* Add _PYTHON_SUBPROCESS_USE_POSIX_SPAWN environment knob
Add support for disabling the use of `posix_spawn` via a variable in
the process environment.
While it was previously possible to toggle this by modifying the value
of `subprocess._USE_POSIX_SPAWN`, this required either patching CPython
or modifying it within the interpreter instance which is not always
possible, such as when running applications or scripts not under a
user's control.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@gmail.com>
* fixup NEWS entry
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Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add ZipFile.data_offset attribute
This attribute provides the offset to zip data from the start of the file, when available.
* Add blurb-it
* Try fixing class ref in NEWS
The `http.server` module now supports serving over HTTPS using the `http.server.HTTPSServer` class.
This functionality is also exposed by the command-line interface (`python -m http.server`) through the
`--tls-cert`, `--tls-key` and `--tls-password-file` options.
A new extension module, `_hmac`, now exposes the HACL* HMAC (formally verified) implementation.
The HACL* implementation is used as a fallback implementation when the OpenSSL implementation of HMAC
is not available or disabled. For now, only named hash algorithms are recognized and SIMD support provided
by HACL* for the BLAKE2 hash functions is not yet used.
annotationlib is used quite a few times in typing.py, but I think the
usages are just rare enough that this makes sense.
The import would get triggered by:
- Using get_type_hints(), evaluate_forward_ref(), and similar introspection
functions
- Using a string annotation anywhere that goes through _type_convert (e.g.,
"Final['x']" will trigger an annotationlib import in order to access the
ForwardRef class).
- Creating a TypedDict or NamedTuple (unless it's empty or PEP 563 is on).
Lots of programs will want to use typing without any of these, so the tradeoff
seems worth it.
The exception message for `xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.remove` when an element is not found
has been updated from "list.remove(x): x not in list" to "Element.remove(x): element not found".
CPython's pthread-based thread identifier relies on pthread_t being able
to be represented as an unsigned integer type.
This is true in most Linux libc implementations where it's defined as an
unsigned long, however musl typedefs it as a struct *.
If the pointer has the high bit set and is cast to PyThread_ident_t, the
resultant value can be sign-extended [0]. This can cause issues when
comparing against threading._MainThread's identifier. The main thread's
identifier value is retrieved via _get_main_thread_ident which is backed
by an unsigned long which truncates sign extended bits.
>>> hex(threading.main_thread().ident)
'0xb6f33f3c'
>>> hex(threading.current_thread().ident)
'0xffffffffb6f33f3c'
Work around this by conditionally compiling in some code for non-glibc
based Linux platforms that are at risk of sign-extension to return a
PyLong based on the main thread's unsigned long thread identifier if the
current thread is the main thread.
[0]: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-14.2.0/gcc/Arrays-and-pointers-implementation.html
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Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@gmail.com>
