Commit d3052007 authored by Antoine Pitrou's avatar Antoine Pitrou

Add entries to whatsnew

parent cf1dd711
......@@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(Proposed and implemented by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`9337`.)
* :class:`memoryview` objects now have a :meth:`release()` method and support
the context manager protocol. This allows timely release of any resources
that were acquired when requesting a buffer from the original object.
(Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`9757`.)
* The :func:`functools.wraps` decorator now adds a :attr:`__wrapped__` attribute
pointing to the original callable function. This allows wrapped functions to
be introspected. It also copies :attr:`__annotations__` if defined. And now
......@@ -397,6 +403,14 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
5-tuple), and :data:`ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER` (an integer). (Added by
Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8321`.)
* Instances of :class:`unittest.TestCase` have two new methods
:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertWarns` and :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertWarnsRegexp`
to check that a given warning type was triggered by the code under test::
with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
legacy_function('XYZ')
* The previously deprecated :func:`string.maketrans` function has been removed
in favor of the static methods, :meth:`bytes.maketrans` and
:meth:`bytearray.maketrans`. This change solves the confusion around which
......@@ -464,7 +478,7 @@ A number of small performance enhancements have been added:
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`7451`.)
- Python's peephole optimizer now recognizes patterns such ``x in {1, 2, 3}`` as
* Python's peephole optimizer now recognizes patterns such ``x in {1, 2, 3}`` as
being a test for membership in a set of constants. The optimizer recasts the
:class:`set` as a :class:`frozenset` and stores the pre-built constant.
......@@ -486,6 +500,14 @@ A number of small performance enhancements have been added:
(Patch by Florent Xicluna in :issue:`7622` and :issue:`7462`.)
* Serializing and unserializing data using the :mod:`pickle` module is now
up to 4x faster, thanks to various optimizations initially contributed
to the Unladen Swalled project.
(Ported to Python 3 by Alexandre Vassalotti and Antoine Pitrou in
:issue:`9410`)
Filenames and Unicode
=====================
......@@ -498,6 +520,8 @@ to ``'mbcs'`` on Windows and ``'utf-8'`` on Mac OS X.
The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and
:func:`~os.fsdecode`.
.. XXX mention Victor's improvements for support of undecodable filenames.
.. IDLE
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