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27 changes: 16 additions & 11 deletions Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
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Expand Up @@ -216,24 +216,24 @@ New Modules
Improved Modules
================

* The :meth:`_asdict()` method for :func:`collections.namedtuple` now returns
a :class:`dict` instead of a :class:`collections.OrderedDict`. This works because
regular dicts have guaranteed ordering in since Python 3.7. If the extra
features of :class:`OrderedDict` are required, the suggested remediation is
to cast the result to the desired type: ``OrderedDict(nt._asdict())``.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`35864`.)

* The :mod:`unicodedata` module has been upgraded to use the `Unicode 12.0.0
<http://blog.unicode.org/2019/03/announcing-unicode-standard-version-120.html>`_
release.


asyncio
-------

On Windows, the default event loop is now :class:`~asyncio.ProactorEventLoop`.


collections
-----------

The :meth:`_asdict()` method for :func:`collections.namedtuple` now returns
a :class:`dict` instead of a :class:`collections.OrderedDict`. This works because
regular dicts have guaranteed ordering in since Python 3.7. If the extra
features of :class:`OrderedDict` are required, the suggested remediation is
to cast the result to the desired type: ``OrderedDict(nt._asdict())``.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`35864`.)


ctypes
------

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -490,10 +490,15 @@ Added new clock :data:`~time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW` for macOS 10.12.
unicodedata
-----------

* The :mod:`unicodedata` module has been upgraded to use the `Unicode 12.0.0
<http://blog.unicode.org/2019/03/announcing-unicode-standard-version-120.html>`_
release.

* New function :func:`~unicodedata.is_normalized` can be used to verify a string
is in a specific normal form. (Contributed by Max Belanger and David Euresti in
:issue:`32285`).


unittest
--------

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