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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2014-02-22 15:05:08 -0500
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2014-02-22 15:05:08 -0500
commitb070b3f502cd778fd262be2c8b46d536dafdfebd (patch)
tree4f977c48bc4fec8da871dd901f435beda4bb2621
parentfce008200575e9df95f7cf884e7c935166933399 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-b070b3f502cd778fd262be2c8b46d536dafdfebd.tar.gz
whatsnew: frozen package __path__; and min/max versionadded.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/functions.rst6
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst13
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 57f015b014..307ff51caf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -781,6 +781,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
such as ``sorted(iterable, key=keyfunc, reverse=True)[0]`` and
``heapq.nlargest(1, iterable, key=keyfunc)``.
+ .. versionadded:: 3.4
+ The *default* keyword-only argument.
+
.. _func-memoryview:
.. function:: memoryview(obj)
@@ -812,6 +815,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
such as ``sorted(iterable, key=keyfunc)[0]`` and ``heapq.nsmallest(1,
iterable, key=keyfunc)``.
+ .. versionadded:: 3.4
+ The *default* keyword-only argument.
+
.. function:: next(iterator[, default])
Retrieve the next item from the *iterator* by calling its
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index de9e72b0d6..4c4852d064 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -346,9 +346,10 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
* Unicode database updated to UCD version 6.3.
-* :func:`min` and :func:`max` now accept a *default* argument that can be used
- to specify the value they return if the iterable they are evaluating has no
- elements. Contributed by Julian Berman in :issue:`18111`.
+* :func:`min` and :func:`max` now accept a *default* keyword-only argument that
+ can be used to specify the value they return if the iterable they are
+ evaluating has no elements. (Contributed by Julian Berman in
+ :issue:`18111`.)
* Module objects are now :mod:`weakref`'able.
@@ -1805,6 +1806,12 @@ Changes in the Python API
similarly to ``__kwdefaults__``. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in
:issue:`20625`).
+* Frozen packages used to have their ``__path__`` set to the package name,
+ but this could cause the import system to do the wrong thing on submodule
+ imports if there was also a directory with the same name as the frozen
+ package. The ``__path__`` for frozen packages is now set to ``[]``
+ (:issue:`18065`).
+
Changes in the C API
--------------------