[Python-checkins] cpython: whatsnew: PyUnicode_FromFormat width/precision, thread cleanup after fork.

Wed Feb 12 19:42:00 CET 2014

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3d171a26574b
changeset: 89173:3d171a26574b
user: R David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
date: Wed Feb 12 13:39:11 2014 -0500
summary:
 whatsnew: PyUnicode_FromFormat width/precision, thread cleanup after fork.
files:
 Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1416,6 +1416,10 @@
 * New shell version of ``python-config``; can be used even when a python
 interpreter is not available (for example, in cross compilation scenarios).
 
+* :c:func:`PyUnicode_FromFormat` now supports width and precision
+ specifications for ``%s``, ``%A``, ``%U``, ``%V``, ``%S``, and ``%R``.
+ (Contributed by Ysj Ray and Victor Stinner in :issue:`7330`.)
+
 
 
 Other Improvements
@@ -1671,7 +1675,7 @@
 * The module type now initializes the :attr:`__package__` and :attr:`__loader__`
 attributes to ``None`` by default. To determine if these attributes were set
 in a backwards-compatible fashion, use e.g.
- ``getattr(module, '__loader__', None) is not None``.
+ ``getattr(module, '__loader__', None) is not None``. (:issue:`17115`.)
 
 * :meth:`importlib.util.module_for_loader` now sets ``__loader__`` and
 ``__package__`` unconditionally to properly support reloading. If this is not
@@ -1772,6 +1776,11 @@
 regular keyword arguments, instead of before. Hopefully no one wrote any
 code that depends on the previous buggy behavior (:issue:`16967`).
 
+* Stale thread states are now cleared after :func:`~os.fork`. This may cause
+ some system resources to be released that previously were incorrectly kept
+ perpetually alive (for example, database connections kept in thread-local
+ storage). (:issue:`17094`.)
+
 
 Changes in the C API
 --------------------
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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython
