3.7.2rc1

Include/patchlevel.h

@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        7
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        1
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        2
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.7.1+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.7.2rc1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-08-24-09-48-25.bpo-33015.s21y74.rst

-Fix an undefined behaviour in the pthread implementation of
-:c:func:`PyThread_start_new_thread`: add a function wrapper to always return
-``NULL``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-10-16-12-22-36.bpo-28015.ylSgFh.rst

-Have --with-lto works correctly with clang.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-10-17-17-38-57.bpo-35011.GgoPIC.rst

-Restores the use of pyexpatns.h to isolate our embedded copy of the expat C
-library so that its symbols do not conflict at link or dynamic loading time
-with an embedding application or other extension modules with their own
-version of libexpat.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-11-01-15-01-23.bpo-35139.XZTttb.rst

-Fix a compiler error when statically linking `pyexpat` in `Modules/Setup`.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-12-04-15-33-28.bpo-35351.ZhhBfT.rst

-When building Python with clang and LTO, LTO flags are no longer passed into
-CFLAGS to build third-party C extensions through distutils.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-12-04-17-10-17.bpo-35296.2ktH40.rst

-The Windows installer (MSI) now also install internal header files
-(``Include/internal/`` subdirectory).

Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-10-13-16-30-54.bpo-34725.j52rIS.rst

-Adds _Py_SetProgramFullPath so embedders may override sys.executable

Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-11-22-18-34-23.bpo-35296.nxrIQt.rst

-``make install`` now also installs the internal API:
-``Include/internal/*.h`` header files.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-11-28-03-20-36.bpo-35322.Qcqsag.rst

-Fix memory leak in :c:func:`PyUnicode_EncodeLocale` and
-:c:func:`PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault` on error handling.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-11-15-19-37.bpo-1621.7o19yG.rst

-Do not assume signed integer overflow behavior (C undefined behavior) when
-performing set hash table resizing.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-27-11-10-02.bpo-34824.VLlCaU.rst

-Fix a possible null pointer dereference in Modules/_ssl.c. Patch by Zackery
-Spytz.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-13-16-42-03.bpo-34973.B5M-3g.rst

-Fixed crash in :func:`bytes` when the :class:`list` argument is mutated
-while it is iterated.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-13-22-24-19.bpo-34974.7LgTc2.rst

-:class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray` constructors no longer convert
-unexpected exceptions (e.g. :exc:`MemoryError` and :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`)
-to :exc:`TypeError`.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-23-15-03-53.bpo-35050.49wraS.rst

-:mod:`socket`: Fix off-by-one bug in length check for ``AF_ALG`` name and type.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-10-25-20-53-32.bpo-29341.jH-AMF.rst

-Clarify in the docstrings of :mod:`os` methods that path-like objects are also accepted
-as input parameters.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-08-15-00-58.bpo-35193.HzPS6R.rst

-Fix an off by one error in the bytecode peephole optimizer where it could read
-bytes beyond the end of bounds of an array when removing unreachable code.
-This bug was present in every release of Python 3.6 and 3.7 until now.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-12-11-38-06.bpo-35214.PCHKbX.rst

-The interpreter and extension modules have had annotations added so that
-they work properly under clang's Memory Sanitizer.  A new configure flag
---with-memory-sanitizer has been added to make test builds of this nature
-easier to perform.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-13-00-40-35.bpo-35214.OQBjph.rst

-Fixed an out of bounds memory access when parsing a truncated unicode
-escape sequence at the end of a string such as ``'\N'``.  It would read
-one byte beyond the end of the memory allocation.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-17-10-18-29.bpo-35269.gjm1LO.rst

-Fix a possible segfault involving a newly-created coroutine.  Patch by
-Zackery Spytz.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-20-22-33-38.bpo-33954.RzSngM.rst

-For :meth:`str.format`, :meth:`float.__format__` and
-:meth:`complex.__format__` methods for non-ASCII decimal point when using
-the "n" formatter.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-11-29-23-59-52.bpo-35336.8LOz4F.rst

-Fix PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=1 environment variable: only coerce the C locale
-if the LC_CTYPE locale is "C".

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-01-19-20-53.bpo-35372.RwVJjZ.rst

-Fixed the code page decoder for input longer than 2 GiB containing
-undecodable bytes.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-03-21-20-24.bpo-35357.rhhoiC.rst

-Internal attributes' names of unittest.mock._Call and
-unittest.mock.MagicProxy (name, parent & from_kall) are now prefixed with
-_mock_ in order to prevent clashes with widely used object attributes.
-Fixed minor typo in test function name.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-07-02-38-01.bpo-35436.0VW7p9.rst

-Fix various issues with memory allocation error handling.  Patch by Zackery
-Spytz.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-09-13-09-39.bpo-35444.9kYn4V.rst

-Fixed error handling in pickling methods when fail to look up builtin
-"getattr".

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-05-15-05-53.bpo-32613.TDjgM1.rst

-Update the faq/windows.html to use the py command from PEP 397 instead of
-python.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-05-21-14-36-12.bpo-33594.-HRcyX.rst

-Document ``getargspec``, ``from_function`` and ``from_builtin`` as
-deprecated in their respective docstring, and include version since
-deprecation in DeprecationWarning message.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-03-20-39-25.bpo-11233.BX6Gen.rst

-Create availability directive for documentation.  Original patch by Georg
-Brandl.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-13-07-39-57.bpo-34967.E40tFP.rst

-Use app.add_object_type() instead of the deprecated Sphinx function
-app.description_unit()

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-21-02-20-36.bpo-35035.4zBObK.rst

-Rename documentation for :mod:`email.utils` to ``email.utils.rst``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-22-14-09-58.bpo-35044.qjvNtI.rst

-Fix the documentation with the role ``exc`` for the appropriated exception. Patch by
-Stéphane Wirtel

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-25-17-45-09.bpo-35038.2eVOYS.rst

-Fix the documentation about an unexisting `f_restricted` attribute in the
-frame object. Patch by Stéphane Wirtel

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-10-28-16-51-31.bpo-35089._stCpS.rst

-Remove mention of ``typing.io`` and ``typing.re``. Their types should be
-imported from ``typing`` directly.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-00-08-42.bpo-35087.G7gx2-.rst

-Update idlelib help files for the current doc build. The main change is the
-elimination of chapter-section numbers.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-00-54-32.bpo-35088.r1lJZd.rst

-Update idlelib.help.copy_string docstring. We now use git and backporting
-instead of hg and forward merging.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-15-53-51.bpo-35093.cH-tli.rst

-Document the IDLE document viewer in the IDLE doc. Add a paragraph in "Help
-and preferences", "Help sources" subsection.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-10-28-20-17-14.bpo-35097.07tm66.rst

-Add IDLE doc subsection explaining editor windows. Topics include opening,
-title and status bar, .py* extension, and running.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-05-20-43-08.bpo-35099.SVOZXC.rst

-Improve the doc about IDLE running user code.   The section is renamed from
-"IDLE -- console differences" is renamed "Running user code".
-It mostly covers the implications of using custom sys.stdxxx objects.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-05-23-23-00.bpo-23220.H3SAWE.rst

-Explain how IDLE's Shell displays output.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-06-23-10-54.bpo-33000.pQasCt.rst

-Document that IDLE's shell has no line limit. A program that runs
-indefinitely can overfill memory.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-10-09-10-54.bpo-35202.TeJJrt.rst

-Remove unused imports from lib/idlelib

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-10-21-27-25.bpo-34864.Ci-G2q.rst

-Document two IDLE on MacOS issues. The System Preferences Dock "prefer tabs
-always" setting disables some IDLE features.  Menus are a bit different than
-as described for Windows and Linux.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-11-17-13-50.bpo-34864.cw0PvO.rst

-On macOS, warn if the system preference "Prefer tabs when opening documents"
-is set to "Always".
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Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-11-12-00-20-01.bpo-35213.cqNgzT.rst

-Where appropriate, use 'macOS' in idlelib.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-12-22-39-55.bpo-22005.lGP-sc.rst

-Implemented unpickling instances of :class:`~datetime.datetime`,
-:class:`~datetime.date` and :class:`~datetime.time` pickled by Python 2.
-``encoding='latin1'`` should be used for successful decoding.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-16-11-40-52.bpo-29877.SfWhmz.rst

-compileall: import ProcessPoolExecutor only when needed, preventing hangs on
-low resource platforms

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-24-16-37-40.bpo-34052.VbbFAE.rst

-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_aggregate`,
-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.create_function`,
-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_authorizer`,
-:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.set_progress_handler` methods raises TypeError
-when unhashable objects are passed as callable. These methods now don't pass
-such objects to SQLite API. Previous behavior could lead to segfaults. Patch
-by Sergey Fedoseev.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-04-09-32-54.bpo-34574.X4RwYI.rst

-OrderedDict iterators are not exhausted during pickling anymore. Patch by
-Sergey Fedoseev.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-07-10-16-34.bpo-34604.xL7-kG.rst

-Fix possible mojibake in the error message of `pwd.getpwnam` and
-`grp.getgrnam` using string representation because of invisible characters
-or trailing whitespaces. Patch by William Grzybowski.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-11-15-49-09.bpo-34536.3IPIH5.rst

-`Enum._missing_`:  raise `ValueError` if None returned and `TypeError` if
-non-member is returned.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-14-10-38-18.bpo-31177.Sv91TN.rst

-Fix bug that prevented using :meth:`reset_mock <unittest.mock.Mock.reset_mock>`
-on mock instances with deleted attributes

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-19-16-51-04.bpo-34738.Pr3-iG.rst

-ZIP files created by :mod:`distutils` will now include entries for
-directories.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-09-27-13-14-15.bpo-34022.E2cl0r.rst

-The :envvar:`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` environment variable no longer overrides the
-value of the *invalidation_mode* argument to :func:`py_compile.compile`, and
-determines its default value instead.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-03-11-07-28.bpo-34866.ML6KpJ.rst

-Adding ``max_num_fields`` to ``cgi.FieldStorage`` to make DOS attacks harder by
-limiting the number of ``MiniFieldStorage`` objects created by ``FieldStorage``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-08-21-05-11.bpo-34936.3tRqdq.rst

-Fix ``TclError`` in ``tkinter.Spinbox.selection_element()``. Patch by
-Juliette Monsel.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-09-14-42-16.bpo-34941.1Q5QKv.rst

-Methods ``find()``, ``findtext()`` and ``findall()`` of the ``Element``
-class in the :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module are now able to find
-children which are instances of ``Element`` subclasses.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-12-18-57-52.bpo-34966.WZeBHO.rst

-:mod:`pydoc` now supports aliases not only to methods defined in
-the end class, but also to inherited methods.  The docstring is not
-duplicated for aliases.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-12-20-30-42.bpo-16965.xo5LAr.rst

-The :term:`2to3` :2to3fixer:`execfile` fixer now opens the file with mode
-``'rb'``.  Patch by Zackery Spytz.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-02-15-23.bpo-33947.SRuq3T.rst

-dataclasses now handle recursive reprs without raising RecursionError.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-11-00-00.bpo-23420.Lq74Uu.rst

-Verify the value for the parameter '-s' of the cProfile CLI. Patch by Robert
-Kuska

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-17-11-54-04.bpo-35008.dotef_.rst

-Fixed references leaks when call the ``__setstate__()`` method of
-:class:`xml.etree.ElementTree.Element` in the C implementation for already
-initialized element.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-21-14-53-19.bpo-34794.yt3R4-.rst

-Fixed a leak in Tkinter when pass the Python wrapper around Tcl_Obj back to
-Tcl/Tk.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-25-09-37-03.bpo-31047.kBbX8r.rst

-Fix ``ntpath.abspath`` regression where it didn't remove a trailing
-separator on Windows. Patch by Tim Graham.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-26-00-11-21.bpo-35017.6Ez4Cv.rst

-:meth:`socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever` now exits immediately if it's
-:meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.shutdown` method is called while it is
-polling for new events.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-26-22-53-16.bpo-35079.Tm5jvF.rst

-Improve difflib.SequenceManager.get_matching_blocks doc by adding
-'non-overlapping' and changing '!=' to '<'.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-29-23-09-24.bpo-35062.dQS1ng.rst

-Fix incorrect parsing of :class:`_io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder`'s
-*translate* argument.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-09-13-35-36.bpo-35189.gog-sl.rst

-Modify the following fnctl function to retry if interrupted by a signal
-(EINTR): flock, lockf, fnctl

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-12-17-40-04.bpo-29564.SFNBT5.rst

-The warnings module now suggests to enable tracemalloc if the source is
-specified, the tracemalloc module is available, but tracemalloc is not
-tracing memory allocations.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-15-07-14-32.bpo-35226.wJPEEe.rst

-Recursively check arguments when testing for equality of
-:class:`unittest.mock.call` objects and add note that tracking of parameters
-used to create ancestors of mocks in ``mock_calls`` is not possible.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-19-07-22-04.bpo-35277.dsD-2E.rst

-Update ensurepip to install pip 18.1 and setuptools 40.6.2.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-20-13-34-01.bpo-28604.iiih5h.rst

-:func:`locale.localeconv` now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale to the
-``LC_MONETARY`` locale if the two locales are different and monetary strings
-are non-ASCII. This temporary change affects other threads.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-24-10-33-42.bpo-35308.9--2iy.rst

-Fix regression in ``webbrowser`` where default browsers may be preferred
-over browsers in the ``BROWSER`` environment variable.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-29-12-14-04.bpo-27903.ia8xgT.rst

-Fix ``ResourceWarning`` in :func:`platform.dist` on SuSE and Caldera
-OpenLinux. Patch by Ville Skyttä.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-01-13-44-12.bpo-35371.fTAwlX.rst

-Fixed possible crash in ``os.utime()`` on Windows when pass incorrect
-arguments.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-02-13-50-52.bpo-35341.32E8T_.rst

-Add generic version of ``collections.OrderedDict`` to the ``typing`` module.  Patch by Ismo Toijala.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-03-14-41-11.bpo-35380.SdRF9l.rst

-Enable TCP_NODELAY on Windows for proactor asyncio event loop.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-03-19-45-00.bpo-35310.9k28gR.rst

-Fix a bug in :func:`select.select` where, in some cases, the file descriptor
-sequences were returned unmodified after a signal interruption, even though the
-file descriptors might not be ready yet.  :func:`select.select` will now always
-return empty lists if a timeout has occurred.  Patch by Oran Avraham.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-05-13-37-39.bpo-10496.VH-1Lp.rst

-:func:`posixpath.expanduser` now returns the input *path* unchanged if the
-``HOME`` environment variable is not set and the current user has no home
-directory (if the current user identifier doesn't exist in the password
-database). This change fix the :mod:`site` module if the current user doesn't
-exist in the password database (if the user has no home directory).

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-06-00-29-28.bpo-34172.l7CIYt.rst

-Revert the fix for this issue previously released in 3.7.1 pending
-further investigation:
-Fix a reference issue inside multiprocessing.Pool that caused the
-pool to remain alive if it was deleted without being closed or terminated
-explicitly.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-06-00-43-13.bpo-35330.abB4BN.rst

-When a :class:`Mock` instance was used to wrap an object, if `side_effect`
-is used in one of the mocks of it methods, don't call the original
-implementation and return the result of using the side effect the same way
-that it is done with return_value.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-10-09-48-27.bpo-35052.xE1ymg.rst

-Fix xml.dom.minidom cloneNode() on a document with an entity: pass the
-correct arguments to the user data handler of an entity.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-24-18-49-25.bpo-34791.78GmIG.rst

-The xml.sax and xml.dom.domreg no longer use environment variables to
-override parser implementations when sys.flags.ignore_environment is set by
--E or -I arguments.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-11-23-15-00-23.bpo-34812.84VQnb.rst

-The :option:`-I` command line option (run Python in isolated mode) is now
-also copied by the :mod:`multiprocessing` and :mod:`distutils` modules when
-spawning child processes. Previously, only :option:`-E` and :option:`-s` options
-(enabled by :option:`-I`) were copied.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-10-27-13-41-55.bpo-34279.v0Xqxe.rst

-regrtest issue a warning when no tests have been executed in a particular
-test file. Also, a new final result state is issued if no test have been
-executed across all test files. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-04-20-17-09.bpo-21263.T3qo9r.rst

-After several reports that test_gdb does not work properly on macOS and
-since gdb is not shipped by default anymore, test_gdb is now skipped on
-macOS when LLVM Clang has been used to compile Python. Patch by
-Lysandros Nikolaou

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-26-16-54-21.bpo-35317.jByGP2.rst

-Fix ``mktime()`` overflow error in ``test_email``: run
-``test_localtime_daylight_true_dst_true()`` and
-``test_localtime_daylight_false_dst_true()`` with a specific timezone.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-11-30-17-18-56.bpo-35352.8bD7GC.rst

-Modify test_asyncio to use the certificate set from the test directory.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-12-09-01-27-29.bpo-33725.TaGayj.rst

-test_multiprocessing_fork may crash on recent versions of macOS.  Until the
-issue is resolved, skip the test on macOS.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2018-10-15-13-22-28.bpo-34989.hU4fra.rst

-python-gdb.py now handles errors on computing the line number of a Python
-frame.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-03-08-20-02-38.bpo-32890.3jzFzY.rst

-Fix usage of GetLastError() instead of errno in os.execve() and
-os.truncate().

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-09-03-01-23-52.bpo-34532.N1HEbE.rst

-Fixes exit code of list version arguments for py.exe.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-10-25-11-29-22.bpo-35067.RHWi7W.rst

-Remove _distutils_findvs module and use vswhere.exe instead.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-10-30-13-39-17.bpo-34977.0l7_QV.rst

-Adds support for building a Windows App Store package

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-12-07-10-00-38.bpo-34977.agQJbD.rst

-venv on Windows will now use a python.exe redirector rather than copying the
-actual binaries from the base environment.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-12-10-15-01-13.bpo-35401.9L1onG.rst

-Updates Windows build to OpenSSL 1.1.0j

Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-10-17-14-36-08.bpo-24658.Naddgx.rst

-On macOS, fix reading from and writing into a file with a size larger than 2 GiB.
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Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-10-18-23-54-55.bpo-35025.X4LFJg.rst

-Properly guard the use of the ``CLOCK_GETTIME`` et al. macros in ``timemodule``
-on macOS.