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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 9410e22..7e4d68a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1806,8 +1806,11 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. is now available as a standalone package. The web page for the package is `www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm <http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm>`__. + The plan is to remove the package from the standard library + in Python 3.0, because its pace of releases is much more frequent than + Python's. -* The :mod:`bsddb.dbshelve` module now uses the highest pickling protocol + The :mod:`bsddb.dbshelve` module now uses the highest pickling protocol available, instead of restricting itself to protocol 1. (Contributed by W. Barnes; :issue:`1551443`.) @@ -1817,6 +1820,12 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. "/cgi-bin/add.py?category=1". (Contributed by Alexandre Fiori and Nubis; :issue:`1817`.) + The :func:`parse_qs` and :func:`parse_qsl` functions have been + relocated from the :mod:`cgi` module to the :mod:`urlparse` module. + The versions still available in the :mod:`cgi` module will + trigger :exc:`PendingDeprecationWarning` messages in 2.6 + (:issue:`600362`). + * The :mod:`cmath` module underwent extensive revision, contributed by Mark Dickinson and Christian Heimes. Five new functions were added: @@ -1900,6 +1909,11 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) +* The :mod:`Cookie` module's :class:`Morsel` objects now support an + :attr:`httponly` attribute. In some browsers. cookies with this attribute + set cannot be accessed or manipulated by JavaScript code. + (Contributed by Arvin Schnell; :issue:`1638033`.) + * A new window method in the :mod:`curses` module, :meth:`chgat`, changes the display attributes for a certain number of characters on a single line. (Contributed by Fabian Kreutz.) :: @@ -2498,8 +2512,9 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. ``with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tmp: ...``. (Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky; :issue:`2021`.) -* The :mod:`test.test_support` module now contains an - :func:`EnvironmentVarGuard` +* The :mod:`test.test_support` module gained a number + of context managers useful for writing tests. + :func:`EnvironmentVarGuard` is a context manager that temporarily changes environment variables and automatically restores them to their old values. @@ -2514,6 +2529,16 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. f = urllib.urlopen('https://sf.net') ... + Finally, :func:`check_warnings` resets the :mod:`warning` module's + warning filters and returns an object that will record all warning + messages triggered (:issue:`3781`):: + + with test_support.check_warnings() as wrec: + warnings.simplefilter("always") + ... code that triggers a warning ... + assert str(wrec.message) == "function is outdated" + assert len(wrec.warnings) == 1, "Multiple warnings raised" + (Contributed by Brett Cannon.) * The :mod:`textwrap` module can now preserve existing whitespace @@ -2600,11 +2625,19 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. (Added by Facundo Batista.) +* The Unicode database provided by the :mod:`unicodedata` module + has been updated to version 5.1.0. (Updated by + Martin von Loewis; :issue:`3811`.) + * The :mod:`warnings` module's :func:`formatwarning` and :func:`showwarning` gained an optional *line* argument that can be used to supply the line of source code. (Added as part of :issue:`1631171`, which re-implemented part of the :mod:`warnings` module in C code.) + A new function, :func:`catch_warnings`, is a context manager + intended for testing purposes that lets you temporarily modify the + warning filters and then restore their original values (:issue:`3781`). + * The XML-RPC :class:`SimpleXMLRPCServer` and :class:`DocXMLRPCServer` classes can now be prevented from immediately opening and binding to their socket by passing True as the ``bind_and_activate`` |