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| author | Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> | 2006-04-18 16:45:14 (GMT) |
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| committer | Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> | 2006-04-18 16:45:14 (GMT) |
| commit | 17a35f906c29e71510d749283b381d95a5de0316 (patch) | |
| tree | 015b55ce2c8dd59a3baee87b17d8ecb116322630 /Misc | |
| parent | e7670a329e0d38c6c1497208590856ce21df5095 (diff) | |
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add info re: pydoc, pkgutil, and setuptools additions
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@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@ Extension Modules Library ------- +- New modules: setuptools, easy_install, and pkg_resources, to support + building, installing, and using Python eggs, respectively. + +- The pydoc module now supports documenting packages contained in + .zip or .egg files. + +- The pkgutil module now has several new utility functions, such + as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either + in the filesystem or zip files. + + - The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local`` returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup. |