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authorVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2008-01-21 18:16:05 (GMT)
committerVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2008-01-21 18:16:05 (GMT)
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Updated to include news on recent logging fixes and documentation changes.
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS45
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2f4d48e..2320180 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Core and builtins
object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of most
- command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
+ command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
- Object/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The patch
makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more readable.
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Core and builtins
- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
-- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
+- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
attribute of an empty cell object.
- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input.
@@ -369,6 +369,17 @@ Core and builtins
Library
-------
+- #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover
+ time calculation.
+
+- #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level.
+
+- #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add
+ contextual information in logging output.
+
+- #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in
+ flush().
+
- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory
when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled
with ``--with-pydebug``.
@@ -415,7 +426,7 @@ Library
- #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority queue.
- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
- (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
+ (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Textbox.gather().
- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
@@ -439,13 +450,13 @@ Library
- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect functions
that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
-- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
+- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
(0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
- Issue #846388. re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
good for long regular expression matches.
-- pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute
+- pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute
on Parser objects to set the character data buffer size.
- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
@@ -572,7 +583,7 @@ Library
- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.
-- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note
+- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note
that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections).
- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses
@@ -760,8 +771,8 @@ Library
- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
-- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module.
- The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has
+- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module.
+ The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has
a descriptive message.
- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
@@ -1041,7 +1052,7 @@ Library
- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end
attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members).
-- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with
+- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with
RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained
from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
@@ -1054,7 +1065,7 @@ Library
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also
+- #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also
subclassable now.
- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
@@ -1160,7 +1171,7 @@ Extension Modules
- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
-- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be returned
+- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be returned
when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt fails.
- Speed up function calls into the math module.
@@ -1193,7 +1204,7 @@ Extension Modules
- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
- other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long.
+ other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long.
(Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value for n.
@@ -1283,6 +1294,12 @@ Tools
Documentation
-------------
+- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into logging
+ output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class.
+
+- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
+ information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
+
- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
Python tutorial.
@@ -1339,7 +1356,7 @@ Build
- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj
- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005
- based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
+ based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0.
- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/
@@ -1666,7 +1683,7 @@ Library
-------
- Fix #1693149. Now you can pass several modules separated by
- comma to trace.py in the same --ignore-module option.
+ comma to trace.py in the same --ignore-module option.
- Correction of patch #1455898: In the mbcs decoder, set final=False
for stream decoder, but final=True for the decode function.