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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-12-22 16:41:09 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-12-22 16:41:09 (GMT)
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Added shlex and netrc modules; added warning about urllib change
affecting subclasses (which Jeremy just found out).
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@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ Otherwise modules such as thread didn't get incorporated in extensions.
New library modules
-------------------
+- shlex.py by Eric Raymond provides a lexical analyzer class for
+simple shell-like syntaxes.
+
+- netrc.py by Eric Raymond provides a parser for .netrc files. (The
+undocumented Netrc class in ftplib.py is now obsolete.)
+
- codeop.py is a new module that contains the compile_command()
function that was previously in code.py. This is so that JPython can
provide its own version of this function, while still sharing the
@@ -117,6 +123,10 @@ patches).
- types.py: use type(__stdin__) for FileType.
- urllib.py: fix translations for filenames with "funny" characters.
+Patch by Sjoerd Mullender. Note that if you subclass one of the
+URLopener classes, and you have copied code from the old urllib.py,
+your subclass may stop working. A long-term solution is to provide
+more methods so that you don't have to copy code.
- cgi.py: In read_multi, allow a subclass to override the class we
instantiate when we create a recursive instance, by setting the class