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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 |