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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2012-10-02 14:19:08 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2012-10-02 14:19:08 (GMT)
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Add multiprocessing.Process.sentinel to whatsnew, mention SSLFakeFile removal.
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@@ -1481,6 +1481,11 @@ multiprocessing connections.
to override the default behavior of inheriting the ``daemon`` flag from
the parent process (:issue:`6064`).
+New attribute attribute :data:`multiprocessing.Process.sentinel` allows a
+program to wait on multiple :class:`~multiprocessing.Process` objects at one
+time using the appropriate OS primitives (for example, :mod:`select` on
+posix systems).
+
nntplib
-------
@@ -2278,6 +2283,10 @@ Porting Python code
* The deprecated variable ``time.accept2dyear`` has been removed.
+* The undocumented internal helper class ``SSLFakeFile`` has been
+ removed from :mod:`smtplib`, since its functionality has long been
+ provided directly by :meth:`socket.socket.makefile`.
+
Porting C code
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