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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2006-04-22 02:32:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2006-04-22 02:32:43 (GMT) |
| commit | 1da4a947190802f5825bb72761916bad59cc503e (patch) | |
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| parent | 81efcf6833c97a5488454c83209d253a178eec92 (diff) | |
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Add Gregory K. Johnson's revised version of mailbox.py (funded by
the 2005 Summer of Code).
The revision adds a number of new mailbox classes that support adding
and removing messages; these classes also support mailbox locking and
default to using email.Message instead of rfc822.Message.
The old mailbox classes are largely left alone for backward compatibility.
The exception is the Maildir class, which was present in the old module
and now inherits from the new classes. The Maildir class's interface
is pretty simple, though, so I think it'll be compatible with existing
code.
(The change to the NEWS file also adds a missing word to a different
news item, which unfortunately required rewrapping the line.)
Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/ACKS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 8 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ Drew Jenkins Flemming Kjær Jensen Jiba Orjan Johansen +Gregory K. Johnson Simon Johnston Evan Jones Richard Jones @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ Library as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either in the filesystem or zip files. +- The mailbox module can now modify and delete messages from + mailboxes, in addition to simply reading them. Thanks to Gregory + K. Johnson for writing the code, and to the 2005 Google Summer of + Code for funding his work. - The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local`` returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup. @@ -202,8 +206,8 @@ Core and builtins especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the - platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The - effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it + platform C library will in turn return that memory to the operating system. + The effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems. Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience. |