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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2011-01-16 21:02:09 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2011-01-16 21:02:09 (GMT)
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Placeholder sentence pointing out that imoprtlib has updated (as well as deprecated) ABCs thanks to the new .pyc situation.
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@@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ aspects that are visible to the programmer:
* The :mod:`py_compile` and :mod:`compileall` modules have been updated to
reflect the new naming convention and target directory.
+* XXX The :mod:`importlib.abc` module has been updated with new ABCs that
+ abstract out bytecode file details; some other ABCs in the module are now
+ deprecated in favor for the new ABCs (instructions on how to stay
+ backwards-compatible with Python 3.1 are included with the documentation).
+
.. seealso::
:pep:`3147` - PYC Repository Directories