Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0b4.rst

.. bpo: 41180
.. date: 2021-06-29-23-40-22
.. nonce: uTWHv_
.. release date: 2021-07-10
.. section: Security

Add auditing events to the :mod:`marshal` module, and stop raising
``code.__init__`` events for every unmarshalled code object. Directly
instantiated code objects will continue to raise an event, and audit event
handlers should inspect or collect the raw marshal data. This reduces a
significant performance overhead when loading from ``.pyc`` files.

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.. bpo: 44562
.. date: 2021-07-04-23-38-51
.. nonce: QdeRQo
.. section: Core and Builtins

Remove uses of :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Del` in error path when initializing
:class:`types.GenericAlias`.

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.. bpo: 41486
.. date: 2021-07-04-17-41-47
.. nonce: DiM24a
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a memory consumption and copying performance regression in earlier 3.10
beta releases if someone used an output buffer larger than 4GiB with
zlib.decompress on input data that expands that large.

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.. bpo: 44553
.. date: 2021-07-02-22-54-41
.. nonce: l9YqGg
.. section: Core and Builtins

Implement GC methods for ``types.Union`` to break reference cycles and
prevent memory leaks.

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.. bpo: 44523
.. date: 2021-06-29-11-49-29
.. nonce: 67-ZIP
.. section: Core and Builtins

Remove the pass-through for :func:`hash` of :class:`weakref.proxy` objects
to prevent unintended consequences when the original referred object dies
while the proxy is part of a hashable object. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 44483
.. date: 2021-06-22-19-08-19
.. nonce: eq2f7T
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a crash in ``types.Union`` objects when creating a union of an object
with bad ``__module__`` field.

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.. bpo: 44297
.. date: 2021-06-19-12-41-13
.. nonce: F53vHj
.. section: Core and Builtins

Make sure that the line number is set when entering a comprehension scope.
Ensures that backtraces inclusing generator expressions show the correct
line number.

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.. bpo: 44456
.. date: 2021-06-18-22-08-25
.. nonce: L0Rhko
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve the syntax error when mixing positional and keyword patterns. Patch
by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 44368
.. date: 2021-06-09-22-56-59
.. nonce: vgT0Cx
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve syntax errors for invalid "as" targets. Patch by Pablo Galindo

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.. bpo: 44317
.. date: 2021-06-06-00-29-14
.. nonce: xPPhcZ
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve tokenizer error with improved locations. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 43667
.. date: 2021-05-27-17-34-29
.. nonce: ND9jP3
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve Unicode support in non-UTF locales on Oracle Solaris. This issue
does not affect other Solaris systems.

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.. bpo: 44558
.. date: 2021-07-04-21-16-53
.. nonce: cm7Slv
.. section: Library

Make the implementation consistency of :func:`~operator.indexOf` between C
and Python versions. Patch by Dong-hee Na.

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.. bpo: 34798
.. date: 2021-06-30-13-29-49
.. nonce: t7FCa0
.. section: Library

Break up paragraph about :class:`pprint.PrettyPrinter` construction
parameters to make it easier to read.

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.. bpo: 44516
.. date: 2021-06-26-12-27-14
.. nonce: BVyX_y
.. section: Library

Update vendored pip to 21.1.3

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.. bpo: 44468
.. date: 2021-06-23-19-02-00
.. nonce: -klV5-
.. section: Library

:func:`typing.get_type_hints` now finds annotations in classes and base
classes with unexpected ``__module__``. Previously, it skipped those MRO
elements.

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.. bpo: 43977
.. date: 2021-06-22-16-45-48
.. nonce: bamAGF
.. section: Library

Set the proper :const:`Py_TPFLAGS_MAPPING` and :const:`Py_TPFLAGS_SEQUENCE`
flags for subclasses created before a parent has been registered as a
:class:`collections.abc.Mapping` or :class:`collections.abc.Sequence`.

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.. bpo: 44482
.. date: 2021-06-22-08-43-04
.. nonce: U9GznK
.. section: Library

Fix very unlikely resource leak in :mod:`glob` in alternate Python
implementations.

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.. bpo: 44466
.. date: 2021-06-21-12-43-04
.. nonce: NSm6mv
.. section: Library

The :mod:`faulthandler` module now detects if a fatal error occurs during a
garbage collector collection. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44404
.. date: 2021-06-20-19-01-11
.. nonce: McfrYB
.. section: Library

:mod:`tkinter`'s ``after()`` method now supports callables without the
``__name__`` attribute.

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.. bpo: 44458
.. date: 2021-06-20-07-14-46
.. nonce: myqCQ0
.. section: Library

``BUFFER_BLOCK_SIZE`` is now declared static, to avoid linking collisions
when bz2, lmza or zlib are statically linked.

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.. bpo: 44464
.. date: 2021-06-19-21-52-27
.. nonce: U2oa-a
.. section: Library

Remove exception for flake8 in deprecated importlib.metadata interfaces.
Sync with importlib_metadata 4.6.

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.. bpo: 44446
.. date: 2021-06-17-22-39-34
.. nonce: qwdRic
.. section: Library

Take into account that ``lineno`` might be ``None`` in
:class:`traceback.FrameSummary`.

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.. bpo: 44439
.. date: 2021-06-17-15-01-51
.. nonce: 1S7QhT
.. section: Library

Fix in :meth:`bz2.BZ2File.write` / :meth:`lzma.LZMAFile.write` methods, when
the input data is an object that supports the buffer protocol, the file
length may be wrong.

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.. bpo: 44434
.. date: 2021-06-16-16-52-14
.. nonce: SQS4Pg
.. section: Library

_thread.start_new_thread() no longer calls PyThread_exit_thread() explicitly
at the thread exit, the call was redundant. On Linux with the glibc,
pthread_exit() aborts the whole process if dlopen() fails to open
libgcc_s.so file (ex: EMFILE error). Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44395
.. date: 2021-06-12-10-08-14
.. nonce: PcW6Sx
.. section: Library

Fix :meth:`~email.message.MIMEPart.as_string` to pass unixfrom properly.
Patch by Dong-hee Na.

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.. bpo: 34266
.. date: 2021-06-10-21-53-46
.. nonce: k3fxnm
.. section: Library

Handle exceptions from parsing the arg of :mod:`pdb`'s run/restart command.

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.. bpo: 44077
.. date: 2021-05-13-19-44-38
.. nonce: 04b2a4
.. section: Library

It's now possible to receive the type of service (ToS), a.k.a.
differentiated services (DS), a.k.a. differenciated services code point
(DSCP) and excplicit congestion notification (ECN) IP header fields with
``socket.IP_RECVTOS``.

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.. bpo: 43024
.. date: 2021-01-25-21-24-55
.. nonce: vAUrIi
.. section: Library

Improve the help signature of :func:`traceback.print_exception`,
:func:`traceback.format_exception` and
:func:`traceback.format_exception_only`.

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.. bpo: 30256
.. date: 2019-09-25-13-54-41
.. nonce: wBkzox
.. section: Library

Pass multiprocessing BaseProxy argument ``manager_owned`` through AutoProxy.

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.. bpo: 44558
.. date: 2021-07-03-18-25-17
.. nonce: 0pTknl
.. section: Documentation

Match the docstring and python implementation of :func:`~operator.countOf`
to the behavior of its c implementation.

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.. bpo: 38062
.. date: 2021-06-28-12-13-48
.. nonce: 9Ehp9O
.. section: Documentation

Clarify that atexit uses equality comparisons internally.

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.. bpo: 40620
.. date: 2021-06-26-17-41-06
.. nonce: PAYDrB
.. section: Documentation

Convert examples in tutorial controlflow.rst section 4.3 to be
interpreter-demo style.

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.. bpo: 13814
.. date: 2021-06-21-15-46-32
.. nonce: LDcslu
.. section: Documentation

In the Design FAQ, answer "Why don't generators support the with statement?"

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.. bpo: 41621
.. date: 2020-08-24-13-35-04
.. nonce: nqaw9G
.. section: Documentation

Document that :class:`collections.defaultdict` parameter ``default_factory``
defaults to None and is positional-only.

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.. bpo: 44287
.. date: 2021-06-21-17-53-41
.. nonce: YON57s
.. section: Tests

Fix asyncio test_popen() of test_windows_utils by using a longer timeout.
Use military grade battle-tested :data:`test.support.SHORT_TIMEOUT` timeout
rather than a hardcoded timeout of 10 seconds: it's 30 seconds by default,
but it is made longer on slow buildbots. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44451
.. date: 2021-06-18-15-19-35
.. nonce: aj5pqE
.. section: Tests

Reset ``DeprecationWarning`` filters in
``test.test_importlib.test_metadata_api.APITests.test_entry_points_by_index``
to avoid ``StopIteration`` error if ``DeprecationWarnings`` are ignored.

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.. bpo: 30256
.. date: 2019-09-25-18-10-10
.. nonce: A5i76Q
.. section: Tests

Add test for nested queues when using ``multiprocessing`` shared objects
``AutoProxy[Queue]`` inside ``ListProxy`` and ``DictProxy``

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.. bpo: 44535
.. date: 2021-06-30-02-32-46
.. nonce: M9iN4-
.. section: Build

Enable building using a Visual Studio 2022 install on Windows.

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.. bpo: 43298
.. date: 2021-06-19-11-50-03
.. nonce: 9ircMb
.. section: Build

Improved error message when building without a Windows SDK installed.

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.. bpo: 44582
.. date: 2021-07-07-21-07-18
.. nonce: 4Mm6Hh
.. section: Windows

Accelerate speed of :mod:`mimetypes` initialization using a native
implementation of the registry scan.

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.. bpo: 41299
.. date: 2021-06-06-16-36-13
.. nonce: Rg-vb_
.. section: Windows

Fix 16ms jitter when using timeouts in :mod:`threading`, such as with
:meth:`threading.Lock.acquire` or :meth:`threading.Condition.wait`.

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.. bpo: 44441
.. date: 2021-06-23-12-12-04
.. nonce: 3p14JB
.. section: C API

:c:func:`Py_RunMain` now resets :c:data:`PyImport_Inittab` to its initial
value at exit. It must be possible to call :c:func:`PyImport_AppendInittab`
or :c:func:`PyImport_ExtendInittab` at each Python initialization. Patch by
Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 40939
.. date: 2021-06-22-17-00-06
.. nonce: CGB0I5
.. section: C API

Removed documentation for the removed ``PyParser_*`` C API.