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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-12-22 16:41:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-12-22 16:41:09 (GMT) |
| commit | de8b026148166569596c29a3d3d9f5279347efd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 66cbbc09f23989ee497b7da09fce77edc318cdd2 /Misc | |
| parent | d449342966dd6de674b89db14a95115b92e20b3a (diff) | |
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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 |