\n'
+                  '   |           | positive and negative zero, and nans, are '
+                  'formatted as     |\n'
+                  '   |           | "inf", "-inf", "0", "-0" and "nan" '
+                  'respectively,           |\n'
+                  '   |           | regardless of the precision.  A precision '
+                  'of "0" is        |\n'
+                  '   |           | treated as equivalent to a precision of '
+                  '"1". The default   |\n'
+                  '   |           | precision is '
+                  '"6".                                          |\n'
                   '   '
                   '+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
                   '   | "\'G\'"     | General format. Same as "\'g\'" except '
@@ -6212,6 +6239,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            'that\n'
            'determine dynamically the modules to be loaded.\n'
            '\n'
+           'Raises an auditing event "import" with arguments "module", '
+           '"filename",\n'
+           '"sys.path", "sys.meta_path", "sys.path_hooks".\n'
+           '\n'
            '\n'
            'Future statements\n'
            '=================\n'
@@ -7036,7 +7067,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      '+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+\n'
                      '| Operator                                        | '
                      'Description                           |\n'
-                     '+=================================================+=======================================+\n'
+                     '|=================================================|=======================================|\n'
+                     '| ":="                                            | '
+                     'Assignment expression                 |\n'
+                     '+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+\n'
                      '| "lambda"                                        | '
                      'Lambda expression                     |\n'
                      '+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+\n'
@@ -7093,10 +7127,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      '| "x(arguments...)", "x.attribute"                | '
                      'attribute reference                   |\n'
                      '+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+\n'
-                     '| "(expressions...)", "[expressions...]", "{key:  | '
-                     'Binding or tuple display, list        |\n'
-                     '| value...}", "{expressions...}"                  | '
-                     'display, dictionary display, set      |\n'
+                     '| "(expressions...)",  "[expressions...]", "{key: | '
+                     'Binding or parenthesized expression,  |\n'
+                     '| value...}", "{expressions...}"                  | list '
+                     'display, dictionary display, set |\n'
                      '|                                                 | '
                      'display                               |\n'
                      '+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+\n'
@@ -7432,9 +7466,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    'to allow\n'
                    'efficient iteration through the container; for mappings, '
                    '"__iter__()"\n'
-                   'should be the same as "keys()"; for sequences, it should '
-                   'iterate\n'
-                   'through the values.\n'
+                   'should iterate through the object’s keys; for sequences, '
+                   'it should\n'
+                   'iterate through the values.\n'
                    '\n'
                    'object.__len__(self)\n'
                    '\n'
@@ -7464,7 +7498,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '   estimated length for the object (which may be greater '
                    'or less than\n'
                    '   the actual length). The length must be an integer ">=" '
-                   '0. This\n'
+                   '0. The\n'
+                   '   return value may also be "NotImplemented", which is '
+                   'treated the\n'
+                   '   same as if the "__length_hint__" method didn’t exist at '
+                   'all. This\n'
                    '   method is purely an optimization and is never required '
                    'for\n'
                    '   correctness.\n'
@@ -7582,12 +7620,12 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '\n'
                    'The membership test operators ("in" and "not in") are '
                    'normally\n'
-                   'implemented as an iteration through a sequence.  However, '
+                   'implemented as an iteration through a container. However, '
                    'container\n'
                    'objects can supply the following special method with a '
                    'more efficient\n'
                    'implementation, which also does not require the object be '
-                   'a sequence.\n'
+                   'iterable.\n'
                    '\n'
                    'object.__contains__(self, item)\n'
                    '\n'
@@ -7832,13 +7870,15 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'returning\n'
                  '   it.\n'
                  '\n'
-                 '   If "__new__()" returns an instance of *cls*, then the '
-                 'new\n'
-                 '   instance’s "__init__()" method will be invoked like\n'
-                 '   "__init__(self[, ...])", where *self* is the new instance '
-                 'and the\n'
-                 '   remaining arguments are the same as were passed to '
-                 '"__new__()".\n'
+                 '   If "__new__()" is invoked during object construction and '
+                 'it returns\n'
+                 '   an instance or subclass of *cls*, then the new '
+                 'instance’s\n'
+                 '   "__init__()" method will be invoked like "__init__(self[, '
+                 '...])",\n'
+                 '   where *self* is the new instance and the remaining '
+                 'arguments are\n'
+                 '   the same as were passed to the object constructor.\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   If "__new__()" does not return an instance of *cls*, then '
                  'the new\n'
@@ -8203,10 +8243,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '   hashable by an "isinstance(obj, '
                  'collections.abc.Hashable)" call.\n'
                  '\n'
-                 '   Note: By default, the "__hash__()" values of str, bytes '
-                 'and\n'
-                 '     datetime objects are “salted” with an unpredictable '
-                 'random value.\n'
+                 '   Note: By default, the "__hash__()" values of str and '
+                 'bytes\n'
+                 '     objects are “salted” with an unpredictable random '
+                 'value.\n'
                  '     Although they remain constant within an individual '
                  'Python\n'
                  '     process, they are not predictable between repeated '
@@ -8367,10 +8407,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'returned.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'The "__dir__" function should accept no arguments, and '
-                 'return a list\n'
-                 'of strings that represents the names accessible on module. '
-                 'If present,\n'
-                 'this function overrides the standard "dir()" search on a '
+                 'return a\n'
+                 'sequence of strings that represents the names accessible on '
+                 'module. If\n'
+                 'present, this function overrides the standard "dir()" search '
+                 'on a\n'
                  'module.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'For a more fine grained customization of the module behavior '
@@ -8431,21 +8472,34 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'whose name is\n'
                  'the key of the property in the owner class’ "__dict__".\n'
                  '\n'
-                 'object.__get__(self, instance, owner)\n'
+                 'object.__get__(self, instance, owner=None)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called to get the attribute of the owner class (class '
                  'attribute\n'
                  '   access) or of an instance of that class (instance '
                  'attribute\n'
-                 '   access). *owner* is always the owner class, while '
-                 '*instance* is the\n'
-                 '   instance that the attribute was accessed through, or '
-                 '"None" when\n'
-                 '   the attribute is accessed through the *owner*.  This '
-                 'method should\n'
-                 '   return the (computed) attribute value or raise an '
-                 '"AttributeError"\n'
-                 '   exception.\n'
+                 '   access). The optional *owner* argument is the owner '
+                 'class, while\n'
+                 '   *instance* is the instance that the attribute was '
+                 'accessed through,\n'
+                 '   or "None" when the attribute is accessed through the '
+                 '*owner*.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   This method should return the computed attribute value or '
+                 'raise an\n'
+                 '   "AttributeError" exception.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   **PEP 252** specifies that "__get__()" is callable with '
+                 'one or two\n'
+                 '   arguments.  Python’s own built-in descriptors support '
+                 'this\n'
+                 '   specification; however, it is likely that some '
+                 'third-party tools\n'
+                 '   have descriptors that require both arguments.  Python’s '
+                 'own\n'
+                 '   "__getattribute__()" implementation always passes in both '
+                 'arguments\n'
+                 '   whether they are required or not.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'object.__set__(self, instance, value)\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -8453,6 +8507,12 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'the owner\n'
                  '   class to a new value, *value*.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   Note, adding "__set__()" or "__delete__()" changes the '
+                 'kind of\n'
+                 '   descriptor to a “data descriptor”.  See Invoking '
+                 'Descriptors for\n'
+                 '   more details.\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'object.__delete__(self, instance)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called to delete the attribute on an instance *instance* '
@@ -8559,12 +8619,13 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'both\n'
                  '"__get__()" and "__set__()", while non-data descriptors have '
                  'just the\n'
-                 '"__get__()" method.  Data descriptors with "__set__()" and '
-                 '"__get__()"\n'
-                 'defined always override a redefinition in an instance '
-                 'dictionary.  In\n'
-                 'contrast, non-data descriptors can be overridden by '
-                 'instances.\n'
+                 '"__get__()" method.  Data descriptors with "__get__()" and '
+                 '"__set__()"\n'
+                 '(and/or "__delete__()") defined always override a '
+                 'redefinition in an\n'
+                 'instance dictionary.  In contrast, non-data descriptors can '
+                 'be\n'
+                 'overridden by instances.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'Python methods (including "staticmethod()" and '
                  '"classmethod()") are\n'
@@ -8691,6 +8752,12 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'violations\n'
                  '  raise "TypeError".\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '* If an iterator is used for *__slots__* then a descriptor '
+                 'is\n'
+                 '  created for each of the iterator’s values. However, the '
+                 '*__slots__*\n'
+                 '  attribute will be an empty iterator.\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '\n'
                  'Customizing class creation\n'
                  '==========================\n'
@@ -9136,9 +9203,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'allow\n'
                  'efficient iteration through the container; for mappings, '
                  '"__iter__()"\n'
-                 'should be the same as "keys()"; for sequences, it should '
-                 'iterate\n'
-                 'through the values.\n'
+                 'should iterate through the object’s keys; for sequences, it '
+                 'should\n'
+                 'iterate through the values.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'object.__len__(self)\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -9167,7 +9234,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '   estimated length for the object (which may be greater or '
                  'less than\n'
                  '   the actual length). The length must be an integer ">=" 0. '
-                 'This\n'
+                 'The\n'
+                 '   return value may also be "NotImplemented", which is '
+                 'treated the\n'
+                 '   same as if the "__length_hint__" method didn’t exist at '
+                 'all. This\n'
                  '   method is purely an optimization and is never required '
                  'for\n'
                  '   correctness.\n'
@@ -9285,12 +9356,12 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '\n'
                  'The membership test operators ("in" and "not in") are '
                  'normally\n'
-                 'implemented as an iteration through a sequence.  However, '
+                 'implemented as an iteration through a container. However, '
                  'container\n'
                  'objects can supply the following special method with a more '
                  'efficient\n'
-                 'implementation, which also does not require the object be a '
-                 'sequence.\n'
+                 'implementation, which also does not require the object be '
+                 'iterable.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'object.__contains__(self, item)\n'
                  '\n'
@@ -9756,9 +9827,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    'For a list\n'
                    '   of possible encodings, see section Standard Encodings.\n'
                    '\n'
+                   '   By default, the *errors* argument is not checked for '
+                   'best\n'
+                   '   performances, but only used at the first encoding '
+                   'error. Enable the\n'
+                   '   development mode ("-X" "dev" option), or use a debug '
+                   'build, to\n'
+                   '   check *errors*.\n'
+                   '\n'
                    '   Changed in version 3.1: Support for keyword arguments '
                    'added.\n'
                    '\n'
+                   '   Changed in version 3.9: The *errors* is now checked in '
+                   'development\n'
+                   '   mode and in debug mode.\n'
+                   '\n'
                    'str.endswith(suffix[, start[, end]])\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   Return "True" if the string ends with the specified '
@@ -9894,20 +9977,20 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isalnum()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if all characters in the string are '
+                   '   Return "True" if all characters in the string are '
                    'alphanumeric and\n'
-                   '   there is at least one character, false otherwise.  A '
-                   'character "c"\n'
-                   '   is alphanumeric if one of the following returns '
+                   '   there is at least one character, "False" otherwise.  A '
+                   'character\n'
+                   '   "c" is alphanumeric if one of the following returns '
                    '"True":\n'
                    '   "c.isalpha()", "c.isdecimal()", "c.isdigit()", or '
                    '"c.isnumeric()".\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isalpha()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if all characters in the string are '
+                   '   Return "True" if all characters in the string are '
                    'alphabetic and\n'
-                   '   there is at least one character, false otherwise.  '
+                   '   there is at least one character, "False" otherwise.  '
                    'Alphabetic\n'
                    '   characters are those characters defined in the Unicode '
                    'character\n'
@@ -9921,45 +10004,46 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isascii()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if the string is empty or all characters in '
-                   'the string\n'
-                   '   are ASCII, false otherwise. ASCII characters have code '
-                   'points in\n'
-                   '   the range U+0000-U+007F.\n'
+                   '   Return "True" if the string is empty or all characters '
+                   'in the\n'
+                   '   string are ASCII, "False" otherwise. ASCII characters '
+                   'have code\n'
+                   '   points in the range U+0000-U+007F.\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   New in version 3.7.\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isdecimal()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if all characters in the string are decimal '
-                   'characters\n'
-                   '   and there is at least one character, false otherwise. '
-                   'Decimal\n'
-                   '   characters are those that can be used to form numbers '
-                   'in base 10,\n'
-                   '   e.g. U+0660, ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO.  Formally a '
-                   'decimal character\n'
-                   '   is a character in the Unicode General Category “Nd”.\n'
+                   '   Return "True" if all characters in the string are '
+                   'decimal\n'
+                   '   characters and there is at least one character, "False" '
+                   'otherwise.\n'
+                   '   Decimal characters are those that can be used to form '
+                   'numbers in\n'
+                   '   base 10, e.g. U+0660, ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO.  '
+                   'Formally a decimal\n'
+                   '   character is a character in the Unicode General '
+                   'Category “Nd”.\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isdigit()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if all characters in the string are digits '
-                   'and there is\n'
-                   '   at least one character, false otherwise.  Digits '
-                   'include decimal\n'
-                   '   characters and digits that need special handling, such '
-                   'as the\n'
-                   '   compatibility superscript digits. This covers digits '
-                   'which cannot\n'
-                   '   be used to form numbers in base 10, like the Kharosthi '
-                   'numbers.\n'
-                   '   Formally, a digit is a character that has the property '
-                   'value\n'
-                   '   Numeric_Type=Digit or Numeric_Type=Decimal.\n'
+                   '   Return "True" if all characters in the string are '
+                   'digits and there\n'
+                   '   is at least one character, "False" otherwise.  Digits '
+                   'include\n'
+                   '   decimal characters and digits that need special '
+                   'handling, such as\n'
+                   '   the compatibility superscript digits. This covers '
+                   'digits which\n'
+                   '   cannot be used to form numbers in base 10, like the '
+                   'Kharosthi\n'
+                   '   numbers.  Formally, a digit is a character that has the '
+                   'property\n'
+                   '   value Numeric_Type=Digit or Numeric_Type=Decimal.\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isidentifier()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if the string is a valid identifier '
+                   '   Return "True" if the string is a valid identifier '
                    'according to the\n'
                    '   language definition, section Identifiers and keywords.\n'
                    '\n'
@@ -9978,32 +10062,33 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.islower()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if all cased characters [4] in the string '
-                   'are lowercase\n'
-                   '   and there is at least one cased character, false '
-                   'otherwise.\n'
+                   '   Return "True" if all cased characters [4] in the string '
+                   'are\n'
+                   '   lowercase and there is at least one cased character, '
+                   '"False"\n'
+                   '   otherwise.\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isnumeric()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if all characters in the string are numeric '
-                   'characters,\n'
-                   '   and there is at least one character, false otherwise. '
-                   'Numeric\n'
-                   '   characters include digit characters, and all characters '
-                   'that have\n'
-                   '   the Unicode numeric value property, e.g. U+2155, VULGAR '
-                   'FRACTION\n'
-                   '   ONE FIFTH.  Formally, numeric characters are those with '
-                   'the\n'
-                   '   property value Numeric_Type=Digit, Numeric_Type=Decimal '
-                   'or\n'
+                   '   Return "True" if all characters in the string are '
+                   'numeric\n'
+                   '   characters, and there is at least one character, '
+                   '"False" otherwise.\n'
+                   '   Numeric characters include digit characters, and all '
+                   'characters\n'
+                   '   that have the Unicode numeric value property, e.g. '
+                   'U+2155, VULGAR\n'
+                   '   FRACTION ONE FIFTH.  Formally, numeric characters are '
+                   'those with\n'
+                   '   the property value Numeric_Type=Digit, '
+                   'Numeric_Type=Decimal or\n'
                    '   Numeric_Type=Numeric.\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isprintable()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if all characters in the string are '
+                   '   Return "True" if all characters in the string are '
                    'printable or the\n'
-                   '   string is empty, false otherwise.  Nonprintable '
+                   '   string is empty, "False" otherwise.  Nonprintable '
                    'characters are\n'
                    '   those characters defined in the Unicode character '
                    'database as\n'
@@ -10019,32 +10104,45 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isspace()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if there are only whitespace characters in '
-                   'the string\n'
-                   '   and there is at least one character, false otherwise.  '
-                   'Whitespace\n'
-                   '   characters  are those characters defined in the Unicode '
-                   'character\n'
-                   '   database as “Other” or “Separator” and those with '
-                   'bidirectional\n'
-                   '   property being one of “WS”, “B”, or “S”.\n'
+                   '   Return "True" if there are only whitespace characters '
+                   'in the string\n'
+                   '   and there is at least one character, "False" '
+                   'otherwise.\n'
+                   '\n'
+                   '   A character is *whitespace* if in the Unicode character '
+                   'database\n'
+                   '   (see "unicodedata"), either its general category is '
+                   '"Zs"\n'
+                   '   (“Separator, space”), or its bidirectional class is one '
+                   'of "WS",\n'
+                   '   "B", or "S".\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.istitle()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if the string is a titlecased string and '
+                   '   Return "True" if the string is a titlecased string and '
                    'there is at\n'
                    '   least one character, for example uppercase characters '
                    'may only\n'
                    '   follow uncased characters and lowercase characters only '
                    'cased ones.\n'
-                   '   Return false otherwise.\n'
+                   '   Return "False" otherwise.\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.isupper()\n'
                    '\n'
-                   '   Return true if all cased characters [4] in the string '
-                   'are uppercase\n'
-                   '   and there is at least one cased character, false '
-                   'otherwise.\n'
+                   '   Return "True" if all cased characters [4] in the string '
+                   'are\n'
+                   '   uppercase and there is at least one cased character, '
+                   '"False"\n'
+                   '   otherwise.\n'
+                   '\n'
+                   "   >>> 'BANANA'.isupper()\n"
+                   '   True\n'
+                   "   >>> 'banana'.isupper()\n"
+                   '   False\n'
+                   "   >>> 'baNana'.isupper()\n"
+                   '   False\n'
+                   "   >>> ' '.isupper()\n"
+                   '   False\n'
                    '\n'
                    'str.join(iterable)\n'
                    '\n'
@@ -10280,7 +10378,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '   | Representation          | '
                    'Description                   |\n'
                    '   '
-                   '+=========================+===============================+\n'
+                   '|=========================|===============================|\n'
                    '   | "\\n"                    | Line '
                    'Feed                     |\n'
                    '   '
@@ -10619,7 +10717,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
             '+-------------------+-----------------------------------+---------+\n'
             '| Escape Sequence   | Meaning                           | Notes   '
             '|\n'
-            '+===================+===================================+=========+\n'
+            '|===================|===================================|=========|\n'
             '| "\\newline"        | Backslash and newline ignored     '
             '|         |\n'
             '+-------------------+-----------------------------------+---------+\n'
@@ -10665,7 +10763,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
             '+-------------------+-----------------------------------+---------+\n'
             '| Escape Sequence   | Meaning                           | Notes   '
             '|\n'
-            '+===================+===================================+=========+\n'
+            '|===================|===================================|=========|\n'
             '| "\\N{name}"        | Character named *name* in the     | '
             '(4)     |\n'
             '|                   | Unicode database                  |         '
@@ -10716,13 +10814,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
             '\n'
             '   Changed in version 3.6: Unrecognized escape sequences produce '
             'a\n'
-            '   "DeprecationWarning".\n'
-            '\n'
-            '   Changed in version 3.8: Unrecognized escape sequences produce '
+            '   "DeprecationWarning".  In a future Python version they will be '
             'a\n'
-            '   "SyntaxWarning".  In some future version of Python they will '
-            'be a\n'
-            '   "SyntaxError".\n'
+            '   "SyntaxWarning" and eventually a "SyntaxError".\n'
             '\n'
             'Even in a raw literal, quotes can be escaped with a backslash, '
             'but the\n'
@@ -11303,7 +11397,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           '      | Attribute                 | Meaning                         '
           '|             |\n'
           '      '
-          '+===========================+=================================+=============+\n'
+          '|===========================|=================================|=============|\n'
           '      | "__doc__"                 | The function’s documentation    '
           '| Writable    |\n'
           '      |                           | string, or "None" if            '
@@ -12106,7 +12200,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  "      >>> c = dict(zip(['one', 'two', 'three'], [1, 2, 3]))\n"
                  "      >>> d = dict([('two', 2), ('one', 1), ('three', 3)])\n"
                  "      >>> e = dict({'three': 3, 'one': 1, 'two': 2})\n"
-                 '      >>> a == b == c == d == e\n'
+                 "      >>> f = dict({'one': 1, 'three': 3}, two=2)\n"
+                 '      >>> a == b == c == d == e == f\n'
                  '      True\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Providing keyword arguments as in the first example only '
@@ -12119,6 +12214,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'therefore,\n'
                  '   custom mapping types should support too):\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   list(d)\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '      Return a list of all the keys used in the dictionary '
+                 '*d*.\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '   len(d)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '      Return the number of items in the dictionary *d*.\n'
@@ -12287,11 +12387,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'the\n'
                  '      documentation of view objects.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '      An equality comparison between one "dict.values()" '
+                 'view and\n'
+                 '      another will always return "False". This also applies '
+                 'when\n'
+                 '      comparing "dict.values()" to itself:\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 "         >>> d = {'a': 1}\n"
+                 '         >>> d.values() == d.values()\n'
+                 '         False\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '   Dictionaries compare equal if and only if they have the '
                  'same "(key,\n'
-                 '   value)" pairs. Order comparisons (‘<’, ‘<=’, ‘>=’, ‘>’) '
-                 'raise\n'
-                 '   "TypeError".\n'
+                 '   value)" pairs (regardless of ordering). Order comparisons '
+                 '(‘<’,\n'
+                 '   ‘<=’, ‘>=’, ‘>’) raise "TypeError".\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Dictionaries preserve insertion order.  Note that '
                  'updating a key\n'
@@ -12577,7 +12687,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '+----------------------------+----------------------------------+------------+\n'
              '| Operation                  | Result                           '
              '| Notes      |\n'
-             '+============================+==================================+============+\n'
+             '|============================|==================================|============|\n'
              '| "x in s"                   | "True" if an item of *s* is      '
              '| (1)        |\n'
              '|                            | equal to *x*, else "False"       '
@@ -12806,7 +12916,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '+--------------------------------+----------------------------------+-----------------------+\n'
              '| Operation                      | '
              'Result                           | Notes                 |\n'
-             '+================================+==================================+=======================+\n'
+             '|================================|==================================|=======================|\n'
              '| "s[i] = x"                     | item *i* of *s* is replaced '
              'by   |                       |\n'
              '|                                | '
@@ -13268,7 +13378,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      '| Operation                      | '
                      'Result                           | Notes                 '
                      '|\n'
-                     '+================================+==================================+=======================+\n'
+                     '|================================|==================================|=======================|\n'
                      '| "s[i] = x"                     | item *i* of *s* is '
                      'replaced by   |                       |\n'
                      '|                                | '
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2c79bcaf41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5772 @@
+.. bpo: 38722
+.. date: 2019-11-18-16-17-56
+.. nonce: x3mECW
+.. release date: 2019-11-19
+.. section: Security
+
+:mod:`runpy` now uses :meth:`io.open_code` to open code files. Patch by
+Jason Killen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38622
+.. date: 2019-11-14-16-13-23
+.. nonce: 3DYkfb
+.. section: Security
+
+Add additional audit events for the :mod:`ctypes` module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38418
+.. date: 2019-10-08-19-29-55
+.. nonce: QL7s0-
+.. section: Security
+
+Fixes audit event for :func:`os.system` to be named ``os.system``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38243
+.. date: 2019-09-25-13-21-09
+.. nonce: 1pfz24
+.. section: Security
+
+Escape the server title of :class:`xmlrpc.server.DocXMLRPCServer` when
+rendering the document page as HTML. (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in
+:issue:`38243`.)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38174
+.. date: 2019-09-23-21-02-46
+.. nonce: MeWuJd
+.. section: Security
+
+Update vendorized expat library version to 2.2.8, which resolves
+CVE-2019-15903.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37764
+.. date: 2019-08-27-01-13-05
+.. nonce: qv67PQ
+.. section: Security
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-16-08-11-00
+.. nonce: 1Ahz7O
+.. section: Security
+
+Fix an infinite loop when parsing specially crafted email headers. Patch by
+Abhilash Raj.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37363
+.. date: 2019-07-01-10-31-14
+.. nonce: fSjatj
+.. section: Security
+
+Adds audit events for the range of supported run commands (see
+:ref:`using-on-general`).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37463
+.. date: 2019-07-01-08-46-14
+.. nonce: 1CHwjE
+.. section: Security
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-21-15-58-59
+.. nonce: diouyl
+.. section: Security
+
+Adds audit events for :mod:`ensurepip`, :mod:`ftplib`, :mod:`glob`,
+:mod:`imaplib`, :mod:`nntplib`, :mod:`pdb`, :mod:`poplib`, :mod:`shutil`,
+:mod:`smtplib`, :mod:`sqlite3`, :mod:`subprocess`, :mod:`telnetlib`,
+:mod:`tempfile` and :mod:`webbrowser`, as well as :func:`os.listdir`,
+:func:`os.scandir` and :func:`breakpoint`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37364
+.. date: 2019-06-21-14-42-53
+.. nonce: IIRc2s
+.. section: Security
+
+:func:`io.open_code` is now used when reading :file:`.pth` files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34631
+.. date: 2019-06-17-09-34-25
+.. nonce: DBfM4j
+.. section: Security
+
+Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in Windows installer
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34155
+.. date: 2019-05-04-13-33-37
+.. nonce: MJll68
+.. section: Security
+
+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.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38631
+.. date: 2019-11-18-17-10-20
+.. nonce: tRHaAk
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Replace ``Py_FatalError()`` call with a regular :exc:`RuntimeError`
+exception in :meth:`float.__getformat__`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38639
+.. date: 2019-10-30-11-31-47
+.. nonce: 9-vKtO
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Optimized :func:`math.floor()`, :func:`math.ceil()` and :func:`math.trunc()`
+for floats.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38640
+.. date: 2019-10-30-11-25-25
+.. nonce: 4sAFh5
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-10-29-15-44-24
+.. nonce: V_R3NC
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Optimized some set operations (e.g. ``|``, ``^``, and ``-``) of
+``dict_keys``. ``d.keys() | other`` was slower than ``set(d) | other`` but
+they are almost same performance for now.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28029
+.. date: 2019-10-29-09-38-54
+.. nonce: AmRMEF
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+``"".replace("", s, n)`` now returns ``s`` instead of an empty string for
+all non-zero ``n``.  There are similar changes for :class:`bytes` and
+:class:`bytearray` objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38535
+.. date: 2019-10-20-12-43-48
+.. nonce: ESMkVN
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed line numbers and column offsets for AST nodes for calls without
+arguments in decorators.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38525
+.. date: 2019-10-20-00-36-18
+.. nonce: Vty1cA
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a segmentation fault when using reverse iterators of empty ``dict``
+objects. Patch by Dong-hee Na and Inada Naoki.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38465
+.. date: 2019-10-19-12-44-13
+.. nonce: V1L8c4
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:class:`bytearray`, :class:`~array.array` and :class:`~mmap.mmap` objects
+allow now to export more than 2**31 buffers at a time.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38469
+.. date: 2019-10-13-23-41-38
+.. nonce: 9kmuQj
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-10-10-20-42-09
+.. nonce: z_0mZp
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Activate the ``GC_DEBUG`` macro for debug builds of the interpreter (when
+``Py_DEBUG`` is set). Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38379
+.. date: 2019-10-10-01-41-02
+.. nonce: _q4dhn
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-10-09-16-50-52
+.. nonce: oz5qZx
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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()`` and
+``get_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
+.. date: 2019-10-07-22-51-39
+.. nonce: KaXXps
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+In debug mode, :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Track` now calls ``tp_traverse()`` of
+the object type to ensure that the object is valid: test that objects
+visited by ``tp_traverse()`` are valid.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38210
+.. date: 2019-10-06-15-01-57
+.. nonce: Xgc6F_
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Remove unecessary intersection and update set operation in dictview with
+empty set. (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`38210`.)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38402
+.. date: 2019-10-05-19-36-16
+.. nonce: EZuzgK
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Check the error from the system's underlying ``crypt`` or ``crypt_r``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37474
+.. date: 2019-10-01-12-46-30
+.. nonce: cB3se1
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-30-09-33-21
+.. nonce: UYlJum
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-30-00-56-21
+.. nonce: pmqlIQ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix warnings options priority: ``PyConfig.warnoptions`` has the highest
+priority, as stated in the :pep:`587`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38310
+.. date: 2019-09-28-22-54-25
+.. nonce: YDTbEo
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Predict ``BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL`` -> ``CALL_FUNCTION_EX`` opcode pairs
+in the main interpreter loop. Patch by Brandt Bucher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36871
+.. date: 2019-09-24-18-45-46
+.. nonce: p47knk
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-24-05-32-27
+.. nonce: vS182p
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-22-13-56-18
+.. nonce: rFl7JD
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Optimized the :class:`dict` constructor and the :meth:`~dict.update` method
+for the case when the argument is a dict.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38236
+.. date: 2019-09-20-19-06-23
+.. nonce: eQ0Tmj
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Python now dumps path configuration if it fails to import the Python codecs
+of the filesystem and stdio encodings.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38013
+.. date: 2019-09-12-19-50-01
+.. nonce: I7btD0
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Allow to call ``async_generator_athrow().throw(...)`` even for non-started
+async generator helper. It fixes annoying warning at the end of
+:func:`asyncio.run` call.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38124
+.. date: 2019-09-12-00-14-01
+.. nonce: n6E0H7
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix an off-by-one error in PyState_AddModule that could cause out-of-bounds
+memory access.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38116
+.. date: 2019-09-11-14-49-42
+.. nonce: KDwmwt
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The select module is now PEP-384 compliant and no longer has static state
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38113
+.. date: 2019-09-11-14-10-02
+.. nonce: yZXC3P
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+ast module updated to PEP-384 and all statics removed
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38076
+.. date: 2019-09-09-16-36-37
+.. nonce: C5dVBl
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The struct module is now PEP-384 compatible
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38075
+.. date: 2019-09-09-15-59-50
+.. nonce: N8OZKF
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The random module is now PEP-384 compatible
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38074
+.. date: 2019-09-09-15-40-57
+.. nonce: MsVbeI
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+zlib module made PEP-384 compatible
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38073
+.. date: 2019-09-09-15-17-58
+.. nonce: ZoKYOU
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Make pwd extension module PEP-384 compatible
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38072
+.. date: 2019-09-09-15-00-42
+.. nonce: Y1xpDO
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+grp module made PEP-384 compatible
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38069
+.. date: 2019-09-09-14-46-05
+.. nonce: cn8XLv
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Make _posixsubprocess PEP-384 compatible
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38071
+.. date: 2019-09-09-14-44-17
+.. nonce: bLwkBJ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Make termios extension module PEP-384 compatible
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38005
+.. date: 2019-09-02-20-00-31
+.. nonce: e7VsTA
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed comparing and creating of InterpreterID and ChannelID.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36946
+.. date: 2019-09-02-16-17-42
+.. nonce: _lAuSR
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible signed integer overflow when handling slices. Patch by
+hongweipeng.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37994
+.. date: 2019-08-31-11-13-25
+.. nonce: Rj6S4j
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed silencing arbitrary errors if an attribute lookup fails in several
+sites. Only AttributeError should be silenced.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 8425
+.. date: 2019-08-29-01-55-38
+.. nonce: FTq4A8
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-27-21-21-36
+.. nonce: 5OBLez
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The implementation of :func:`~unicodedata.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
+.. date: 2019-08-26-04-09-57
+.. nonce: mzAQtB
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Adjust correctly the recursion level in the symtable generation for named
+expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37812
+.. date: 2019-08-23-22-46-25
+.. nonce: vsWZwS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The ``CHECK_SMALL_INT`` macro used inside :file:`Object/longobject.c` has
+been replaced with an explicit ``return`` at each call site.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37751
+.. date: 2019-08-20-04-36-37
+.. nonce: CSFzUd
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix :func:`codecs.lookup` to normalize the encoding name the same way than
+:func:`encodings.normalize_encoding`, except that :func:`codecs.lookup` also
+converts the name to lower case.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37830
+.. date: 2019-08-17-18-41-59
+.. nonce: fNfMbz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed compilation of :keyword:`break` and :keyword:`continue` in the
+:keyword:`finally` block when the corresponding :keyword:`try` block
+contains :keyword:`return` with a non-constant value.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 20490
+.. date: 2019-08-15-12-48-36
+.. nonce: -hXeEn
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improve import error message for partially initialized module on circular
+``from`` imports - by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37840
+.. date: 2019-08-13-18-05-20
+.. nonce: elLCci
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix handling of negative indices in :c:member:`~PySequenceMethods.sq_item`
+of :class:`bytearray`. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37802
+.. date: 2019-08-09-18-28-57
+.. nonce: pKxcAW
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Slightly improve performance of :c:func:`PyLong_FromUnsignedLong`,
+:c:func:`PyLong_FromUnsignedLongLong` and :c:func:`PyLong_FromSize_t`. Patch
+by Sergey Fedoseev.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37409
+.. date: 2019-08-06-23-39-05
+.. nonce: 1qwzn2
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-06-14-03-59
+.. nonce: UDwSMJ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Reverted :issue:`32912`: emitting :exc:`SyntaxWarning` instead of
+:exc:`DeprecationWarning` for invalid escape sequences in string and bytes
+literals.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37757
+.. date: 2019-08-05-14-22-59
+.. nonce: lRv5HX
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:pep:`572`: As described in the PEP, assignment expressions now raise
+:exc:`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
+.. date: 2019-08-04-12-24-18
+.. nonce: 8Zy7jZ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in :func:`os.wait3`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36311
+.. date: 2019-08-02-15-01-33
+.. nonce: uY5vt-
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Decoding bytes objects larger than 2GiB is faster and no longer fails when a
+multibyte characters spans a chunk boundary.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34880
+.. date: 2019-08-01-10-45-51
+.. nonce: u_x_CG
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The :keyword:`assert` statement now works properly if the
+:exc:`AssertionError` exception is being shadowed. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37340
+.. date: 2019-07-25-11-06-57
+.. nonce: 5ktLEg
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Removed object cache (``free_list``) for bound method objects.  Temporary
+bound method objects are less used than before thanks to the ``LOAD_METHOD``
+opcode and the ``_PyObject_VectorcallMethod`` C API.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37648
+.. date: 2019-07-22-11-05-05
+.. nonce: 6TY2L-
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed minor inconsistency in :meth:`list.__contains__`,
+:meth:`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
+.. date: 2019-07-20-22-34-42
+.. nonce: UOd3Xs
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Update differing exception between :meth:`builtins.__import__` and
+:meth:`importlib.__import__`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37619
+.. date: 2019-07-18-11-50-49
+.. nonce: X6Lulo
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+When adding a wrapper descriptor from one class to a different class (for
+example, setting ``__add__ = str.__add__`` on an ``int`` subclass), an
+exception is correctly raised when the operator is called.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37593
+.. date: 2019-07-14-23-57-27
+.. nonce: yHSTwH
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Swap the positions of the *posonlyargs* and *args* parameters in the
+constructor of :class:`ast.parameters` nodes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37543
+.. date: 2019-07-10-20-33-53
+.. nonce: EvI19D
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Optimized pymalloc for non PGO build.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37537
+.. date: 2019-07-10-09-56-47
+.. nonce: OkB0wd
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-01-12-22-44
+.. nonce: u-XyEu
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix :func:`sys.excepthook` and :c:func:`PyErr_Display` if a filename is a
+bytes string. For example, for a SyntaxError exception where the filename
+attribute is a bytes string.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37433
+.. date: 2019-06-27-15-01-14
+.. nonce: amNGqr
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix ``SyntaxError`` indicator printing too many spaces for multi-line
+strings - by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37417
+.. date: 2019-06-26-18-41-00
+.. nonce: VsZeHL
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:meth:`bytearray.extend` now correctly handles errors that arise during
+iteration. Patch by Brandt Bucher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37414
+.. date: 2019-06-26-17-27-26
+.. nonce: o6Lnbc
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The undocumented ``sys.callstats()`` function has been removed. Since Python
+3.7, it was deprecated and always returned ``None``. It required a special
+build option ``CALL_PROFILE`` which was already removed in Python 3.7.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37392
+.. date: 2019-06-25-01-45-06
+.. nonce: J3JhIx
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Remove ``sys.getcheckinterval()`` and ``sys.setcheckinterval()`` functions.
+They were deprecated since Python 3.2. Use :func:`sys.getswitchinterval` and
+:func:`sys.setswitchinterval` instead. Remove also ``check_interval`` field
+of the ``PyInterpreterState`` structure.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37388
+.. date: 2019-06-24-21-53-52
+.. nonce: 0XTZmW
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+In development mode and in debug build, *encoding* and *errors* arguments
+are now checked on string encoding and decoding operations. Examples:
+:func:`open`, :meth:`str.encode` and :meth:`bytes.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
+.. date: 2019-06-23-00-26-30
+.. nonce: pp8P-x
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Optimized decoding short ASCII string with UTF-8 and ascii codecs.
+``b"foo".decode()`` is about 15% faster.  Patch by Inada Naoki.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 24214
+.. date: 2019-06-22-12-45-20
+.. nonce: hIiHeD
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improved support of the surrogatepass error handler in the UTF-8 and UTF-16
+incremental decoders.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37330
+.. date: 2019-06-18-17-53-06
+.. nonce: wAvHmz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:func:`open`, :func:`io.open`, :func:`codecs.open` and
+:class:`fileinput.FileInput` no longer accept ``'U'`` ("universal newline")
+in the file mode. This flag was deprecated since Python 3.3.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35224
+.. date: 2019-06-17-06-03-55
+.. nonce: FHWPGv
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Reverse evaluation order of key: value in dict comprehensions as proposed in
+PEP 572. I.e. in ``{k: v for ...}``, ``k`` will be evaluated before ``v``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37316
+.. date: 2019-06-17-03-53-16
+.. nonce: LytDX_
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix the :c:func:`PySys_Audit` call in :class:`mmap.mmap`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37300
+.. date: 2019-06-16-02-38-25
+.. nonce: WJkgKV
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Remove an unnecssary Py_XINCREF in classobject.c.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37269
+.. date: 2019-06-14-06-32-33
+.. nonce: SjVVAe
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a bug in the peephole optimizer that was not treating correctly constant
+conditions with binary operators. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 20443
+.. date: 2019-06-13-12-55-38
+.. nonce: bQWAxg
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-13-02-27-12
+.. nonce: IMxDvT
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-12-14-39-16
+.. nonce: LF41Es
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The dispatching of type slots to special methods (for example calling
+``__mul__`` when doing ``x * y``) has been made faster.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36974
+.. date: 2019-06-11-12-59-38
+.. nonce: bVYmSA
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Implemented separate vectorcall functions for every calling convention of
+builtin functions and methods. This improves performance for calls.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37213
+.. date: 2019-06-11-11-15-19
+.. nonce: UPii5K
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Handle correctly negative line offsets in the peephole optimizer. Patch by
+Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37219
+.. date: 2019-06-10-23-18-31
+.. nonce: jPSufq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Remove erroneous optimization for empty set differences.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 15913
+.. date: 2019-06-06-20-52-38
+.. nonce: 5Sg5cv
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Implement :c:func:`PyBuffer_SizeFromFormat()` function (previously
+documented but not implemented): call :func:`struct.calcsize`. Patch by
+Joannah Nanjekye.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36922
+.. date: 2019-06-06-13-59-52
+.. nonce: EMZ3TF
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Slot functions optimize any callable with ``Py_TPFLAGS_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR``
+instead of only instances of ``function``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36974
+.. date: 2019-06-06-11-00-55
+.. nonce: wdzzym
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The slot ``tp_vectorcall_offset`` is inherited unconditionally to support
+``super().__call__()`` when the base class uses vectorcall.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37160
+.. date: 2019-06-05-09-24-17
+.. nonce: O3IAY3
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:func:`threading.get_native_id` now also supports NetBSD.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37077
+.. date: 2019-05-28-11-47-44
+.. nonce: S1h0Fc
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add :func:`threading.get_native_id` support for AIX. Patch by M. Felt
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36781
+.. date: 2019-05-06-09-59-31
+.. nonce: uocWt6
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:func:`sum` has been optimized for boolean values.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34556
+.. date: 2019-05-05-18-09-40
+.. nonce: o9kfpu
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add ``--upgrade-deps`` to venv module. Patch by Cooper Ry Lees
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 20523
+.. date: 2019-02-15-20-42-36
+.. nonce: rRLrvr
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+``pdb.Pdb`` supports ~/.pdbrc in Windows 7. Patch by Tim Hopper and Dan
+Lidral-Porter.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35551
+.. date: 2019-01-18-16-16-27
+.. nonce: oF5pbO
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+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
+.. date: 2018-07-23-13-09-54
+.. nonce: Gc59GS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The :class:`classmethod` decorator can now wrap other descriptors such as
+property objects.  Adapted from a patch written by Graham Dumpleton.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27575
+.. date: 2018-06-14-13-55-45
+.. nonce: mMYgzv
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improve speed of dictview intersection by directly using set intersection
+logic. Patch by David Su.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30773
+.. date: 2018-06-07-01-01-20
+.. nonce: C31rVE
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Prohibit parallel running of aclose() / asend() / athrow(). Fix ag_running
+to reflect the actual running status of the AG.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36589
+.. date: 2019-11-16-22-56-51
+.. nonce: 0Io76D
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`curses.update_lines_cols` function now returns ``None`` instead
+of ``1`` on success.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38807
+.. date: 2019-11-15-09-30-29
+.. nonce: PsmRog
+.. section: Library
+
+Update :exc:`TypeError` messages for :meth:`os.path.join` to include
+:class:`os.PathLike` objects as acceptable input types.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38724
+.. date: 2019-11-14-14-13-29
+.. nonce: T5ySfR
+.. section: Library
+
+Add a repr for ``subprocess.Popen`` objects. Patch by Andrey Doroschenko.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38786
+.. date: 2019-11-13-16-49-03
+.. nonce: gNOwKh
+.. section: Library
+
+pydoc now recognizes and parses HTTPS URLs. Patch by python273.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38785
+.. date: 2019-11-13-16-17-43
+.. nonce: NEOEfk
+.. section: Library
+
+Prevent asyncio from crashing if parent ``__init__`` is not called from a
+constructor of object derived from ``asyncio.Future``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38723
+.. date: 2019-11-12-15-46-28
+.. nonce: gcdMFn
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`pdb` now uses :meth:`io.open_code` to trigger auditing events.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27805
+.. date: 2019-11-11-21-43-06
+.. nonce: D3zl1_
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow opening pipes and other non-seekable files in append mode with
+:func:`open`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38438
+.. date: 2019-11-11-06-14-25
+.. nonce: vSVeHN
+.. section: Library
+
+Simplify the :mod:`argparse` usage message for ``nargs="*"``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38761
+.. date: 2019-11-10-13-40-33
+.. nonce: P1UUIZ
+.. section: Library
+
+WeakSet is now registered as a collections.abc.MutableSet.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38716
+.. date: 2019-11-06-15-58-07
+.. nonce: R3uMLT
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-11-05-21-22-22
+.. nonce: bmhquU
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :data:`os.P_PIDFD` constant, which may be passed to :func:`os.waitid` to
+wait on a Linux process file descriptor.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38692
+.. date: 2019-11-05-19-15-57
+.. nonce: 2DCDA-
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :class:`asyncio.PidfdChildWatcher`, a Linux-specific child watcher
+implementation that polls process file descriptors.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38692
+.. date: 2019-11-05-07-18-24
+.. nonce: UpatA7
+.. section: Library
+
+Expose the Linux ``pidfd_open`` syscall as :func:`os.pidfd_open`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38602
+.. date: 2019-10-27-22-29-45
+.. nonce: 7jvYFA
+.. section: Library
+
+Added constants :data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_GETLK`, :data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_SETLK` and
+:data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_SETLKW` to the :mod:`fcntl` module. Patch by Dong-hee
+Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38334
+.. date: 2019-10-27-00-08-49
+.. nonce: pfLLmc
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed seeking backward on an encrypted :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38312
+.. date: 2019-10-26-14-42-20
+.. nonce: e_FVWh
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :func:`curses.get_escdelay`, :func:`curses.set_escdelay`,
+:func:`curses.get_tabsize`, and :func:`curses.set_tabsize` functions - by
+Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38586
+.. date: 2019-10-24-17-26-39
+.. nonce: cyq5nr
+.. section: Library
+
+Now :func:`~logging.config.fileConfig` correcty sets the .name of handlers
+loaded.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38565
+.. date: 2019-10-24-08-10-30
+.. nonce: SWSUst
+.. section: Library
+
+Add new cache_parameters() method for functools.lru_cache() to better
+support pickling.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34679
+.. date: 2019-10-23-16-25-12
+.. nonce: Bnw8o3
+.. section: Library
+
+asynci.ProactorEventLoop.close() now only calls signal.set_wakeup_fd() in
+the main thread.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31202
+.. date: 2019-10-20-12-04-48
+.. nonce: NfdIus
+.. section: Library
+
+The case the result of :func:`pathlib.WindowsPath.glob` matches now the case
+of the pattern for literal parts.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36321
+.. date: 2019-10-19-21-41-20
+.. nonce: CFlxfy
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove misspelled attribute.  The 3.8 changelog noted that this would be
+removed in 3.9.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38521
+.. date: 2019-10-18-13-57-31
+.. nonce: U-7aaM
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed erroneous equality comparison in statistics.NormalDist().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38493
+.. date: 2019-10-16-19-56-51
+.. nonce: 86ExWB
+.. section: Library
+
+Added :data:`~os.CLD_KILLED` and :data:`~os.CLD_STOPPED` for
+:attr:`si_code`. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38478
+.. date: 2019-10-15-11-37-57
+.. nonce: A87OPO
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a bug in :meth:`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
+.. date: 2019-10-15-09-47-40
+.. nonce: J12cWT
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed `hmac.new` and `hmac.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
+.. date: 2019-10-13-11-00-03
+.. nonce: yYNpSm
+.. section: Library
+
+Parameters *out* and *in* of :func:`os.sendfile` was renamed to *out_fd* and
+*in_fd*.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38417
+.. date: 2019-10-12-00-13-47
+.. nonce: W7x_aS
+.. section: Library
+
+Added support for setting the umask in the child process to the subprocess
+module on POSIX systems.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38449
+.. date: 2019-10-11-18-49-00
+.. nonce: 9TWMlz
+.. section: Library
+
+Revert GH-15522, which introduces a regression in
+:meth:`mimetypes.guess_type` due to improper handling of filenames as urls.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38431
+.. date: 2019-10-10-16-53-00
+.. nonce: d5wzNp
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``__repr__`` method for :class:`dataclasses.InitVar` to support typing
+objects, patch by Samuel Colvin.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38109
+.. date: 2019-10-10-00-25-28
+.. nonce: 9w-IGF
+.. section: Library
+
+Add missing :data:`stat.S_IFDOOR`, :data:`stat.S_IFPORT`,
+:data:`stat.S_IFWHT`, :func:`stat.S_ISDOOR`, :func:`stat.S_ISPORT`, and
+:func:`stat.S_ISWHT` values to the Python implementation of :mod:`stat`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38422
+.. date: 2019-10-09-18-16-51
+.. nonce: aiM5bq
+.. section: Library
+
+Clarify docstrings of pathlib suffix(es)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38405
+.. date: 2019-10-08-11-18-40
+.. nonce: 0-7e7s
+.. section: Library
+
+Nested subclasses of :class:`typing.NamedTuple` are now pickleable.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38332
+.. date: 2019-10-05-02-07-52
+.. nonce: hwrPN7
+.. section: Library
+
+Prevent :exc:`KeyError` thrown by :func:`_encoded_words.decode` when given
+an encoded-word with invalid content-type encoding from propagating all the
+way to :func:`email.message.get`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38371
+.. date: 2019-10-04-18-39-59
+.. nonce: S6Klvm
+.. section: Library
+
+Deprecated the ``split()`` method in :class:`_tkinter.TkappType` in favour
+of the ``splitlist()`` method which has more consistent and predicable
+behavior.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38341
+.. date: 2019-10-01-21-06-18
+.. nonce: uqwgU_
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :exc:`smtplib.SMTPNotSupportedError` to the :mod:`smtplib` exported
+names.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38319
+.. date: 2019-09-30-22-06-33
+.. nonce: 5QjiDa
+.. section: Library
+
+sendfile() used in socket and shutil modules was raising OverflowError for
+files >= 2GiB on 32-bit architectures.  (patch by Giampaolo Rodola)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38242
+.. date: 2019-09-30-00-15-27
+.. nonce: uPIyAc
+.. section: Library
+
+Revert the new asyncio Streams API
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 13153
+.. date: 2019-09-29-22-47-37
+.. nonce: 0mO9qR
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-29-13-50-24
+.. nonce: 6MoOE3
+.. section: Library
+
+Correctly handle pause/resume reading of closed asyncio unix pipe.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38163
+.. date: 2019-09-28-20-16-40
+.. nonce: x51-vK
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-27-16-31-28
+.. nonce: zehai1
+.. section: Library
+
+Removes _AwaitEvent from AsyncMock.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38216
+.. date: 2019-09-27-15-24-45
+.. nonce: -7yvZR
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-26-12-16-30
+.. nonce: LdSsrN
+.. section: Library
+
+Deprecate opening :class:`~gzip.GzipFile` for writing implicitly.  Always
+specify the *mode* argument for writing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38108
+.. date: 2019-09-25-21-37-02
+.. nonce: Jr9HU6
+.. section: Library
+
+Any synchronous magic methods on an AsyncMock now return a MagicMock. Any
+asynchronous magic methods on a MagicMock now return an AsyncMock.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38265
+.. date: 2019-09-25-05-16-19
+.. nonce: X6-gsT
+.. section: Library
+
+Update the *length* parameter of :func:`os.pread` to accept
+:c:type:`Py_ssize_t` instead of :c:type:`int`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38112
+.. date: 2019-09-24-10-55-01
+.. nonce: 2EinX9
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`compileall` has a higher default recursion limit and new command-line
+arguments for path manipulation, symlinks handling, and multiple
+optimization levels.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38248
+.. date: 2019-09-22-13-05-36
+.. nonce: Yo3N_1
+.. section: Library
+
+asyncio: Fix inconsistent immediate Task cancellation
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38237
+.. date: 2019-09-20-14-27-17
+.. nonce: xRUZbx
+.. section: Library
+
+The arguments for the builtin pow function are more descriptive. They can
+now also be passed in as keywords.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34002
+.. date: 2019-09-19-19-58-33
+.. nonce: KBnaVX
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve efficiency in parts of email package by changing while-pop to a for
+loop, using isdisjoint instead of set intersections.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38191
+.. date: 2019-09-17-12-28-27
+.. nonce: 1TU0HV
+.. section: Library
+
+Constructors of :class:`~typing.NamedTuple` and :class:`~typing.TypedDict`
+types now accept arbitrary keyword argument names, including "cls", "self",
+"typename", "_typename", "fields" and "_fields".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38155
+.. date: 2019-09-16-21-47-48
+.. nonce: d92lRc
+.. section: Library
+
+Add ``__all__`` to  :mod:`datetime`. Patch by Tahia Khan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38185
+.. date: 2019-09-16-19-12-57
+.. nonce: zYWppY
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed case-insensitive string comparison in :class:`sqlite3.Row` indexing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38136
+.. date: 2019-09-16-09-54-42
+.. nonce: MdI-Zb
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-15-21-31-18
+.. nonce: gLLDX7
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix default mock name in :meth:`unittest.mock.Mock.assert_called`
+exceptions. Patch by Abraham Toriz Cruz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38175
+.. date: 2019-09-15-10-30-33
+.. nonce: 61XlUv
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a memory leak in comparison of :class:`sqlite3.Row` objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33936
+.. date: 2019-09-14-10-34-00
+.. nonce: 8wCI_n
+.. section: Library
+
+_hashlib no longer calls obsolete OpenSSL initialization function with
+OpenSSL 1.1.0+.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34706
+.. date: 2019-09-13-14-54-33
+.. nonce: HWVpOY
+.. section: Library
+
+Preserve subclassing in inspect.Signature.from_callable.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38153
+.. date: 2019-09-13-12-18-51
+.. nonce: nHAbuJ
+.. section: Library
+
+Names of hashing algorithms frome 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
+.. date: 2019-09-13-09-24-58
+.. nonce: BOO-Y1
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-13-08-55-43
+.. nonce: Lnww6D
+.. section: Library
+
+Add slots to :mod:`asyncio` transport classes, which can reduce memory
+usage.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38142
+.. date: 2019-09-12-18-41-35
+.. nonce: 1I0Ch0
+.. section: Library
+
+The _hashlib OpenSSL wrapper extension module is now PEP-384 compliant.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 9216
+.. date: 2019-09-12-14-54-45
+.. nonce: W7QMpC
+.. section: Library
+
+hashlib constructors now support usedforsecurity flag to signal that a
+hashing algorithm is not used in a security context.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36991
+.. date: 2019-09-12-14-52-38
+.. nonce: 1OcSm8
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixes a potential incorrect AttributeError exception escaping
+ZipFile.extract() in some unsupported input error situations.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38134
+.. date: 2019-09-12-13-18-55
+.. nonce: gXJTbP
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove obsolete copy of PBKDF2_HMAC_fast. All supported OpenSSL versions
+contain a fast implementation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38132
+.. date: 2019-09-12-12-47-35
+.. nonce: KSFx1F
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-12-10-47-34
+.. nonce: sH74Iy
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix parent class check in protocols to correctly identify the module that
+provides a builtin protocol, instead of assuming they all come from the
+:mod:`collections.abc` module
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34037
+.. date: 2019-09-11-21-38-41
+.. nonce: LIAS_3
+.. section: Library
+
+For :mod:`asyncio`, add a new coroutine
+:meth:`loop.shutdown_default_executor`. The new coroutine provides an API to
+schedule an executor shutdown that waits on the threadpool to finish
+closing. Also, :func:`asyncio.run` has been updated to utilize the new
+coroutine. Patch by Kyle Stanley.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37405
+.. date: 2019-09-11-20-27-41
+.. nonce: MG5xiY
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-11-16-54-57
+.. nonce: SrSDzB
+.. section: Library
+
+Update parameter names on functions in importlib.metadata matching the
+changes in the 0.22 release of importlib_metadata.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38110
+.. date: 2019-09-11-14-49-20
+.. nonce: A19Y-q
+.. section: Library
+
+The os.closewalk() implementation now uses the libc fdwalk() API on
+platforms where it is available.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38093
+.. date: 2019-09-11-14-45-30
+.. nonce: yQ6k7y
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixes AsyncMock so it doesn't crash when used with AsyncContextManagers or
+AsyncIterators.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37488
+.. date: 2019-09-11-11-44-16
+.. nonce: S8CJUL
+.. section: Library
+
+Add warning to :meth:`datetime.utctimetuple`,  :meth:`datetime.utcnow` and
+:meth:`datetime.utcfromtimestamp` .
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35640
+.. date: 2019-09-10-15-52-55
+.. nonce: X0lp5f
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow passing a :term:`path-like object` as ``directory`` argument to the
+:class:`http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` class. Patch by Géry Ogam.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38086
+.. date: 2019-09-10-11-42-59
+.. nonce: w5TlG-
+.. section: Library
+
+Update importlib.metadata with changes from `importlib_metadata 0.21
+<https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/blob/0.21/importlib_metadata/docs/changelog.rst>`_.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37251
+.. date: 2019-09-10-10-59-50
+.. nonce: 8zn2o3
+.. section: Library
+
+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: 38037
+.. date: 2019-09-09-18-39-23
+.. nonce: B0UgFU
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix reference counters in the :mod:`signal` module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38066
+.. date: 2019-09-09-14-39-47
+.. nonce: l9mWv-
+.. section: Library
+
+Hide internal asyncio.Stream methods: feed_eof(), feed_data(),
+set_exception() and set_transport().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38059
+.. date: 2019-09-08-11-36-50
+.. nonce: 8SA6co
+.. section: Library
+
+inspect.py now uses sys.exit() instead of exit()
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38049
+.. date: 2019-09-07-12-32-50
+.. nonce: xKP4tf
+.. section: Library
+
+Added command-line interface for the :mod:`ast` module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37953
+.. date: 2019-09-06-17-40-34
+.. nonce: db5FQq
+.. section: Library
+
+In :mod:`typing`, improved the ``__hash__`` and ``__eq__`` methods for
+:class:`ForwardReferences`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38026
+.. date: 2019-09-04-20-34-14
+.. nonce: 0LLRX-
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed :func:`inspect.getattr_static` used ``isinstance`` while it should
+avoid dynamic lookup.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35923
+.. date: 2019-09-03-01-41-35
+.. nonce: lYpKbY
+.. section: Library
+
+Update :class:`importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter` to use
+``loader._ORIGIN`` instead of a hardcoded value. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38010
+.. date: 2019-09-02-14-30-39
+.. nonce: JOnz9Z
+.. section: Library
+
+In ``importlib.metadata`` sync with ``importlib_metadata`` 0.20, clarifying
+behavior of ``files()`` and fixing issue where only one requirement was
+returned for ``requires()`` on ``dist-info`` packages.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38006
+.. date: 2019-09-02-13-37-27
+.. nonce: Y7vA0Q
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-31-13-36-09
+.. nonce: rS8HzT
+.. section: Library
+
+Added the *indent* option to :func:`ast.dump` which allows it to produce a
+multiline indented output.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34410
+.. date: 2019-08-31-01-52-59
+.. nonce: 7KbWZQ
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a crash in the :func:`tee` iterator when re-enter it. RuntimeError is
+now raised in this case.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37140
+.. date: 2019-08-30-11-21-10
+.. nonce: cFAX-a
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-29-18-48-48
+.. nonce: N7TGTC
+.. section: Library
+
+``_json.scanstring`` is now up to 3x faster when there are many backslash
+escaped characters in the JSON string.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37834
+.. date: 2019-08-29-16-41-36
+.. nonce: FThnsh
+.. section: Library
+
+Prevent shutil.rmtree exception when built on non-Windows system without fd
+system call support, like older versions of macOS.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10978
+.. date: 2019-08-29-01-19-13
+.. nonce: J6FQYY
+.. section: Library
+
+Semaphores and BoundedSemaphores can now release more than one waiting
+thread at a time.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37972
+.. date: 2019-08-28-21-40-12
+.. nonce: kP-n4L
+.. section: Library
+
+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 a `TypeError`:
+
+call().foo().__getitem__('bar')
+
+Patch by blhsing
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37965
+.. date: 2019-08-28-14-04-18
+.. nonce: 7xGE-C
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix C compiler warning caused by distutils.ccompiler.CCompiler.has_function.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37964
+.. date: 2019-08-27-21-19-28
+.. nonce: SxdnsF
+.. section: Library
+
+Add ``F_GETPATH`` command to :mod:`fcntl`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37960
+.. date: 2019-08-27-10-52-13
+.. nonce: CTY7Lw
+.. section: Library
+
+``repr()`` of buffered and text streams now silences only expected
+exceptions when get the value of "name" and "mode" attributes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37961
+.. date: 2019-08-27-10-30-44
+.. nonce: 4nm0zZ
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-27-10-03-48
+.. nonce: MfRQgL
+.. section: Library
+
+Most features of the subprocess module now work again in subinterpreters.
+Only *preexec_fn* is restricted in subinterpreters.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36205
+.. date: 2019-08-27-03-53-26
+.. nonce: AfkGRl
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix the rusage implementation of time.process_time() to correctly report the
+sum of the system and user CPU time.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37950
+.. date: 2019-08-26-10-45-51
+.. nonce: -K1IKT
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :func:`ast.dump` when call with incompletely initialized node.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34679
+.. date: 2019-08-25-18-07-48
+.. nonce: HECzL7
+.. section: Library
+
+Restores instantiation of Windows IOCP event loops from the non-main thread.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36917
+.. date: 2019-08-25-14-56-42
+.. nonce: GBxdw2
+.. section: Library
+
+Add default implementation of the :meth:`ast.NodeVisitor.visit_Constant`
+method which emits a deprecation warning and calls corresponding methody
+``visit_Num()``, ``visit_Str()``, etc.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37798
+.. date: 2019-08-24-16-54-49
+.. nonce: 7mRQCk
+.. section: Library
+
+Update test_statistics.py to verify that the statistics module works well
+for both C and Python implementations. Patch by Dong-hee Na
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26589
+.. date: 2019-08-23-00-55-19
+.. nonce: M1xyxG
+.. section: Library
+
+Added a new status code to the http module: 451
+UNAVAILABLE_FOR_LEGAL_REASONS
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37915
+.. date: 2019-08-22-16-13-27
+.. nonce: xyoZI5
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a segmentation fault that appeared when comparing instances of
+``datetime.timezone`` and ``datetime.tzinfo`` objects. Patch by Pablo
+Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32554
+.. date: 2019-08-22-01-49-05
+.. nonce: 4xiXyM
+.. section: Library
+
+Deprecate having random.seed() call hash on arbitrary types.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 9938
+.. date: 2019-08-21-16-38-56
+.. nonce: t3G7N9
+.. section: Library
+
+Add optional keyword argument ``exit_on_error`` for :class:`ArgumentParser`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37851
+.. date: 2019-08-21-13-43-04
+.. nonce: mIIfD_
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`faulthandler` module no longer allocates its alternative stack at
+Python startup. Now the stack is only allocated at the first faulthandler
+usage.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32793
+.. date: 2019-08-20-05-17-32
+.. nonce: cgpXl6
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a duplicated debug message when :meth:`smtplib.SMTP.connect` is called.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37885
+.. date: 2019-08-19-10-31-41
+.. nonce: 4Nc9sp
+.. section: Library
+
+venv: Don't generate unset variable warning on deactivate.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37868
+.. date: 2019-08-17-22-33-54
+.. nonce: hp64fi
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-14-21-41-07
+.. nonce: d1xYj7
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``socket`` module's ``socket.connect(address)`` function being unable to
+establish connection in case of interrupted system call. The problem was
+observed on all OSes which ``poll(2)`` system call can take only
+non-negative integers and -1 as a timeout value.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37863
+.. date: 2019-08-14-20-46-39
+.. nonce: CkXqgX
+.. section: Library
+
+Optimizations for Fraction.__hash__ suggested by Tim Peters.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21131
+.. date: 2019-08-14-15-34-23
+.. nonce: 0MMQRi
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``faulthandler.register(chain=True)`` stack. faulthandler now allocates
+a dedicated stack of ``SIGSTKSZ*2`` bytes, instead of just ``SIGSTKSZ``
+bytes. Calling the previous signal handler in faulthandler signal handler
+uses more than ``SIGSTKSZ`` bytes of stack memory on some platforms.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37798
+.. date: 2019-08-14-13-51-24
+.. nonce: AmXrik
+.. section: Library
+
+Add C fastpath for statistics.NormalDist.inv_cdf() Patch by Dong-hee Na
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37804
+.. date: 2019-08-12-23-07-47
+.. nonce: Ene6L-
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove the deprecated method `threading.Thread.isAlive()`. Patch by Dong-hee
+Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37819
+.. date: 2019-08-11-10-34-19
+.. nonce: LVJls-
+.. section: Library
+
+Add Fraction.as_integer_ratio() to match the corresponding methods in bool,
+int, float, and decimal.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 14465
+.. date: 2019-08-10-18-50-04
+.. nonce: qZGC4g
+.. section: Library
+
+Add an xml.etree.ElementTree.indent() function for pretty-printing XML
+trees. Contributed by Stefan Behnel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37810
+.. date: 2019-08-10-12-33-27
+.. nonce: d4zbvB
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :mod:`difflib` ``?`` hint in diff output when dealing with tabs.  Patch
+by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37772
+.. date: 2019-08-07-23-48-09
+.. nonce: hLCvdn
+.. section: Library
+
+In ``zipfile.Path``, when adding implicit dirs, ensure that ancestral
+directories are added and that duplicates are excluded.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18578
+.. date: 2019-08-07-19-34-07
+.. nonce: xfvdb_
+.. section: Library
+
+Renamed and documented `test.bytecode_helper` as
+`test.support.bytecode_helper`. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37785
+.. date: 2019-08-07-14-49-22
+.. nonce: y7OlT8
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix xgettext warnings in :mod:`argparse`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34488
+.. date: 2019-08-06-21-30-58
+.. nonce: OqxVo8
+.. section: Library
+
+:meth:`writelines` method of :class:`io.BytesIO` is now slightly faster when
+many small lines are passed. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37449
+.. date: 2019-08-04-17-22-33
+.. nonce: ycbL2z
+.. section: Library
+
+`ensurepip` now uses `importlib.resources.read_binary()` to read data
+instead of `pkgutil.get_data()`. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28292
+.. date: 2019-08-04-11-47-58
+.. nonce: vkihH5
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-02-16-44-42
+.. nonce: OA4qBL
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-02-14-01-25
+.. nonce: f4Xn9S
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-01-17-11-16
+.. nonce: A3WWcT
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix the implementation of curses ``addch(str, color_pair)``: pass the color
+pair to ``setcchar()``, instead of always passing 0 as the color pair.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37723
+.. date: 2019-07-31-16-49-01
+.. nonce: zq6tw8
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix performance regression on regular expression parsing with huge character
+sets. Patch by Yann Vaginay.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35943
+.. date: 2019-07-31-15-52-51
+.. nonce: -KswoB
+.. section: Library
+
+The function :c:func:`PyImport_GetModule` now ensures any module it returns
+is fully initialized. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32178
+.. date: 2019-07-30-22-41-05
+.. nonce: X-IFLe
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix IndexError in :mod:`email` package when trying to parse invalid address
+fields starting with ``:``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37268
+.. date: 2019-07-30-01-27-29
+.. nonce: QDmA44
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`parser` module is deprecated and will be removed in future
+versions of Python.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 11953
+.. date: 2019-07-29-21-39-45
+.. nonce: 4Hpwf9
+.. section: Library
+
+Completing WSA* error codes in :mod:`socket`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37685
+.. date: 2019-07-28-22-25-25
+.. nonce: _3bN9f
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed comparisons of :class:`datetime.timedelta` and
+:class:`datetime.timezone`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37697
+.. date: 2019-07-28-17-44-21
+.. nonce: 7UV5d0
+.. section: Library
+
+Syncronize ``importlib.metadata`` with `importlib_metadata 0.19
+<https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/-/milestones/20>`_,
+improving handling of EGG-INFO files and fixing a crash when entry point
+names contained colons.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37695
+.. date: 2019-07-27-20-21-03
+.. nonce: QANdvg
+.. section: Library
+
+Correct :func:`curses.unget_wch` error message.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37689
+.. date: 2019-07-27-18-00-43
+.. nonce: glEmZi
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :meth:`is_relative_to` in :class:`PurePath` to determine whether or not
+one path is relative to another.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29553
+.. date: 2019-07-27-10-14-45
+.. nonce: TVeIDe
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed :meth:`argparse.ArgumentParser.format_usage` for mutually exclusive
+groups. Patch by Andrew Nester.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37691
+.. date: 2019-07-26-22-30-01
+.. nonce: 1Li3rx
+.. section: Library
+
+Let math.dist() accept coordinates as sequences (or iterables) rather than
+just tuples.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37685
+.. date: 2019-07-26-00-12-29
+.. nonce: TqckMZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed ``__eq__``, ``__lt__`` etc implementations in some classes. They now
+return :data:`NotImplemented` for unsupported type of the other operand.
+This allows the other operand to play role (for example the equality
+comparison with :data:`~unittest.mock.ANY` will return ``True``).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37354
+.. date: 2019-07-25-10-28-40
+.. nonce: RT3_3H
+.. section: Library
+
+Make Activate.ps1 Powershell script static to allow for signing it.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37664
+.. date: 2019-07-24-18-27-44
+.. nonce: o-GYZC
+.. section: Library
+
+Update wheels bundled with ensurepip (pip 19.2.3 and setuptools 41.2.0)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37663
+.. date: 2019-07-24-14-38-53
+.. nonce: h4-9-1
+.. section: Library
+
+Bring consistency to venv shell activation scripts by always using
+__VENV_PROMPT__.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37642
+.. date: 2019-07-21-20-59-31
+.. nonce: L61Bvy
+.. section: Library
+
+Allowed the pure Python implementation of :class:`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 Siregar
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36161
+.. date: 2019-07-20-01-17-43
+.. nonce: Fzf-f9
+.. section: Library
+
+In :mod:`posix`, use ``ttyname_r`` instead of ``ttyname`` for thread safety.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36324
+.. date: 2019-07-19-22-44-41
+.. nonce: 1VjywS
+.. section: Library
+
+Make internal attributes for statistics.NormalDist() private.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37555
+.. date: 2019-07-19-20-13-48
+.. nonce: S5am28
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix `NonCallableMock._call_matcher` returning tuple instead of `_Call`
+object when `self._spec_signature` exists. Patch by Elizabeth Uselton
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29446
+.. date: 2019-07-19-16-06-48
+.. nonce: iXGuoi
+.. section: Library
+
+Make `from tkinter import *` import only the expected objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 16970
+.. date: 2019-07-19-01-46-56
+.. nonce: GEASf5
+.. section: Library
+
+Adding a value error when an invalid value in passed to nargs Patch by
+Robert Leenders
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34443
+.. date: 2019-07-17-11-10-08
+.. nonce: OFnGqz
+.. section: Library
+
+Exceptions from :mod:`enum` now use the ``__qualname`` of the enum class in
+the exception message instead of the ``__name__``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37491
+.. date: 2019-07-17-06-54-43
+.. nonce: op0aMs
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``IndexError`` when parsing email headers with unexpectedly ending
+bare-quoted string value. Patch by Abhilash Raj.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37587
+.. date: 2019-07-13-16-02-48
+.. nonce: fd-1aF
+.. section: Library
+
+Make json.loads faster for long strings. (Patch by Marco Paolini)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18378
+.. date: 2019-07-13-13-40-12
+.. nonce: NHcojp
+.. section: Library
+
+Recognize "UTF-8" as a valid value for LC_CTYPE in locale._parse_localename.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37579
+.. date: 2019-07-13-10-59-43
+.. nonce: B1Tq9i
+.. section: Library
+
+Return :exc:`NotImplemented` in Python implementation of ``__eq__`` for
+:class:`~datetime.timedelta` and :class:`~datetime.time` when the other
+object being compared is not of the same type to match C implementation.
+Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21478
+.. date: 2019-07-10-23-07-11
+.. nonce: cCw9rF
+.. section: Library
+
+Record calls to parent when autospecced object is attached to a mock using
+:func:`unittest.mock.attach_mock`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37531
+.. date: 2019-07-09-19-38-26
+.. nonce: GX7s8S
+.. section: Library
+
+"python3 -m test -jN --timeout=TIMEOUT" now kills a worker process if it
+runs longer than *TIMEOUT* seconds.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37482
+.. date: 2019-07-09-11-20-21
+.. nonce: auzvev
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix serialization of display name in originator or destination address
+fields with both encoded words and special chars.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36993
+.. date: 2019-07-09-05-44-39
+.. nonce: 4javqu
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve error reporting for corrupt zip files with bad zip64 extra data.
+Patch by Daniel Hillier.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37502
+.. date: 2019-07-08-03-15-04
+.. nonce: qZGC4g
+.. section: Library
+
+pickle.loads() no longer raises TypeError when the buffers argument is set
+to None
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37520
+.. date: 2019-07-07-21-09-08
+.. nonce: Gg0KD6
+.. section: Library
+
+Correct behavior for zipfile.Path.parent when the path object identifies a
+subdirectory.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18374
+.. date: 2019-07-05-21-46-45
+.. nonce: qgE0H3
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix the ``.col_offset`` attribute of nested :class:`ast.BinOp` instances
+which had a too large value in some situations.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37424
+.. date: 2019-07-04-13-00-20
+.. nonce: 0i1MR-
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-03-12-47-52
+.. nonce: gR5hC8
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :func:`multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir` finalizer: clear also the
+'tempdir' configuration of the current process, so next call to
+``get_temp_dir()`` will create a new temporary directory, rather than
+reusing the removed temporary directory.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37481
+.. date: 2019-07-02-13-08-30
+.. nonce: hd5k09
+.. section: Library
+
+The distutils ``bdist_wininst`` command is deprecated in Python 3.8, use
+``bdist_wheel`` (wheel packages) instead.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37479
+.. date: 2019-07-02-12-43-57
+.. nonce: O53a5S
+.. section: Library
+
+When `Enum.__str__` is overridden in a derived class, the override will be
+used by `Enum.__format__` regardless of whether mixin classes are present.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37440
+.. date: 2019-06-28-16-40-17
+.. nonce: t3wX-N
+.. section: Library
+
+http.client now enables TLS 1.3 post-handshake authentication for default
+context or if a cert_file is passed to HTTPSConnection.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37437
+.. date: 2019-06-27-20-33-50
+.. nonce: du39_A
+.. section: Library
+
+Update vendorized expat version to 2.2.7.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37428
+.. date: 2019-06-27-13-27-02
+.. nonce: _wcwUd
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-26-22-25-05
+.. nonce: CxFJ09
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`os.sched_setaffinity` now correctly handles errors that arise during
+iteration over its ``mask`` argument. Patch by Brandt Bucher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37412
+.. date: 2019-06-26-16-28-59
+.. nonce: lx0VjC
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`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
+.. date: 2019-06-26-03-00-06
+.. nonce: uovkpq
+.. section: Library
+
+The sqlite3 module now raises TypeError, rather than ValueError, if
+operation argument type is not str: execute(), executemany() and calling a
+connection.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29412
+.. date: 2019-06-25-19-27-25
+.. nonce: n4Zqdh
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix IndexError in parsing a header value ending unexpectedly. Patch by
+Abhilash Raj.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36546
+.. date: 2019-06-25-05-07-48
+.. nonce: RUcxaK
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-25-02-10-00
+.. nonce: srZ1zx
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a bug that was causing the :mod:`queue` module to fail if the
+accelerator module was not available. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37376
+.. date: 2019-06-24-11-26-34
+.. nonce: SwSUQ4
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`pprint` now has support for :class:`types.SimpleNamespace`. Patch by
+Carl Bordum Hansen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26967
+.. date: 2019-06-23-12-46-10
+.. nonce: xEuem1
+.. section: Library
+
+An :class:`~argparse.ArgumentParser` with ``allow_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
+.. date: 2019-06-22-22-00-35
+.. nonce: Zhv-tq
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`unittest.mock.call` now preserves the order of keyword arguments in
+repr output. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37372
+.. date: 2019-06-22-12-30-00
+.. nonce: kIKqZ6
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix error unpickling datetime.time objects from Python 2 with seconds>=24.
+Patch by Justin Blanchard.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37345
+.. date: 2019-06-22-08-51-44
+.. nonce: o8XABX
+.. section: Library
+
+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:
+:py:obj:`socket.IPPROTO_UDPLITE`, :py:obj:`UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV`, and
+:py:obj:`UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV`. Patch by Gabe Appleton.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37358
+.. date: 2019-06-21-14-54-02
+.. nonce: RsASpn
+.. section: Library
+
+Optimized ``functools.partial`` by using vectorcall.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37347
+.. date: 2019-06-20-14-23-48
+.. nonce: Gf9yYI
+.. section: Library
+
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate`,
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_function`,
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer`,
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler`
+:meth:`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
+.. date: 2019-06-19-10-35-53
+.. nonce: 9pPg2F
+.. section: Library
+
+The *obj* argument of :func:`dataclasses.replace` is positional-only now.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37085
+.. date: 2019-06-18-16-29-31
+.. nonce: GeYaD6
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-18-15-31-33
+.. nonce: 2PW1-l
+.. section: Library
+
+``HTMLParser.unescape`` is removed.  It was undocumented and deprecated
+since Python 3.4.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37305
+.. date: 2019-06-18-13-59-55
+.. nonce: fGzWlP
+.. section: Library
+
+Add .webmanifest -> application/manifest+json to list of recognized file
+types and content type headers
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37320
+.. date: 2019-06-17-22-10-37
+.. nonce: ffieYa
+.. section: Library
+
+``aifc.openfp()`` alias to ``aifc.open()``, ``sunau.openfp()`` alias to
+``sunau.open()``, and ``wave.openfp()`` alias to ``wave.open()`` have been
+removed. They were deprecated since Python 3.7.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37315
+.. date: 2019-06-17-11-59-52
+.. nonce: o1xFC0
+.. section: Library
+
+Deprecated accepting floats with integral value (like ``5.0``) in
+:func:`math.factorial`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37312
+.. date: 2019-06-17-10-03-52
+.. nonce: qKvBfF
+.. section: Library
+
+``_dummy_thread`` and ``dummy_threading`` modules have been removed. These
+modules were deprecated since Python 3.7 which requires threading support.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33972
+.. date: 2019-06-15-14-39-50
+.. nonce: XxnNPw
+.. section: Library
+
+Email with single part but content-type set to ``multipart/*`` doesn't raise
+AttributeError anymore.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37280
+.. date: 2019-06-14-13-30-47
+.. nonce: Fxur0F
+.. section: Library
+
+Use threadpool for reading from file for sendfile fallback mode.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37279
+.. date: 2019-06-14-13-25-56
+.. nonce: OHlW6l
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix asyncio sendfile support when sendfile sends extra data in fallback
+mode.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 19865
+.. date: 2019-06-14-08-30-16
+.. nonce: FRGH4I
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`ctypes.create_unicode_buffer()` now also supports non-BMP characters
+on platforms with 16-bit :c:type:`wchar_t` (for example, Windows and AIX).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37266
+.. date: 2019-06-13-11-59-52
+.. nonce: goLjef
+.. section: Library
+
+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 Pyton fatal error if a daemon
+thread was still running.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37210
+.. date: 2019-06-12-16-10-50
+.. nonce: r4yMg6
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow pure Python implementation of :mod:`pickle` to work even when the C
+:mod:`_pickle` module is unavailable.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21872
+.. date: 2019-06-12-08-56-22
+.. nonce: V9QGGN
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :mod:`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
+.. date: 2019-06-11-19-34-29
+.. nonce: rxpzWr
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :meth:`RobotFileParser.crawl_delay` and
+:meth:`RobotFileParser.request_rate` to return ``None`` rather than raise
+:exc:`AttributeError` when no relevant rule is defined in the robots.txt
+file.  Patch by Rémi Lapeyre.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35766
+.. date: 2019-06-11-16-41-40
+.. nonce: v1Kj-T
+.. section: Library
+
+Change the format of feature_version to be a (major, minor) tuple.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36607
+.. date: 2019-06-11-13-52-04
+.. nonce: 5_mJkQ
+.. section: Library
+
+Eliminate :exc:`RuntimeError` raised by :func:`asyncio.all_tasks()` if
+internal tasks weak set is changed by another thread during iteration.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18748
+.. date: 2019-06-11-01-54-19
+.. nonce: ADqCkq
+.. section: Library
+
+:class:`_pyio.IOBase` destructor now does nothing if getting the ``closed``
+attribute fails to better mimick :class:`_io.IOBase` finalizer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36402
+.. date: 2019-06-11-00-35-02
+.. nonce: b0IJVp
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-09-22-25-03
+.. nonce: 2WBg4q
+.. section: Library
+
+Default values which cannot be represented as Python objects no longer
+improperly represented as ``None`` in function signatures.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37111
+.. date: 2019-06-09-17-22-33
+.. nonce: 2I0z2k
+.. section: Library
+
+Added ``encoding`` and ``errors`` keyword parameters to
+``logging.basicConfig``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 12144
+.. date: 2019-06-08-23-26-58
+.. nonce: Z7mz-q
+.. section: Library
+
+Ensure cookies with ``expires`` attribute are handled in
+:meth:`CookieJar.make_cookies`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34886
+.. date: 2019-06-08-16-03-19
+.. nonce: Ov-pc9
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix an unintended ValueError from :func:`subprocess.run` when checking for
+conflicting `input` and `stdin` or `capture_output` and `stdout` or `stderr`
+args when they were explicitly provided but with `None` values within a
+passed in `**kwargs` dict rather than as passed directly by name. Patch
+contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37173
+.. date: 2019-06-08-11-33-48
+.. nonce: 0e_8gS
+.. section: Library
+
+The exception message for ``inspect.getfile()`` now correctly reports the
+passed class rather than the builtins module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37178
+.. date: 2019-06-07-17-16-09
+.. nonce: Day_oB
+.. section: Library
+
+Give math.perm() a one argument form that means the same as
+math.factorial().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37178
+.. date: 2019-06-07-17-11-34
+.. nonce: b1StSv
+.. section: Library
+
+For math.perm(n, k), let k default to n, giving the same result as
+factorial.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37165
+.. date: 2019-06-05-11-48-19
+.. nonce: V_rwfE
+.. section: Library
+
+Converted _collections._count_elements to use the Argument Clinic.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34767
+.. date: 2019-06-04-23-44-52
+.. nonce: BpDShN
+.. section: Library
+
+Do not always create a :class:`collections.deque` in :class:`asyncio.Lock`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37158
+.. date: 2019-06-04-22-25-38
+.. nonce: JKm15S
+.. section: Library
+
+Speed-up statistics.fmean() by switching from a function to a generator.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34282
+.. date: 2019-06-04-15-39-14
+.. nonce: aAK54n
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove ``Enum._convert`` method, deprecated in 3.8.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37150
+.. date: 2019-06-04-14-44-41
+.. nonce: TTzHxj
+.. section: Library
+
+`argparse._ActionsContainer.add_argument` now throws error, if someone
+accidentally pass FileType class object instead of instance of FileType as
+`type` argument
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28724
+.. date: 2019-05-30-15-51-42
+.. nonce: 34TrS8
+.. section: Library
+
+The socket module now has the :func:`socket.send_fds` and
+:func:`socket.recv.fds` methods. Contributed by Joannah Nanjekye, Shinya
+Okano and Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35621
+.. date: 2019-05-28-19-03-46
+.. nonce: Abc1lf
+.. section: Library
+
+Support running asyncio subprocesses when execution event loop in a thread
+on UNIX.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36520
+.. date: 2019-05-28-02-37-00
+.. nonce: W4tday
+.. section: Library
+
+Lengthy email headers with UTF-8 characters are now properly encoded when
+they are folded. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30835
+.. date: 2019-05-27-15-29-46
+.. nonce: 3FoaWH
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-05-26-16-34-53
+.. nonce: 21A802
+.. section: Library
+
+pathlib.Path instance's rename and replace methods now return the new Path
+instance.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25068
+.. date: 2019-05-22-04-52-35
+.. nonce: vR_rC-
+.. section: Library
+
+:class:`urllib.request.ProxyHandler` now lowercases the keys of the passed
+dictionary.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26185
+.. date: 2019-05-20-14-17-29
+.. nonce: pQW4mI
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :func:`repr` on empty :class:`ZipInfo` object. Patch by Mickaël
+Schoentgen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21315
+.. date: 2019-05-19-10-48-46
+.. nonce: PgXVqF
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-05-17-16-50-02
+.. nonce: 4a5ggm
+.. section: Library
+
+Port test_datetime to VxWorks: skip zoneinfo tests on VxWorks
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35805
+.. date: 2019-05-17-15-11-08
+.. nonce: E4YwYz
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-05-12-12-58-37
+.. nonce: 6xiEHZ
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-05-09-18-50-55
+.. nonce: 4vaqNL
+.. section: Library
+
+posix.getgrouplist() now works correctly when the user belongs to
+NGROUPS_MAX supplemental groups. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31783
+.. date: 2019-05-07-19-25-55
+.. nonce: lgLo69
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix race condition in ThreadPoolExecutor when worker threads are created
+during interpreter shutdown.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36582
+.. date: 2019-05-07-17-42-36
+.. nonce: L_dxR6
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``UserString.encode()`` to correctly return ``bytes`` rather than a
+``UserString`` instance.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32424
+.. date: 2019-04-28-10-34-19
+.. nonce: eqNPhM
+.. section: Library
+
+Deprecate xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.copy() in favor of copy.copy().
+
+Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36564
+.. date: 2019-04-08-13-00-13
+.. nonce: _n67m_
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-04-06-20-08-12
+.. nonce: RPjmUz
+.. section: Library
+
+Removed methods Element.getchildren(), Element.getiterator() and
+ElementTree.getiterator() and the xml.etree.cElementTree module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36409
+.. date: 2019-03-23-16-42-46
+.. nonce: ZYVKao
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove the old plistlib API deprecated in Python 3.4
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36302
+.. date: 2019-03-21-19-23-46
+.. nonce: Yc591g
+.. section: Library
+
+distutils sorts source file lists so that Extension .so files build more
+reproducibly by default
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36250
+.. date: 2019-03-09-16-04-12
+.. nonce: tSK4N1
+.. section: Library
+
+Ignore ``ValueError`` from ``signal`` with ``interaction`` in non-main
+thread.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36046
+.. date: 2019-02-19-17-32-45
+.. nonce: fX9OPj
+.. section: Library
+
+Added ``user``, ``group`` and ``extra_groups`` parameters to the
+subprocess.Popen constructor. Patch by Patrick McLean.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32627
+.. date: 2019-02-03-19-13-08
+.. nonce: b68f64
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix compile error when ``_uuid`` headers conflicting included.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35800
+.. date: 2019-01-25-17-12-17
+.. nonce: MCGJdQ
+.. section: Library
+
+Deprecate ``smtpd.MailmanProxy`` ready for future removal.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35168
+.. date: 2019-01-22-09-23-20
+.. nonce: UGv2yW
+.. section: Library
+
+:attr:`shlex.shlex.punctuation_chars` is now a read-only property.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 8538
+.. date: 2019-01-09-16-18-52
+.. nonce: PfVZia
+.. section: Library
+
+Add support for boolean actions like ``--foo`` and ``--no-foo`` to argparse.
+Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 20504
+.. date: 2018-11-21-18-05-50
+.. nonce: kG0ub5
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixes a bug in :mod:`cgi` module when a multipart/form-data request has no
+`Content-Length` header.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25988
+.. date: 2018-11-19-10-23-58
+.. nonce: 6o7gGK
+.. section: Library
+
+The abstract base classes in :mod:`collections.abc` no longer are exposed in
+the regular :mod:`collections` module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 11122
+.. date: 2018-11-12-19-08-50
+.. nonce: Gj7BQn
+.. section: Library
+
+Distutils won't check for rpmbuild in specified paths only.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34775
+.. date: 2018-09-23-03-18-52
+.. nonce: vHeuHk
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2018-09-21-13-23-29
+.. nonce: B0k819
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`binascii.a2b_base64` is now up to 2 times faster. Patch by Sergey
+Fedoseev.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34519
+.. date: 2018-08-27-15-44-50
+.. nonce: cPlH1h
+.. section: Library
+
+Add additional aliases for HP Roman 8. Patch by Michael Osipov.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28009
+.. date: 2018-08-04-12-26-11
+.. nonce: 4JcHZb
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2018-07-14-13-48-56
+.. nonce: T5AUF6
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :meth:`~pathlib.Path.readlink`. Patch by Girts Folkmanis.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32498
+.. date: 2018-06-17-21-02-25
+.. nonce: La3TZz
+.. section: Library
+
+Made :func:`urllib.parse.unquote()` accept bytes in addition to strings.
+Patch by Stein Karlsen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33348
+.. date: 2018-04-24-13-18-48
+.. nonce: XaJDei
+.. section: Library
+
+lib2to3 now recognizes expressions after ``*`` and `**` like in ``f(*[] or
+[])``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32689
+.. date: 2018-02-13-17-58-30
+.. nonce: a-3SnH
+.. section: Library
+
+Update :func:`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
+.. date: 2018-02-13-12-25-43
+.. nonce: 0stF0u
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2017-12-26-14-32-23
+.. nonce: 6BhyVK
+.. section: Library
+
+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
+.. date: 2017-08-15-11-24-41
+.. nonce: LRYres
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed non-deterministic behavior related to mimetypes extension mapping and
+module reinitialization.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21767
+.. date: 2019-11-17-11-54-57
+.. nonce: Qq3Dos
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Explicitly mention abc support in functools.singledispatch
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38816
+.. date: 2019-11-15-11-39-13
+.. nonce: vUaSVL
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Provides more details about the interaction between :c:func:`fork` and
+CPython's runtime, focusing just on the C-API.  This includes cautions about
+where :c:func:`fork` should and shouldn't be called.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38351
+.. date: 2019-11-15-09-22-28
+.. nonce: xwhlse
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Modernize :mod:`email` examples from %-formatting to f-strings.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38778
+.. date: 2019-11-12-15-31-09
+.. nonce: PHhTlv
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document the fact that :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised if :meth:`os.fork` is
+called in a subinterpreter.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38592
+.. date: 2019-10-26-13-19-07
+.. nonce: Y96BYO
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add Brazilian Portuguese to the language switcher at Python Documentation
+website.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38294
+.. date: 2019-09-27-23-37-41
+.. nonce: go_jFf
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add list of no-longer-escaped chars to re.escape documentation
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38053
+.. date: 2019-09-07-19-09-01
+.. nonce: lttibE
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Modernized the plistlib documentation
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26868
+.. date: 2019-09-07-15-55-46
+.. nonce: Raw0Gd
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix example usage of :c:func:`PyModule_AddObject` to properly handle errors.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36797
+.. date: 2019-09-05-14-47-51
+.. nonce: KN9Ga5
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix a dead link in the distutils API Reference.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37977
+.. date: 2019-08-29-14-38-01
+.. nonce: pML-UI
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Warn more strongly and clearly about pickle insecurity
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37979
+.. date: 2019-08-29-10-40-05
+.. nonce: TAUx_E
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Added a link to dateutil.parser.isoparse in the datetime.fromisoformat
+documentation. Patch by Paul Ganssle
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 12707
+.. date: 2019-08-27-01-14-59
+.. nonce: Yj3_7_
+.. section: Documentation
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-24-12-59-06
+.. nonce: F7fHbt
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Mention ``frame.f_trace`` in :func:`sys.settrace` docs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37878
+.. date: 2019-08-16-20-01-10
+.. nonce: MvA6rZ
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Make :c:func:`PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent` Internal.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37759
+.. date: 2019-08-04-19-20-58
+.. nonce: EHRF4i
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Beginning edits to Whatsnew 3.8
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37726
+.. date: 2019-07-31-11-40-06
+.. nonce: h-3o9a
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Stop recommending getopt in the tutorial for command line argument parsing
+and promote argparse.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32910
+.. date: 2019-07-25-10-30-32
+.. nonce: caLLAe
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Remove implementation-specific behaviour of how venv's Deactivate works.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37256
+.. date: 2019-07-16-14-48-12
+.. nonce: qJTrBb
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix wording of arguments for :class:`Request` in :mod:`urllib.request`
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37284
+.. date: 2019-07-13-12-58-20
+.. nonce: rP8WpB
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add a brief note to indicate that any new ``sys.implementation`` required
+attributes must go through the PEP process.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30088
+.. date: 2019-07-13-12-43-01
+.. nonce: CIcBjy
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Documented that :class:`mailbox.Maildir` constructor doesn't attempt to
+verify the maildir folder layout correctness. Patch by Sviatoslav Sydorenko.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37521
+.. date: 2019-07-12-15-09-56
+.. nonce: 7tiFR-
+.. section: Documentation
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-06-17-51-36
+.. nonce: lgAQHn
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Slash ('/') is now part of syntax.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37487
+.. date: 2019-07-06-17-19-26
+.. nonce: QagfZ5
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix PyList_GetItem index description to include 0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37149
+.. date: 2019-07-06-02-19-02
+.. nonce: NumHn3
+.. section: Documentation
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-06-00-57-27
+.. nonce: B0ioLw
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Added possible exceptions to the description of os.chdir().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34903
+.. date: 2019-06-17-09-36-46
+.. nonce: r_wGRc
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Documented that in :meth:`datetime.datetime.strptime()`, the leading zero in
+some two-digit formats is optional. Patch by Mike Gleen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36260
+.. date: 2019-06-04-09-29-00
+.. nonce: WrGuc-
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add decompression pitfalls to zipfile module documentation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37004
+.. date: 2019-05-22-04-30-07
+.. nonce: BRgxrt
+.. section: Documentation
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-05-18-16-25-44
+.. nonce: xEKHXj
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Restructured the :mod:`datetime` docs in the interest of making them more
+user-friendly and improving readability. Patch by Brad Solomon.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36487
+.. date: 2019-04-02-19-23-00
+.. nonce: Jg6-MG
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Make C-API docs clear about what the "main" interpreter is.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23460
+.. date: 2019-02-14-07-12-48
+.. nonce: Iqiqtm
+.. section: Documentation
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-01-21-14-30-59
+.. nonce: yae6Lq
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document and test that ``tempfile`` functions may accept a :term:`path-like
+object` for the ``dir`` argument.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33944
+.. date: 2018-10-26-18-10-29
+.. nonce: V1YeOA
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Added a note about the intended use of code in .pth files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34293
+.. date: 2018-07-31-15-38-26
+.. nonce: yHupAL
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix the Doc/Makefile regarding PAPER environment variable and PDF builds
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25237
+.. date: 2018-06-02-12-55-23
+.. nonce: m8-JMu
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add documentation for tkinter modules
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38614
+.. date: 2019-10-30-15-12-32
+.. nonce: M6UnLB
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_communicate() of test_asyncio.test_subprocess: use
+``support.LONG_TIMEOUT`` (5 minutes), instead of just 1 minute.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38614
+.. date: 2019-10-28-15-56-02
+.. nonce: aDdDYE
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add timeout constants to :mod:`test.support`:
+:data:`~test.support.LOOPBACK_TIMEOUT`,
+:data:`~test.support.INTERNET_TIMEOUT`, :data:`~test.support.SHORT_TIMEOUT`
+and :data:`~test.support.LONG_TIMEOUT`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38502
+.. date: 2019-10-17-00-49-38
+.. nonce: vUEic7
+.. section: Tests
+
+test.regrtest now uses process groups in the multiprocessing mode (-jN
+command line option) if process groups are available: if :func:`os.setsid`
+and :func:`os.killpg` functions are available.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35998
+.. date: 2019-10-16-01-36-15
+.. nonce: G305Bf
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-10-14-22-46-35
+.. nonce: NHtzpy
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-10-08-16-42-05
+.. nonce: 7v-_Ca
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-26-15-48-36
+.. nonce: MfoVzY
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_gdb for Link Time Optimization (LTO) builds.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38275
+.. date: 2019-09-25-14-40-57
+.. nonce: -kdveI
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-25-13-11-29
+.. nonce: iHXNIg
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-25-12-18-31
+.. nonce: _x-9uH
+.. section: Tests
+
+test.support now has a helper function to check for availibility 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
+.. date: 2019-09-24-12-30-55
+.. nonce: IoutBn
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-24-12-24-05
+.. nonce: IWbhWz
+.. section: Tests
+
+Multiprocessing tests: increase test_queue_feeder_donot_stop_onexc() timeout
+from 1 to 60 seconds.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38117
+.. date: 2019-09-11-17-22-32
+.. nonce: X7LgGY
+.. section: Tests
+
+Test with OpenSSL 1.1.1d
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38018
+.. date: 2019-09-03-19-33-10
+.. nonce: zTrMu7
+.. section: Tests
+
+Increase code coverage for multiprocessing.shared_memory.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37805
+.. date: 2019-08-25-19-51-46
+.. nonce: Kl1sti
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add tests for json.dump(..., skipkeys=True). Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37531
+.. date: 2019-08-20-19-24-19
+.. nonce: wRoXfU
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-16-16-15-14
+.. nonce: m3k1w3
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add tests for ROT-13 codec.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36833
+.. date: 2019-07-18-14-52-58
+.. nonce: Zoe9ek
+.. section: Tests
+
+Added tests for PyDateTime_xxx_GET_xxx() macros of the C API of the
+:mod:`datetime` module. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37558
+.. date: 2019-07-11-10-33-56
+.. nonce: SKHRsL
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_shared_memory_cleaned_after_process_termination name handling
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37526
+.. date: 2019-07-09-12-33-18
+.. nonce: vmm5y7
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add :func:`test.support.catch_threading_exception`: context manager catching
+:class:`threading.Thread` exception using :func:`threading.excepthook`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37421
+.. date: 2019-07-08-10-11-36
+.. nonce: OY77go
+.. section: Tests
+
+test_concurrent_futures now explicitly stops the ForkServer instance if it's
+running.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37421
+.. date: 2019-07-05-14-47-55
+.. nonce: n8o2to
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-03-00-05-28
+.. nonce: ORGRSG
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-02-23-29-06
+.. nonce: WEfc5A
+.. section: Tests
+
+test_concurrent_futures now cleans up multiprocessing to remove immediately
+temporary directories created by multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37421
+.. date: 2019-07-02-23-20-35
+.. nonce: HCkKWz
+.. section: Tests
+
+test_winconsoleio doesn't leak a temporary file anymore: use
+tempfile.TemporaryFile() to remove it when the test completes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37421
+.. date: 2019-07-01-19-57-26
+.. nonce: NFH1f0
+.. section: Tests
+
+multiprocessing tests now explicitly call ``_run_finalizers()`` to
+immediately remove temporary directories created by tests.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37421
+.. date: 2019-07-01-19-56-17
+.. nonce: bOe350
+.. section: Tests
+
+urllib.request tests now call :func:`~urllib.request.urlcleanup` to remove
+temporary files created by ``urlretrieve()`` tests and to clear the
+``_opener`` global variable set by ``urlopen()`` and functions calling
+indirectly ``urlopen()``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37472
+.. date: 2019-07-01-17-19-47
+.. nonce: WzkEAx
+.. section: Tests
+
+Remove ``Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37199
+.. date: 2019-06-29-23-56-28
+.. nonce: FHDsLf
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test failures when IPv6 is unavailable or disabled.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 19696
+.. date: 2019-06-29-16-02-21
+.. nonce: 05ijhN
+.. section: Tests
+
+Replace deprecated method "random.choose" with "random.choice" in
+"test_pkg_import.py".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37335
+.. date: 2019-06-28-16-37-52
+.. nonce: o5S2hY
+.. section: Tests
+
+Remove no longer necessary code from c locale coercion tests
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37421
+.. date: 2019-06-27-00-37-59
+.. nonce: rVJb3x
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_shutil to no longer leak temporary files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37411
+.. date: 2019-06-26-15-28-45
+.. nonce: 5lGNhM
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_wsgiref.testEnviron() to no longer depend on the environment
+variables (don't fail if "X" variable is set).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37400
+.. date: 2019-06-25-16-02-43
+.. nonce: cx_EWv
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-24-10-47-07
+.. nonce: CkdtyO
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add --cleanup option to python3 -m test to remove ``test_python_*``
+directories of previous failed jobs. Add "make cleantest" to run ``python3
+-m test --cleanup``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37362
+.. date: 2019-06-21-15-47-33
+.. nonce: D3xppx
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-14-17-05-49
+.. nonce: yX82oD
+.. section: Tests
+
+Avoid TimeoutError in test_asyncio: test_start_tls_server_1()
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37278
+.. date: 2019-06-14-12-21-47
+.. nonce: z0HUOr
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_asyncio ProactorLoopCtrlC: join the thread to prevent leaking a
+running thread and leaking a reference.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37261
+.. date: 2019-06-13-12-19-56
+.. nonce: NuKFVo
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix :func:`test.support.catch_unraisable_exception`: its __exit__() method
+now ignores unraisable exception raised when clearing its ``unraisable``
+attribute.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37069
+.. date: 2019-06-13-00-46-25
+.. nonce: wdktFo
+.. section: Tests
+
+regrtest now uses :func:`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
+.. date: 2019-06-12-14-30-29
+.. nonce: 4o-uLs
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix assertions in ``test_close`` and ``test_events_mask_overflow`` devpoll
+tests.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37169
+.. date: 2019-06-07-12-23-15
+.. nonce: yfXTFg
+.. section: Tests
+
+Rewrite ``_PyObject_IsFreed()`` unit tests.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37153
+.. date: 2019-06-04-18-30-39
+.. nonce: 711INB
+.. section: Tests
+
+``test_venv.test_multiprocessing()`` now explicitly calls
+``pool.terminate()`` to wait until the pool completes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34001
+.. date: 2019-06-03-20-47-10
+.. nonce: KvYx9z
+.. section: Tests
+
+Make test_ssl pass with LibreSSL. LibreSSL handles minimum and maximum TLS
+version differently than OpenSSL.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36919
+.. date: 2019-05-28-15-41-34
+.. nonce: -vGt_m
+.. section: Tests
+
+Make ``test_source_encoding.test_issue2301`` implementation independent. The
+test will work now for both CPython and IronPython.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30202
+.. date: 2019-04-15-19-05-35
+.. nonce: Wt7INj
+.. section: Tests
+
+Update ``test.test_importlib.test_abc`` to test ``find_spec()``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28009
+.. date: 2019-04-11-07-59-43
+.. nonce: s85urF
+.. section: Tests
+
+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
+.. date: 2018-09-07-01-18-27
+.. nonce: r2-EGd
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fallback to a default reason when :func:`unittest.skip` is uncalled. Patch
+by Naitree Zhu.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38809
+.. date: 2019-11-15-09-25-44
+.. nonce: 9jwta6
+.. section: Build
+
+On Windows, build scripts will now recognize and use python.exe from an
+active virtual env.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38684
+.. date: 2019-11-04-14-30-37
+.. nonce: aed593
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix _hashlib build when Blake2 is disabled, but OpenSSL supports it.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38468
+.. date: 2019-10-13-16-18-24
+.. nonce: buCO84
+.. section: Build
+
+Misc/python-config.in now uses `getvar()` for all still existing
+`sysconfig.get_config_var()` calls. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37415
+.. date: 2019-10-11-15-32-58
+.. nonce: D9RXrq
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix stdatomic.h header check for ICC compiler: the ICC implementation lacks
+atomic_uintptr_t type which is needed by Python.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38301
+.. date: 2019-09-28-02-37-11
+.. nonce: 123456
+.. section: Build
+
+In Solaris family, we must be sure to use ``-D_REENTRANT``. Patch by Jesús
+Cea Avión.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36002
+.. date: 2019-09-13-14-12-36
+.. nonce: Bcl4oe
+.. section: Build
+
+Locate ``llvm-profdata`` and ``llvm-ar`` binaries using ``AC_PATH_TOOL``
+rather than ``AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37936
+.. date: 2019-09-10-00-54-48
+.. nonce: E7XEwu
+.. section: Build
+
+The :file:`.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
+.. date: 2019-08-24-17-39-09
+.. nonce: f3jXuH
+.. section: Build
+
+The :file:`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 of :class:`str` and by the
+:mod:`unicodedata` module, now handles each character's data as a
+``dataclass`` with named attributes, rather than a length-18 list of
+different fields.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37936
+.. date: 2019-08-24-00-29-40
+.. nonce: QrORqA
+.. section: Build
+
+The :file:`.gitignore` file no longer applies to any files that are in fact
+tracked in the Git repository.  Patch by Greg Price.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37725
+.. date: 2019-07-30-16-26-11
+.. nonce: MkG1TT
+.. section: Build
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-29-11-36-16
+.. nonce: Sm-dGk
+.. section: Build
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-11-01-28-24
+.. nonce: gIgfiJ
+.. section: Build
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-01-14-39-40
+.. nonce: trbQ-_
+.. section: Build
+
+``make install`` no longer installs ``wininst-*.exe`` files used by
+distutils bdist_wininst: bdist_wininst only works on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37189
+.. date: 2019-06-17-09-40-59
+.. nonce: j5ebdT
+.. section: Build
+
+Many ``PyRun_XXX()`` functions like :c:func:`PyRun_String` were no longer
+exported in ``libpython38.dll`` by mistake. Export them again to fix the ABI
+compatibility.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25361
+.. date: 2019-03-19-22-07-37
+.. nonce: XO9Bfr
+.. section: Build
+
+Enables use of SSE2 instructions in Windows 32-bit build.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36210
+.. date: 2019-03-06-18-55-10
+.. nonce: fup9H2
+.. section: Build
+
+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
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38589
+.. date: 2019-10-28-10-48-16
+.. nonce: V69Q1a
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes HTML Help shortcut when Windows is not installed to C drive
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38453
+.. date: 2019-10-28-10-32-43
+.. nonce: NwwatW
+.. section: Windows
+
+Ensure ntpath.realpath() correctly resolves relative paths.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38519
+.. date: 2019-10-28-05-01-29
+.. nonce: dCkY66
+.. section: Windows
+
+Restores the internal C headers that were missing from the nuget.org and
+Microsoft Store packages.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38492
+.. date: 2019-10-16-09-49-09
+.. nonce: Te1LxC
+.. section: Windows
+
+Remove ``pythonw.exe`` dependency on the Microsoft C++ runtime.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38344
+.. date: 2019-10-05-05-50-58
+.. nonce: scr2LO
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix error message in activate.bat
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38359
+.. date: 2019-10-03-08-04-14
+.. nonce: wzwsl_
+.. section: Windows
+
+Ensures ``pyw.exe`` launcher reads correct registry key.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38355
+.. date: 2019-10-02-15-38-49
+.. nonce: n3AWX6
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes ``ntpath.realpath`` failing on ``sys.executable``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38117
+.. date: 2019-09-16-14-07-11
+.. nonce: hJVf0C
+.. section: Windows
+
+Update bundled OpenSSL to 1.1.1d
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38092
+.. date: 2019-09-13-14-11-42
+.. nonce: x31ehI
+.. section: Windows
+
+Reduce overhead when using multiprocessing in a Windows virtual environment.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38133
+.. date: 2019-09-12-12-05-55
+.. nonce: yFeRGS
+.. section: Windows
+
+Allow py.exe launcher to locate installations from the Microsoft Store and
+improve display of active virtual environments.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38114
+.. date: 2019-09-11-15-24-04
+.. nonce: cc0E5E
+.. section: Windows
+
+The ``pip.ini`` is no longer included in the Nuget package.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32592
+.. date: 2019-09-11-14-51-56
+.. nonce: jvQMD9
+.. section: Windows
+
+Set Windows 8 as the minimum required version for API support
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36634
+.. date: 2019-09-11-14-42-04
+.. nonce: 8Un8ih
+.. section: Windows
+
+:func:`os.cpu_count` now returns active processors rather than maximum
+processors.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36634
+.. date: 2019-09-11-12-34-31
+.. nonce: xLaGgb
+.. section: Windows
+
+venv activate.bat now works when the existing variables contain double quote
+characters.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38081
+.. date: 2019-09-11-10-22-01
+.. nonce: 8JhzjD
+.. section: Windows
+
+Prevent error calling :func:`os.path.realpath` on ``'NUL'``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38087
+.. date: 2019-09-10-14-21-40
+.. nonce: --eIib
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix case sensitivity in test_pathlib and test_ntpath.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38088
+.. date: 2019-09-10-14-17-25
+.. nonce: FOvWSM
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes distutils not finding vcruntime140.dll with only the v142 toolset
+installed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37283
+.. date: 2019-09-09-12-22-23
+.. nonce: 8NvOkU
+.. section: Windows
+
+Ensure command-line and unattend.xml setting override previously detected
+states in Windows installer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38030
+.. date: 2019-09-04-14-01-08
+.. nonce: _USdtk
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes :func:`os.stat` failing for block devices on Windows
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38020
+.. date: 2019-09-03-11-47-37
+.. nonce: xFZ2j0
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes potential crash when calling :func:`os.readlink` (or indirectly
+through :func:`~os.path.realpath`) on a file that is not a supported link.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37705
+.. date: 2019-08-30-15-15-22
+.. nonce: 2o4NWW
+.. section: Windows
+
+Improve the implementation of ``winerror_to_errno()``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37549
+.. date: 2019-08-22-09-04-44
+.. nonce: TpKI3M
+.. section: Windows
+
+:func:`os.dup` no longer fails for standard streams on Windows 7.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 1311
+.. date: 2019-08-21-12-58-18
+.. nonce: BoW1wU
+.. section: Windows
+
+The ``nul`` file on Windows now returns True from :func:`~os.path.exists`
+and a valid result from :func:`os.stat` with ``S_IFCHR`` set.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 9949
+.. date: 2019-08-14-13-40-15
+.. nonce: zW45Ks
+.. section: Windows
+
+Enable support for following symlinks in :func:`os.realpath`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37834
+.. date: 2019-08-12-12-00-24
+.. nonce: VB2QVj
+.. section: Windows
+
+Treat all name surrogate reparse points on Windows in :func:`os.lstat` and
+other reparse points as regular files in :func:`os.stat`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36266
+.. date: 2019-08-08-18-05-27
+.. nonce: x4eZU3
+.. section: Windows
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-06-18-09-18
+.. nonce: Akreij
+.. section: Windows
+
+Trying to import the :mod:`crypt` module on Windows will result in an
+:exc:`ImportError` 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
+.. date: 2019-08-06-13-54-12
+.. nonce: AY1XhH
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes the icons used for file associations to the Microsoft Store package.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37734
+.. date: 2019-08-06-09-35-12
+.. nonce: EoJ9Nh
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix use of registry values to launch Python from Microsoft Store app.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37702
+.. date: 2019-07-29-16-49-31
+.. nonce: Lj2f5e
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix memory leak on Windows in creating an SSLContext object or running
+urllib.request.urlopen('https://...').
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37672
+.. date: 2019-07-24-14-36-28
+.. nonce: uKEVHN
+.. section: Windows
+
+Switch Windows Store package's pip to use bundled :file:`pip.ini` instead of
+:envvar:`PIP_USER` variable.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10945
+.. date: 2019-07-01-12-38-48
+.. nonce: s0YBHG
+.. section: Windows
+
+Officially drop support for creating bdist_wininst installers on non-Windows
+systems.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37445
+.. date: 2019-06-28-18-10-29
+.. nonce: LsdYO6
+.. section: Windows
+
+Include the ``FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS`` flag in ``FormatMessageW()``
+calls.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37369
+.. date: 2019-06-28-09-44-08
+.. nonce: 1iVpxq
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes path for :data:`sys.executable` when running from the Microsoft Store.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37380
+.. date: 2019-06-25-04-15-22
+.. nonce: tPxjuz
+.. section: Windows
+
+Don't collect unfinished processes with ``subprocess._active`` on Windows to
+cleanup later. Patch by Ruslan Kuprieiev.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37351
+.. date: 2019-06-20-12-50-32
+.. nonce: asTnVW
+.. section: Windows
+
+Removes libpython38.a from standard Windows distribution.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35360
+.. date: 2019-06-18-09-05-08
+.. nonce: tdqSmo
+.. section: Windows
+
+Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.28.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37267
+.. date: 2019-06-13-04-15-51
+.. nonce: Ygo5ef
+.. section: Windows
+
+On Windows, :func:`os.dup` no longer creates an inheritable fd when handling
+a character file.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36779
+.. date: 2019-06-11-15-41-34
+.. nonce: 0TMw6f
+.. section: Windows
+
+Ensure ``time.tzname`` is correct on Windows when the active code page is
+set to CP_UTF7 or CP_UTF8.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32587
+.. date: 2019-05-10-15-25-44
+.. nonce: -0g2O3
+.. section: Windows
+
+Make :data:`winreg.REG_MULTI_SZ` support zero-length strings.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28269
+.. date: 2019-05-05-05-23-34
+.. nonce: -MOHI7
+.. section: Windows
+
+Replace use of :c:func:`strcasecmp` for the system function
+:c:func:`_stricmp`. Patch by Minmin Gong.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36590
+.. date: 2019-04-10-21-13-26
+.. nonce: ZTaKcu
+.. section: Windows
+
+Add native Bluetooth RFCOMM support to socket module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38117
+.. date: 2019-09-15-21-29-13
+.. nonce: ZLsoAZ
+.. section: macOS
+
+Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1d in macOS installer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38089
+.. date: 2019-09-10-14-24-35
+.. nonce: eedgyD
+.. section: macOS
+
+Move Azure Pipelines to latest VM versions and make macOS tests optional
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18049
+.. date: 2019-07-13-15-58-18
+.. nonce: MklhQQ
+.. section: macOS
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-02-01-06-47
+.. nonce: 10d4wl
+.. section: macOS
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-18-08-58-30
+.. nonce: -CWbfy
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.28.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34631
+.. date: 2019-06-18-00-30-40
+.. nonce: vSifcv
+.. section: macOS
+
+Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in macOS installer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26353
+.. date: 2019-11-09-23-55-59
+.. nonce: duYZiF
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Stop adding newline when saving an IDLE shell window.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 4630
+.. date: 2019-10-28-04-48-03
+.. nonce: upgjiV
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add an option to toggle IDLE's cursor blink for shell, editor, and output
+windows.  See Settings, General, Window Preferences, Cursor Blink. Patch by
+Zachary Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38598
+.. date: 2019-10-26-18-16-24
+.. nonce: 6kH9FY
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Do not try to compile IDLE shell or output windows
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36698
+.. date: 2019-10-04-18-03-09
+.. nonce: BKcmom
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-17-01-28-56
+.. nonce: yAECDr
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-16-15-04-29
+.. nonce: eudCN1
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-09-22-08-36
+.. nonce: Mzpfe2
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-05-23-12-13
+.. nonce: nxmGGK
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-09-01-10-22-55
+.. nonce: tdbmbP
+.. section: IDLE
+
+To avoid occasional spurious test_idle failures on slower machines, increase
+the ``hover_delay`` in test_tooltip.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37824
+.. date: 2019-08-26-00-41-53
+.. nonce: YY5jAI
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Properly handle user input warnings in IDLE shell. Cease turning
+SyntaxWarnings into SyntaxErrors.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37929
+.. date: 2019-08-24-22-00-33
+.. nonce: jb7523
+.. section: IDLE
+
+IDLE Settings dialog now closes properly when there is no shell window.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37902
+.. date: 2019-08-21-16-02-49
+.. nonce: _R_adE
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add mousewheel scrolling for IDLE module, path, and stack browsers. Patch by
+George Zhang.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37849
+.. date: 2019-08-14-09-43-15
+.. nonce: -bcYF3
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Fixed completions list appearing too high or low when shown above the
+current line.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36419
+.. date: 2019-08-04-17-10-01
+.. nonce: TJZqOc
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Refactor IDLE autocomplete and improve testing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37748
+.. date: 2019-08-04-15-27-50
+.. nonce: 0vf6pg
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Reorder the Run menu.  Put the most common choice, Run Module, at the top.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37692
+.. date: 2019-07-27-15-14-20
+.. nonce: TRHGjD
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Improve highlight config sample with example shell interaction and better
+labels for shell elements.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37628
+.. date: 2019-07-26-17-51-13
+.. nonce: kX4AUF
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Settings dialog no longer expands with font size.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37627
+.. date: 2019-07-20-23-33-53
+.. nonce: dQhUNB
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Initialize the Customize Run dialog with the command line arguments most
+recently entered before.  The user can optionally edit before submitting
+them.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33610
+.. date: 2019-07-18-10-11-36
+.. nonce: xYqMLg
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Fix code context not showing the correct context when first toggled on.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37530
+.. date: 2019-07-11-00-05-31
+.. nonce: AuyCyD
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-07-03-22-47-44
+.. nonce: nePPLi
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Cleanup ``config.py`` by inlining ``RemoveFile`` and simplifying the
+handling of ``file`` in ``CreateConfigHandlers``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37325
+.. date: 2019-06-18-16-40-05
+.. nonce: GssOf1
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Fix tab focus traversal order for help source and custom run dialogs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37321
+.. date: 2019-06-17-16-35-30
+.. nonce: zVTTGS
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Both subprocess connection error messages now refer to the 'Startup failure'
+section of the IDLE doc.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 17535
+.. date: 2019-06-13-01-07-20
+.. nonce: K8i2St
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-10-22-48-50
+.. nonce: Zltkum
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-07-00-17-41
+.. nonce: voU6pQ
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-04-23-27-33
+.. nonce: FN_fBf
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-06-04-20-36-24
+.. nonce: 7XdoWz
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Make calltip reminder about '/' meaning positional-only less obtrusive by
+only adding it when there is room on the first line.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 5680
+.. date: 2019-06-03-00-39-29
+.. nonce: VCQfOO
+.. section: IDLE
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-03-21-08-35-00
+.. nonce: OdDCGk
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Gather Format menu functions into format.py.  Combine paragraph.py,
+rstrip.py, and format methods from editor.py.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38118
+.. date: 2019-10-08-15-07-52
+.. nonce: pIZD6H
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Update Valgrind suppression file to ignore a false alarm in
+:c:func:`PyUnicode_Decode` when using GCC builtin strcmp().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38347
+.. date: 2019-10-02-09-48-42
+.. nonce: 2Tq5D1
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+pathfix.py: Assume all files that end on '.py' are Python scripts when
+working recursively.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37803
+.. date: 2019-09-12-16-15-55
+.. nonce: chEizy
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+pdb's ``--help`` and ``--version`` long options now work.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37942
+.. date: 2019-08-24-12-11-30
+.. nonce: 7H8N9a
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Improve ArgumentClinic converter for floats.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37704
+.. date: 2019-07-29-13-59-19
+.. nonce: xxGUz_
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Remove ``Tools/scripts/h2py.py``: use cffi to access a C API in Python.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37675
+.. date: 2019-07-24-16-20-54
+.. nonce: 951Cvf
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+2to3 now works when run from a zipped standard library.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37034
+.. date: 2019-05-27-16-13-08
+.. nonce: zbTgy8
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Argument Clinic now uses the argument name on errors with keyword-only
+argument instead of their position. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37064
+.. date: 2019-05-27-15-26-12
+.. nonce: k_SPW2
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Add option -k to pathscript.py script: preserve shebang flags. Add option -a
+to pathscript.py script: add flags.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37633
+.. date: 2019-11-04-21-10-47
+.. nonce: oOGVdo
+.. section: C API
+
+Reëxport some function compatibility wrappers for macros in ``pythonrun.h``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38644
+.. date: 2019-11-04-17-59-46
+.. nonce: euO_RR
+.. section: C API
+
+Provide :c:func:`Py_EnterRecursiveCall` and :c:func:`Py_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
+access ``PyThreadState.recursion_depth`` field. Remove
+``_Py_CheckRecursionLimit`` from the stable ABI.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38650
+.. date: 2019-10-30-22-03-03
+.. nonce: 0pi8zt
+.. section: C API
+
+The global variable :c:data:`PyStructSequence_UnnamedField` is now a
+constant and refers to a constant string.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38540
+.. date: 2019-10-21-09-24-03
+.. nonce: 314N_T
+.. section: C API
+
+Fixed possible leak in :c:func:`PyArg_Parse` and similar functions for
+format units ``"es#"`` and ``"et#"`` when the macro
+:c:macro:`PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN` is not defined.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38395
+.. date: 2019-10-08-01-23-24
+.. nonce: MJ6Ey9
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix a crash in :class:`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
+.. date: 2019-10-07-17-15-09
+.. nonce: hFX_jD
+.. section: C API
+
+The ``_PyObject_CheckConsistency()`` function is now also available in
+release mode. For example, it can be used to debug a crash in the
+``visit_decref()`` function of the GC.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38266
+.. date: 2019-10-03-12-53-53
+.. nonce: 0FIC1q
+.. section: C API
+
+Revert the removal of PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent() with documentation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38303
+.. date: 2019-09-30-16-53-30
+.. nonce: YoIs0M
+.. section: C API
+
+Update audioop extension module to use the stable ABI (PEP-384). Patch by
+Tyler Kieft.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38234
+.. date: 2019-09-24-17-09-48
+.. nonce: d0bhEA
+.. section: C API
+
+:c:func:`Py_SetPath` now sets :data:`sys.executable` to the program full
+path (:c:func:`Py_GetProgramFullPath`) rather than to the program name
+(:c:func:`Py_GetProgramName`).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38234
+.. date: 2019-09-20-17-22-41
+.. nonce: ZbquVK
+.. section: C API
+
+Python ignored arguments passed to :c:func:`Py_SetPath`,
+:c:func:`Py_SetPythonHome` and :c:func:`Py_SetProgramName`: fix Python
+initialization to use specified arguments.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38205
+.. date: 2019-09-19-18-26-29
+.. nonce: Db1OJL
+.. section: C API
+
+The :c:func:`Py_UNREACHABLE` macro now calls :c:func:`Py_FatalError`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38140
+.. date: 2019-09-13-01-24-47
+.. nonce: y59qaO
+.. section: C API
+
+Make dict and weakref offsets opaque for C heap types by passing the offsets
+through PyMemberDef
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 15088
+.. date: 2019-09-05-14-17-21
+.. nonce: plt8Em
+.. section: C API
+
+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
+.. date: 2019-08-23-18-45-11
+.. nonce: q3Kh8Z
+.. section: C API
+
+Options added by ``PySys_AddXOption()`` are now handled the same way than
+``PyConfig.xoptions`` and command line ``-X`` options.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37926
+.. date: 2019-08-23-11-35-55
+.. nonce: hnI5IQ
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix a crash in ``PySys_SetArgvEx(0, NULL, 0)``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37879
+.. date: 2019-08-17-13-50-21
+.. nonce: CZeUem
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix subtype_dealloc to suppress the type decref when the base type is a C
+heap type
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37645
+.. date: 2019-07-21-21-08-47
+.. nonce: 4DcUaI
+.. section: C API
+
+Add :c:func:`_PyObject_FunctionStr` to get a user-friendly string
+representation of a function-like object. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29548
+.. date: 2019-07-17-09-50-50
+.. nonce: 5wIptQ
+.. section: C API
+
+The functions ``PyEval_CallObject``, ``PyEval_CallFunction``,
+``PyEval_CallMethod`` and ``PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords`` are deprecated.
+Use :c:func:`PyObject_Call` and its variants instead.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37151
+.. date: 2019-07-16-11-02-00
+.. nonce: YKfuNA
+.. section: C API
+
+``PyCFunction_Call`` is now a deprecated alias of :c:func:`PyObject_Call`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37540
+.. date: 2019-07-10-12-27-28
+.. nonce: E8Z773
+.. section: C API
+
+The vectorcall protocol now requires that the caller passes only strings as
+keyword names.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37207
+.. date: 2019-07-07-10-37-07
+.. nonce: SlVNky
+.. section: C API
+
+The vectorcall protocol is now enabled for ``type`` objects: set
+``tp_vectorcall`` to a vectorcall function to be used instead of ``tp_new``
+and ``tp_init`` when calling the class itself.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21120
+.. date: 2019-07-06-23-56-47
+.. nonce: lXHqlT
+.. section: C API
+
+Exclude Python-ast.h, ast.h and asdl.h from the limited API.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37483
+.. date: 2019-07-02-15-42-37
+.. nonce: vftT4f
+.. section: C API
+
+Add new function ``_PyObject_CallOneArg`` for calling an object with one
+positional argument.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36763
+.. date: 2019-06-28-15-49-16
+.. nonce: zrmgki
+.. section: C API
+
+Add :func:`PyConfig_SetWideStringList` function.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37337
+.. date: 2019-06-19-12-06-31
+.. nonce: gXIGyU
+.. section: C API
+
+Add fast functions for calling methods:
+:c:func:`_PyObject_VectorcallMethod`, :c:func:`_PyObject_CallMethodNoArgs`
+and :c:func:`_PyObject_CallMethodOneArg`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28805
+.. date: 2019-06-14-14-03-51
+.. nonce: qZC0N_
+.. section: C API
+
+The :const:`METH_FASTCALL` calling convention has been documented.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37221
+.. date: 2019-06-11-02-50-38
+.. nonce: 4tClQT
+.. section: C API
+
+The new function :c:func:`PyCode_NewWithPosOnlyArgs` allows to create code
+objects like :c:func:`PyCode_New`, but with an extra *posonlyargcount*
+parameter for indicating the number of positonal-only arguments.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37215
+.. date: 2019-06-10-15-32-34
+.. nonce: yzoNyU
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix dtrace issue introduce by bpo-36842
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37194
+.. date: 2019-06-07-14-03-52
+.. nonce: uck7MD
+.. section: C API
+
+Add a new public :c:func:`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, whereas ``PyObject_CallNoArgs(func)`` only allocates 624
+bytes per call.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37170
+.. date: 2019-06-06-08-47-04
+.. nonce: hO_fpM
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix the cast on error in :c:func:`PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask()`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35381
+.. date: 2019-01-18-17-05-26
+.. nonce: 9CbeW3
+.. section: C API
+
+Convert posixmodule.c statically allocated types ``DirEntryType`` and
+``ScandirIteratorType`` to heap-allocated types.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34331
+.. date: 2018-08-04-00-59-44
+.. nonce: iaUkmU
+.. section: C API
+
+Use singular/plural noun in error message when instantiating an abstract
+class with non-overriden abstract method(s).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-06-18-55-10.bpo-36210.fup9H2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-06-18-55-10.bpo-36210.fup9H2.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index aa9a56fe57..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-06-18-55-10.bpo-36210.fup9H2.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-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
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-19-22-07-37.bpo-25361.XO9Bfr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-19-22-07-37.bpo-25361.XO9Bfr.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9953b0760f..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-19-22-07-37.bpo-25361.XO9Bfr.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Enables use of SSE2 instructions in Windows 32-bit build.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-06-17-09-40-59.bpo-37189.j5ebdT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-06-17-09-40-59.bpo-37189.j5ebdT.rst
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index 8b3be5eca7..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-06-17-09-40-59.bpo-37189.j5ebdT.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Many ``PyRun_XXX()`` functions like :c:func:`PyRun_String` were no longer
-exported in ``libpython38.dll`` by mistake. Export them again to fix the ABI
-compatibility.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-01-14-39-40.bpo-37468.trbQ-_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-01-14-39-40.bpo-37468.trbQ-_.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index b8c70d5740..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-01-14-39-40.bpo-37468.trbQ-_.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-``make install`` no longer installs ``wininst-*.exe`` files used by
-distutils bdist_wininst: bdist_wininst only works on Windows.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-11-01-28-24.bpo-36044.gIgfiJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-11-01-28-24.bpo-36044.gIgfiJ.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 177c4cb6d1..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-11-01-28-24.bpo-36044.gIgfiJ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-29-11-36-16.bpo-37707.Sm-dGk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-29-11-36-16.bpo-37707.Sm-dGk.rst
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index c0d58ab747..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-29-11-36-16.bpo-37707.Sm-dGk.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-30-16-26-11.bpo-37725.MkG1TT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-30-16-26-11.bpo-37725.MkG1TT.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 1687cf223c..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-07-30-16-26-11.bpo-37725.MkG1TT.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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".
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-00-29-40.bpo-37936.QrORqA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-00-29-40.bpo-37936.QrORqA.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c64861038..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-00-29-40.bpo-37936.QrORqA.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The :file:`.gitignore` file no longer applies to any files that are in fact
-tracked in the Git repository.  Patch by Greg Price.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-17-39-09.bpo-37760.f3jXuH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-17-39-09.bpo-37760.f3jXuH.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 04981733db..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-17-39-09.bpo-37760.f3jXuH.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-The :file:`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 of :class:`str` and by the
-:mod:`unicodedata` module, now handles each character's data as a
-``dataclass`` with named attributes, rather than a length-18 list of
-different fields.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-10-00-54-48.bpo-37936.E7XEwu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-10-00-54-48.bpo-37936.E7XEwu.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ded61eafe..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-10-00-54-48.bpo-37936.E7XEwu.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-The :file:`.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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-13-14-12-36.bpo-36002.Bcl4oe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-13-14-12-36.bpo-36002.Bcl4oe.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 374e7b234c..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-13-14-12-36.bpo-36002.Bcl4oe.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Locate ``llvm-profdata`` and ``llvm-ar`` binaries using ``AC_PATH_TOOL``
-rather than ``AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-28-02-37-11.bpo-38301.123456.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-28-02-37-11.bpo-38301.123456.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 59c9a76385..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-09-28-02-37-11.bpo-38301.123456.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-In Solaris family, we must be sure to use ``-D_REENTRANT``.
-Patch by Jesús Cea Avión.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-10-11-15-32-58.bpo-37415.D9RXrq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-10-11-15-32-58.bpo-37415.D9RXrq.rst
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index 98f4a3bf4f..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-10-11-15-32-58.bpo-37415.D9RXrq.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix stdatomic.h header check for ICC compiler: the ICC implementation lacks
-atomic_uintptr_t type which is needed by Python.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-10-13-16-18-24.bpo-38468.buCO84.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-10-13-16-18-24.bpo-38468.buCO84.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fe4c2b25a..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-10-13-16-18-24.bpo-38468.buCO84.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Misc/python-config.in now uses `getvar()` for all still existing `sysconfig.get_config_var()` calls.

-Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-11-04-14-30-37.bpo-38684.aed593.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-11-04-14-30-37.bpo-38684.aed593.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-11-04-14-30-37.bpo-38684.aed593.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix _hashlib build when Blake2 is disabled, but OpenSSL supports it.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-11-15-09-25-44.bpo-38809.9jwta6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-11-15-09-25-44.bpo-38809.9jwta6.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-11-15-09-25-44.bpo-38809.9jwta6.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-On Windows, build scripts will now recognize and use python.exe from an
-active virtual env.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-08-04-00-59-44.bpo-34331.iaUkmU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-08-04-00-59-44.bpo-34331.iaUkmU.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e45e0915db..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-08-04-00-59-44.bpo-34331.iaUkmU.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Use singular/plural noun in error message when instantiating an abstract
-class with non-overriden abstract method(s).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-01-18-17-05-26.bpo-35381.9CbeW3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-01-18-17-05-26.bpo-35381.9CbeW3.rst
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index a7efce468c..0000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-01-18-17-05-26.bpo-35381.9CbeW3.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Convert posixmodule.c statically allocated types ``DirEntryType`` and
-``ScandirIteratorType`` to heap-allocated types.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-06-06-08-47-04.bpo-37170.hO_fpM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-06-06-08-47-04.bpo-37170.hO_fpM.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-06-06-08-47-04.bpo-37170.hO_fpM.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix the cast on error in :c:func:`PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask()`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-06-07-14-03-52.bpo-37194.uck7MD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-06-07-14-03-52.bpo-37194.uck7MD.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-06-07-14-03-52.bpo-37194.uck7MD.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Add a new public :c:func:`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, whereas ``PyObject_CallNoArgs(func)`` only allocates 624 bytes per
-call.
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-Fix dtrace issue introduce by bpo-36842
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-The new function :c:func:`PyCode_NewWithPosOnlyArgs` allows to create
-code objects like :c:func:`PyCode_New`, but with an extra *posonlyargcount*
-parameter for indicating the number of positonal-only arguments.
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-The :const:`METH_FASTCALL` calling convention has been documented.
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-Add fast functions for calling methods: :c:func:`_PyObject_VectorcallMethod`,
-:c:func:`_PyObject_CallMethodNoArgs` and :c:func:`_PyObject_CallMethodOneArg`.
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-Add :func:`PyConfig_SetWideStringList` function.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-02-15-42-37.bpo-37483.vftT4f.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-02-15-42-37.bpo-37483.vftT4f.rst
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-Add new function ``_PyObject_CallOneArg`` for calling an object with one
-positional argument.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-06-23-56-47.bpo-21120.lXHqlT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-06-23-56-47.bpo-21120.lXHqlT.rst
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-Exclude Python-ast.h, ast.h and asdl.h from the limited API.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-07-10-37-07.bpo-37207.SlVNky.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-07-10-37-07.bpo-37207.SlVNky.rst
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-The vectorcall protocol is now enabled for ``type`` objects: set
-``tp_vectorcall`` to a vectorcall function to be used instead of ``tp_new``
-and ``tp_init`` when calling the class itself.
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-The vectorcall protocol now requires that the caller passes only strings as
-keyword names.
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-``PyCFunction_Call`` is now a deprecated alias of :c:func:`PyObject_Call`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-17-09-50-50.bpo-29548.5wIptQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-17-09-50-50.bpo-29548.5wIptQ.rst
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-The functions ``PyEval_CallObject``, ``PyEval_CallFunction``,
-``PyEval_CallMethod`` and ``PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords`` are deprecated.
-Use :c:func:`PyObject_Call` and its variants instead.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-21-21-08-47.bpo-37645.4DcUaI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-07-21-21-08-47.bpo-37645.4DcUaI.rst
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-Add :c:func:`_PyObject_FunctionStr` to get a user-friendly string representation
-of a function-like object. Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-08-17-13-50-21.bpo-37879.CZeUem.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-08-17-13-50-21.bpo-37879.CZeUem.rst
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-Fix subtype_dealloc to suppress the type decref when the base type is a C
-heap type
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-08-23-11-35-55.bpo-37926.hnI5IQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-08-23-11-35-55.bpo-37926.hnI5IQ.rst
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-Fix a crash in ``PySys_SetArgvEx(0, NULL, 0)``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-08-23-18-45-11.bpo-36763.q3Kh8Z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-08-23-18-45-11.bpo-36763.q3Kh8Z.rst
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-Options added by ``PySys_AddXOption()`` are now handled the same way than
-``PyConfig.xoptions`` and command line ``-X`` options.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-09-05-14-17-21.bpo-15088.plt8Em.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-09-05-14-17-21.bpo-15088.plt8Em.rst
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-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)
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-Make dict and weakref offsets opaque for C heap types by passing the offsets
-through PyMemberDef
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-The :c:func:`Py_UNREACHABLE` macro now calls :c:func:`Py_FatalError`.
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-Python ignored arguments passed to :c:func:`Py_SetPath`,
-:c:func:`Py_SetPythonHome` and :c:func:`Py_SetProgramName`: fix Python
-initialization to use specified arguments.
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-:c:func:`Py_SetPath` now sets :data:`sys.executable` to the program full
-path (:c:func:`Py_GetProgramFullPath`) rather than to the program name
-(:c:func:`Py_GetProgramName`).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-09-30-16-53-30.bpo-38303.YoIs0M.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-09-30-16-53-30.bpo-38303.YoIs0M.rst
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-Update audioop extension module to use the stable ABI (PEP-384). Patch by Tyler Kieft.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-10-03-12-53-53.bpo-38266.0FIC1q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-10-03-12-53-53.bpo-38266.0FIC1q.rst
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-Revert the removal of PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent() with documentation.
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-The ``_PyObject_CheckConsistency()`` function is now also available in release
-mode. For example, it can be used to debug a crash in the ``visit_decref()``
-function of the GC.
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-Fix a crash in :class:`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.
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-Fixed possible leak in :c:func:`PyArg_Parse` and similar functions for
-format units ``"es#"`` and ``"et#"`` when the macro
-:c:macro:`PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN` is not defined.
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-The global variable :c:data:`PyStructSequence_UnnamedField` is now a
-constant and refers to a constant string.
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-Provide :c:func:`Py_EnterRecursiveCall` and :c:func:`Py_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 access
-``PyThreadState.recursion_depth`` field. Remove ``_Py_CheckRecursionLimit``
-from the stable ABI.
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-Reëxport some function compatibility wrappers for macros in ``pythonrun.h``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-06-07-01-01-20.bpo-30773.C31rVE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-06-07-01-01-20.bpo-30773.C31rVE.rst
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-Prohibit parallel running of aclose() / asend() / athrow(). Fix ag_running
-to reflect the actual running status of the AG.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-06-14-13-55-45.bpo-27575.mMYgzv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-06-14-13-55-45.bpo-27575.mMYgzv.rst
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-Improve speed of dictview intersection by directly using set intersection
-logic. Patch by David Su.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-07-23-13-09-54.bpo-19072.Gc59GS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-07-23-13-09-54.bpo-19072.Gc59GS.rst
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-The :class:`classmethod` decorator can now wrap other descriptors
-such as property objects.  Adapted from a patch written by Graham
-Dumpleton.
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-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.
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-``pdb.Pdb`` supports ~/.pdbrc in Windows 7. Patch by Tim Hopper and Dan 

-Lidral-Porter.
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-Add ``--upgrade-deps`` to venv module. Patch by Cooper Ry Lees
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-05-06-09-59-31.bpo-36781.uocWt6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-05-06-09-59-31.bpo-36781.uocWt6.rst
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-:func:`sum` has been optimized for boolean values.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-05-28-11-47-44.bpo-37077.S1h0Fc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-05-28-11-47-44.bpo-37077.S1h0Fc.rst
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-Add :func:`threading.get_native_id` support for AIX.
-Patch by M. Felt
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-:func:`threading.get_native_id` now also supports NetBSD.

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-The slot ``tp_vectorcall_offset`` is inherited unconditionally to support
-``super().__call__()`` when the base class uses vectorcall.
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-Slot functions optimize any callable with ``Py_TPFLAGS_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR`` instead of only instances of ``function``.
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-Implement :c:func:`PyBuffer_SizeFromFormat()` function (previously
-documented but not implemented): call :func:`struct.calcsize`.
-Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
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-Remove erroneous optimization for empty set differences.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-11-11-15-19.bpo-37213.UPii5K.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-11-11-15-19.bpo-37213.UPii5K.rst
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-Handle correctly negative line offsets in the peephole optimizer. Patch by
-Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-11-12-59-38.bpo-36974.bVYmSA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-11-12-59-38.bpo-36974.bVYmSA.rst
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-Implemented separate vectorcall functions for every calling convention of
-builtin functions and methods. This improves performance for calls.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-12-14-39-16.bpo-37231.LF41Es.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-12-14-39-16.bpo-37231.LF41Es.rst
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-The dispatching of type slots to special methods (for example calling
-``__mul__`` when doing ``x * y``) has been made faster.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-13-02-27-12.bpo-37257.IMxDvT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-13-02-27-12.bpo-37257.IMxDvT.rst
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-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.
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-14-06-32-33.bpo-37269.SjVVAe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-14-06-32-33.bpo-37269.SjVVAe.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-14-06-32-33.bpo-37269.SjVVAe.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug in the peephole optimizer that was not treating correctly constant
-conditions with binary operators. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-16-02-38-25.bpo-37300.WJkgKV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-16-02-38-25.bpo-37300.WJkgKV.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Remove an unnecssary Py_XINCREF in classobject.c.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-17-03-53-16.bpo-37316.LytDX_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-17-03-53-16.bpo-37316.LytDX_.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix the :c:func:`PySys_Audit` call in :class:`mmap.mmap`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-17-06-03-55.bpo-35224.FHWPGv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-17-06-03-55.bpo-35224.FHWPGv.rst
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-Reverse evaluation order of key: value in dict comprehensions as proposed in PEP 572.
-I.e. in ``{k: v for ...}``, ``k`` will be evaluated before ``v``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-18-17-53-06.bpo-37330.wAvHmz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-18-17-53-06.bpo-37330.wAvHmz.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-:func:`open`, :func:`io.open`, :func:`codecs.open` and
-:class:`fileinput.FileInput` no longer accept ``'U'`` ("universal newline") in
-the file mode. This flag was deprecated since Python 3.3.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-22-12-45-20.bpo-24214.hIiHeD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-22-12-45-20.bpo-24214.hIiHeD.rst
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Improved support of the surrogatepass error handler in the UTF-8 and UTF-16
-incremental decoders.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-23-00-26-30.bpo-37348.pp8P-x.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-23-00-26-30.bpo-37348.pp8P-x.rst
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-Optimized decoding short ASCII string with UTF-8 and ascii codecs.
-``b"foo".decode()`` is about 15% faster.  Patch by Inada Naoki.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-24-21-53-52.bpo-37388.0XTZmW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-24-21-53-52.bpo-37388.0XTZmW.rst
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-In development mode and in debug build, *encoding* and *errors* arguments are
-now checked on string encoding and decoding operations. Examples: :func:`open`,
-:meth:`str.encode` and :meth:`bytes.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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-25-01-45-06.bpo-37392.J3JhIx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-25-01-45-06.bpo-37392.J3JhIx.rst
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Remove ``sys.getcheckinterval()`` and ``sys.setcheckinterval()`` functions.
-They were deprecated since Python 3.2. Use :func:`sys.getswitchinterval` and
-:func:`sys.setswitchinterval` instead. Remove also ``check_interval`` field of
-the ``PyInterpreterState`` structure.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-26-17-27-26.bpo-37414.o6Lnbc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-26-17-27-26.bpo-37414.o6Lnbc.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The undocumented ``sys.callstats()`` function has been removed. Since Python
-3.7, it was deprecated and always returned ``None``. It required a special
-build option ``CALL_PROFILE`` which was already removed in Python 3.7.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-26-18-41-00.bpo-37417.VsZeHL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-26-18-41-00.bpo-37417.VsZeHL.rst
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-:meth:`bytearray.extend` now correctly handles errors that arise during iteration.

-Patch by Brandt Bucher.
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-Fix ``SyntaxError`` indicator printing too many spaces for multi-line strings - by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-01-12-22-44.bpo-37467.u-XyEu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-01-12-22-44.bpo-37467.u-XyEu.rst
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-Fix :func:`sys.excepthook` and :c:func:`PyErr_Display` if a filename is a
-bytes string. For example, for a SyntaxError exception where the filename
-attribute is a bytes string.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-10-09-56-47.bpo-37537.OkB0wd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-10-09-56-47.bpo-37537.OkB0wd.rst
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-Compute allocated pymalloc blocks inside _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks().  This
-slows down _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() but gives a small speedup to
-_PyObject_Malloc() and _PyObject_Free().
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-Optimized pymalloc for non PGO build.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-14-23-57-27.bpo-37593.yHSTwH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-14-23-57-27.bpo-37593.yHSTwH.rst
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-Swap the positions of the *posonlyargs* and *args* parameters in the
-constructor of :class:`ast.parameters` nodes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-18-11-50-49.bpo-37619.X6Lulo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-18-11-50-49.bpo-37619.X6Lulo.rst
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-When adding a wrapper descriptor from one class to a different class
-(for example, setting ``__add__ = str.__add__`` on an ``int`` subclass),
-an exception is correctly raised when the operator is called.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-20-22-34-42.bpo-37444.UOd3Xs.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-20-22-34-42.bpo-37444.UOd3Xs.rst
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-Update differing exception between :meth:`builtins.__import__` and :meth:`importlib.__import__`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-22-11-05-05.bpo-37648.6TY2L-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-22-11-05-05.bpo-37648.6TY2L-.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fixed minor inconsistency in :meth:`list.__contains__`,
-:meth:`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 ``==``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-25-11-06-57.bpo-37340.5ktLEg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-25-11-06-57.bpo-37340.5ktLEg.rst
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-Removed object cache (``free_list``) for bound method objects.  Temporary
-bound method objects are less used than before thanks to the ``LOAD_METHOD``
-opcode and the ``_PyObject_VectorcallMethod`` C API.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-01-10-45-51.bpo-34880.u_x_CG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-01-10-45-51.bpo-34880.u_x_CG.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-The :keyword:`assert` statement now works properly if the
-:exc:`AssertionError` exception is being shadowed.
-Patch by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-02-15-01-33.bpo-36311.uY5vt-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-02-15-01-33.bpo-36311.uY5vt-.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Decoding bytes objects larger than 2GiB is faster and no longer fails when a
-multibyte characters spans a chunk boundary.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-04-12-24-18.bpo-36279.8Zy7jZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-04-12-24-18.bpo-36279.8Zy7jZ.rst
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-Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in :func:`os.wait3`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-05-14-22-59.bpo-37757.lRv5HX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-05-14-22-59.bpo-37757.lRv5HX.rst
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@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-:pep:`572`: As described in the PEP, assignment expressions now raise
-:exc:`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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-06-14-03-59.bpo-32912.UDwSMJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-06-14-03-59.bpo-32912.UDwSMJ.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Reverted :issue:`32912`: emitting :exc:`SyntaxWarning` instead of
-:exc:`DeprecationWarning` for invalid escape sequences in string and bytes
-literals.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-06-23-39-05.bpo-37409.1qwzn2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-06-23-39-05.bpo-37409.1qwzn2.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-09-18-28-57.bpo-37802.pKxcAW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-09-18-28-57.bpo-37802.pKxcAW.rst
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-Slightly improve performance of :c:func:`PyLong_FromUnsignedLong`,
-:c:func:`PyLong_FromUnsignedLongLong` and :c:func:`PyLong_FromSize_t`.
-Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-13-18-05-20.bpo-37840.elLCci.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-13-18-05-20.bpo-37840.elLCci.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix handling of negative indices in :c:member:`~PySequenceMethods.sq_item`
-of :class:`bytearray`. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-15-12-48-36.bpo-20490.-hXeEn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-15-12-48-36.bpo-20490.-hXeEn.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-15-12-48-36.bpo-20490.-hXeEn.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Improve import error message for partially initialized module on circular
-``from`` imports - by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-17-18-41-59.bpo-37830.fNfMbz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-17-18-41-59.bpo-37830.fNfMbz.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed compilation of :keyword:`break` and :keyword:`continue` in the
-:keyword:`finally` block when the corresponding :keyword:`try` block
-contains :keyword:`return` with a non-constant value.
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-Fix :func:`codecs.lookup` to normalize the encoding name the same way than :func:`encodings.normalize_encoding`, except that :func:`codecs.lookup` also converts the name to lower case.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-23-22-46-25.bpo-37812.vsWZwS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-23-22-46-25.bpo-37812.vsWZwS.rst
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-The ``CHECK_SMALL_INT`` macro used inside :file:`Object/longobject.c` has
-been replaced with an explicit ``return`` at each call site.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-26-04-09-57.bpo-37947.mzAQtB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-26-04-09-57.bpo-37947.mzAQtB.rst
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-Adjust correctly the recursion level in the symtable generation for named
-expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-27-21-21-36.bpo-37966.5OBLez.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-27-21-21-36.bpo-37966.5OBLez.rst
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-The implementation of :func:`~unicodedata.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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-29-01-55-38.bpo-8425.FTq4A8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-29-01-55-38.bpo-8425.FTq4A8.rst
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-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).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-31-11-13-25.bpo-37994.Rj6S4j.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-08-31-11-13-25.bpo-37994.Rj6S4j.rst
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-Fixed silencing arbitrary errors if an attribute lookup fails in several
-sites. Only AttributeError should be silenced.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-02-16-17-42.bpo-36946._lAuSR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-02-16-17-42.bpo-36946._lAuSR.rst
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-Fix possible signed integer overflow when handling slices. Patch by hongweipeng.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-02-20-00-31.bpo-38005.e7VsTA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-02-20-00-31.bpo-38005.e7VsTA.rst
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-Fixed comparing and creating of InterpreterID and ChannelID.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-09-14-44-17.bpo-38071.bLwkBJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-09-14-44-17.bpo-38071.bLwkBJ.rst
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-Make termios extension module PEP-384 compatible
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-Make _posixsubprocess PEP-384 compatible
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-grp module made PEP-384 compatible
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-Make pwd extension module PEP-384 compatible
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-09-15-40-57.bpo-38074.MsVbeI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-09-15-40-57.bpo-38074.MsVbeI.rst
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-zlib module made PEP-384 compatible
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-The random module is now PEP-384 compatible
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-The struct module is now PEP-384 compatible
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-ast module updated to PEP-384 and all statics removed
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-The select module is now PEP-384 compliant and no longer has static state
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-Fix an off-by-one error in PyState_AddModule that could cause out-of-bounds
-memory access.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-12-19-50-01.bpo-38013.I7btD0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-12-19-50-01.bpo-38013.I7btD0.rst
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-Allow to call ``async_generator_athrow().throw(...)`` even for non-started
-async generator helper. It fixes annoying warning at the end of
-:func:`asyncio.run` call.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-20-19-06-23.bpo-38236.eQ0Tmj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-20-19-06-23.bpo-38236.eQ0Tmj.rst
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-Python now dumps path configuration if it fails to import the Python codecs
-of the filesystem and stdio encodings.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-22-13-56-18.bpo-38219.rFl7JD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-22-13-56-18.bpo-38219.rFl7JD.rst
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-Optimized the :class:`dict` constructor and the :meth:`~dict.update` method
-for the case when the argument is a dict.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-24-05-32-27.bpo-11410.vS182p.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-24-05-32-27.bpo-11410.vS182p.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-24-18-45-46.bpo-36871.p47knk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-24-18-45-46.bpo-36871.p47knk.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-28-22-54-25.bpo-38310.YDTbEo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-28-22-54-25.bpo-38310.YDTbEo.rst
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-Predict ``BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL`` -> ``CALL_FUNCTION_EX`` opcode pairs in the main interpreter loop. Patch by Brandt Bucher.
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-Fix warnings options priority: ``PyConfig.warnoptions`` has the highest
-priority, as stated in the :pep:`587`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-30-09-33-21.bpo-38006.UYlJum.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-09-30-09-33-21.bpo-38006.UYlJum.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-01-12-46-30.bpo-37474.cB3se1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-01-12-46-30.bpo-37474.cB3se1.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-05-19-36-16.bpo-38402.EZuzgK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-05-19-36-16.bpo-38402.EZuzgK.rst
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-Check the error from the system's underlying ``crypt`` or ``crypt_r``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-06-15-01-57.bpo-38210.Xgc6F_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-06-15-01-57.bpo-38210.Xgc6F_.rst
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-Remove unecessary intersection and update set operation in dictview with
-empty set. (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`38210`.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-07-22-51-39.bpo-38392.KaXXps.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-07-22-51-39.bpo-38392.KaXXps.rst
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-In debug mode, :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Track` now calls ``tp_traverse()`` of
-the object type to ensure that the object is valid: test that objects
-visited by ``tp_traverse()`` are valid.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-09-16-50-52.bpo-38379.oz5qZx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-09-16-50-52.bpo-38379.oz5qZx.rst
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-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()`` and ``get_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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-10-01-41-02.bpo-38379._q4dhn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-10-01-41-02.bpo-38379._q4dhn.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-10-20-42-09.bpo-38437.z_0mZp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-10-20-42-09.bpo-38437.z_0mZp.rst
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-Activate the ``GC_DEBUG`` macro for debug builds of the interpreter (when
-``Py_DEBUG`` is set). Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-13-23-41-38.bpo-38469.9kmuQj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-13-23-41-38.bpo-38469.9kmuQj.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-19-12-44-13.bpo-38465.V1L8c4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-19-12-44-13.bpo-38465.V1L8c4.rst
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-:class:`bytearray`, :class:`~array.array` and :class:`~mmap.mmap` objects allow now to export more than 2**31 buffers at a time.
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-Fix a segmentation fault when using reverse iterators of empty ``dict`` objects.
-Patch by Dong-hee Na and Inada Naoki.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-20-12-43-48.bpo-38535.ESMkVN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-20-12-43-48.bpo-38535.ESMkVN.rst
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-Fixed line numbers and column offsets for AST nodes for calls without
-arguments in decorators.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-29-09-38-54.bpo-28029.AmRMEF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-29-09-38-54.bpo-28029.AmRMEF.rst
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-``"".replace("", s, n)`` now returns ``s`` instead of an empty string for
-all non-zero ``n``.  There are similar changes for :class:`bytes` and
-:class:`bytearray` objects.
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-Replace ``Py_FatalError()`` call with a regular :exc:`RuntimeError`
-exception in :meth:`float.__getformat__`.
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-Add documentation for tkinter modules
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-Document and test that ``tempfile`` functions may accept a
-:term:`path-like object` for the ``dir`` argument.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
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-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.
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-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.
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-Documented that in :meth:`datetime.datetime.strptime()`, the leading zero in some two-digit formats is optional. Patch by Mike Gleen.

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-Replace the dead link to the Tkinter 8.5 reference by John Shipman, New
-Mexico Tech, with a link to the archive.org copy.
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-Fix PyList_GetItem index description to include 0.
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-Slash ('/') is now part of syntax.
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-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().
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-Thanks to Benjamin Mintz for finding the bug.
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-Fix wording of arguments for :class:`Request` in :mod:`urllib.request`
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-Remove implementation-specific behaviour of how venv's Deactivate works.
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-Stop recommending getopt in the tutorial for command line argument parsing
-and promote argparse.
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-Beginning edits to Whatsnew 3.8
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-Make :c:func:`PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent` Internal.
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-Mention ``frame.f_trace`` in :func:`sys.settrace` docs.
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-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
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-Added a link to dateutil.parser.isoparse in the datetime.fromisoformat
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-Warn more strongly and clearly about pickle insecurity
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-Fix a dead link in the distutils API Reference.
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-Add Brazilian Portuguese to the language switcher at Python Documentation website.
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-Document the fact that :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised if :meth:`os.fork` is called in a subinterpreter.
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-Provides more details about the interaction between :c:func:`fork` and
-CPython's runtime, focusing just on the C-API.  This includes cautions
-about where :c:func:`fork` should and shouldn't be called.
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-Explicitly mention abc support in functools.singledispatch
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-Gather Format menu functions into format.py.  Combine
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-Add 'Run... Customized' to the Run menu to run a module with customized
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+++ /dev/null
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-Make calltip reminder about '/' meaning positional-only less obtrusive by
-only adding it when there is room on the first line.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-04-23-27-33.bpo-37039.FN_fBf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-04-23-27-33.bpo-37039.FN_fBf.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-07-00-17-41.bpo-37177.voU6pQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-07-00-17-41.bpo-37177.voU6pQ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-07-00-17-41.bpo-37177.voU6pQ.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Properly 'attach' search dialogs to their main window so that they behave
-like other dialogs and do not get hidden behind their main window.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-10-22-48-50.bpo-26806.Zltkum.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-10-22-48-50.bpo-26806.Zltkum.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-10-22-48-50.bpo-26806.Zltkum.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-13-01-07-20.bpo-17535.K8i2St.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-13-01-07-20.bpo-17535.K8i2St.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-13-01-07-20.bpo-17535.K8i2St.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Add optional line numbers for IDLE editor windows.  Windows
-open without line numbers unless set otherwise in the General
-tab of the configuration dialog. 
-
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-17-16-35-30.bpo-37321.zVTTGS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-17-16-35-30.bpo-37321.zVTTGS.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Both subprocess connection error messages now refer to the 'Startup failure'
-section of the IDLE doc.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-18-16-40-05.bpo-37325.GssOf1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-18-16-40-05.bpo-37325.GssOf1.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-18-16-40-05.bpo-37325.GssOf1.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix tab focus traversal order for help source and custom run dialogs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-03-22-47-44.bpo-27452.nePPLi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-03-22-47-44.bpo-27452.nePPLi.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-03-22-47-44.bpo-27452.nePPLi.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Cleanup ``config.py`` by inlining ``RemoveFile`` and simplifying the handling of ``file`` in ``CreateConfigHandlers``.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-11-00-05-31.bpo-37530.AuyCyD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-11-00-05-31.bpo-37530.AuyCyD.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-11-00-05-31.bpo-37530.AuyCyD.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Optimize code context to reduce unneeded background activity.
-Font and highlight changes now occur along with text changes
-instead of after a random delay.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-18-10-11-36.bpo-33610.xYqMLg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-18-10-11-36.bpo-33610.xYqMLg.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-18-10-11-36.bpo-33610.xYqMLg.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix code context not showing the correct context when first toggled on.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-20-23-33-53.bpo-37627.dQhUNB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-20-23-33-53.bpo-37627.dQhUNB.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-20-23-33-53.bpo-37627.dQhUNB.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Initialize the Customize Run dialog with the command line arguments
-most recently entered before.  The user can optionally edit before
-submitting them.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-26-17-51-13.bpo-37628.kX4AUF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-26-17-51-13.bpo-37628.kX4AUF.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-26-17-51-13.bpo-37628.kX4AUF.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Settings dialog no longer expands with font size.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-27-15-14-20.bpo-37692.TRHGjD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-27-15-14-20.bpo-37692.TRHGjD.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-07-27-15-14-20.bpo-37692.TRHGjD.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Improve highlight config sample with example shell interaction and better
-labels for shell elements.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-04-15-27-50.bpo-37748.0vf6pg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-04-15-27-50.bpo-37748.0vf6pg.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-04-15-27-50.bpo-37748.0vf6pg.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reorder the Run menu.  Put the most common choice, Run Module, at the top.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-04-17-10-01.bpo-36419.TJZqOc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-04-17-10-01.bpo-36419.TJZqOc.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-04-17-10-01.bpo-36419.TJZqOc.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Refactor IDLE autocomplete and improve testing.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-14-09-43-15.bpo-37849.-bcYF3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-14-09-43-15.bpo-37849.-bcYF3.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-14-09-43-15.bpo-37849.-bcYF3.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed completions list appearing too high or low when shown above
-the current line.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-21-16-02-49.bpo-37902._R_adE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-21-16-02-49.bpo-37902._R_adE.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-21-16-02-49.bpo-37902._R_adE.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Add mousewheel scrolling for IDLE module, path, and stack browsers.
-Patch by George Zhang.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-24-22-00-33.bpo-37929.jb7523.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-24-22-00-33.bpo-37929.jb7523.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-24-22-00-33.bpo-37929.jb7523.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-IDLE Settings dialog now closes properly when there is no shell window.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-26-00-41-53.bpo-37824.YY5jAI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-26-00-41-53.bpo-37824.YY5jAI.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-08-26-00-41-53.bpo-37824.YY5jAI.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Properly handle user input warnings in IDLE shell. Cease turning
-SyntaxWarnings into SyntaxErrors.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-01-10-22-55.bpo-35771.tdbmbP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-01-10-22-55.bpo-35771.tdbmbP.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-01-10-22-55.bpo-35771.tdbmbP.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-To avoid occasional spurious test_idle failures on slower machines, 
-increase the ``hover_delay`` in test_tooltip.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-05-23-12-13.bpo-38041.nxmGGK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-05-23-12-13.bpo-38041.nxmGGK.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-05-23-12-13.bpo-38041.nxmGGK.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-09-22-08-36.bpo-38077.Mzpfe2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-09-22-08-36.bpo-38077.Mzpfe2.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-09-22-08-36.bpo-38077.Mzpfe2.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-16-15-04-29.bpo-38183.eudCN1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-16-15-04-29.bpo-38183.eudCN1.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-16-15-04-29.bpo-38183.eudCN1.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-17-01-28-56.bpo-35379.yAECDr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-17-01-28-56.bpo-35379.yAECDr.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-17-01-28-56.bpo-35379.yAECDr.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-04-18-03-09.bpo-36698.BKcmom.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-04-18-03-09.bpo-36698.BKcmom.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-04-18-03-09.bpo-36698.BKcmom.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-26-18-16-24.bpo-38598.6kH9FY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-26-18-16-24.bpo-38598.6kH9FY.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-26-18-16-24.bpo-38598.6kH9FY.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Do not try to compile IDLE shell or output windows
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-28-04-48-03.bpo-4630.upgjiV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-28-04-48-03.bpo-4630.upgjiV.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-10-28-04-48-03.bpo-4630.upgjiV.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Add an option to toggle IDLE's cursor blink for shell, editor, and output
-windows.  See Settings, General, Window Preferences, Cursor Blink.
-Patch by Zachary Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-09-23-55-59.bpo-26353.duYZiF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-09-23-55-59.bpo-26353.duYZiF.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-09-23-55-59.bpo-26353.duYZiF.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Stop adding newline when saving an IDLE shell window.
-
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-15-11-24-41.bpo-4963.LRYres.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-15-11-24-41.bpo-4963.LRYres.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-15-11-24-41.bpo-4963.LRYres.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fixed non-deterministic behavior related to mimetypes extension mapping and
-module reinitialization.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-26-14-32-23.bpo-27657.6BhyVK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-26-14-32-23.bpo-27657.6BhyVK.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-26-14-32-23.bpo-27657.6BhyVK.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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").
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-13-12-25-43.bpo-32820.0stF0u.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-13-12-25-43.bpo-32820.0stF0u.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-13-12-25-43.bpo-32820.0stF0u.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-13-17-58-30.bpo-32689.a-3SnH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-13-17-58-30.bpo-32689.a-3SnH.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-13-17-58-30.bpo-32689.a-3SnH.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Update :func:`shutil.move` function to allow for Path objects to be used as
-source argument. Patch by Emily Morehouse and Maxwell "5.13b" McKinnon.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-24-13-18-48.bpo-33348.XaJDei.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-24-13-18-48.bpo-33348.XaJDei.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-24-13-18-48.bpo-33348.XaJDei.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-lib2to3 now recognizes expressions after ``*`` and `**` like in ``f(*[] or
-[])``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-17-21-02-25.bpo-32498.La3TZz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-17-21-02-25.bpo-32498.La3TZz.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-17-21-02-25.bpo-32498.La3TZz.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Made :func:`urllib.parse.unquote()` accept bytes in addition to strings.
-Patch by Stein Karlsen.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-14-13-48-56.bpo-30618.T5AUF6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-14-13-48-56.bpo-30618.T5AUF6.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-14-13-48-56.bpo-30618.T5AUF6.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add :meth:`~pathlib.Path.readlink`. Patch by Girts Folkmanis.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-08-04-12-26-11.bpo-28009.4JcHZb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-08-04-12-26-11.bpo-28009.4JcHZb.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-08-04-12-26-11.bpo-28009.4JcHZb.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-08-27-15-44-50.bpo-34519.cPlH1h.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-08-27-15-44-50.bpo-34519.cPlH1h.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-08-27-15-44-50.bpo-34519.cPlH1h.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add additional aliases for HP Roman 8. Patch by Michael Osipov.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-21-13-23-29.bpo-34749.B0k819.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-21-13-23-29.bpo-34749.B0k819.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-21-13-23-29.bpo-34749.B0k819.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-:func:`binascii.a2b_base64` is now up to 2 times faster. Patch by Sergey
-Fedoseev.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-23-03-18-52.bpo-34775.vHeuHk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-23-03-18-52.bpo-34775.vHeuHk.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-23-03-18-52.bpo-34775.vHeuHk.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-12-19-08-50.bpo-11122.Gj7BQn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-12-19-08-50.bpo-11122.Gj7BQn.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-12-19-08-50.bpo-11122.Gj7BQn.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Distutils won't check for rpmbuild in specified paths only.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-19-10-23-58.bpo-25988.6o7gGK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-19-10-23-58.bpo-25988.6o7gGK.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-19-10-23-58.bpo-25988.6o7gGK.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The abstract base classes in :mod:`collections.abc` no longer are exposed in
-the regular :mod:`collections` module.
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-Fixes a bug in :mod:`cgi` module when a multipart/form-data request has no
-`Content-Length` header.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-09-16-18-52.bpo-8538.PfVZia.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-09-16-18-52.bpo-8538.PfVZia.rst
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-Add support for boolean actions like ``--foo`` and ``--no-foo`` to argparse.
-Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
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-:attr:`shlex.shlex.punctuation_chars` is now a read-only property.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-25-17-12-17.bpo-35800.MCGJdQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-25-17-12-17.bpo-35800.MCGJdQ.rst
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-Deprecate ``smtpd.MailmanProxy`` ready for future removal.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-03-19-13-08.bpo-32627.b68f64.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-03-19-13-08.bpo-32627.b68f64.rst
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-Fix compile error when ``_uuid`` headers conflicting included.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-19-17-32-45.bpo-36046.fX9OPj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-19-17-32-45.bpo-36046.fX9OPj.rst
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-Added ``user``, ``group`` and ``extra_groups`` parameters to the
-subprocess.Popen constructor. Patch by Patrick McLean.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-09-16-04-12.bpo-36250.tSK4N1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-09-16-04-12.bpo-36250.tSK4N1.rst
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-Ignore ``ValueError`` from ``signal`` with ``interaction`` in non-main
-thread.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-21-19-23-46.bpo-36302.Yc591g.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-21-19-23-46.bpo-36302.Yc591g.rst
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-distutils sorts source file lists so that Extension .so files
-build more reproducibly by default
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-23-16-42-46.bpo-36409.ZYVKao.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-23-16-42-46.bpo-36409.ZYVKao.rst
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-Remove the old plistlib API deprecated in Python 3.4
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-Removed methods Element.getchildren(), Element.getiterator() and
-ElementTree.getiterator() and the xml.etree.cElementTree module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-04-08-13-00-13.bpo-36564._n67m_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-04-08-13-00-13.bpo-36564._n67m_.rst
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-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
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-Deprecate xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.copy() in favor of copy.copy().
-
-Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley
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-Fix ``UserString.encode()`` to correctly return ``bytes`` rather than a ``UserString`` instance.
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-Fix race condition in ThreadPoolExecutor when worker threads are created during interpreter shutdown.
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-posix.getgrouplist() now works correctly when the user belongs to
-NGROUPS_MAX supplemental groups. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-12-12-58-37.bpo-36871.6xiEHZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-12-12-58-37.bpo-36871.6xiEHZ.rst
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-Ensure method signature is used instead of constructor signature of a class
-while asserting mock object against method calls. Patch by Karthikeyan
-Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-17-15-11-08.bpo-35805.E4YwYz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-17-15-11-08.bpo-35805.E4YwYz.rst
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-Add parser for Message-ID header and add it to default HeaderRegistry. This
-should prevent folding of Message-ID using RFC 2048 encoded words.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-17-16-50-02.bpo-31904.4a5ggm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-17-16-50-02.bpo-31904.4a5ggm.rst
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-Port test_datetime to VxWorks: skip zoneinfo tests on VxWorks
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-19-10-48-46.bpo-21315.PgXVqF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-19-10-48-46.bpo-21315.PgXVqF.rst
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-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.
-
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-Fix :func:`repr` on empty :class:`ZipInfo` object. Patch by Mickaël
-Schoentgen.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-22-04-52-35.bpo-25068.vR_rC-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-22-04-52-35.bpo-25068.vR_rC-.rst
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-:class:`urllib.request.ProxyHandler` now lowercases the keys of the passed
-dictionary.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-26-16-34-53.bpo-31163.21A802.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-26-16-34-53.bpo-31163.21A802.rst
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-pathlib.Path instance's rename and replace methods now return the new Path
-instance.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-27-15-29-46.bpo-30835.3FoaWH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-27-15-29-46.bpo-30835.3FoaWH.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-28-02-37-00.bpo-36520.W4tday.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-28-02-37-00.bpo-36520.W4tday.rst
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-Lengthy email headers with UTF-8 characters are now properly encoded when they are folded. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-28-19-03-46.bpo-35621.Abc1lf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-28-19-03-46.bpo-35621.Abc1lf.rst
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-Support running asyncio subprocesses when execution event loop in a thread
-on UNIX.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-30-15-51-42.bpo-28724.34TrS8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-30-15-51-42.bpo-28724.34TrS8.rst
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-The socket module now has the :func:`socket.send_fds` and :func:`socket.recv.fds` methods.

-Contributed by Joannah Nanjekye, Shinya Okano and Victor Stinner.
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-`argparse._ActionsContainer.add_argument` now throws error, if someone accidentally pass FileType class object instead of instance of FileType as `type` argument
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-Remove ``Enum._convert`` method, deprecated in 3.8.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-04-22-25-38.bpo-37158.JKm15S.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-04-22-25-38.bpo-37158.JKm15S.rst
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-Speed-up statistics.fmean() by switching from a function to a generator.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-04-23-44-52.bpo-34767.BpDShN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-04-23-44-52.bpo-34767.BpDShN.rst
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-Do not always create a :class:`collections.deque` in :class:`asyncio.Lock`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-05-11-48-19.bpo-37165.V_rwfE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-05-11-48-19.bpo-37165.V_rwfE.rst
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-Converted _collections._count_elements to use the Argument Clinic.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-07-17-11-34.bpo-37178.b1StSv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-07-17-11-34.bpo-37178.b1StSv.rst
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-For math.perm(n, k), let k default to n, giving the same result as
-factorial.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-07-17-16-09.bpo-37178.Day_oB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-07-17-16-09.bpo-37178.Day_oB.rst
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-Give math.perm() a one argument form that means the same as
-math.factorial().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-08-11-33-48.bpo-37173.0e_8gS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-08-11-33-48.bpo-37173.0e_8gS.rst
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-The exception message for ``inspect.getfile()`` now correctly reports the passed class rather than the builtins module.
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-Fix an unintended ValueError from :func:`subprocess.run` when checking for
-conflicting `input` and `stdin` or `capture_output` and `stdout` or `stderr`
-args when they were explicitly provided but with `None` values within a
-passed in `**kwargs` dict rather than as passed directly by name. Patch
-contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-08-23-26-58.bpo-12144.Z7mz-q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-08-23-26-58.bpo-12144.Z7mz-q.rst
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-Ensure cookies with ``expires`` attribute are handled in
-:meth:`CookieJar.make_cookies`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-09-17-22-33.bpo-37111.2I0z2k.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-09-17-22-33.bpo-37111.2I0z2k.rst
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-Added ``encoding`` and ``errors`` keyword parameters to ``logging.basicConfig``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-09-22-25-03.bpo-37206.2WBg4q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-09-22-25-03.bpo-37206.2WBg4q.rst
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-Default values which cannot be represented as Python objects no longer
-improperly represented as ``None`` in function signatures.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-11-00-35-02.bpo-36402.b0IJVp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-11-00-35-02.bpo-36402.b0IJVp.rst
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-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.
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-:class:`_pyio.IOBase` destructor now does nothing if getting the ``closed``
-attribute fails to better mimick :class:`_io.IOBase` finalizer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-11-13-52-04.bpo-36607.5_mJkQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-11-13-52-04.bpo-36607.5_mJkQ.rst
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-Eliminate :exc:`RuntimeError` raised by :func:`asyncio.all_tasks()` if
-internal tasks weak set is changed by another thread during iteration.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-11-16-41-40.bpo-35766.v1Kj-T.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-11-16-41-40.bpo-35766.v1Kj-T.rst
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-Change the format of feature_version to be a (major, minor) tuple.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-11-19-34-29.bpo-35922.rxpzWr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-11-19-34-29.bpo-35922.rxpzWr.rst
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-Fix :meth:`RobotFileParser.crawl_delay` and
-:meth:`RobotFileParser.request_rate` to return ``None`` rather than
-raise :exc:`AttributeError` when no relevant rule is defined in the
-robots.txt file.  Patch by Rémi Lapeyre.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-12-08-56-22.bpo-21872.V9QGGN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-12-08-56-22.bpo-21872.V9QGGN.rst
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-Fix :mod:`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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-12-16-10-50.bpo-37210.r4yMg6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-12-16-10-50.bpo-37210.r4yMg6.rst
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-Allow pure Python implementation of :mod:`pickle` to work even when the C :mod:`_pickle` module is unavailable.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-13-11-59-52.bpo-37266.goLjef.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-13-11-59-52.bpo-37266.goLjef.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-13-11-59-52.bpo-37266.goLjef.rst
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-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 Pyton fatal error if a daemon thread was still
-running.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-14-08-30-16.bpo-19865.FRGH4I.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-14-08-30-16.bpo-19865.FRGH4I.rst
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-:func:`ctypes.create_unicode_buffer()` now also supports non-BMP characters
-on platforms with 16-bit :c:type:`wchar_t` (for example, Windows and AIX).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-14-13-25-56.bpo-37279.OHlW6l.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-14-13-25-56.bpo-37279.OHlW6l.rst
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix asyncio sendfile support when sendfile sends extra data in fallback
-mode.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-14-13-30-47.bpo-37280.Fxur0F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-14-13-30-47.bpo-37280.Fxur0F.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Use threadpool for reading from file for sendfile fallback mode.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-15-14-39-50.bpo-33972.XxnNPw.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-15-14-39-50.bpo-33972.XxnNPw.rst
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-Email with single part but content-type set to ``multipart/*`` doesn't raise
-AttributeError anymore.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-17-10-03-52.bpo-37312.qKvBfF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-17-10-03-52.bpo-37312.qKvBfF.rst
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-``_dummy_thread`` and ``dummy_threading`` modules have been removed. These
-modules were deprecated since Python 3.7 which requires threading support.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-17-11-59-52.bpo-37315.o1xFC0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-17-11-59-52.bpo-37315.o1xFC0.rst
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-Deprecated accepting floats with integral value (like ``5.0``) in
-:func:`math.factorial`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-17-22-10-37.bpo-37320.ffieYa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-17-22-10-37.bpo-37320.ffieYa.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-``aifc.openfp()`` alias to ``aifc.open()``, ``sunau.openfp()`` alias to
-``sunau.open()``, and ``wave.openfp()`` alias to ``wave.open()`` have been
-removed. They were deprecated since Python 3.7.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-18-13-59-55.bpo-37305.fGzWlP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-18-13-59-55.bpo-37305.fGzWlP.rst
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-Add .webmanifest -> application/manifest+json to list of recognized file types
-and content type headers
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-18-15-31-33.bpo-37328.2PW1-l.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-18-15-31-33.bpo-37328.2PW1-l.rst
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-``HTMLParser.unescape`` is removed.  It was undocumented and deprecated
-since Python 3.4.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-18-16-29-31.bpo-37085.GeYaD6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-18-16-29-31.bpo-37085.GeYaD6.rst
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-Add the optional Linux SocketCAN Broadcast Manager constants, used as flags
-to configure the BCM behaviour, in the socket module.  Patch by Karl Ding.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-19-10-35-53.bpo-37163.9pPg2F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-19-10-35-53.bpo-37163.9pPg2F.rst
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-The *obj* argument of :func:`dataclasses.replace` is positional-only now.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-20-14-23-48.bpo-37347.Gf9yYI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-20-14-23-48.bpo-37347.Gf9yYI.rst
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-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate`,

-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_function`,

-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer`,

-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler` 

-:meth:`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.
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-21-14-54-02.bpo-37358.RsASpn.rst
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-Optimized ``functools.partial`` by using vectorcall.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-22-08-51-44.bpo-37345.o8XABX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-22-08-51-44.bpo-37345.o8XABX.rst
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-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:
-:py:obj:`socket.IPPROTO_UDPLITE`, :py:obj:`UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV`, and
-:py:obj:`UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV`.
-Patch by Gabe Appleton.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-22-12-30-00.bpo-37372.kIKqZ6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-22-12-30-00.bpo-37372.kIKqZ6.rst
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-Fix error unpickling datetime.time objects from Python 2 with seconds>=24.
-Patch by Justin Blanchard.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-22-22-00-35.bpo-37212.Zhv-tq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-22-22-00-35.bpo-37212.Zhv-tq.rst
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-:func:`unittest.mock.call` now preserves the order of keyword arguments in
-repr output. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-23-12-46-10.bpo-26967.xEuem1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-23-12-46-10.bpo-26967.xEuem1.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-An :class:`~argparse.ArgumentParser` with ``allow_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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-24-11-26-34.bpo-37376.SwSUQ4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-24-11-26-34.bpo-37376.SwSUQ4.rst
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-:mod:`pprint` now has support for :class:`types.SimpleNamespace`. Patch by Carl
-Bordum Hansen.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-25-02-10-00.bpo-37394.srZ1zx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-25-02-10-00.bpo-37394.srZ1zx.rst
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-Fix a bug that was causing the :mod:`queue` module to fail if the
-accelerator module was not available. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-25-05-07-48.bpo-36546.RUcxaK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-25-05-07-48.bpo-36546.RUcxaK.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-25-19-27-25.bpo-29412.n4Zqdh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-25-19-27-25.bpo-29412.n4Zqdh.rst
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-Fix IndexError in parsing a header value ending unexpectedly. Patch by Abhilash
-Raj.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-26-03-00-06.bpo-37406.uovkpq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-26-03-00-06.bpo-37406.uovkpq.rst
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-The sqlite3 module now raises TypeError, rather than ValueError, if
-operation argument type is not str: execute(), executemany() and calling a
-connection.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-26-16-28-59.bpo-37412.lx0VjC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-26-16-28-59.bpo-37412.lx0VjC.rst
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-The :func:`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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-26-22-25-05.bpo-37420.CxFJ09.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-26-22-25-05.bpo-37420.CxFJ09.rst
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-:func:`os.sched_setaffinity` now correctly handles errors that arise during iteration over its ``mask`` argument.

-Patch by Brandt Bucher.
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-27-20-33-50.bpo-37437.du39_A.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-27-20-33-50.bpo-37437.du39_A.rst
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-Update vendorized expat version to 2.2.7.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-28-16-40-17.bpo-37440.t3wX-N.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-28-16-40-17.bpo-37440.t3wX-N.rst
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-http.client now enables TLS 1.3 post-handshake authentication for default
-context or if a cert_file is passed to HTTPSConnection.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-02-12-43-57.bpo-37479.O53a5S.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-02-12-43-57.bpo-37479.O53a5S.rst
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-When `Enum.__str__` is overridden in a derived class, the override will be
-used by `Enum.__format__` regardless of whether mixin classes are present.
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-The distutils ``bdist_wininst`` command is deprecated in Python 3.8, use
-``bdist_wheel`` (wheel packages) instead.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-03-12-47-52.bpo-37421.gR5hC8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-03-12-47-52.bpo-37421.gR5hC8.rst
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fix :func:`multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir` finalizer: clear also the
-'tempdir' configuration of the current process, so next call to
-``get_temp_dir()`` will create a new temporary directory, rather than
-reusing the removed temporary directory.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-04-13-00-20.bpo-37424.0i1MR-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-04-13-00-20.bpo-37424.0i1MR-.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-05-21-46-45.bpo-18374.qgE0H3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-05-21-46-45.bpo-18374.qgE0H3.rst
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-Fix the ``.col_offset`` attribute of nested :class:`ast.BinOp` instances
-which had a too large value in some situations.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-07-21-09-08.bpo-37520.Gg0KD6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-07-21-09-08.bpo-37520.Gg0KD6.rst
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-Correct behavior for zipfile.Path.parent when the path object identifies a subdirectory.
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-pickle.loads() no longer raises TypeError when the buffers argument is set to None
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-09-05-44-39.bpo-36993.4javqu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-09-05-44-39.bpo-36993.4javqu.rst
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-Improve error reporting for corrupt zip files with bad zip64 extra data. Patch
-by Daniel Hillier.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-09-11-20-21.bpo-37482.auzvev.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-09-11-20-21.bpo-37482.auzvev.rst
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-Fix serialization of display name in originator or destination address fields with both encoded words and special chars.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-09-19-38-26.bpo-37531.GX7s8S.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-09-19-38-26.bpo-37531.GX7s8S.rst
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-"python3 -m test -jN --timeout=TIMEOUT" now kills a worker process if it runs
-longer than *TIMEOUT* seconds.
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-Record calls to parent when autospecced object is attached to a mock using
-:func:`unittest.mock.attach_mock`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
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-Return :exc:`NotImplemented` in Python implementation of ``__eq__`` for
-:class:`~datetime.timedelta` and :class:`~datetime.time` when the other
-object being compared is not of the same type to match C implementation.
-Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-13-13-40-12.bpo-18378.NHcojp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-13-13-40-12.bpo-18378.NHcojp.rst
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-Recognize "UTF-8" as a valid value for LC_CTYPE in locale._parse_localename.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-13-16-02-48.bpo-37587.fd-1aF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-13-16-02-48.bpo-37587.fd-1aF.rst
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-Make json.loads faster for long strings. (Patch by Marco Paolini)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-17-06-54-43.bpo-37491.op0aMs.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-17-06-54-43.bpo-37491.op0aMs.rst
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-Fix ``IndexError`` when parsing email headers with unexpectedly ending
-bare-quoted string value. Patch by Abhilash Raj.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-17-11-10-08.bpo-34443.OFnGqz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-17-11-10-08.bpo-34443.OFnGqz.rst
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-Exceptions from :mod:`enum` now use the ``__qualname`` of the enum class in
-the exception message instead of the ``__name__``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-19-01-46-56.bpo-16970.GEASf5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-19-01-46-56.bpo-16970.GEASf5.rst
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-Adding a value error when an invalid value in passed to nargs
-Patch by Robert Leenders
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-19-16-06-48.bpo-29446.iXGuoi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-19-16-06-48.bpo-29446.iXGuoi.rst
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-Make `from tkinter import *` import only the expected objects.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-19-20-13-48.bpo-37555.S5am28.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-19-20-13-48.bpo-37555.S5am28.rst
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-Fix `NonCallableMock._call_matcher` returning tuple instead of `_Call` object
-when `self._spec_signature` exists. Patch by Elizabeth Uselton
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-Make internal attributes for statistics.NormalDist() private.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-20-01-17-43.bpo-36161.Fzf-f9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-20-01-17-43.bpo-36161.Fzf-f9.rst
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-In :mod:`posix`, use ``ttyname_r`` instead of ``ttyname`` for thread safety.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-21-20-59-31.bpo-37642.L61Bvy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-21-20-59-31.bpo-37642.L61Bvy.rst
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-Allowed the pure Python implementation of :class:`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 Siregar
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-24-14-38-53.bpo-37663.h4-9-1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-24-14-38-53.bpo-37663.h4-9-1.rst
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-Bring consistency to venv shell activation scripts by always using
-__VENV_PROMPT__.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-24-18-27-44.bpo-37664.o-GYZC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-24-18-27-44.bpo-37664.o-GYZC.rst
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-Update wheels bundled with ensurepip (pip 19.2.3 and setuptools 41.2.0)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-25-10-28-40.bpo-37354.RT3_3H.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-25-10-28-40.bpo-37354.RT3_3H.rst
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-Make Activate.ps1 Powershell script static to allow for signing it.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-26-00-12-29.bpo-37685.TqckMZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-26-00-12-29.bpo-37685.TqckMZ.rst
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-Fixed ``__eq__``, ``__lt__`` etc implementations in some classes. They now
-return :data:`NotImplemented` for unsupported type of the other operand.
-This allows the other operand to play role (for example the equality
-comparison with :data:`~unittest.mock.ANY` will return ``True``).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-26-22-30-01.bpo-37691.1Li3rx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-26-22-30-01.bpo-37691.1Li3rx.rst
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-Let math.dist() accept coordinates as sequences (or iterables) rather than
-just tuples.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-27-10-14-45.bpo-29553.TVeIDe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-27-10-14-45.bpo-29553.TVeIDe.rst
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-Fixed :meth:`argparse.ArgumentParser.format_usage` for mutually exclusive groups.
-Patch by Andrew Nester.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-27-18-00-43.bpo-37689.glEmZi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-27-18-00-43.bpo-37689.glEmZi.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Add :meth:`is_relative_to` in :class:`PurePath` to determine whether or not one path is relative to another.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-27-20-21-03.bpo-37695.QANdvg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-27-20-21-03.bpo-37695.QANdvg.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Correct :func:`curses.unget_wch` error message.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-28-17-44-21.bpo-37697.7UV5d0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-28-17-44-21.bpo-37697.7UV5d0.rst
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-Syncronize ``importlib.metadata`` with `importlib_metadata 0.19 <https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/-/milestones/20>`_, improving handling of EGG-INFO files and fixing a crash when entry point names contained colons.
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-Fixed comparisons of :class:`datetime.timedelta` and
-:class:`datetime.timezone`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-29-21-39-45.bpo-11953.4Hpwf9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-29-21-39-45.bpo-11953.4Hpwf9.rst
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-Completing WSA* error codes in :mod:`socket`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-30-01-27-29.bpo-37268.QDmA44.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-30-01-27-29.bpo-37268.QDmA44.rst
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-The :mod:`parser` module is deprecated and will be removed in future
-versions of Python.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-30-22-41-05.bpo-32178.X-IFLe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-30-22-41-05.bpo-32178.X-IFLe.rst
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-Fix IndexError in :mod:`email` package when trying to parse invalid address fields starting with ``:``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-31-15-52-51.bpo-35943.-KswoB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-31-15-52-51.bpo-35943.-KswoB.rst
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-The function :c:func:`PyImport_GetModule` now ensures any module it returns is fully initialized.
-Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-31-16-49-01.bpo-37723.zq6tw8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-07-31-16-49-01.bpo-37723.zq6tw8.rst
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-Fix performance regression on regular expression parsing with huge
-character sets. Patch by Yann Vaginay.
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-Fix the implementation of curses ``addch(str, color_pair)``: pass the color
-pair to ``setcchar()``, instead of always passing 0 as the color pair.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-02-14-01-25.bpo-37742.f4Xn9S.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-02-14-01-25.bpo-37742.f4Xn9S.rst
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-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'.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-02-16-44-42.bpo-18049.OA4qBL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-02-16-44-42.bpo-18049.OA4qBL.rst
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-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
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-04-11-47-58.bpo-28292.vkihH5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-04-11-47-58.bpo-28292.vkihH5.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-04-17-22-33.bpo-37449.ycbL2z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-04-17-22-33.bpo-37449.ycbL2z.rst
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-`ensurepip` now uses `importlib.resources.read_binary()` to read data instead of `pkgutil.get_data()`.

-Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
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-:meth:`writelines` method of :class:`io.BytesIO` is now slightly faster
-when many small lines are passed. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-07-14-49-22.bpo-37785.y7OlT8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-07-14-49-22.bpo-37785.y7OlT8.rst
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-Fix xgettext warnings in :mod:`argparse`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-07-19-34-07.bpo-18578.xfvdb_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-07-19-34-07.bpo-18578.xfvdb_.rst
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-Renamed and documented `test.bytecode_helper` as `test.support.bytecode_helper`.

-Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
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-In ``zipfile.Path``, when adding implicit dirs, ensure that ancestral directories are added and that duplicates are excluded.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-10-12-33-27.bpo-37810.d4zbvB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-10-12-33-27.bpo-37810.d4zbvB.rst
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-Fix :mod:`difflib` ``?`` hint in diff output when dealing with tabs.  Patch
-by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-10-18-50-04.bpo-14465.qZGC4g.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-10-18-50-04.bpo-14465.qZGC4g.rst
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-Add an xml.etree.ElementTree.indent() function for pretty-printing XML trees.
-Contributed by Stefan Behnel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-11-10-34-19.bpo-37819.LVJls-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-11-10-34-19.bpo-37819.LVJls-.rst
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-Add Fraction.as_integer_ratio() to match the corresponding methods in bool,
-int, float, and decimal.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-12-23-07-47.bpo-37804.Ene6L-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-12-23-07-47.bpo-37804.Ene6L-.rst
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-Remove the deprecated method `threading.Thread.isAlive()`. Patch by Dong-hee
-Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-13-51-24.bpo-37798.AmXrik.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-13-51-24.bpo-37798.AmXrik.rst
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-Add C fastpath for statistics.NormalDist.inv_cdf() Patch by Dong-hee Na
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-15-34-23.bpo-21131.0MMQRi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-15-34-23.bpo-21131.0MMQRi.rst
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-Fix ``faulthandler.register(chain=True)`` stack. faulthandler now allocates a
-dedicated stack of ``SIGSTKSZ*2`` bytes, instead of just ``SIGSTKSZ`` bytes.
-Calling the previous signal handler in faulthandler signal handler uses more
-than ``SIGSTKSZ`` bytes of stack memory on some platforms.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-20-46-39.bpo-37863.CkXqgX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-20-46-39.bpo-37863.CkXqgX.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Optimizations for Fraction.__hash__ suggested by Tim Peters.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-21-41-07.bpo-37811.d1xYj7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-21-41-07.bpo-37811.d1xYj7.rst
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-Fix ``socket`` module's ``socket.connect(address)`` function being unable to
-establish connection in case of interrupted system call. The problem was
-observed on all OSes which ``poll(2)`` system call can take only
-non-negative integers and -1 as a timeout value.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-17-22-33-54.bpo-37868.hp64fi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-17-22-33-54.bpo-37868.hp64fi.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-19-10-31-41.bpo-37885.4Nc9sp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-19-10-31-41.bpo-37885.4Nc9sp.rst
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-venv: Don't generate unset variable warning on deactivate.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-20-05-17-32.bpo-32793.cgpXl6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-20-05-17-32.bpo-32793.cgpXl6.rst
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-Fix a duplicated debug message when :meth:`smtplib.SMTP.connect` is called.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-21-13-43-04.bpo-37851.mIIfD_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-21-13-43-04.bpo-37851.mIIfD_.rst
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-The :mod:`faulthandler` module no longer allocates its alternative stack at
-Python startup. Now the stack is only allocated at the first faulthandler
-usage.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-21-16-38-56.bpo-9938.t3G7N9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-21-16-38-56.bpo-9938.t3G7N9.rst
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-Add optional keyword argument ``exit_on_error`` for :class:`ArgumentParser`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-22-01-49-05.bpo-32554.4xiXyM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-22-01-49-05.bpo-32554.4xiXyM.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Deprecate having random.seed() call hash on arbitrary types.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-22-16-13-27.bpo-37915.xyoZI5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-22-16-13-27.bpo-37915.xyoZI5.rst
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-Fix a segmentation fault that appeared when comparing instances of
-``datetime.timezone`` and ``datetime.tzinfo`` objects. Patch by Pablo
-Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-23-00-55-19.bpo-26589.M1xyxG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-23-00-55-19.bpo-26589.M1xyxG.rst
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-Added a new status code to the http module: 451
-UNAVAILABLE_FOR_LEGAL_REASONS
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-24-16-54-49.bpo-37798.7mRQCk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-24-16-54-49.bpo-37798.7mRQCk.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Update test_statistics.py to verify that the statistics module works well
-for both C and Python implementations. Patch by Dong-hee Na
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-25-14-56-42.bpo-36917.GBxdw2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-25-14-56-42.bpo-36917.GBxdw2.rst
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-Add default implementation of the :meth:`ast.NodeVisitor.visit_Constant`
-method which emits a deprecation warning and calls corresponding methody
-``visit_Num()``, ``visit_Str()``, etc.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-25-18-07-48.bpo-34679.HECzL7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-25-18-07-48.bpo-34679.HECzL7.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Restores instantiation of Windows IOCP event loops from the non-main thread.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-26-10-45-51.bpo-37950.-K1IKT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-26-10-45-51.bpo-37950.-K1IKT.rst
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-Fix :func:`ast.dump` when call with incompletely initialized node.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-03-53-26.bpo-36205.AfkGRl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-03-53-26.bpo-36205.AfkGRl.rst
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-Fix the rusage implementation of time.process_time() to correctly report the sum of the system and user CPU time.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-10-03-48.bpo-37951.MfRQgL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-10-03-48.bpo-37951.MfRQgL.rst
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-Most features of the subprocess module now work again in subinterpreters.
-Only *preexec_fn* is restricted in subinterpreters.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-10-30-44.bpo-37961.4nm0zZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-10-30-44.bpo-37961.4nm0zZ.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-10-52-13.bpo-37960.CTY7Lw.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-10-52-13.bpo-37960.CTY7Lw.rst
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-``repr()`` of buffered and text streams now silences only expected
-exceptions when get the value of "name" and "mode" attributes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-21-19-28.bpo-37964.SxdnsF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-21-19-28.bpo-37964.SxdnsF.rst
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-Add ``F_GETPATH`` command to :mod:`fcntl`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-28-14-04-18.bpo-37965.7xGE-C.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-28-14-04-18.bpo-37965.7xGE-C.rst
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-Fix C compiler warning caused by distutils.ccompiler.CCompiler.has_function.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-28-21-40-12.bpo-37972.kP-n4L.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-28-21-40-12.bpo-37972.kP-n4L.rst
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-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 a `TypeError`:

-

-    call().foo().__getitem__('bar')

-

-Patch by blhsing

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-29-01-19-13.bpo-10978.J6FQYY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-29-01-19-13.bpo-10978.J6FQYY.rst
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-Semaphores and BoundedSemaphores can now release more than one waiting
-thread at a time.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-29-16-41-36.bpo-37834.FThnsh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-29-16-41-36.bpo-37834.FThnsh.rst
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-Prevent shutil.rmtree exception when built on non-Windows system without fd
-system call support, like older versions of macOS.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-29-18-48-48.bpo-37587.N7TGTC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-29-18-48-48.bpo-37587.N7TGTC.rst
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-``_json.scanstring`` is now up to 3x faster when there are many backslash
-escaped characters in the JSON string.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-30-11-21-10.bpo-37140.cFAX-a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-30-11-21-10.bpo-37140.cFAX-a.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-31-01-52-59.bpo-34410.7KbWZQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-31-01-52-59.bpo-34410.7KbWZQ.rst
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-Fixed a crash in the :func:`tee` iterator when re-enter it. RuntimeError is
-now raised in this case.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-31-13-36-09.bpo-37995.rS8HzT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-31-13-36-09.bpo-37995.rS8HzT.rst
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-Added the *indent* option to :func:`ast.dump` which allows it to produce a
-multiline indented output.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-02-13-37-27.bpo-38006.Y7vA0Q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-02-13-37-27.bpo-38006.Y7vA0Q.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-02-14-30-39.bpo-38010.JOnz9Z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-02-14-30-39.bpo-38010.JOnz9Z.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-In ``importlib.metadata`` sync with ``importlib_metadata`` 0.20, clarifying behavior of ``files()`` and fixing issue where only one requirement was returned for ``requires()`` on ``dist-info`` packages.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-03-01-41-35.bpo-35923.lYpKbY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-03-01-41-35.bpo-35923.lYpKbY.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-03-01-41-35.bpo-35923.lYpKbY.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Update :class:`importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter` to use ``loader._ORIGIN``
-instead of a hardcoded value. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-04-20-34-14.bpo-38026.0LLRX-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-04-20-34-14.bpo-38026.0LLRX-.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fixed :func:`inspect.getattr_static` used ``isinstance`` while it should
-avoid dynamic lookup.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-06-17-40-34.bpo-37953.db5FQq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-06-17-40-34.bpo-37953.db5FQq.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-06-17-40-34.bpo-37953.db5FQq.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-In :mod:`typing`, improved the ``__hash__`` and ``__eq__`` methods for

-:class:`ForwardReferences`.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-07-12-32-50.bpo-38049.xKP4tf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-07-12-32-50.bpo-38049.xKP4tf.rst
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-Added command-line interface for the :mod:`ast` module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-08-11-36-50.bpo-38059.8SA6co.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-08-11-36-50.bpo-38059.8SA6co.rst
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-inspect.py now uses sys.exit() instead of exit()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-09-14-39-47.bpo-38066.l9mWv-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-09-14-39-47.bpo-38066.l9mWv-.rst
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-Hide internal asyncio.Stream methods: feed_eof(), feed_data(),
-set_exception() and set_transport().
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-Fix reference counters in the :mod:`signal` module.
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-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.
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-Update importlib.metadata with changes from `importlib_metadata 0.21 <https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/blob/0.21/importlib_metadata/docs/changelog.rst>`_.
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-Allow passing a :term:`path-like object` as ``directory`` argument to the
-:class:`http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` class. Patch by Géry Ogam.
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-Add warning to :meth:`datetime.utctimetuple`,  :meth:`datetime.utcnow` and :meth:`datetime.utcfromtimestamp` .
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-Fixes AsyncMock so it doesn't crash when used with AsyncContextManagers
-or AsyncIterators.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-11-14-49-20.bpo-38110.A19Y-q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-11-14-49-20.bpo-38110.A19Y-q.rst
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-The os.closewalk() implementation now uses the libc fdwalk() API on
-platforms where it is available.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-11-16-54-57.bpo-38121.SrSDzB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-11-16-54-57.bpo-38121.SrSDzB.rst
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-Update parameter names on functions in importlib.metadata matching the changes in the 0.22 release of importlib_metadata.
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-Fixed regression bug for socket.getsockname() for non-CAN_ISOTP AF_CAN
-address family sockets by returning a 1-tuple instead of string.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-11-21-38-41.bpo-34037.LIAS_3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-11-21-38-41.bpo-34037.LIAS_3.rst
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-For :mod:`asyncio`, add a new coroutine :meth:`loop.shutdown_default_executor`.

-The new coroutine provides an API to schedule an executor shutdown that waits

-on the threadpool to finish closing. Also, :func:`asyncio.run` has been updated

-to utilize the new coroutine. Patch by Kyle Stanley.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-10-47-34.bpo-38008.sH74Iy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-10-47-34.bpo-38008.sH74Iy.rst
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-Fix parent class check in protocols to correctly identify the module that
-provides a builtin protocol, instead of assuming they all come from the
-:mod:`collections.abc` module
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-12-47-35.bpo-38132.KSFx1F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-12-47-35.bpo-38132.KSFx1F.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-13-18-55.bpo-38134.gXJTbP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-13-18-55.bpo-38134.gXJTbP.rst
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-Remove obsolete copy of PBKDF2_HMAC_fast. All supported OpenSSL versions
-contain a fast implementation.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-14-52-38.bpo-36991.1OcSm8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-14-52-38.bpo-36991.1OcSm8.rst
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-Fixes a potential incorrect AttributeError exception escaping
-ZipFile.extract() in some unsupported input error situations.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-14-54-45.bpo-9216.W7QMpC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-14-54-45.bpo-9216.W7QMpC.rst
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-hashlib constructors now support usedforsecurity flag to signal that a
-hashing algorithm is not used in a security context.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-18-41-35.bpo-38142.1I0Ch0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-12-18-41-35.bpo-38142.1I0Ch0.rst
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-The _hashlib OpenSSL wrapper extension module is now PEP-384 compliant.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-13-08-55-43.bpo-38148.Lnww6D.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-13-08-55-43.bpo-38148.Lnww6D.rst
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-Add slots to :mod:`asyncio` transport classes, which can reduce memory usage.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-13-09-24-58.bpo-38115.BOO-Y1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-13-09-24-58.bpo-38115.BOO-Y1.rst
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-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.
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-Names of hashing algorithms frome 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. 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-13-14-54-33.bpo-34706.HWVpOY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-13-14-54-33.bpo-34706.HWVpOY.rst
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-Preserve subclassing in inspect.Signature.from_callable.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-14-10-34-00.bpo-33936.8wCI_n.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-14-10-34-00.bpo-33936.8wCI_n.rst
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-_hashlib no longer calls obsolete OpenSSL initialization function with
-OpenSSL 1.1.0+.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-15-10-30-33.bpo-38175.61XlUv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-15-10-30-33.bpo-38175.61XlUv.rst
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-Fix a memory leak in comparison of :class:`sqlite3.Row` objects.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-15-21-31-18.bpo-37828.gLLDX7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-15-21-31-18.bpo-37828.gLLDX7.rst
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-Fix default mock name in :meth:`unittest.mock.Mock.assert_called` exceptions.
-Patch by Abraham Toriz Cruz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-16-09-54-42.bpo-38136.MdI-Zb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-16-09-54-42.bpo-38136.MdI-Zb.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-16-19-12-57.bpo-38185.zYWppY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-16-19-12-57.bpo-38185.zYWppY.rst
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-Fixed case-insensitive string comparison in :class:`sqlite3.Row` indexing.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-16-21-47-48.bpo-38155.d92lRc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-16-21-47-48.bpo-38155.d92lRc.rst
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-Add ``__all__`` to  :mod:`datetime`. Patch by Tahia Khan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-17-12-28-27.bpo-38191.1TU0HV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-17-12-28-27.bpo-38191.1TU0HV.rst
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-Constructors of :class:`~typing.NamedTuple` and :class:`~typing.TypedDict`
-types now accept arbitrary keyword argument names, including "cls", "self",
-"typename", "_typename", "fields" and "_fields".
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-19-19-58-33.bpo-34002.KBnaVX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-19-19-58-33.bpo-34002.KBnaVX.rst
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-Improve efficiency in parts of email package by changing while-pop to a for
-loop, using isdisjoint instead of set intersections.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-20-14-27-17.bpo-38237.xRUZbx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-20-14-27-17.bpo-38237.xRUZbx.rst
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-The arguments for the builtin pow function are more descriptive. They can now
-also be passed in as keywords.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-22-13-05-36.bpo-38248.Yo3N_1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-22-13-05-36.bpo-38248.Yo3N_1.rst
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-asyncio: Fix inconsistent immediate Task cancellation
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-24-10-55-01.bpo-38112.2EinX9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-24-10-55-01.bpo-38112.2EinX9.rst
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-:mod:`compileall` has a higher default recursion limit and new command-line
-arguments for path manipulation, symlinks handling, and multiple
-optimization levels.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-25-05-16-19.bpo-38265.X6-gsT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-25-05-16-19.bpo-38265.X6-gsT.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Update the *length* parameter of :func:`os.pread` to accept
-:c:type:`Py_ssize_t` instead of :c:type:`int`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-25-21-37-02.bpo-38108.Jr9HU6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-25-21-37-02.bpo-38108.Jr9HU6.rst
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-Any synchronous magic methods on an AsyncMock now return a MagicMock. Any
-asynchronous magic methods on a MagicMock now return an AsyncMock.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-26-12-16-30.bpo-28286.LdSsrN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-26-12-16-30.bpo-28286.LdSsrN.rst
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-Deprecate opening :class:`~gzip.GzipFile` for writing implicitly.  Always
-specify the *mode* argument for writing.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-27-15-24-45.bpo-38216.-7yvZR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-27-15-24-45.bpo-38216.-7yvZR.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-27-16-31-28.bpo-38161.zehai1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-27-16-31-28.bpo-38161.zehai1.rst
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-Removes _AwaitEvent from AsyncMock.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-28-20-16-40.bpo-38163.x51-vK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-28-20-16-40.bpo-38163.x51-vK.rst
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-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).
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-Correctly handle pause/resume reading of closed asyncio unix pipe.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-29-22-47-37.bpo-13153.0mO9qR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-29-22-47-37.bpo-13153.0mO9qR.rst
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-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).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-30-00-15-27.bpo-38242.uPIyAc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-30-00-15-27.bpo-38242.uPIyAc.rst
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-Revert the new asyncio Streams API
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-30-22-06-33.bpo-38319.5QjiDa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-30-22-06-33.bpo-38319.5QjiDa.rst
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-sendfile() used in socket and shutil modules was raising OverflowError for
-files >= 2GiB on 32-bit architectures.  (patch by Giampaolo Rodola)
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-Add :exc:`smtplib.SMTPNotSupportedError` to the :mod:`smtplib` exported names.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-04-18-39-59.bpo-38371.S6Klvm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-04-18-39-59.bpo-38371.S6Klvm.rst
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-Deprecated the ``split()`` method in :class:`_tkinter.TkappType` in favour
-of the ``splitlist()`` method which has more consistent and predicable
-behavior.
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-Prevent :exc:`KeyError` thrown by :func:`_encoded_words.decode` when given
-an encoded-word with invalid content-type encoding from propagating all the
-way to :func:`email.message.get`.
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-Nested subclasses of :class:`typing.NamedTuple` are now pickleable.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-09-18-16-51.bpo-38422.aiM5bq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-09-18-16-51.bpo-38422.aiM5bq.rst
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-Clarify docstrings of pathlib suffix(es)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-10-00-25-28.bpo-38109.9w-IGF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-10-00-25-28.bpo-38109.9w-IGF.rst
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-Add missing :data:`stat.S_IFDOOR`, :data:`stat.S_IFPORT`, :data:`stat.S_IFWHT`,

-:func:`stat.S_ISDOOR`, :func:`stat.S_ISPORT`, and :func:`stat.S_ISWHT` values to

-the Python implementation of :mod:`stat`.
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-Fix ``__repr__`` method for :class:`dataclasses.InitVar` to support typing objects, patch by Samuel Colvin.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-11-18-49-00.bpo-38449.9TWMlz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-11-18-49-00.bpo-38449.9TWMlz.rst
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-Revert GH-15522, which introduces a regression in
-:meth:`mimetypes.guess_type` due to improper handling of filenames as urls.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-12-00-13-47.bpo-38417.W7x_aS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-12-00-13-47.bpo-38417.W7x_aS.rst
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-Added support for setting the umask in the child process to the subprocess
-module on POSIX systems.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-13-11-00-03.bpo-38378.yYNpSm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-13-11-00-03.bpo-38378.yYNpSm.rst
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-Parameters *out* and *in* of :func:`os.sendfile` was renamed to *out_fd* and
-*in_fd*.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-15-09-47-40.bpo-33604.J12cWT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-15-09-47-40.bpo-33604.J12cWT.rst
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-Fixed `hmac.new` and `hmac.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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-15-11-37-57.bpo-38478.A87OPO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-15-11-37-57.bpo-38478.A87OPO.rst
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-Fixed a bug in :meth:`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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-16-19-56-51.bpo-38493.86ExWB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-16-19-56-51.bpo-38493.86ExWB.rst
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Added :data:`~os.CLD_KILLED` and :data:`~os.CLD_STOPPED` for :attr:`si_code`.
-Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-18-13-57-31.bpo-38521.U-7aaM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-18-13-57-31.bpo-38521.U-7aaM.rst
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-Fixed erroneous equality comparison in statistics.NormalDist().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-19-21-41-20.bpo-36321.CFlxfy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-19-21-41-20.bpo-36321.CFlxfy.rst
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-Remove misspelled attribute.  The 3.8 changelog noted that this would be
-removed in 3.9.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-20-12-04-48.bpo-31202.NfdIus.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-20-12-04-48.bpo-31202.NfdIus.rst
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-The case the result of :func:`pathlib.WindowsPath.glob` matches now the case
-of the pattern for literal parts.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-23-16-25-12.bpo-34679.Bnw8o3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-23-16-25-12.bpo-34679.Bnw8o3.rst
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-asynci.ProactorEventLoop.close() now only calls signal.set_wakeup_fd() in the
-main thread.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-24-08-10-30.bpo-38565.SWSUst.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-24-08-10-30.bpo-38565.SWSUst.rst
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-Add new cache_parameters() method for functools.lru_cache() to better support pickling.
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-Now :func:`~logging.config.fileConfig` correcty sets the .name of handlers loaded.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-26-14-42-20.bpo-38312.e_FVWh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-26-14-42-20.bpo-38312.e_FVWh.rst
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-Add :func:`curses.get_escdelay`, :func:`curses.set_escdelay`,
-:func:`curses.get_tabsize`, and :func:`curses.set_tabsize` functions -
-by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-27-00-08-49.bpo-38334.pfLLmc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-27-00-08-49.bpo-38334.pfLLmc.rst
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-Fixed seeking backward on an encrypted :class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-27-22-29-45.bpo-38602.7jvYFA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-27-22-29-45.bpo-38602.7jvYFA.rst
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-Added constants :data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_GETLK`, :data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_SETLK`
-and :data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_SETLKW` to the :mod:`fcntl` module.
-Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-05-07-18-24.bpo-38692.UpatA7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-05-07-18-24.bpo-38692.UpatA7.rst
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-Expose the Linux ``pidfd_open`` syscall as :func:`os.pidfd_open`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-05-19-15-57.bpo-38692.2DCDA-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-05-19-15-57.bpo-38692.2DCDA-.rst
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-Add :class:`asyncio.PidfdChildWatcher`, a Linux-specific child watcher
-implementation that polls process file descriptors.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-05-21-22-22.bpo-38713.bmhquU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-05-21-22-22.bpo-38713.bmhquU.rst
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-Add :data:`os.P_PIDFD` constant, which may be passed to :func:`os.waitid` to
-wait on a Linux process file descriptor.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-06-15-58-07.bpo-38716.R3uMLT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-06-15-58-07.bpo-38716.R3uMLT.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-10-13-40-33.bpo-38761.P1UUIZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-10-13-40-33.bpo-38761.P1UUIZ.rst
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-WeakSet is now registered as a collections.abc.MutableSet.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-11-06-14-25.bpo-38438.vSVeHN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-11-06-14-25.bpo-38438.vSVeHN.rst
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-Simplify the :mod:`argparse` usage message for ``nargs="*"``.
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-Allow opening pipes and other non-seekable files in append mode with
-:func:`open`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-12-15-46-28.bpo-38723.gcdMFn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-12-15-46-28.bpo-38723.gcdMFn.rst
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-:mod:`pdb` now uses :meth:`io.open_code` to trigger auditing events.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-13-16-17-43.bpo-38785.NEOEfk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-13-16-17-43.bpo-38785.NEOEfk.rst
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-Prevent asyncio from crashing if parent ``__init__`` is not called from a
-constructor of object derived from ``asyncio.Future``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-13-16-49-03.bpo-38786.gNOwKh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-13-16-49-03.bpo-38786.gNOwKh.rst
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-pydoc now recognizes and parses HTTPS URLs. Patch by python273.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-14-14-13-29.bpo-38724.T5ySfR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-14-14-13-29.bpo-38724.T5ySfR.rst
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-Add a repr for ``subprocess.Popen`` objects. Patch by Andrey Doroschenko.
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-Update :exc:`TypeError` messages for :meth:`os.path.join` to include :class:`os.PathLike` objects as acceptable input types.
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-The :func:`curses.update_lines_cols` function now returns ``None`` instead
-of ``1`` on success.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-05-04-13-33-37.bpo-34155.MJll68.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-05-04-13-33-37.bpo-34155.MJll68.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-06-17-09-34-25.bpo-34631.DBfM4j.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-06-17-09-34-25.bpo-34631.DBfM4j.rst
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-Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in Windows installer
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-06-21-14-42-53.bpo-37364.IIRc2s.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-06-21-14-42-53.bpo-37364.IIRc2s.rst
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-:func:`io.open_code` is now used when reading :file:`.pth` files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-06-21-15-58-59.bpo-37363.diouyl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-06-21-15-58-59.bpo-37363.diouyl.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-06-21-15-58-59.bpo-37363.diouyl.rst
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-Adds audit events for :mod:`ensurepip`, :mod:`ftplib`, :mod:`glob`,
-:mod:`imaplib`, :mod:`nntplib`, :mod:`pdb`, :mod:`poplib`, :mod:`shutil`,
-:mod:`smtplib`, :mod:`sqlite3`, :mod:`subprocess`, :mod:`telnetlib`,
-:mod:`tempfile` and :mod:`webbrowser`, as well as :func:`os.listdir`,
-:func:`os.scandir` and :func:`breakpoint`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-01-08-46-14.bpo-37463.1CHwjE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-01-08-46-14.bpo-37463.1CHwjE.rst
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-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'.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-01-10-31-14.bpo-37363.fSjatj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-01-10-31-14.bpo-37363.fSjatj.rst
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-Adds audit events for the range of supported run commands (see
-:ref:`using-on-general`).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-16-08-11-00.bpo-37461.1Ahz7O.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-16-08-11-00.bpo-37461.1Ahz7O.rst
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-Fix an infinite loop when parsing specially crafted email headers. Patch by
-Abhilash Raj.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-08-27-01-13-05.bpo-37764.qv67PQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-08-27-01-13-05.bpo-37764.qv67PQ.rst
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-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.
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-Update vendorized expat library version to 2.2.8, which resolves
-CVE-2019-15903.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-09-25-13-21-09.bpo-38243.1pfz24.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-09-25-13-21-09.bpo-38243.1pfz24.rst
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-Escape the server title of :class:`xmlrpc.server.DocXMLRPCServer`
-when rendering the document page as HTML.
-(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`38243`.)
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-Fixes audit event for :func:`os.system` to be named ``os.system``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-11-14-16-13-23.bpo-38622.3DYkfb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-11-14-16-13-23.bpo-38622.3DYkfb.rst
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-Add additional audit events for the :mod:`ctypes` module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-11-18-16-17-56.bpo-38722.x3mECW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-11-18-16-17-56.bpo-38722.x3mECW.rst
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-:mod:`runpy` now uses :meth:`io.open_code` to open code files.
-Patch by Jason Killen.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-09-07-01-18-27.bpo-34596.r2-EGd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-09-07-01-18-27.bpo-34596.r2-EGd.rst
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-Fallback to a default reason when :func:`unittest.skip` is uncalled. Patch by
-Naitree Zhu.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-04-11-07-59-43.bpo-28009.s85urF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-04-11-07-59-43.bpo-28009.s85urF.rst
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-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
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-Update ``test.test_importlib.test_abc`` to test ``find_spec()``.
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-Make ``test_source_encoding.test_issue2301`` implementation independent. The
-test will work now for both CPython and IronPython.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-03-20-47-10.bpo-34001.KvYx9z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-03-20-47-10.bpo-34001.KvYx9z.rst
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-Make test_ssl pass with LibreSSL. LibreSSL handles minimum and maximum TLS
-version differently than OpenSSL.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-04-18-30-39.bpo-37153.711INB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-04-18-30-39.bpo-37153.711INB.rst
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-``test_venv.test_multiprocessing()`` now explicitly calls
-``pool.terminate()`` to wait until the pool completes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-07-12-23-15.bpo-37169.yfXTFg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-07-12-23-15.bpo-37169.yfXTFg.rst
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-Rewrite ``_PyObject_IsFreed()`` unit tests.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-12-14-30-29.bpo-37252.4o-uLs.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-12-14-30-29.bpo-37252.4o-uLs.rst
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-Fix assertions in ``test_close`` and ``test_events_mask_overflow`` devpoll
-tests.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-13-00-46-25.bpo-37069.wdktFo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-13-00-46-25.bpo-37069.wdktFo.rst
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-regrtest now uses :func:`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.
-
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-Fix :func:`test.support.catch_unraisable_exception`: its __exit__() method
-now ignores unraisable exception raised when clearing its ``unraisable``
-attribute.
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-Fix test_asyncio ProactorLoopCtrlC: join the thread to prevent leaking a
-running thread and leaking a reference.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-14-17-05-49.bpo-35998.yX82oD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-14-17-05-49.bpo-35998.yX82oD.rst
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-Avoid TimeoutError in test_asyncio: test_start_tls_server_1()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-21-15-47-33.bpo-37362.D3xppx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-21-15-47-33.bpo-37362.D3xppx.rst
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-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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-24-10-47-07.bpo-37359.CkdtyO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-24-10-47-07.bpo-37359.CkdtyO.rst
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-Add --cleanup option to python3 -m test to remove ``test_python_*``
-directories of previous failed jobs. Add "make cleantest" to run
-``python3 -m test --cleanup``.
-
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-Fix test_os.test_chown(): use os.getgroups() rather than grp.getgrall()
-to get groups. Rename also the test to test_chown_gid().
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-Fix test_wsgiref.testEnviron() to no longer depend on the environment
-variables (don't fail if "X" variable is set).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-27-00-37-59.bpo-37421.rVJb3x.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-27-00-37-59.bpo-37421.rVJb3x.rst
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-Fix test_shutil to no longer leak temporary files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-28-16-37-52.bpo-37335.o5S2hY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-06-28-16-37-52.bpo-37335.o5S2hY.rst
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-Remove no longer necessary code from c locale coercion tests
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-Replace deprecated method "random.choose" with "random.choice" in "test_pkg_import.py".
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-Fix test failures when IPv6 is unavailable or disabled.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-01-17-19-47.bpo-37472.WzkEAx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-01-17-19-47.bpo-37472.WzkEAx.rst
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-Remove ``Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py``.
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-urllib.request tests now call :func:`~urllib.request.urlcleanup` to remove
-temporary files created by ``urlretrieve()`` tests and to clear the ``_opener``
-global variable set by ``urlopen()`` and functions calling indirectly
-``urlopen()``.
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-multiprocessing tests now explicitly call ``_run_finalizers()`` to
-immediately remove temporary directories created by tests.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-02-23-20-35.bpo-37421.HCkKWz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-02-23-20-35.bpo-37421.HCkKWz.rst
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-test_winconsoleio doesn't leak a temporary file anymore: use
-tempfile.TemporaryFile() to remove it when the test completes.
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-test_concurrent_futures now cleans up multiprocessing to remove immediately
-temporary directories created by multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir().
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-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.
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-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.
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-test_concurrent_futures now explicitly stops the ForkServer instance if it's
-running.
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-Add :func:`test.support.catch_threading_exception`: context manager catching
-:class:`threading.Thread` exception using :func:`threading.excepthook`.
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-Fix test_shared_memory_cleaned_after_process_termination name handling
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-Added tests for PyDateTime_xxx_GET_xxx() macros of the C API of

-the :mod:`datetime` module. Patch by Joannah Nanjekye.
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-Add tests for ROT-13 codec.
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-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().
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-Add tests for json.dump(..., skipkeys=True). Patch by Dong-hee Na.
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-Increase code coverage for multiprocessing.shared_memory.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-09-11-17-22-32.bpo-38117.X7LgGY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-09-11-17-22-32.bpo-38117.X7LgGY.rst
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-Test with OpenSSL 1.1.1d
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-Multiprocessing tests: increase test_queue_feeder_donot_stop_onexc() timeout
-from 1 to 60 seconds.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-09-24-12-30-55.bpo-37123.IoutBn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-09-24-12-30-55.bpo-37123.IoutBn.rst
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-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.
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-test.support now has a helper function to check for availibility 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.
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-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.
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-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.
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-Fix test_gdb for Link Time Optimization (LTO) builds.
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-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.
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-Fix ``test_compileall.test_compile_dir_maxlevels()`` on Windows without long
-path support: only create 3 subdirectories instead of between 20 and 100
-subdirectories.
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-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.
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-test.regrtest now uses process groups in the multiprocessing mode (-jN command
-line option) if process groups are available: if :func:`os.setsid` and
-:func:`os.killpg` functions are available.
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-Add timeout constants to :mod:`test.support`:
-:data:`~test.support.LOOPBACK_TIMEOUT`,
-:data:`~test.support.INTERNET_TIMEOUT`, :data:`~test.support.SHORT_TIMEOUT`
-and :data:`~test.support.LONG_TIMEOUT`.
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-Fix test_communicate() of test_asyncio.test_subprocess: use
-``support.LONG_TIMEOUT`` (5 minutes), instead of just 1 minute.
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-Add option -k to pathscript.py script: preserve shebang flags.
-Add option -a to pathscript.py script: add flags.
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-Argument Clinic now uses the argument name on errors with keyword-only
-argument instead of their position. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
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-2to3 now works when run from a zipped standard library.
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-Remove ``Tools/scripts/h2py.py``: use cffi to access a C API in Python.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-08-24-12-11-30.bpo-37942.7H8N9a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-08-24-12-11-30.bpo-37942.7H8N9a.rst
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-Improve ArgumentClinic converter for floats.
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-pdb's ``--help`` and ``--version`` long options now work.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-10-02-09-48-42.bpo-38347.2Tq5D1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-10-02-09-48-42.bpo-38347.2Tq5D1.rst
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-pathfix.py: Assume all files that end on '.py' are Python scripts when working recursively.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-10-08-15-07-52.bpo-38118.pIZD6H.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-10-08-15-07-52.bpo-38118.pIZD6H.rst
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-Update Valgrind suppression file to ignore a false alarm in
-:c:func:`PyUnicode_Decode` when using GCC builtin strcmp().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-04-10-21-13-26.bpo-36590.ZTaKcu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-04-10-21-13-26.bpo-36590.ZTaKcu.rst
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-Add native Bluetooth RFCOMM support to socket module.
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-Replace use of :c:func:`strcasecmp` for the system function :c:func:`_stricmp`. Patch by Minmin Gong.
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-Make :data:`winreg.REG_MULTI_SZ` support zero-length strings.
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-Ensure ``time.tzname`` is correct on Windows when the active code page is
-set to CP_UTF7 or CP_UTF8.
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-On Windows, :func:`os.dup` no longer creates an inheritable fd when handling
-a character file.
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-Update Windows builds to use SQLite 3.28.0.
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-Removes libpython38.a from standard Windows distribution.
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-Don't collect unfinished processes with ``subprocess._active`` on Windows to
-cleanup later. Patch by Ruslan Kuprieiev.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-06-28-09-44-08.bpo-37369.1iVpxq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-06-28-09-44-08.bpo-37369.1iVpxq.rst
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-Fixes path for :data:`sys.executable` when running from the Microsoft Store.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-06-28-18-10-29.bpo-37445.LsdYO6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-06-28-18-10-29.bpo-37445.LsdYO6.rst
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-Include the ``FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS`` flag in ``FormatMessageW()``
-calls.
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-Officially drop support for creating bdist_wininst installers on non-Windows
-systems.
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-Switch Windows Store package's pip to use bundled :file:`pip.ini` instead of
-:envvar:`PIP_USER` variable.
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-Fix memory leak on Windows in creating an SSLContext object or
-running urllib.request.urlopen('https://...').
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-Fix use of registry values to launch Python from Microsoft Store app.
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-Fixes the icons used for file associations to the Microsoft Store package.
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-Trying to import the :mod:`crypt` module on Windows will result in an :exc:`ImportError` 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.
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-Add the module name in the formatted error message when DLL load fail happens during module import in ``_PyImport_FindSharedFuncptrWindows()``. Patch by Srinivas Nyayapati.
\ No newline at end of file
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-Treat all name surrogate reparse points on Windows in :func:`os.lstat` and
-other reparse points as regular files in :func:`os.stat`.
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-Enable support for following symlinks in :func:`os.realpath`.
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-The ``nul`` file on Windows now returns True from :func:`~os.path.exists`
-and a valid result from :func:`os.stat` with ``S_IFCHR`` set.
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-:func:`os.dup` no longer fails for standard streams on Windows 7.
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-Improve the implementation of ``winerror_to_errno()``.
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-Fixes potential crash when calling :func:`os.readlink` (or indirectly
-through :func:`~os.path.realpath`) on a file that is not a supported link.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-04-14-01-08.bpo-38030._USdtk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-04-14-01-08.bpo-38030._USdtk.rst
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-Fixes :func:`os.stat` failing for block devices on Windows
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-Ensure command-line and unattend.xml setting override previously detected
-states in Windows installer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-10-14-17-25.bpo-38088.FOvWSM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-10-14-17-25.bpo-38088.FOvWSM.rst
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-Fixes distutils not finding vcruntime140.dll with only the v142 toolset
-installed.
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-Fix case sensitivity in test_pathlib and test_ntpath.
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-Prevent error calling :func:`os.path.realpath` on ``'NUL'``.
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-venv activate.bat now works when the existing variables contain double quote
-characters.
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-:func:`os.cpu_count` now returns active processors rather than maximum
-processors.
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-Set Windows 8 as the minimum required version for API support
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-The ``pip.ini`` is no longer included in the Nuget package.
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-Allow py.exe launcher to locate installations from the Microsoft Store and
-improve display of active virtual environments.
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-Reduce overhead when using multiprocessing in a Windows virtual environment.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-16-14-07-11.bpo-38117.hJVf0C.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-16-14-07-11.bpo-38117.hJVf0C.rst
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-Update bundled OpenSSL to 1.1.1d
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-Fixes ``ntpath.realpath`` failing on ``sys.executable``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-03-08-04-14.bpo-38359.wzwsl_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-03-08-04-14.bpo-38359.wzwsl_.rst
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-Ensures ``pyw.exe`` launcher reads correct registry key.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-05-05-50-58.bpo-38344.scr2LO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-05-05-50-58.bpo-38344.scr2LO.rst
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-Fix error message in activate.bat
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-Remove ``pythonw.exe`` dependency on the Microsoft C++ runtime.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-28-05-01-29.bpo-38519.dCkY66.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-28-05-01-29.bpo-38519.dCkY66.rst
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-Restores the internal C headers that were missing from the nuget.org and
-Microsoft Store packages.
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-Ensure ntpath.realpath() correctly resolves relative paths.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-28-10-48-16.bpo-38589.V69Q1a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-28-10-48-16.bpo-38589.V69Q1a.rst
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-Fixes HTML Help shortcut when Windows is not installed to C drive
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-06-18-00-30-40.bpo-34631.vSifcv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-06-18-00-30-40.bpo-34631.vSifcv.rst
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-Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c in macOS installer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-06-18-08-58-30.bpo-35360.-CWbfy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-06-18-08-58-30.bpo-35360.-CWbfy.rst
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-Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.28.0.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-02-01-06-47.bpo-34602.10d4wl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-02-01-06-47.bpo-34602.10d4wl.rst
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-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.
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-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.
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-Move Azure Pipelines to latest VM versions and make macOS tests optional
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-Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1d in macOS installer.
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--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
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-This is Python version 3.9.0 alpha 0
+This is Python version 3.9.0 alpha 1
 ====================================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=master