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author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2009-06-28 21:37:08 (GMT) |
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committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2009-06-28 21:37:08 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 20bfb6e..945e4b3 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ **************************** - What's New In Python 3.1 + What's New In Python 3.2 **************************** :Author: Raymond Hettinger @@ -66,8 +66,24 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules ===================================== -* Stub +* 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 + types were supported by the :mod:`string` module. Now, :class:`str`, + :class:`bytes`, and :class:`bytearray` each have their own **maketrans** and + **translate** methods with intermediate translation tables of the + appropriate type. + + (Contributed by Georg Brandl; :issue:`5675`.) + +* The previously deprecated :func:`contextlib.nested` function has been + removed in favor of a plain :keyword:`with` statement which can + accept multiple context managers. The latter technique is faster + (because it is built-in), and it does a better job finalizing multiple + context managers when one of them raises an exception. + (Contributed by Georg Brandl and Mattias Brändström; + `appspot issue 53094 <http://codereview.appspot.com/53094>`_.) Optimizations ============= @@ -90,7 +106,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include: * Stub -Porting to Python 3.1 +Porting to Python 3.2 ===================== This section lists previously described changes and other bugfixes |