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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 0216589..4643955 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -604,6 +604,59 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. .. % Patch #957003 +* The :mod:`tarfile` module now supports POSIX.1-2001 (pax) and + POSIX.1-1988 (ustar) format tarfiles, in addition to the GNU tar + format that was already supported. The default format + is GNU tar; specify the ``format`` parameter to open a file + using a different format:: + + tar = tarfile.open("output.tar", "w", format=tarfile.PAX_FORMAT) + + The new ``errors`` parameter lets you specify an error handling + scheme for character conversions: the three standard ways Python can + handle errors ``'strict'``, ``'ignore'``, ``'replace'`` , or the + special value ``'utf-8'``, which replaces bad characters with their + UTF-8 representation. Character conversions occur because the PAX + format supports Unicode filenames, defaulting to UTF-8 encoding. + + The :meth:`TarFile.add` method now accepts a ``exclude`` argument that's + a function that can be used to exclude certain filenames from + an archive. + The function must take a filename and return true if the file + should be excluded or false if it should be archived. + The function is applied to both the name initially passed to :meth:`add` + and to the names of files in recursively-added directories. + + (All changes contributed by Lars Gustäbel). + +* An optional ``timeout`` parameter was added to the + :class:`telnetlib.Telnet` class constructor, specifying a timeout + measured in seconds. (Added by Facundo Batista.) + +* The :class:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile` class usually deletes + the temporary file it created when the file is closed. This + behaviour can now be changed by passing ``delete=False`` to the + constructor. (Contributed by Damien Miller.) + + .. % Patch #1537850 + +* The :mod:`test.test_support` module now contains a + :func:`EnvironmentVarGuard` + context manager that supports temporarily changing environment variables and + automatically restores them to their old values. + + Another context manager, :class:`TransientResource`, can surround calls + to resources that may or may not be available; it will catch and + ignore a specified list of exceptions. For example, + a network test may ignore certain failures when connecting to an + external web site:: + + with test_support.TransientResource(IOError, errno=errno.ETIMEDOUT): + f = urllib.urlopen('https://sf.net') + ... + + (Contributed by Brett Cannon.) + * The :mod:`textwrap` module can now preserve existing whitespace at the beginnings and ends of the newly-created lines by specifying ``drop_whitespace=False`` @@ -624,21 +677,6 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. .. % Patch #1581073 -* An optional ``timeout`` parameter was added to the - :class:`telnetlib.Telnet` class constructor, specifying a timeout - measured in seconds. (Added by Facundo Batista.) - -* The :class:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile` class usually deletes - the temporary file it created when the file is closed. This - behaviour can now be changed by passing ``delete=False`` to the - constructor. (Contributed by Damien Miller.) - - .. % Patch #1537850 - -* The :mod:`test.test_support` module now contains a :func:`EnvironmentVarGuard` - context manager that supports temporarily changing environment variables and - automatically restores them to their old values. (Contributed by Brett Cannon.) - * The :mod:`timeit` module now accepts callables as well as strings for the statement being timed and for the setup code. Two convenience functions were added for creating |