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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2010-12-03 09:29:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2010-12-03 09:29:11 (GMT) |
| commit | 7bb30b72d8a165f8bacbc480b8d5a15834fa4c35 (patch) | |
| tree | fa300bf03acaea1390b11730fb8fd884b691b1ba /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 9af2a6e56f9c9b45c42579c23c0de378929e7d60 (diff) | |
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Improve Pydoc interactive browsing (#2001). Patch by Ron Adam.
* A -b option to start an enhanced browsing session.
* Allow -b and -p options to be used together.
* Specifying port 0 will pick an arbitrary unused socket port.
* A new browse() function to start the new server and browser.
* Show Python version information in the header.
* A *Get* field which takes the same input as the help() function.
* A *Search* field which replaces the Tkinter search box.
* Links to *Module Index*, *Topics*, and *Keywords*.
* Improved source file viewing.
* An HTMLDoc.filelink() method.
* The -g option and the gui() and serve() functions are deprecated.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 7184f62..1083979 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -566,7 +566,6 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules (Contributed by R. David Murray, :issue:`10321`.) - * The :mod:`inspect` module has a new function :func:`getgenatorstate` to easily identify the current state of a generator as one of ``GEN_CREATED``, ``GEN_RUNNING``, ``GEN_SUSPENDED`` or ``GEN_CLOSED``. @@ -583,6 +582,12 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules - non-UTF8 percent encoding of non-ASCII characters Issue 2987 for IPv6 (RFC2732) support in urlparse +* The :mod:`pydoc` module now provides a much improved Web server interface, + as well as a new command-line option to automatically open a browser + window to display that server. + + (Contributed by Ron Adam; :issue:`2001`.) + Multi-threading =============== |