Python 3.4.0 发布，此版本包括一系列 3.x 系列的改进，数百个小的改进和 bug 修复。
值得注意的更新内容如下：新语法特性:[list]
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Python 3.4 并未添加任何新的语法特性
[/list]其他新特性:[list]
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pip should always be available (PEP 453).
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Newly created file descriptors are non-inheritable(PEP 446).
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command line option for isolated mode(issue 16499).
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improvements in the handling of codecsthat are not text encodings (multiple issues).
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A ModuleSpec Type for the Import System (PEP 451). (Affects importer authors.)
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The marshal format has been made more compact and efficient (issue 16475).
[/list]新的库模块:[list]
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asyncio: New provisional API for asynchronous IO (PEP 3156).
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ensurepip: Bootstrapping the pip installer(PEP 453).
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enum: Support for enumeration types(PEP 435).
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pathlib: Object-oriented filesystem paths(PEP 428).
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selectors: High-level and efficient I/O multiplexing, built upon the select module primitives (part of PEP 3156).
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statistics: A basic numerically stable statistics library (PEP 450).
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tracemalloc: Trace Python memory allocations (PEP 454).
[/list]库模块中重大的改进:[list]
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Single-dispatch generic functions infunctools (PEP 443).
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New pickle protocol 4 (PEP 3154).
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multiprocessing now has an option to avoid using os.fork on Unix (issue 8713).
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email has a new submodule, contentmanager, and a new Message subclass (EmailMessage) that simplify MIME handling (issue 18891).
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The inspect and pydoc modules are now capable of correct introspection of a much wider variety of callable objects, which improves the output of the Python help()system.
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The ipaddress module API has been declared stable
[/list]安全改进:[list]
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Secure and interchangeable hash algorithm(PEP 456).
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Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable(PEP 446) to avoid leaking file descriptors to child processes.
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New command line option for isolated mode, (issue 16499).
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multiprocessing now has an option to avoid using os.fork on Unix. spawn andforkserver are more secure because they avoid sharing data with child processes.
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multiprocessing child processes on Windows no longer inherit all of the parent’s inheritable handles, only the necessary ones.
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A new hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac() function provides the PKCS#5 password-based key derivation function 2.
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TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support for ssl.
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Retrieving certificates from the Windows system cert store support for ssl.
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Server-side SNI (Server Name Indication) support for ssl.
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The ssl.SSLContext class has a lot of improvements.
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All modules in the standard library that support SSL now support server certificate verification, including hostname matching (ssl.match_hostname()) and CRLs (Certificate Revocation lists, seessl.SSLContext.load_verify_locations()).
[/list]CPython 实现改进:[list]
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Safe object finalization (PEP 442).
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Leveraging PEP 442, in most cases module globals are no longer set to None during finalization (issue 18214).
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Configurable memory allocators (PEP 445).
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Argument Clinic (PEP 436).
[/list]其他的还包括许多 CPython 的优化，用法和潜在移植问题，更多内容请看发行说明，新特性介绍或者是更新日志，可以在这里下载最新版本。