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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2010-12-10 17:45:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2010-12-10 17:45:13 (GMT) |
| commit | 070ec70cbe8cb118f85789a0fb3d4737c50a54e5 (patch) | |
| tree | ef25225ad30e4c75a19e7b28f781ed501579c569 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 5a27d4018692a9cb9f30b5ed81ac7061c8fe3c82 (diff) | |
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Move nntp entry back to changed modules section and add entry for non-ascii import directories.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst | 20 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 54cc1a7..2997f8f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -570,6 +570,12 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: (See :issue:`10518`.) +* Python's import mechanism can now load module installed in directories with + non-ASCII characters in the path name. + + (Required extensive work by Victor Stinner in :issue:`9425`.) + + New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules ===================================== @@ -794,6 +800,13 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules 5-tuple), and :data:`ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER` (an integer). (Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8321`.) +* The :mod:`nntplib` module has a revamped implementation with better bytes and + unicode semantics as well as more practical APIs. These improvements break + compatibility with the nntplib version in Python 3.1, which was partly + dysfunctional in itself. + + (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`9360`) + * :class:`http.client.HTTPSConnection`, :class:`urllib.request.HTTPSHandler` and :func:`urllib.request.urlopen` now take optional arguments to allow for server certificate checking against a set of Certificate Authorities, @@ -1221,13 +1234,6 @@ require changes to your code: reproduce Python 3.1 sequences, set the *version* argument to *1*, ``random.seed(s, version=1)``. -* The :mod:`nntplib` module has a revamped implementation with better bytes and - unicode semantics as well as more practical APIs. These improvements break - compatibility with the nntplib version in Python 3.1, which was partly - dysfunctional in itself. - - (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`9360`) - * The previously deprecated :func:`string.maketrans` function has been removed in favor of the static methods, :meth:`bytes.maketrans` and :meth:`bytearray.maketrans`. This change solves the confusion around which |