and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
thread/process.
'latin-1' and 'utf-8'.
These are optimized in the Python Unicode implementation
to result in more direct processing, bypassing the codec
registry.
Also see issue11303.
regression in _FileInFile which is used in file-like objects returned
by TarFile.extractfile(). The inefficient design of the
_FileInFile.read() method causes various dramatic side-effects and
errors:
- The data segment of a file member is read completely into memory
every(!) time a small block is accessed. This is not only slow
but may cause unexpected MemoryErrors with very large files.
- Reading members from compressed tar archives is even slower
because of the excessive backwards seeking which is done when the
same data segment is read over and over again.
- As a backwards seek on a TarFile opened in stream mode is not
possible, using extractfile() fails with a StreamError.
Various tests fail when run under coverage. A primary culprit is refcount tests
which fail as the counts are thrown off by the coverage code. A new decorator
-- test.support.refcount_test -- is used to decorate tests which test refcounts
and to skip them when running under coverage. Other tests simply fail because
of changes in the system (e.g., __local__ suddenly appearing).
Thanks to Kristian Vlaardingerbroek for helping to diagnose the test failures.
called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc. For
backwards compatibility, the names continue to also be imported into the
collections module.
Many tests simply didn't care if they unset a pre-existing trace function. This
made test coverage impossible. This patch fixes various tests to put back any
pre-existing trace function. It also introduces test.support.no_tracing as a
decorator which will temporarily unset the trace function for tests which
simply fail otherwise.
Thanks to Kristian Vlaardingerbroek for helping to find the cause of various
trace function unsets.
Although this patch contains API changes and is rather weighty for an
RC phase, the mailbox module was essentially unusable without the patch
since it would produce UnicodeErrors when handling non-ascii input
at arbitrary and somewhat mysterious places, and any non-trivial amount
of email processing will encounter messages with non-ascii bytes.
The release manager approved the patch application.
The changes allow binary input, and reject non-ASCII string input early
with a useful message instead of failing mysteriously later. Binary
is used internally for reading and writing the mailbox files. StringIO
and Text file input are deprecated.
Initial patch by Victor Stinner, validated and expanded by R. David Murray.
