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| author | Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> | 2002-10-08 02:44:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> | 2002-10-08 02:44:31 (GMT) |
| commit | 8696ebcd28d38f74ee0ffa2cd82d9db1c0bad8df (patch) | |
| tree | 1d688f1ea3f3b785a19760dd1477b796370c698d /Misc | |
| parent | 20eae69a9fb5b5453f9ddf01600f99fd6ffffed7 (diff) | |
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Add os.path.supports_unicode_filenames for all platforms,
sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.
Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 6 |
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@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ Core and builtins ----------------- - Unicode file name processing for Windows (PEP 277) is implemented. + All platforms now have an os.path.supports_unicode_filenames attribute, + which is set to True on Windows NT/2000/XP, and False elsewhere. - Codec error handling callbacks (PEP 293) are implemented. Error handling in unicode.encode or str.decode can now be customized. @@ -193,6 +195,10 @@ Core and builtins reliably) are also interrupted (as generally happens on for Linux/Unix.) [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232] +- sys.getwindowsversion() has been added on Windows. This + returns a tuple with information about the version of Windows + currently running. + - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return a string. Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time, but a buffer object would be returned when the repetition count |