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Kirill Smelkov
cpython
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Antoine Pitrou
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@@ -569,8 +569,17 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(:issue:`10516`)
* Raw bytes literals can now be written ``rb"..."`` as well as ``br"..."``.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`13748`.)
* :meth:`dict.setdefault` now does only one lookup for the given key, making
it atomic when used with built-in types.
(Contributed by Filip Gruszczyński in :issue:`13521`.)
.. XXX mention new error messages for passing wrong number of arguments to functions
New and Improved Modules
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@@ -851,6 +860,18 @@ The :mod:`math` module has a new function:
(Written by Mark Dickinson in :issue:`11888`).
multiprocessing
---------------
The new :func:`multiprocessing.connection.wait` function allows to poll
multiple objects (such as connections, sockets and pipes) with a timeout.
(Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`12328`.)
:class:`multiprocessing.Connection` objects can now be transferred over
multiprocessing connections.
(Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`4892`.)
nntplib
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:func:`~os.walk` except that it also yields file descriptors referring to the
directories visited. This is especially useful to avoid symlink races.
* The new :func:`os.replace` function allows cross-platform renaming of a
file with overwriting the destination. With :func:`os.rename`, an existing
destination file is overwritten under POSIX, but raises an error under
Windows.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`8828`.)
* The new :func:`os.get_terminal_size` function queries the size of the
terminal attached to a file descriptor.
(Contributed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek in :issue:`13609`.)
* "at" functions (:issue:`4761`):
* :func:`~os.faccessat`
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are completed. (Contributed by Georg Brandl in :issue:`14210`)
pickle
------
:class:`pickle.Pickler` objects now have an optional
:attr:`~pickle.Pickler.dispatch_table` attribute allowing to set per-pickler
reduction functions.
(Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`14166`.)
pydoc
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path also specifying the user/group names and not only their numeric
ids. (Contributed by Sandro Tosi in :issue:`12191`)
* The new :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size` function returns the size of the
terminal window the interpreter is attached to.
(Contributed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek in :issue:`13609`.)
* Several functions now take an optional ``symlinks`` argument: when that
parameter is true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead
acts on the symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant).
(Contributed by Hynek Schlawack in :issue:`12715`.)
signal
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(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`13634`)
* Support has been added for the Next Procotol Negotiation extension using
the :meth:`ssl.SSLContext.set_npn_protocols` method.
(Contributed by Colin Marc in :issue:`14204`)
sys
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