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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2010-12-10 17:45:13 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2010-12-10 17:45:13 (GMT)
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Move nntp entry back to changed modules section and add entry for non-ascii import directories.
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst20
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 54cc1a7..2997f8f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -570,6 +570,12 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(See :issue:`10518`.)
+* Python's import mechanism can now load module installed in directories with
+ non-ASCII characters in the path name.
+
+ (Required extensive work by Victor Stinner in :issue:`9425`.)
+
+
New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
=====================================
@@ -794,6 +800,13 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
5-tuple), and :data:`ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER` (an integer). (Added by
Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8321`.)
+* The :mod:`nntplib` module has a revamped implementation with better bytes and
+ unicode semantics as well as more practical APIs. These improvements break
+ compatibility with the nntplib version in Python 3.1, which was partly
+ dysfunctional in itself.
+
+ (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`9360`)
+
* :class:`http.client.HTTPSConnection`, :class:`urllib.request.HTTPSHandler`
and :func:`urllib.request.urlopen` now take optional arguments to allow for
server certificate checking against a set of Certificate Authorities,
@@ -1221,13 +1234,6 @@ require changes to your code:
reproduce Python 3.1 sequences, set the *version* argument to *1*,
``random.seed(s, version=1)``.
-* The :mod:`nntplib` module has a revamped implementation with better bytes and
- unicode semantics as well as more practical APIs. These improvements break
- compatibility with the nntplib version in Python 3.1, which was partly
- dysfunctional in itself.
-
- (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`9360`)
-
* The previously deprecated :func:`string.maketrans` function has been removed
in favor of the static methods, :meth:`bytes.maketrans` and
:meth:`bytearray.maketrans`. This change solves the confusion around which