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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 1bc8093..096aabb 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -440,7 +440,11 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: dictionaries it would miss the dynamic methods and make it difficult to implement proxy objects. - (Discovered by Yury Selivanov and fixed by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`9666`.) + To support lookups without the possibility of activating a dynamic attribute, + the :mod:`inspect` module has a new function, :func:`getattr_static`. + + (Discovered by Yury Selivanov and fixed by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`9666`. + The inspect function added by Michael Foord.) * The :func:`str` of a float or complex number is now the same as its :func:`repr`. Previously, the :func:`str` form was shorter but that just @@ -669,10 +673,8 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules The :mod:`gzip` module also gains the :func:`~gzip.compress` and :func:`~gzip.decompress` functions for easier in-memory compression and - decompression. - - Keep in mind that text needs to be encoded in to bytes before compressing - and decompressing: + decompression. Keep in mind that text needs to be encoded in to + :class:`bytes` before compressing and decompressing: >>> s = 'Three shall be the number thou shalt count, ' >>> s += 'and the number of the counting shall be three' @@ -682,8 +684,8 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules >>> c = gzip.compress(b) >>> len(c) 77 - >>> gzip.decompress(c).decode()[:43] # decompress and convert to text - 'Three shall be the number thou shalt count, ' + >>> gzip.decompress(c).decode()[:42] # decompress and convert to text + 'Three shall be the number thou shalt count,' (Contributed by Anand B. Pillai in :issue:`3488`; and by Antoine Pitrou, Nir Aides and Brian Curtin in :issue:`9962`, :issue:`1675951`, :issue:`7471` and @@ -883,7 +885,6 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules .. XXX: Create a new section for all changes relating to context managers. .. XXX: Various ConfigParser changes -.. XXX: Mention inspect.getattr_static (Michael Foord) .. XXX: Mention urllib.parse changes Issue 9873 (Nick Coghlan): - ASCII byte sequence support in URL parsing |