[Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.5 -> default): Merge 3.5
yury.selivanov
python-checkins at python.org
Fri Sep 11 03:27:20 CEST 2015
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3af318476d0f
changeset: 97887:3af318476d0f
parent: 97885:482ec940b413
parent: 97886:2034c31eb158
user: Yury Selivanov <yselivanov at sprymix.com>
date: Thu Sep 10 21:27:04 2015 -0400
summary:
Merge 3.5
files:
Doc/library/types.rst | 8 +-
Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst | 190 ++++++++++++++++-------------
2 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/types.rst b/Doc/library/types.rst
--- a/Doc/library/types.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/types.rst
@@ -86,14 +86,14 @@
.. data:: GeneratorType
- The type of :term:`generator`-iterator objects, produced by calling a
- generator function.
+ The type of :term:`generator`-iterator objects, created by
+ generator functions.
.. data:: CoroutineType
- The type of :term:`coroutine` objects, produced by calling a
- function defined with an :keyword:`async def` statement.
+ The type of :term:`coroutine` objects, created by
+ :keyword:`async def` functions.
.. versionadded:: 3.5
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
>>> async def coro():
... return 'spam'
-Inside a coroutine function, a new :keyword:`await` expression can be used
+Inside a coroutine function, the new :keyword:`await` expression can be used
to suspend coroutine execution until the result is available. Any object
can be *awaited*, as long as it implements the :term:`awaitable` protocol by
defining the :meth:`__await__` method.
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
Note that both :keyword:`async for` and :keyword:`async with` can only
be used inside a coroutine function declared with :keyword:`async def`.
-Coroutine functions are intended to be ran inside a compatible event loop,
+Coroutine functions are intended to be run inside a compatible event loop,
such as :class:`asyncio.Loop`.
.. seealso::
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@
The :class:`~argparse.ArgumentParser` class now allows to disable
:ref:`abbreviated usage <prefix-matching>` of long options by setting
-:ref:`allow_abbrev` to ``False``. (Contributed by Jonathan Paugh,
+:ref:`allow_abbrev` to ``False``. (Contributed by Jonathan Paugh,
Steven Bethard, paul j3 and Daniel Eriksson in :issue:`14910`.)
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@
cmath
-----
-A new function :func:`cmath.isclose` provides a way to test for approximate
+A new function :func:`~cmath.isclose` provides a way to test for approximate
equality. (Contributed by Chris Barker and Tal Einat in :issue:`24270`.)
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@
A new :class:`~collections.abc.Generator` abstract base class. (Contributed
by Stefan Behnel in :issue:`24018`.)
-A new :class:`~collections.abc.Coroutine`,
+New :class:`~collections.abc.Coroutine`,
:class:`~collections.abc.AsyncIterator`, and
:class:`~collections.abc.AsyncIterable` abstract base classes.
(Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`24184`.)
@@ -721,8 +721,8 @@
------------------
The :meth:`Executor.map <concurrent.futures.Executor.map>` method now accepts a
-*chunksize* argument to allow batching of tasks in child processes and improve
-performance of :meth:`~concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor`.
+*chunksize* argument to allow batching of tasks to improve performance when
+:meth:`~concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor` is used.
(Contributed by Dan O'Reilly in :issue:`11271`.)
@@ -739,28 +739,30 @@
curses
------
-The new :func:`~curses.update_lines_cols` function updates the variables
-:data:`curses.LINES` and :data:`curses.COLS`.
+The new :func:`~curses.update_lines_cols` function updates :envvar:`LINES`
+and :envvar:`COLS` environment variables. This is useful for detecting
+manual screen resize. (Contributed by Arnon Yaari in :issue:`4254`.)
difflib
-------
-The charset of the HTML document generated by
+The charset of HTML documents generated by
:meth:`HtmlDiff.make_file <difflib.HtmlDiff.make_file>`
-can now be customized by using *charset* keyword-only parameter. The default
-charset of HTML document changed from ``"ISO-8859-1"`` to ``"utf-8"``.
+can now be customized by using a new *charset* keyword-only argument.
+The default charset of HTML document changed from ``"ISO-8859-1"``
+to ``"utf-8"``.
(Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`2052`.)
-It is now possible to compare lists of byte strings with the
-:func:`~difflib.diff_bytes` function. This fixes a regression from Python 2.
+The :func:`~difflib.diff_bytes` function can now compare lists of byte
+strings. This fixes a regression from Python 2.
(Contributed by Terry J. Reedy and Greg Ward in :issue:`17445`.)
distutils
---------
-The ``build`` and ``build_ext`` commands now accept a ``-j`` option to
+Both ``build`` and ``build_ext`` commands now accept a ``-j`` option to
enable parallel building of extension modules.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`5309`.)
@@ -792,17 +794,18 @@
:mailheader:`Content-Disposition` header.
(Contributed by Abhilash Raj in :issue:`21083`.)
-A new policy option :attr:`~email.policy.EmailPolicy.utf8` can be set
-to ``True`` to encode email headers using the UTF-8 charset instead of using
-encoded words. This allows ``Messages`` to be formatted according to
+A new policy option :attr:`EmailPolicy.utf8 <email.policy.EmailPolicy.utf8>`
+can be set to ``True`` to encode email headers using the UTF-8 charset instead
+of using encoded words. This allows ``Messages`` to be formatted according to
:rfc:`6532` and used with an SMTP server that supports the :rfc:`6531`
-``SMTPUTF8`` extension. (Contributed by R. David Murray in :issue:`24211`.)
+``SMTPUTF8`` extension. (Contributed by R. David Murray in
+:issue:`24211`.)
faulthandler
------------
-The :func:`~faulthandler.enable`, :func:`~faulthandler.register`,
+:func:`~faulthandler.enable`, :func:`~faulthandler.register`,
:func:`~faulthandler.dump_traceback` and
:func:`~faulthandler.dump_traceback_later` functions now accept file
descriptors in addition to file-like objects.
@@ -813,14 +816,14 @@
---------
Most of :func:`~functools.lru_cache` machinery is now implemented in C, making
-it significantly faster. (Contributed by Matt Joiner, Alexey Kachayev, and
+it significantly faster. (Contributed by Matt Joiner, Alexey Kachayev, and
Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`14373`.)
glob
----
-The :func:`~glob.iglob` and :func:`~glob.glob` functions now support recursive
+:func:`~glob.iglob` and :func:`~glob.glob` functions now support recursive
search in subdirectories using the ``"**"`` pattern.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`13968`.)
@@ -838,7 +841,7 @@
----------------
Since idlelib implements the IDLE shell and editor and is not intended for
-import by other programs, it gets improvements with every release. See
+import by other programs, it gets improvements with every release. See
:file:`Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt` for a cumulative list of changes since 3.4.0,
as well as changes made in future 3.5.x releases. This file is also available
from the IDLE Help -> About Idle dialog.
@@ -888,17 +891,17 @@
(Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`21156`.)
The new :func:`util.module_from_spec <importlib.util.module_from_spec>`
-function is now the preferred way to create a new module. Compared to the
-:class:`types.ModuleType` class, this new function will set the various
-import-controlled attributes based on the passed-in spec object.
-(Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`20383`.)
+function is now the preferred way to create a new module. As opposed to
+creating a :class:`types.ModuleType` instance directly, this new function
+will set the various import-controlled attributes based on the passed-in
+spec object. (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`20383`.)
inspect
-------
-The :class:`~inspect.Signature` and :class:`~inspect.Parameter` classes are now
-picklable and hashable. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`20726`
+Both :class:`~inspect.Signature` and :class:`~inspect.Parameter` classes are
+now picklable and hashable. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`20726`
and :issue:`20334`.)
A new
@@ -918,13 +921,13 @@
A set of new functions to inspect
:term:`coroutine functions <coroutine function>` and
-``coroutine objects`` has been added:
+:term:`coroutine objects <coroutine>` has been added:
:func:`~inspect.iscoroutine`, :func:`~inspect.iscoroutinefunction`,
:func:`~inspect.isawaitable`, :func:`~inspect.getcoroutinelocals`,
and :func:`~inspect.getcoroutinestate`.
(Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`24017` and :issue:`24400`.)
-The :func:`~inspect.stack`, :func:`~inspect.trace`,
+:func:`~inspect.stack`, :func:`~inspect.trace`,
:func:`~inspect.getouterframes`, and :func:`~inspect.getinnerframes`
functions now return a list of named tuples.
(Contributed by Daniel Shahaf in :issue:`16808`.)
@@ -933,7 +936,7 @@
ipaddress
---------
-The :class:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network` and :class:`~ipaddress.IPv6Network` classes
+Both :class:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network` and :class:`~ipaddress.IPv6Network` classes
now accept an ``(address, netmask)`` tuple argument, so as to easily construct
network objects from existing addresses. (Contributed by Peter Moody
and Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16531`.)
@@ -965,11 +968,11 @@
All logging methods (:class:`~logging.Logger` :meth:`~logging.Logger.log`,
:meth:`~logging.Logger.exception`, :meth:`~logging.Logger.critical`,
:meth:`~logging.Logger.debug`, etc.), now accept exception instances
-in ``exc_info`` argument, in addition to boolean values and exception
+as an ``exc_info`` argument, in addition to boolean values and exception
tuples. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`20537`.)
-The :class:`handlers.HTTPHandler <logging.handlers.HTTPHandler>` classes now
-accepts an optional :class:`ssl.SSLContext` instance to configure the SSL
+The :class:`handlers.HTTPHandler <logging.handlers.HTTPHandler>` class now
+accepts an optional :class:`ssl.SSLContext` instance to configure SSL
settings used in an HTTP connection.
(Contributed by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`22788`.)
@@ -983,7 +986,7 @@
----
The :meth:`LZMADecompressor.decompress <lzma.LZMADecompressor.decompress>`
-method now accepts an optional *max_length* argument to limit the maximum
+method now accepts an optional *max_length* argument to limit the maximum
size of decompressed data.
(Contributed by Martin Panter in :issue:`15955`.)
@@ -1005,7 +1008,7 @@
operator
--------
-The :mod:`operator` :func:`~operator.attrgetter`, :func:`~operator.itemgetter`,
+:func:`~operator.attrgetter`, :func:`~operator.itemgetter`,
and :func:`~operator.methodcaller` objects now support pickling.
(Contributed by Josh Rosenberg and Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`22955`.)
@@ -1032,15 +1035,15 @@
exhaustion. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`22181`.)
New :func:`~os.get_blocking` and :func:`~os.set_blocking` functions allow to
-get and set the file descriptor blocking mode (:data:`~os.O_NONBLOCK`.)
+get and set a file descriptor blocking mode (:data:`~os.O_NONBLOCK`.)
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`22054`.)
The :func:`~os.truncate` and :func:`~os.ftruncate` functions are now supported
on Windows. (Contributed by Steve Dower in :issue:`23668`.)
-There is a new :func:`~os.path.commonpath` function returning the longest
+There is a new :func:`os.path.commonpath` function returning the longest
common sub-path of each passed pathname. Unlike the
-:func:`~os.path.commonprefix` function, it always returns a valid
+:func:`os.path.commonprefix` function, it always returns a valid
path. (Contributed by Rafik Draoui and Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`10395`.)
@@ -1048,8 +1051,8 @@
-------
The new :meth:`Path.samefile <pathlib.Path.samefile>` method can be used
-to check if the passed :class:`~pathlib.Path` object or a :class:`str` path,
-point to the same file.
+to check whether the path points to the same file as other path, which can be
+either an another :class:`~pathlib.Path` object, or a string.
(Contributed by Vajrasky Kok and Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`19775`.)
The :meth:`Path.mkdir <pathlib.Path.mkdir>` method how accepts a new optional
@@ -1070,16 +1073,16 @@
------
Nested objects, such as unbound methods or nested classes, can now be pickled
-using :ref:`pickle protocols <pickle-protocols>` older than protocol version 4,
-which already supported these cases. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in
-:issue:`23611`.)
+using :ref:`pickle protocols <pickle-protocols>` older than protocol version 4.
+Protocol version 4 already supports these cases. (Contributed by Serhiy
+Storchaka in :issue:`23611`.)
poplib
------
-A new command :meth:`POP3.utf8 <poplib.POP3.utf8>` enables :rfc:`6856`
-(internationalized email) support, if the POP server supports it.
+A new :meth:`POP3.utf8 <poplib.POP3.utf8>` command enables :rfc:`6856`
+(Internationalized Email) support, if a POP server supports it.
(Contributed by Milan OberKirch in :issue:`21804`.)
@@ -1090,15 +1093,15 @@
100. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`22437`.)
The :func:`~re.sub` and :func:`~re.subn` functions now replace unmatched
-groups with empty strings instead of rising an exception.
+groups with empty strings instead of raising an exception.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`1519638`.)
readline
--------
-The new :func:`~readline.append_history_file` function can be used to append
-the specified number of trailing elements in history to a given file.
+A new :func:`~readline.append_history_file` function can be used to append
+the specified number of trailing elements in history to the given file.
(Contributed by Bruno Cauet in :issue:`22940`.)
@@ -1111,7 +1114,7 @@
when moving.
(Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`19840`.)
-The :func:`~shutil.make_archive` function now supports *xztar* format.
+The :func:`~shutil.make_archive` function now supports the *xztar* format.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`5411`.)
@@ -1121,7 +1124,7 @@
On Windows, the :func:`~signal.set_wakeup_fd` function now also supports
socket handles. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`22018`.)
-Various ``SIG*`` constants in :mod:`signal` module have been converted into
+Various ``SIG*`` constants in the :mod:`signal` module have been converted into
:mod:`Enums <enum>`. This allows meaningful names to be printed
during debugging, instead of integer "magic numbers".
(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola' in :issue:`21076`.)
@@ -1133,7 +1136,8 @@
Both :class:`~smtpd.SMTPServer` and :class:`~smtpd.SMTPChannel` classes now
accept a *decode_data* keyword argument to determine if the ``DATA`` portion of
the SMTP transaction is decoded using the ``"utf-8"`` codec or is instead
-provided to :meth:`SMTPServer.process_message <smtpd.SMTPServer.process_message>`
+provided to the
+:meth:`SMTPServer.process_message <smtpd.SMTPServer.process_message>`
method as a byte string. The default is ``True`` for backward compatibility
reasons, but will change to ``False`` in Python 3.6. If *decode_data* is set
to ``False``, the :meth:`~smtpd.SMTPServer.process_message` method must
@@ -1167,9 +1171,9 @@
implement custom authentication mechanisms. (Contributed by Milan
Oberkirch in :issue:`15014`.)
-Additional debuglevel (2) shows timestamps for debug messages in
-:class:`smtplib.SMTP`. (Contributed by Gavin Chappell and Maciej Szulik in
-:issue:`16914`.)
+The :meth:`SMTP.set_debuglevel <smtplib.SMTP.set_debuglevel>` method now
+accepts an additional debuglevel (2), which enables timestamps in debug
+messages. (Contributed by Gavin Chappell and Maciej Szulik in :issue:`16914`.)
Both :meth:`SMTP.sendmail <smtplib.SMTP.sendmail>` and
:meth:`SMTP.send_message <smtplib.SMTP.send_message>` methods now
@@ -1180,8 +1184,8 @@
sndhdr
------
-The :func:`~sndhdr.what` and :func:`~sndhdr.whathdr` functions now return
-a :func:`~collections.namedtuple`. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in
+:func:`~sndhdr.what` and :func:`~sndhdr.whathdr` functions now return
+a :func:`~collections.namedtuple`. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in
:issue:`18615`.)
@@ -1194,14 +1198,14 @@
(Contributed by Geert Jansen in :issue:`21965`.)
The new :class:`~ssl.SSLObject` class has been added to provide SSL protocol
-support for cases when the network IO capabilities of :class:`~ssl.SSLSocket`
+support for cases when the network I/O capabilities of :class:`~ssl.SSLSocket`
are not necessary or suboptimal. :class:`~ssl.SSLObject` represents
-an SSL protocol instance, but does not implement any network IO methods, and
+an SSL protocol instance, but does not implement any network I/O methods, and
instead provides a memory buffer interface. The new :class:`~ssl.MemoryBIO`
class can be used to pass data between Python and an SSL protocol instance.
The memory BIO SSL support is primarily intended to be used in frameworks
-implementing asynchronous IO for which :class:`~ssl.SSLObject` IO readiness
+implementing asynchronous I/O for which :class:`~ssl.SSLSocket`'s readiness
model ("select/poll") is inefficient.
A new :meth:`SSLContext.wrap_bio <ssl.SSLContext.wrap_bio>` method can be used
@@ -1213,12 +1217,12 @@
(Contributed by Benjamin Peterson in :issue:`20188`.)
-Where OpenSSL support is present, :mod:`ssl` module now implements *
-Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation* TLS extension as described
+Where OpenSSL support is present, :mod:`ssl` module now implements
+*Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation* TLS extension as described
in :rfc:`7301`.
The new :meth:`SSLContext.set_alpn_protocols <ssl.SSLContext.set_alpn_protocols>`
-can be used to specify which protocols the socket should advertise during
+can be used to specify which protocols a socket should advertise during
the TLS handshake.
The new
@@ -1271,7 +1275,7 @@
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`22043`.)
A new :meth:`socket.sendfile <socket.socket.sendfile>` method allows to
-send a file over a socket by using high-performance :func:`os.sendfile`
+send a file over a socket by using the high-performance :func:`os.sendfile`
function on UNIX resulting in uploads being from 2 to 3 times faster than when
using plain :meth:`socket.send <socket.socket.send>`.
(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola' in :issue:`17552`.)
@@ -1285,9 +1289,12 @@
subprocess
----------
-The new :func:`~subprocess.run` function has been added and is the recommended
-approach to invoking subprocesses. It runs the specified command and
-and returns a :class:`~subprocess.CompletedProcess` object.
+The new :func:`~subprocess.run` function has been added.
+It runs the specified command and and returns a
+:class:`~subprocess.CompletedProcess` object, which describes a finished
+process. The new API is more consistent and is the recommended approach
+to invoking subprocesses in Python code that does not need to maintain
+compatibility with earlier Python versions.
(Contributed by Thomas Kluyver in :issue:`23342`.)
@@ -1295,13 +1302,13 @@
---
A new :func:`~sys.set_coroutine_wrapper` function allows setting a global
-hook that will be called whenever a :ref:`coro object <coro-objects>`
-is created. Essentially, it works like a global coroutine decorator. A
-corresponding :func:`~sys.get_coroutine_wrapper` can be used to obtain
-a currently set wrapper. Both functions are provisional, and are intended
-for debugging purposes only. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`24017`.)
+hook that will be called whenever a :term:`coroutine object <coroutine>`
+is created by an :keyword:`async def` function. A corresponding
+:func:`~sys.get_coroutine_wrapper` can be used to obtain a currently set
+wrapper. Both functions are provisional, and are intended for debugging
+purposes only. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`24017`.)
-There is a new :func:`~sys.is_finalizing` function to check if the Python
+A new :func:`~sys.is_finalizing` function can be used to check if the Python
interpreter is :term:`shutting down <interpreter shutdown>`.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`22696`.)
@@ -1320,7 +1327,7 @@
The *mode* argument of the :func:`~tarfile.open` function now accepts ``"x"``
to request exclusive creation. (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`21717`.)
-The :meth:`TarFile.extractall <tarfile.TarFile.extractall>` and
+:meth:`TarFile.extractall <tarfile.TarFile.extractall>` and
:meth:`TarFile.extract <tarfile.TarFile.extract>` methods now take a keyword
argument *numeric_only*. If set to ``True``, the extracted files and
directories will be owned by the numeric ``uid`` and ``gid`` from the tarfile.
@@ -1332,7 +1339,7 @@
threading
---------
-The :meth:`Lock.acquire <threading.Lock.acquire>` and
+Both :meth:`Lock.acquire <threading.Lock.acquire>` and
:meth:`RLock.acquire <threading.RLock.acquire>` methods
now use a monotonic clock for timeout management.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`22043`.)
@@ -1348,9 +1355,9 @@
timeit
------
-New command line option ``-u`` or ``--unit=U`` to specify a time
-unit for the timer output. Supported options are ``usec``, ``msec``, or ``sec``.
-(Contributed by Julian Gindi in :issue:`18983`.)
+New command line option ``-u`` or ``--unit=U`` can be used to specify the time
+unit for the timer output. Supported options are ``usec``, ``msec``,
+or ``sec``. (Contributed by Julian Gindi in :issue:`18983`.)
tkinter
@@ -1373,7 +1380,7 @@
:class:`~traceback.StackSummary`, and :class:`traceback.FrameSummary`.
(Contributed by Robert Collins in :issue:`17911`.)
-The :func:`~traceback.print_tb` and :func:`~traceback.print_stack` functions
+Both :func:`~traceback.print_tb` and :func:`~traceback.print_stack` functions
now support negative values for the *limit* argument.
(Contributed by Dmitry Kazakov in :issue:`22619`.)
@@ -1387,8 +1394,8 @@
:term:`awaitables <awaitable>`.
(Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`24017`.)
-A new :class:`~types.CoroutineType` is the type of :term:`coroutine` objects,
-produced by calling a function defined with an :keyword:`async def` statement.
+A new :class:`~types.CoroutineType` is the type of :term:`coroutine` objects
+created by :keyword:`async def` functions.
(Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`24400`.)
@@ -1478,22 +1485,24 @@
Optimizations
=============
-The :func:`os.walk` function has been sped up by 3-5 times on POSIX systems,
-and by 7-20 times on Windows. This was done using the new :func:`os.scandir`
+The :func:`os.walk` function has been sped up by 3 to 5 times on POSIX systems,
+and by 7 to 20 times on Windows. This was done using the new :func:`os.scandir`
function, which exposes file information from the underlying ``readdir`` or
-``FindFirstFile``/``FindNextFile`` system calls. (Contributed by
+``FindFirstFile``/``FindNextFile`` system calls. (Contributed by
Ben Hoyt with help from Victor Stinner in :issue:`23605`.)
Construction of ``bytes(int)`` (filled by zero bytes) is faster and uses less
memory for large objects. ``calloc()`` is used instead of ``malloc()`` to
allocate memory for these objects.
+(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`21233`.)
Some operations on :mod:`ipaddress` :class:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network` and
:class:`~ipaddress.IPv6Network` have been massively sped up, such as
:meth:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network.subnets`, :meth:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network.supernet`,
:func:`~ipaddress.summarize_address_range`, :func:`~ipaddress.collapse_addresses`.
The speed up can range from 3 to 15 times.
-(See :issue:`21486`, :issue:`21487`, :issue:`20826`, :issue:`23266`.)
+(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, Michel Albert, and Markus in
+:issue:`21486`, :issue:`21487`, :issue:`20826`, :issue:`23266`.)
Pickling of :mod:`ipaddress` objects was optimized to produce significantly
smaller output. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`23133`.)
@@ -1572,7 +1581,7 @@
``linux-gnu32`` (and ``<architecture>`` will be ``x86_64``).
* On Windows, extension module filenames end with
- ``.<debug>.cp<major><minor>-<platform>.pyd``:
+ ``<debug>.cp<major><minor>-<platform>.pyd``:
* ``<major>`` is the major number of the Python version;
for Python 3.5 this is ``3``.
@@ -1607,7 +1616,8 @@
Unsupported Operating Systems
-----------------------------
-Per :PEP:`11`, Microsoft support of Windows XP has ended.
+Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, thus, per :PEP:`11`, CPython
+3.5 is no longer officially supported on this OS.
Deprecated Python modules, functions and methods
@@ -1782,6 +1792,10 @@
* The :mod:`socket` module now exports the CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES constant on linux
3.6 and greater.
+* The :func:`~ssl.cert_time_to_seconds` function now interprets the input time
+ as UTC and not as local time, per :rfc:`5280`. Additionally, the return
+ value is always an :class:`int`. (Contributed by Akira Li in :issue:`19940`.)
+
* The ``pygettext.py`` Tool now uses the standard +NNNN format for timezones in
the POT-Creation-Date header.
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