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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 5 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index a2d3af1..e1d1cb4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -129,6 +129,19 @@ os (Patch submitted by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`10784`.) +packaging +--------- + +:mod:`distutils` has undergone additions and refactoring under a new name, +:mod:`packaging`, to allow developers to break backward compatibility. +:mod:`distutils` is still provided in the standard library, but users are +encouraged to transition to :mod:`packaging`. For older versions of Python, a +backport compatible with 2.4+ and 3.1+ will be made available on PyPI under the +name :mod:`distutils2`. + +.. TODO add examples and howto to the packaging docs and link to them + + pydoc ----- @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Core and Builtins - Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath(). -- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial integer and hex revision. +- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial hex revision. - Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin @@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ Library - Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore to be able to unload the module. +- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as + distutils2). + - Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None). |