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author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-10-07 03:19:17 (GMT) |
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committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-10-07 03:19:17 (GMT) |
commit | f4c2757d784907165e37446276138eaef5bd69ee (patch) | |
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More whatsnew updates, move some doc NEWS items into the doc section.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 0169dc7..fe7e2b6 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -933,11 +933,12 @@ The :mod:`array` module supports the :c:type:`long long` type using ``q`` and (Contributed by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto in :issue:`1172711`) -base64, binascii ----------------- +base64 +------ ASCII-only Unicode strings are now accepted by the decoding functions of the -modern interface. For example, ``base64.b64decode('YWJj')`` returns ``b'abc'``. +:mod:`base64` modern interface. For example, ``base64.b64decode('YWJj')`` +returns ``b'abc'``. (Contributed by Catalin Iacob in :issue:`13641`.) binascii @@ -1797,6 +1798,12 @@ shutil acts on the symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant). (Contributed by Hynek Schlawack in :issue:`12715`.) +* When copying files to a different file system, :func:`~shutil.move` now + handles symlinks the way the posix ``mv`` command does, recreating the + symlink rather than copying the target file contents. (Contributed by + Jonathan Niehof in :issue:`9993`.) :func:`~shutil.move` now also returns + the ``dst`` argument as its result. + * :func:`~shutil.rmtree` is now resistant to symlink attacks on platforms which support the new ``dir_fd`` parameter in :func:`os.open` and :func:`os.unlink`. (Contributed by Martin von Löwis and Hynek Schlawack @@ -1879,6 +1886,9 @@ socket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_Datagram_Sockets and http://oss.oracle.com/projects/rds/). +* The :class:`~socket.socket` class now supports the ``PF_SYSTEM`` protocol + family on OS X. (Contributed by Michael Goderbauer in :issue:`13777`.) + * New function :func:`~socket.sethostname` allows the hostname to be set on unix systems if the calling process has sufficient privileges. (Contributed by Ross Lagerwall in :issue:`10866`.) @@ -2094,13 +2104,13 @@ should be used. For example, this will send a ``'HEAD'`` request:: webbrowser ---------- -The :mod:`webbrowser` module supports more browsers: Google Chrome (named +The :mod:`webbrowser` module supports more "browsers": Google Chrome (named :program:`chrome`, :program:`chromium`, :program:`chrome-browser` or -:program:`chromium-browser` depending on the version and operating system) as -well as the the generic launchers :program:`xdg-open` from the FreeDesktop.org -project and :program:`gvfs-open` which is the default URI handler for GNOME 3. - -(:issue:`13620` and :issue:`14493`) +:program:`chromium-browser` depending on the version and operating system), +and the generic launchers :program:`xdg-open`, from the FreeDesktop.org +project, and :program:`gvfs-open`, which is the default URI handler for GNOME +3. (The former contributed by Arnaud Calmettes in :issue:`13620`, the latter +by Matthias Klose in :issue:`14493`) xml.etree.ElementTree |