[Python-checkins] cpython: Add Misc/NEWS entries from 3.3.1 in 3.3 branch to 3.4.0 in default branch.

[chris.jerdonek]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f2a7774e50e1
changeset:   79313:f2a7774e50e1
user:        Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com>
date:        Sun Sep 30 01:27:18 2012 -0700
summary:
  Add Misc/NEWS entries from 3.3.1 in 3.3 branch to 3.4.0 in default branch.

files:
  Misc/NEWS |  97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,24 @@
 
 - Upgrade Unicode data (UCD) to version 6.2.
 
+- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
+  decoder (already working as unicode strings).  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as
+  integer values, by using Py_uintptr_t instead of size_t.  Patch by
+  Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast AT_FDCWD as (int).  Required on Solaris 10
+  (which defines AT_FDCWD as 0xffd19553), harmless on other platforms.
+
+- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in super() to RuntimeErrors.
+
+- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using ast.parse in an
+  exception handler on code with syntax errors.
+
+- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
+  subscriptable.
+
 Library
 -------
 
@@ -24,10 +42,89 @@
   return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
   be waited on.
 
+- Issue #15323: improve failure message of Mock.assert_called_once_with
+
+- Issue #16064: unittest -m claims executable is "python", not "python3"
+
+- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
+
+- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
+
+- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
+  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
+  datetime.MAXYEAR.  Patch by Cédric Krier.
+
+- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
+  elements 'meta' and 'param'.
+
+- Issue #15842: The SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable} methods now
+  raise ValueError when the file-like object is closed.  Patch by Alessandro
+  Moura.
+
+- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the curses module: window.encoding.
+
+- Issue #15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing.  Original patch
+  by Chris McDonough.
+
+- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of BytesIO
+  and StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has been closed.
+  Patch by Alessandro Moura.
+
+- Issue #15447: Use subprocess.DEVNULL in webbrowser, instead of opening
+  os.devnull explicitly and leaving it open.
+
+- Issue #15509: webbrowser.UnixBrowser no longer passes empty arguments to
+  Popen when %action substitutions produce empty strings.
+
+- Issues #12776, #11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
+  only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
+  default was specified and the argument was given as well.  This was especially
+  problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always be opened,
+  even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
+
+- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
+  when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
+
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
 
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when os.chdir() fails inside
+  test.support.temp_cwd().  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+
+- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
+  by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15557: Added a test suite for the webbrowser module, thanks
+  to Anton Barkovsky.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
+  source directory.  (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
+  arguments.
+
+- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
+  default arguments.  Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
+
+- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent
+  parameter of json encoding operations.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+
 What's New in Python 3.3.0?
 ===========================
 

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