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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-01-03 22:47:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-01-03 22:47:39 (GMT) |
| commit | 1f01debe6f94d7f178e14ee7417786461b724e96 (patch) | |
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| parent | 814a2ca9e4b6360f1de37ed3d8d8d4313ab333bc (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 68162,68166,68171,68176,68195-68196,68210,68232 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r68162 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 16:06:00 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 3 lines
Fix for issue 4472 is incompatible with Cygwin, this patch
should fix that.
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r68166 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-02 19:26:23 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 1 line
document PyMemberDef
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r68171 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-02 21:25:14 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 3 lines
#4811: fix markup glitches (mostly remains of the conversion),
found by Gabriel Genellina.
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r68176 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-02 22:00:35 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Add various items
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r68195 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-03 14:45:15 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Remove useless string literal.
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r68196 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-03 15:29:53 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Fix indentation.
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r68210 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-03 20:10:12 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Set eol-style correctly for mp_distributing.py.
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r68232 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-03 22:52:16 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Grammar fix.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index 61084c8..da17620 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -103,7 +103,23 @@ changes, sorted alphabetically by module name. Consult the :file:`Misc/NEWS` file in the source tree for a more complete list of changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. -* To be written. +* A new function in the :mod:`subprocess` module, + :func:`check_output`, runs a command with a specified set of arguments + and returns the command's output as a string if the command runs without + error, or raises a :exc:`CalledProcessError` exception otherwise. + + :: + + >>> subprocess.check_output(['df', '-h', '.']) + 'Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on\n + /dev/disk0s2 52G 49G 3.0G 94% /\n' + + >>> subprocess.check_output(['df', '-h', '/bogus']) + ... + subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['df', '-h', '/bogus']' returned non-zero exit status 1 + + (Contributed by Gregory P. Smith.) + .. ====================================================================== .. whole new modules get described in subsections here @@ -116,13 +132,22 @@ Build and C API Changes Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include: -* To be written. +* If you use the :file:`.gdbinit` file provided with Python, + the "pyo" macro in the 2.7 version will now work when the thread being + debugged doesn't hold the GIL; the macro will now acquire it before printing. + (Contributed by haypo XXX; :issue:`3632`.) .. ====================================================================== Port-Specific Changes: Windows ----------------------------------- +* The :mod:`msvcrt` module now contains some constants from + the :file:`crtassem.h` header file: + :data:`CRT_ASSEMBLY_VERSION`, + :data:`VC_ASSEMBLY_PUBLICKEYTOKEN`, + and :data:`LIBRARIES_ASSEMBLY_NAME_PREFIX`. + (Added by Martin von Loewis (XXX check); :issue:`4365`.) .. ====================================================================== |