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22 changes: 10 additions & 12 deletions Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
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Expand Up @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ keywords, the parameters names remain available for use in ``**kwargs``::

This greatly simplifies the implementation of functions and methods
that need to accept arbitrary keyword arguments. For example, here
is an except from code in the :mod:`collections` module::
is an excerpt from code in the :mod:`collections` module::

class Counter(dict):

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Debug build uses the same ABI as release build
-----------------------------------------------

Python now uses the same ABI whether it built in release or debug mode. On
Python now uses the same ABI whether it's built in release or debug mode. On
Unix, when Python is built in debug mode, it is now possible to load C
extensions built in release mode and C extensions built using the stable ABI.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ The :func:`ast.parse` function has some new flags:
comments" (returned for function definition AST nodes);

* ``feature_version=(3, N)`` allows specifying an earlier Python 3
version. (For example, ``feature_version=(3, 4)`` will treat
version. (For example, ``feature_version=(3, 4)`` will treat
``async`` and ``await`` as non-reserved words.)

New function :func:`ast.get_source_segment` returns the source code
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without calling functions. This API is now installed by ``make install``.

(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`35134` and :issue:`35081`,
work initiated by Eric Snow in Python 3.7)
work initiated by Eric Snow in Python 3.7.)

* Some macros have been converted to static inline functions: parameter types
and return type are well defined, they don't have issues specific to macros,
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Implementations of these methods have been ignoring their *index* parameter,
and returning the next item instead.

(Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`9372`.)

* The :class:`typing.NamedTuple` class has deprecated the ``_field_types``
attribute in favor of the ``__annotations__`` attribute which has the same
information. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`36320`.)
information. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`36320`.)

* :mod:`ast` classes ``Num``, ``Str``, ``Bytes``, ``NameConstant`` and
``Ellipsis`` are considered deprecated and will be removed in future Python
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parameter of functions :func:`~gettext.translation` and
:func:`~gettext.install` are also deprecated, since they are only used for
for the ``l*gettext()`` functions.

(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33710`.)

* The :meth:`~threading.Thread.isAlive()` method of :class:`threading.Thread` has been deprecated.
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* The ``bufsize`` keyword argument of :func:`fileinput.input` and
:func:`fileinput.FileInput` which was ignored and deprecated since Python 3.6
has been removed. :issue:`36952` (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier)
has been removed. :issue:`36952` (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier.)

* The functions :func:`sys.set_coroutine_wrapper` and
:func:`sys.get_coroutine_wrapper` deprecated in Python 3.7 have been removed;
:issue:`36933` (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier)
:issue:`36933` (Contributed by Matthias Bussonnier.)


Porting to Python 3.8
Expand All @@ -1507,9 +1505,9 @@ Changes in Python behavior
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`34850`.)

* The CPython interpreter can swallow exceptions in some circumstances.
In Python 3.8 this happens in less cases. In particular, exceptions
In Python 3.8 this happens in fewer cases. In particular, exceptions
raised when getting the attribute from the type dictionary are no longer
ignored. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`35459`.)
ignored. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`35459`.)

* Removed ``__str__`` implementations from builtin types :class:`bool`,
:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`complex` and few classes from
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16 KiB to 1 MiB.

* The ``PyGC_Head`` struct has changed completely. All code that touched the
struct member should be rewritten. (See :issue:`33597`)
struct member should be rewritten. (See :issue:`33597`.)

* The ``PyInterpreterState`` struct has been moved into the "internal"
header files (specifically Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h). An
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