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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/binascii.rst11
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/collections.rst3
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/crypt.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/datetime.rst56
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/dis.rst22
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/enum.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/inspect.rst43
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst14
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst9
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/os.rst5
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/pathlib.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/pickle.rst19
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/time.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst18
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/urllib.robotparser.rst30
15 files changed, 166 insertions, 74 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/binascii.rst b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
index e3f134b53a..441aa57d52 100644
--- a/Doc/library/binascii.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
@@ -52,11 +52,16 @@ The :mod:`binascii` module defines the following functions:
than one line may be passed at a time.
-.. function:: b2a_base64(data)
+.. function:: b2a_base64(data, \*, newline=True)
Convert binary data to a line of ASCII characters in base64 coding. The return
- value is the converted line, including a newline char. The length of *data*
- should be at most 57 to adhere to the base64 standard.
+ value is the converted line, including a newline char if *newline* is
+ true. The length of *data* should be at most 57 to adhere to the
+ base64 standard.
+
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+ Added the *newline* parameter.
.. function:: a2b_qp(data, header=False)
diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index 2ab44135d5..af005e75ef 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -952,6 +952,9 @@ customize a prototype instance:
constructor that is convenient for use cases where named tuples are being
subclassed.
+ * :meth:`types.SimpleNamespace` for a mutable namespace based on an underlying
+ dictionary instead of a tuple.
+
:class:`OrderedDict` objects
----------------------------
diff --git a/Doc/library/crypt.rst b/Doc/library/crypt.rst
index b4c90cd592..04ffdb289b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/crypt.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/crypt.rst
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Module Attributes
A list of available password hashing algorithms, as
``crypt.METHOD_*`` objects. This list is sorted from strongest to
- weakest, and is guaranteed to have at least ``crypt.METHOD_CRYPT``.
+ weakest.
Module Functions
diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index 976cd49000..cf5d5b8543 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -1734,10 +1734,7 @@ made to civil time.
otherwise :exc:`ValueError` is raised.
The *name* argument is optional. If specified it must be a string that
- is used as the value returned by the ``tzname(dt)`` method. Otherwise,
- ``tzname(dt)`` returns a string 'UTCsHH:MM', where s is the sign of
- *offset*, HH and MM are two digits of ``offset.hours`` and
- ``offset.minutes`` respectively.
+ will be used as the value returned by the :meth:`datetime.tzname` method.
.. versionadded:: 3.2
@@ -1750,11 +1747,19 @@ made to civil time.
.. method:: timezone.tzname(dt)
- Return the fixed value specified when the :class:`timezone` instance is
- constructed or a string 'UTCsHH:MM', where s is the sign of
- *offset*, HH and MM are two digits of ``offset.hours`` and
+ Return the fixed value specified when the :class:`timezone` instance
+ is constructed. If *name* is not provided in the constructor, the
+ name returned by ``tzname(dt)`` is generated from the value of the
+ ``offset`` as follows. If *offset* is ``timedelta(0)``, the name
+ is "UTC", otherwise it is a string 'UTC±HH:MM', where ± is the sign
+ of ``offset``, HH and MM are two digits of ``offset.hours`` and
``offset.minutes`` respectively.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+ Name generated from ``offset=timedelta(0)`` is now plain 'UTC', not
+ 'UTC+00:00'.
+
+
.. method:: timezone.dst(dt)
Always returns ``None``.
@@ -1904,6 +1909,34 @@ format codes.
| ``%%`` | A literal ``'%'`` character. | % | |
+-----------+--------------------------------+------------------------+-------+
+Several additional directives not required by the C89 standard are included for
+convenience. These parameters all correspond to ISO 8601 date values. These
+may not be available on all platforms when used with the :meth:`strftime`
+method. The ISO 8601 year and ISO 8601 week directives are not interchangeable
+with the year and week number directives above. Calling :meth:`strptime` with
+incomplete or ambiguous ISO 8601 directives will raise a :exc:`ValueError`.
+
++-----------+--------------------------------+------------------------+-------+
+| Directive | Meaning | Example | Notes |
++===========+================================+========================+=======+
+| ``%G`` | ISO 8601 year with century | 0001, 0002, ..., 2013, | \(8) |
+| | representing the year that | 2014, ..., 9998, 9999 | |
+| | contains the greater part of | | |
+| | the ISO week (``%V``). | | |
++-----------+--------------------------------+------------------------+-------+
+| ``%u`` | ISO 8601 weekday as a decimal | 1, 2, ..., 7 | |
+| | number where 1 is Monday. | | |
++-----------+--------------------------------+------------------------+-------+
+| ``%V`` | ISO 8601 week as a decimal | 01, 02, ..., 53 | \(8) |
+| | number with Monday as | | |
+| | the first day of the week. | | |
+| | Week 01 is the week containing | | |
+| | Jan 4. | | |
++-----------+--------------------------------+------------------------+-------+
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.6
+ ``%G``, ``%u`` and ``%V`` were added.
+
Notes:
(1)
@@ -1968,7 +2001,14 @@ Notes:
(7)
When used with the :meth:`strptime` method, ``%U`` and ``%W`` are only used
- in calculations when the day of the week and the year are specified.
+ in calculations when the day of the week and the calendar year (``%Y``)
+ are specified.
+
+(8)
+ Similar to ``%U`` and ``%W``, ``%V`` is only used in calculations when the
+ day of the week and the ISO year (``%G``) are specified in a
+ :meth:`strptime` format string. Also note that ``%G`` and ``%Y`` are not
+ interchangable.
.. rubric:: Footnotes
diff --git a/Doc/library/dis.rst b/Doc/library/dis.rst
index 1bcb3a4a07..7222636545 100644
--- a/Doc/library/dis.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/dis.rst
@@ -989,6 +989,28 @@ the more significant byte last.
arguments.
+.. opcode:: FORMAT_VALUE (flags)
+
+ Used for implementing formatted literal strings (f-strings). Pops
+ an optional *fmt_spec* from the stack, then a required *value*.
+ *flags* is interpreted as follows:
+
+ * ``(flags & 0x03) == 0x00``: *value* is formatted as-is.
+ * ``(flags & 0x03) == 0x01``: call :func:`str` on *value* before
+ formatting it.
+ * ``(flags & 0x03) == 0x02``: call :func:`repr` on *value* before
+ formatting it.
+ * ``(flags & 0x03) == 0x03``: call :func:`ascii` on *value* before
+ formatting it.
+ * ``(flags & 0x04) == 0x04``: pop *fmt_spec* from the stack and use
+ it, else use an empty *fmt_spec*.
+
+ Formatting is performed using :c:func:`PyObject_Format`. The
+ result is pushed on the stack.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.6
+
+
.. opcode:: HAVE_ARGUMENT
This is not really an opcode. It identifies the dividing line between
diff --git a/Doc/library/enum.rst b/Doc/library/enum.rst
index 18519f033b..0fbbf5af79 100644
--- a/Doc/library/enum.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/enum.rst
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ members are not integers (but see `IntEnum`_ below)::
>>> Color.red < Color.blue
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
- TypeError: unorderable types: Color() < Color()
+ TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'Color' and 'Color'
Equality comparisons are defined though::
diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
index 23e559cabc..8045d85a08 100644
--- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
@@ -234,24 +234,6 @@ attributes:
listed in the metaclass' custom :meth:`__dir__`.
-.. function:: getmoduleinfo(path)
-
- Returns a :term:`named tuple` ``ModuleInfo(name, suffix, mode, module_type)``
- of values that describe how Python will interpret the file identified by
- *path* if it is a module, or ``None`` if it would not be identified as a
- module. In that tuple, *name* is the name of the module without the name of
- any enclosing package, *suffix* is the trailing part of the file name (which
- may not be a dot-delimited extension), *mode* is the :func:`open` mode that
- would be used (``'r'`` or ``'rb'``), and *module_type* is an integer giving
- the type of the module. *module_type* will have a value which can be
- compared to the constants defined in the :mod:`imp` module; see the
- documentation for that module for more information on module types.
-
- .. deprecated:: 3.3
- You may check the file path's suffix against the supported suffixes
- listed in :mod:`importlib.machinery` to infer the same information.
-
-
.. function:: getmodulename(path)
Return the name of the module named by the file *path*, without including the
@@ -265,8 +247,7 @@ attributes:
still return ``None``.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
- This function is now based directly on :mod:`importlib` rather than the
- deprecated :func:`getmoduleinfo`.
+ The function is based directly on :mod:`importlib`.
.. function:: ismodule(object)
@@ -815,24 +796,6 @@ Classes and functions
classes using multiple inheritance and their descendants will appear multiple
times.
-
-.. function:: getargspec(func)
-
- Get the names and default values of a Python function's arguments. A
- :term:`named tuple` ``ArgSpec(args, varargs, keywords, defaults)`` is
- returned. *args* is a list of the argument names. *varargs* and *keywords*
- are the names of the ``*`` and ``**`` arguments or ``None``. *defaults* is a
- tuple of default argument values or ``None`` if there are no default
- arguments; if this tuple has *n* elements, they correspond to the last
- *n* elements listed in *args*.
-
- .. deprecated:: 3.0
- Use :func:`signature` and
- :ref:`Signature Object <inspect-signature-object>`, which provide a
- better introspecting API for callables. This function will be removed
- in Python 3.6.
-
-
.. function:: getfullargspec(func)
Get the names and default values of a Python function's arguments. A
@@ -849,8 +812,6 @@ Classes and functions
from kwonlyargs to defaults. *annotations* is a dictionary mapping argument
names to annotations.
- The first four items in the tuple correspond to :func:`getargspec`.
-
.. versionchanged:: 3.4
This function is now based on :func:`signature`, but still ignores
``__wrapped__`` attributes and includes the already bound first
@@ -879,7 +840,7 @@ Classes and functions
.. function:: formatargspec(args[, varargs, varkw, defaults, kwonlyargs, kwonlydefaults, annotations[, formatarg, formatvarargs, formatvarkw, formatvalue, formatreturns, formatannotations]])
Format a pretty argument spec from the values returned by
- :func:`getargspec` or :func:`getfullargspec`.
+ :func:`getfullargspec`.
The first seven arguments are (``args``, ``varargs``, ``varkw``,
``defaults``, ``kwonlyargs``, ``kwonlydefaults``, ``annotations``).
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
index 0edc942caa..446a070a9d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst
@@ -162,11 +162,19 @@ for this value.
first call to :meth:`emit`. By default, the file grows indefinitely.
+ .. method:: reopenIfNeeded()
+
+ Checks to see if the file has changed. If it has, the existing stream is
+ flushed and closed and the file opened again, typically as a precursor to
+ outputting the record to the file.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.6
+
+
.. method:: emit(record)
- Outputs the record to the file, but first checks to see if the file has
- changed. If it has, the existing stream is flushed and closed and the
- file opened again, before outputting the record to the file.
+ Outputs the record to the file, but first calls :meth:`reopenIfNeeded` to
+ reopen the file if it has changed.
.. _base-rotating-handler:
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 8575fb50cd..20385f3966 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -868,8 +868,13 @@ Miscellaneous
.. function:: cpu_count()
- Return the number of CPUs in the system. May raise
- :exc:`NotImplementedError`.
+ Return the number of CPUs in the system.
+
+ This number is not equivalent to the number of CPUs the current process can
+ use. The number of usable CPUs can be obtained with
+ ``len(os.sched_getaffinity(0))``
+
+ May raise :exc:`NotImplementedError`.
.. seealso::
:func:`os.cpu_count`
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 0cc9d9c1d3..c1193add13 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -3597,6 +3597,11 @@ Miscellaneous System Information
Return the number of CPUs in the system. Returns None if undetermined.
+ This number is not equivalent to the number of CPUs the current process can
+ use. The number of usable CPUs can be obtained with
+ ``len(os.sched_getaffinity(0))``
+
+
.. versionadded:: 3.4
diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index 2f0654440d..ff5196de86 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Paths of a different flavour compare unequal and cannot be ordered::
>>> PureWindowsPath('foo') < PurePosixPath('foo')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
- TypeError: unorderable types: PureWindowsPath() < PurePosixPath()
+ TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'PureWindowsPath' and 'PurePosixPath'
Operators
diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
index 7e09b03cc6..24192774dd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ methods:
.. method:: object.__getnewargs_ex__()
- In protocols 4 and newer, classes that implements the
+ In protocols 2 and newer, classes that implements the
:meth:`__getnewargs_ex__` method can dictate the values passed to the
:meth:`__new__` method upon unpickling. The method must return a pair
``(args, kwargs)`` where *args* is a tuple of positional arguments
@@ -500,15 +500,22 @@ methods:
class requires keyword-only arguments. Otherwise, it is recommended for
compatibility to implement :meth:`__getnewargs__`.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+ :meth:`__getnewargs_ex__` is now used in protocols 2 and 3.
+
.. method:: object.__getnewargs__()
- This method serve a similar purpose as :meth:`__getnewargs_ex__` but
- for protocols 2 and newer. It must return a tuple of arguments ``args``
- which will be passed to the :meth:`__new__` method upon unpickling.
+ This method serve a similar purpose as :meth:`__getnewargs_ex__`, but
+ supports only positional arguments. It must return a tuple of arguments
+ ``args`` which will be passed to the :meth:`__new__` method upon unpickling.
+
+ :meth:`__getnewargs__` will not be called if :meth:`__getnewargs_ex__` is
+ defined.
- In protocols 4 and newer, :meth:`__getnewargs__` will not be called if
- :meth:`__getnewargs_ex__` is defined.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+ Before Python 3.6, :meth:`__getnewargs__` was called instead of
+ :meth:`__getnewargs_ex__` in protocols 2 and 3.
.. method:: object.__getstate__()
diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst
index 3d335c8867..73436ca013 100644
--- a/Doc/library/time.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/time.rst
@@ -634,11 +634,11 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items:
it is possible to refer to February 29.
:samp:`M{m}.{n}.{d}`
- The *d*'th day (0 <= *d* <= 6) or week *n* of month *m* of the year (1
+ The *d*'th day (0 <= *d* <= 6) of week *n* of month *m* of the year (1
<= *n* <= 5, 1 <= *m* <= 12, where week 5 means "the last *d* day in
month *m*" which may occur in either the fourth or the fifth
week). Week 1 is the first week in which the *d*'th day occurs. Day
- zero is Sunday.
+ zero is a Sunday.
``time`` has the same format as ``offset`` except that no leading sign
('-' or '+') is allowed. The default, if time is not given, is 02:00:00.
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
index 40098d0496..7c075adf2a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ or on combining URL components into a URL string.
| | | if present | |
+------------------+-------+--------------------------+----------------------+
- See section :ref:`urlparse-result-object` for more information on the result
- object.
+ Reading the :attr:`port` attribute will raise a :exc:`ValueError` if
+ an invalid port is specified in the URL. See section
+ :ref:`urlparse-result-object` for more information on the result object.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
Added IPv6 URL parsing capabilities.
@@ -126,6 +127,10 @@ or on combining URL components into a URL string.
false), in accordance with :rfc:`3986`. Previously, a whitelist of
schemes that support fragments existed.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+ Out-of-range port numbers now raise :exc:`ValueError`, instead of
+ returning :const:`None`.
+
.. function:: parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
@@ -228,8 +233,13 @@ or on combining URL components into a URL string.
| | | if present | |
+------------------+-------+-------------------------+----------------------+
- See section :ref:`urlparse-result-object` for more information on the result
- object.
+ Reading the :attr:`port` attribute will raise a :exc:`ValueError` if
+ an invalid port is specified in the URL. See section
+ :ref:`urlparse-result-object` for more information on the result object.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+ Out-of-range port numbers now raise :exc:`ValueError`, instead of
+ returning :const:`None`.
.. function:: urlunsplit(parts)
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.robotparser.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.robotparser.rst
index f179de2f92..c2e1bef8bb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.robotparser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.robotparser.rst
@@ -53,15 +53,41 @@ structure of :file:`robots.txt` files, see http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html.
Sets the time the ``robots.txt`` file was last fetched to the current
time.
+ .. method:: crawl_delay(useragent)
-The following example demonstrates basic use of the RobotFileParser class.
+ Returns the value of the ``Crawl-delay`` parameter from ``robots.txt``
+ for the *useragent* in question. If there is no such parameter or it
+ doesn't apply to the *useragent* specified or the ``robots.txt`` entry
+ for this parameter has invalid syntax, return ``None``.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.6
+
+ .. method:: request_rate(useragent)
+
+ Returns the contents of the ``Request-rate`` parameter from
+ ``robots.txt`` in the form of a :func:`~collections.namedtuple`
+ ``(requests, seconds)``. If there is no such parameter or it doesn't
+ apply to the *useragent* specified or the ``robots.txt`` entry for this
+ parameter has invalid syntax, return ``None``.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.6
+
+
+The following example demonstrates basic use of the :class:`RobotFileParser`
+class::
>>> import urllib.robotparser
>>> rp = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser()
>>> rp.set_url("http://www.musi-cal.com/robots.txt")
>>> rp.read()
+ >>> rrate = rp.request_rate("*")
+ >>> rrate.requests
+ 3
+ >>> rrate.seconds
+ 20
+ >>> rp.crawl_delay("*")
+ 6
>>> rp.can_fetch("*", "http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/search?city=San+Francisco")
False
>>> rp.can_fetch("*", "http://www.musi-cal.com/")
True
-