[python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0a2

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:30:50 +0200,
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 2013/9/9 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>:
> > Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series,
> > including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes.  Major new
> > features and changes in the 3.4 release series so far include:
> >
> > * PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default
> >            in subprocesses
> 
> The title of the PEP is "Make newly created file descriptors
> non-inheritable". It has an impact on all functions creating files and
> sockets not only the subprocess module.

I don't think Larry's description is wrong. "Non-inheritable" is a
shorthand for "non-inheritable in subprocesses" with "subprocesses"
taken in the general sense (i.e. not only created with the subprocess
module).

Regards

Antoine.