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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2012-10-07 03:19:17 (GMT)
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More whatsnew updates, move some doc NEWS items into the doc section.
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@@ -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