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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index b76829c..9533ac6 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -108,6 +108,16 @@ changes, sorted alphabetically by module name. Consult the :file:`Misc/NEWS` file in the source tree for a more complete list of changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. +* It is not mandatory anymore to store clear text passwords in the + :file:`.pypirc` file when registering and uploading packages to PyPI. As long + as the username is present in that file, the :mod:`distutils` package will + prompt for the password if not present. (Added by tarek, with the initial + contribution of Nathan Van Gheem; :issue:`4394`.) + +* The :mod:`pydoc` module now has help for the various symbols that Python + uses. You can now do ``help('<<')`` or ``help('@')``, for example. + (Contributed by David Laban; :issue:`4739`.) + * A new function in the :mod:`subprocess` module, :func:`check_output`, runs a command with a specified set of arguments and returns the command's output as a string if the command runs without @@ -125,11 +135,9 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. (Contributed by Gregory P. Smith.) -* It is not mandatory anymore to store clear text passwords in the - :file:`.pypirc` file when registering and uploading packages to PyPI. As long - as the username is present in that file, the :mod:`distutils` package will - prompt for the password if not present. (Added by tarek, with the initial - contribution of Nathan Van Gheem; :issue:`4394`.) +* The :func:`is_zipfile` function in the :mod:`zipfile` module will now + accept a file object, in addition to the path names accepted in earlier + versions. (Contributed by Gabriel Genellina; :issue:`4756`.) .. ====================================================================== .. whole new modules get described in subsections here |