Commit 66089a72 authored by Yury Selivanov's avatar Yury Selivanov

Issue #28635: what's new in 3.6: add a few more notes on typing

Per suggestions by Ivan Levkivskyi.
Patch by Elvis Pranskevichus.
parent 9670b5a5
......@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ function body. In Python 3.6 this restriction has been lifted, making it
possible to define *asynchronous generators*::
async def ticker(delay, to):
"""Yield numbers from 0 to `to` every `delay` seconds."""
"""Yield numbers from 0 to *to* every *delay* seconds."""
for i in range(to):
yield i
await asyncio.sleep(delay)
......@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ between two moments in time for which local times are the same::
07:00:00 UTC = 02:00:00 EST 0
The values of the :attr:`fold <datetime.datetime.fold>` attribute have the
value `0` all instances except those that represent the second
value ``0`` for all instances except those that represent the second
(chronologically) moment in time in an ambiguous case.
.. seealso::
......@@ -741,6 +741,12 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
before the first use of the affected name in the same scope.
Previously this was a ``SyntaxWarning``.
* It is now possible to set a :ref:`special method <specialnames>` to
``None`` to indicate that the corresponding operation is not available.
For example, if a class sets :meth:`__iter__` to ``None``, the class
is not iterable.
(Contributed by Andrew Barnert and Ivan Levkivskyi in :issue:`25958`.)
* Long sequences of repeated traceback lines are now abbreviated as
``"[Previous line repeated {count} more times]"`` (see
:ref:`whatsnew36-traceback` for an example).
......@@ -898,8 +904,13 @@ and :const:`cmath.nanj` to match the format used by complex repr.
collections
-----------
The new :class:`~collections.Collection` abstract base class has been
The new :class:`~collections.abc.Collection` abstract base class has been
added to represent sized iterable container classes.
(Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi, docs by Neil Girdhar in :issue:`27598`.)
The new :class:`~collections.abc.Reversible` abstract base class represents
iterable classes that also provide the :meth:`__reversed__`.
(Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi in :issue:`25987`.)
The :func:`~collections.namedtuple` function now accepts an optional
keyword argument *module*, which, when specified, is used for
......@@ -1509,6 +1520,12 @@ Since the :mod:`typing` module was :term:`provisional <provisional api>`
in Python 3.5, all changes introduced in Python 3.6 have also been
backported to Python 3.5.x.
The :mod:`typing` module has a much improved support for generic type
aliases. For example ``Dict[str, Tuple[S, T]]`` is now a valid
type annotation.
(Contributed by Guido van Rossum in `Github #195
<https://github.com/python/typing/pull/195>`_.)
The :class:`typing.ContextManager` class has been added for
representing :class:`contextlib.AbstractContextManager`.
(Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`25609`.)
......@@ -1692,12 +1709,17 @@ Optimizations
* The :class:`Task <asyncio.tasks.Task>` now has an optimized
C implementation. (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`28544`.)
* Various implementation improvements in the :mod:`typing` module
(such as caching of generic types) allow up to 30 times performance
improvements and reduced memory footprint.
* The ASCII decoder is now up to 60 times as fast for error handlers
``surrogateescape``, ``ignore`` and ``replace`` (Contributed
by Victor Stinner in :issue:`24870`).
* The ASCII and the Latin1 encoders are now up to 3 times as fast for the
error handler ``surrogateescape`` (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`25227`).
error handler ``surrogateescape``
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`25227`).
* The UTF-8 encoder is now up to 75 times as fast for error handlers
``ignore``, ``replace``, ``surrogateescape``, ``surrogatepass`` (Contributed
......
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