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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-05-25 13:34:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-05-25 13:34:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 264acad721612174c3424946786ac32ca9b9318d (patch) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index d493d9a..fbdc11a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -796,9 +796,11 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: deleting an unset attribute would not raise :exc:`AttributeError` as you would expect. Fixed by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`7604`.) -* A new encoding named "cp720", used primarily for Arabic text, is now - supported. (Contributed by Alexander Belchenko and Amaury Forgeot - d'Arc; :issue:`1616979`.) +* Two new encodings are now supported: "cp720", used primarily for + Arabic text; and "cp858", a variant of CP 850 that adds the euro + symbol. (CP720 contributed by Alexander Belchenko and Amaury + Forgeot d'Arc in :issue:`1616979`; CP858 contributed by Tim Hatch in + :issue:`8016`.) * The :class:`file` object will now set the :attr:`filename` attribute on the :exc:`IOError` exception when trying to open a directory @@ -1066,6 +1068,11 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. (Added by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`1818`.) + Finally, the :class:`~collections.Mapping` abstract base class now + raises a :exc:`NotImplemented` exception if a mapping is compared to + another type that isn't a :class:`Mapping`. + (Fixed by Daniel Stutzbach; :issue:`8729`.) + * Constructors for the parsing classes in the :mod:`ConfigParser` module now take a *allow_no_value* parameter, defaulting to false; if true, options without values will be allowed. For example:: @@ -1158,6 +1165,12 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. a separator in the header giving the filename. (Fixed by Anatoly Techtonik; :issue:`7585`.) +* The Distutils ``sdist`` command now always regenerates the + :file:`MANIFEST` file, since even if the :file:`MANIFEST.in` or + :file:`setup.py` files haven't been modified, the user might have + created some new files that should be included. + (Fixed by Tarek Ziadé; :issue:`8688`.) + * The :mod:`doctest` module's :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` flag will now ignore the name of the module containing the exception being tested. (Patch by Lennart Regebro; :issue:`7490`.) |