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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2004-09-13 00:52:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2004-09-13 00:52:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 82076ef19482c7fc8b3f4a322f12d4417a397b3e (patch) | |
| tree | 76b68999b39e0f1f42c3b6dd4e22ac26c6c17bdf /Misc | |
| parent | 9661f9ab4f969651e7f1fea224034237e328f6ac (diff) | |
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Reluctantly, rehabilitate doctest.master.
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@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ Extension modules Library ------- -- bdist_rpm now supports command line options --force-arch, - {pre,post}-install, {pre,post}-uninstall, and +- bdist_rpm now supports command line options --force-arch, + {pre,post}-install, {pre,post}-uninstall, and {prep,build,install,clean,verify}-script. + - SF patch #998993: The UTF-8 and the UTF-16 stateful decoders now support decoding incomplete input (when the input stream is temporarily exhausted). ``codecs.StreamReader`` now implements buffering, which enables proper @@ -34,6 +35,13 @@ Library ``codecs.StreamReader.readlines()`` have a new argument ``keepends``. Trailing "\n"s will be stripped from the lines if ``keepends`` is false. +- ``doctest.master was`` put back in, and ``doctest.testmod()`` once again + updates it. This isn't good, because every ``testmod()`` call + contributes to bloating the "hidden" state of ``doctest.master``, but + some old code apparently relies on it. For now, all we can do is + encourage people to stitch doctests together via doctest's unittest + integration features instead. It would help if those were documented. + Build ----- @@ -85,7 +93,7 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 3? Core and builtins ----------------- -- SF patch #1007189: ``from ... import ...`` statements now allow the name +- SF patch #1007189: ``from ... import ...`` statements now allow the name list to be surrounded by parentheses. - Some speedups for long arithmetic, thanks to Trevor Perrin. Gradeschool @@ -152,14 +160,14 @@ Extension modules - Added CurrentByteIndex, CurrentColumnNumber, CurrentLineNumber members to xml.parsers.expat.XMLParser object. -- The mpz, rotor, and xreadlines modules, all deprecated in earlier +- The mpz, rotor, and xreadlines modules, all deprecated in earlier versions of Python, have now been removed. Library ------- - Patch #934356: if a module defines __all__, believe that rather than using - heuristics for filtering out imported names. + heuristics for filtering out imported names. - Patch #941486: added os.path.lexists(), which returns True for broken symlinks, unlike os.path.exists(). @@ -330,10 +338,10 @@ Core and builtins - PEP-0318, Function Decorators have been added to the language. These are implemented using the Java-style @decorator syntax, like so:: - + @staticmethod def foo(bar): - + (The PEP needs to be updated to reflect the current state) - When importing a module M raises an exception, Python no longer leaves M |