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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2010-03-08 12:00:39 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2010-03-08 12:00:39 (GMT)
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@@ -812,6 +812,10 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
named pipes like a regular file by opening them for reading, and
this would block indefinitely. (Fixed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`3002`.)
+ New function: :func:`make_archive` takes a filename, archive type
+ (zip or tar-format), and a directory path, and creates an archive
+ containing the directory's contents. (Added by Tarek Ziadé.)
+
* New functions: in the :mod:`site` module, three new functions
return various site- and user-specific paths.
:func:`getsitepackages` returns a list containing all
@@ -837,6 +841,13 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
prevent buffering many small sends into a single TCP packet.
(Contributed by Kristjan Valur Jonsson; :issue:`6192`.)
+* Updated module: the :mod:`sqlite` module has been updated to
+ version 2.6.0 of the `pysqlite package <http://code.google.com/p/pysqlite/>`__. Version 2.6.0 includes a number of bugfixes, and adds
+ the ability to load SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
+ Call the ``enable_load_extension(True)`` method to enable extensions,
+ and then call :meth:`load_extension` to load a particular shared library.
+ (Updated by Gerhard Häring.)
+
* The :mod:`struct` module will no longer silently ignore overflow
errors when a value is too large for a particular integer format
code (one of ``bBhHiIlLqQ``); it now always raises a
@@ -893,6 +904,8 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
resulting archive. This is more powerful than the existing
*exclude* argument, which has therefore been deprecated.
(Added by Lars Gustäbel; :issue:`6856`.)
+ The :class:`TarFile` class also now supports the context manager protocol.
+ (Added by Lars Gustäbel; :issue:`7232`.)
* The :mod:`threading` module's :meth:`Event.wait` method now returns
the internal flag on exit. This means the method will usually