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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2006-07-11 17:20:16 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2006-07-11 17:20:16 (GMT)
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Bump version number; add sys._current_frames
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% Count up the patches and bugs
\title{What's New in Python 2.5}
-\release{0.3}
+\release{0.4}
\author{A.M. Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{amk@amk.ca}}
@@ -1662,11 +1662,17 @@ string of build information like this:
\code{"trunk:45355:45356M, Apr 13 2006, 07:42:19"}.
(Contributed by Barry Warsaw.)
+\item Another new function, \function{sys._current_frames()}, returns
+the current stack frames for all running threads as a dictionary
+mapping thread identifiers to the topmost stack frame currently active
+in that thread at the time the function is called. (Contributed by
+Tim Peters.)
+
\item The \class{TarFile} class in the \module{tarfile} module now has
an \method{extractall()} method that extracts all members from the
archive into the current working directory. It's also possible to set
a different directory as the extraction target, and to unpack only a
-subset of the archive's members.
+subset of the archive's members.
A tarfile's compression can be autodetected by
using the mode \code{'r|*'}.