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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2011-01-20 04:03:19 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2011-01-20 04:03:19 (GMT)
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@@ -510,16 +510,23 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
* The internal :c:type:`structsequence` tool now creates subclasses of tuple.
This means that C structures like those returned by :func:`os.stat`,
- :func:`time.gmtime`, and :func:`sys.version_info` now work like a
+ :func:`time.gmtime`, and :attr:`sys.version_info` now work like a
:term:`named tuple` and now work with functions and methods that
expect a tuple as an argument. This is a big step forward in making the C
- structures as flexible as their pure Python counterparts.
+ structures as flexible as their pure Python counterparts:
+
+ >>> isinstance(sys.version_info, tuple)
+ True
+ >>> 'Version %d.%d.%d %s(%d)' % sys.version_info
+ 'Version 3.2.0 final(0)'
(Suggested by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis and implemented
by Benjamin Peterson in :issue:`8413`.)
* Warnings are now easier to control using the :envvar:`PYTHONWARNINGS`
- environment variable as an alternative to using ``-W`` at the command line.
+ environment variable as an alternative to using ``-W`` at the command line::
+
+ $ export PYTHONWARNINGS='ignore::RuntimeWarning::,once::UnicodeWarning::'
(Suggested by Barry Warsaw and implemented by Philip Jenvey in :issue:`7301`.)
@@ -578,7 +585,9 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(See :issue:`10518`.)
* Python's import mechanism can now load modules installed in directories with
- non-ASCII characters in the path name.
+ non-ASCII characters in the path name:
+
+ >>> import møøse.bites
(Required extensive work by Victor Stinner in :issue:`9425`.)
@@ -1375,19 +1384,21 @@ inspect
* The :mod:`inspect` module has a new function
:func:`~inspect.getgeneratorstate` to easily identify the current state of a
- generator as one of *GEN_CREATED*, *GEN_RUNNING*, *GEN_SUSPENDED* or
- *GEN_CLOSED*::
+ generator-iterator::
+ >>> from inspect import getgeneratorstate
>>> def gen():
- yield 'one'
- yield 'two'
+ yield 'demo'
>>> g = gen()
- >>> inspect.getgeneratorstate(g)
+ >>> getgeneratorstate(g)
'GEN_CREATED'
>>> next(g)
- 'one'
- >>> inspect.getgeneratorstate(g)
+ 'demo'
+ >>> getgeneratorstate(g)
'GEN_SUSPENDED'
+ >>> next(g, None)
+ >>> getgeneratorstate(g)
+ 'GEN_CLOSED'
(Contributed by Rodolpho Eckhardt and Nick Coghlan, :issue:`10220`.)