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Doc/library/io.rst

@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ I/O Base Classes
 
       Return the new absolute position.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
          The ``SEEK_*`` constants
 
    .. method:: seekable()

Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ object -- see :ref:`multiprocessing-managers`.
    will always return ``True`` except if a timeout is given and the operation
    times out.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.1
       Previously, the method always returned ``None``.
 
 .. class:: Lock()

Doc/library/sys.rst

@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ always available.
    so ``sys.version_info[0]`` is equivalent to ``sys.version_info.major``
    and so on.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.1
       Added named component attributes
 
 .. data:: warnoptions

Doc/library/threading.rst

@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ An event object manages an internal flag that can be set to true with the
    This method returns the internal flag on exit, so it will always return
    ``True`` except if a timeout is given and the operation times out.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.1
       Previously, the method always returned ``None``.
 
 

Doc/library/unittest.rst

@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ Test cases
       Signal a test failure if *expr* is false; the explanation for the error
       will be *msg* if given, otherwise it will be :const:`None`.
 
-      .. deprecated:: 2.7
+      .. deprecated:: 3.1
          :meth:`failUnless`.
 
 
@@ -630,10 +630,10 @@ Test cases
       registers :meth:`addTypeEqualityFunc` the type specific equality function
       will be called in order to generate a more useful default error message.
 
-      .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+      .. versionchanged:: 3.1
          Added the automatic calling of type specific equality function.
 
-      .. deprecated:: 2.7
+      .. deprecated:: 3.1
          :meth:`failUnlessEqual`.
 
 
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ Test cases
       default value for *msg* can be computed to include representations of both
       *first* and *second*.
 
-      .. deprecated:: 2.7
+      .. deprecated:: 3.1
          :meth:`failIfEqual`.
 
 
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ Test cases
       compare equal, the test will fail with the explanation given by *msg*, or
       :const:`None`.
 
-      .. deprecated:: 2.7
+      .. deprecated:: 3.1
          :meth:`failUnlessAlmostEqual`.
 
 
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ Test cases
       compare equal, the test will fail with the explanation given by *msg*, or
       :const:`None`.
 
-      .. deprecated:: 2.7
+      .. deprecated:: 3.1
          :meth:`failIfAlmostEqual`.
 
 
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ Test cases
          >>> self.assertGreaterEqual(3, 4)
          AssertionError: "3" unexpectedly not greater than or equal to "4"
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertMultiLineEqual(self, first, second, msg=None)
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ Test cases
 
       If specified *msg* will be used as the error message on failure.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertRegexpMatches(text, regexp[, msg=None]):
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ Test cases
       a regular expression object or a string containing a regular expression
       suitable for use by :func:`re.search`.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertIn(first, second, msg=None)
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ Test cases
 
       If specified *msg* will be used as the error message on failure.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertSameElements(expected, actual, msg=None)
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ Test cases
 
       If specified *msg* will be used as the error message on failure.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertSetEqual(set1, set2, msg=None)
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ Test cases
 
       If specified *msg* will be used as the error message on failure.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertDictEqual(expected, actual, msg=None)
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ Test cases
 
       If specified *msg* will be used as the error message on failure.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertDictContainsSubset(expected, actual, msg=None)
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ Test cases
 
       If specified *msg* will be used as the error message on failure.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertListEqual(list1, list2, msg=None)
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ Test cases
 
       If specified *msg* will be used as the error message on failure.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertSequenceEqual(seq1, seq2, msg=None, seq_type=None)
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ Test cases
       This method is used to implement :meth:`assertListEqual` and
       :meth:`assertTupleEqual`.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertRaises(exception[, callable, ...])
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ Test cases
       .. versionchanged:: 3.1
          Added the ability to use :meth:`assertRaises` as a context manager.
 
-      .. deprecated:: 2.7
+      .. deprecated:: 3.1
          :meth:`failUnlessRaises`.
 
 
@@ -840,14 +840,14 @@ Test cases
          with self.assertRaisesRegexp(ValueError, 'literal'):
             int('XYZ')
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertIsNone(expr[, msg])
 
       This signals a test failure if *expr* is not None.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertIsNotNone(expr[, msg])
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ Test cases
       The inverse of the :meth:`assertIsNone` method.
       This signals a test failure if *expr* is None.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    .. method:: assertFalse(expr[, msg])
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ Test cases
       This signals a test failure if *expr* is true, with *msg* or :const:`None`
       for the error message.
 
-      .. deprecated:: 2.7
+      .. deprecated:: 3.1
          :meth:`failIf`.
 
 
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ Test cases
       The class setting can be overridden in individual tests by assigning an
       instance attribute to True or False before calling the assert methods.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
    Testing frameworks can use the following methods to collect information on
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ Test cases
       returns the first line of the test method's docstring, if available,
       along with the method name.
 
-      .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+      .. versionchanged:: 3.1
 
          In earlier versions this only returned the first line of the test
          method's docstring, if available or the :const:`None`.  That led to
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ Test cases
       is to raise self.failureException with an error message useful
       for debugging the by explaining the inequalities in detail.
 
-      .. versionadded:: 2.7
+      .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
 
 .. class:: FunctionTestCase(testFunc[, setUp[, tearDown[, description]]])

Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst

@@ -233,6 +233,16 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
 
   (Contributed by Gregory Smith.)
 
+* The :mod:`logging` module now implements a simple :class:`NullHandler`
+  class for applications that are not using logging but are calling
+  library code that does.  Setting-up a null handler will suppress
+  spurious warnings like "No handlers could be found for logger X.Y.Z"::
+
+    >>> h = logging.NullHandler()
+    >>> logging.getLogger("foo").addHandler(h)
+
+  (Contributed by Vinay Sajip; issue:`4384`).
+
 * The :mod:`runpy` module which supports the ``-m`` command line switch
   now supports the execution of packages by looking for and executing
   a ``__main__`` submodule when a package name is supplied.
@@ -269,7 +279,30 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
         def test_gimzo_without_required_library(self):
             ...
 
-  (Contributed by Benjamin Peterson.)
+  Also, tests for exceptions have been builtout to work with context managers::
+
+      def test_division_by_zero(self):
+          with self.assertRaises(ZeroDivisionError):
+              x / 0
+
+  In addition, several new assertion methods were added including
+  :func:`assertSetEqual`, :func:`assertDictEqual`,
+  :func:`assertDictContainsSubset`, :func:`assertListEqual`,
+  :func:`assertTupleEqual`, :func:`assertSequenceEqual`,
+  :func:`assertRaisesRegexp`, :func:`assertIsNone`,
+  and :func:`assertIsNotNot`.
+
+  (Contributed by Benjamin Peterson and Antoine Pitrou.)
+
+* The :mod:`io` module has three new constants for :meth:`seek`:
+  method :data:`SEEK_SET`, :data:`SEEK_CUR`, and :data:`SEEK_END`.
+
+* The :attr:`sys.version_info` tuple is now a named tuple::
+
+    >>> sys.version_info
+    sys.version_info(major=3, minor=1, micro=0, releaselevel='alpha', serial=2)
+
+  (Contributed by Ross Light; :issue:`4285`.)
 
 * A new module, :mod:`importlib` was added.  It provides a complete, portable,
   pure Python reference implementation of the *import* statement and its
@@ -319,7 +352,13 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added:
   its performance.  The code is expected to be added in-time for the beta
   release.
 
-  (Contributed by Bob Ippolito.)
+  (Contributed by Bob Ippolito and converted to Py3.1 by Antoine Pitrou;
+  :issue:`4136`.)
+
+Build and C API Changes
+=======================
+
+Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
 
 * Integers are now stored internally either in base 2**15 or in base
   2**30, the base being determined at build time.  Previously, they
@@ -342,3 +381,11 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added:
 
   (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4258`.)
 
+* The :cfunc:`PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong()` function now handles a negative
+  *pylong* by raising :exc:`OverflowError` instead of :exc:`TypeError`.
+
+  (Contributed by Mark Dickinson and Lisandro Dalcrin; :issue:`5175`.)
+
+* Deprecated :cfunc:`PyNumber_Int`.  Use :cfunc:`PyNumber_Long` instead.
+
+  (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue;`4910`.)