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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 023c757..04a54a2 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1723,9 +1723,6 @@ Optimizations free lists when garbage-collecting the highest generation of objects. This may return memory to the operating system sooner. -The net result of the 2.6 optimizations is that Python 2.6 runs the pystone -benchmark around XXX% faster than Python 2.5. - .. ====================================================================== .. _new-26-interpreter: @@ -1794,7 +1791,6 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. :mod:`mimetools`, :mod:`multifile`, :mod:`new`, - :mod:`popen2`, :mod:`pure`, :mod:`statvfs`, :mod:`sunaudiodev`, @@ -1806,12 +1802,10 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. were applied. (Maintained by Josiah Carlson; see :issue:`1736190` for one patch.) -.. |uacute| unicode:: 0xA9 - -* The :mod:`bsddb` module also has a new maintainer, Jes|uacute|s Cea, - and the package 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 :mod:`bsddb` module also has a new maintainer, Jesús Cea, and the package + 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 :mod:`bsddb.dbshelve` module now uses the highest pickling protocol available, instead of restricting itself to protocol 1. @@ -2134,6 +2128,13 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. (Contributed by Christian Heimes and Mark Dickinson.) +* The :mod:`MimeWriter` module and :mod:`mimify` module + have been deprecated; use the :mod:`email` + package instead. + +* The :mod:`md5` module has been deprecated; use the :mod:`hashlib` module + instead. + * :class:`mmap` objects now have a :meth:`rfind` method that searches for a substring beginning at the end of the string and searching backwards. The :meth:`find` method also gained an *end* parameter @@ -2216,6 +2217,9 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. and can optionally take new command-line arguments for the program. (Contributed by Rocky Bernstein; :issue:`1393667`.) +* The :mod:`posixfile` module has been deprecated; :func:`fcntl.lockf` + provides better locking. + The :func:`post_mortem` function, used to begin debugging a traceback, will now use the traceback returned by :func:`sys.exc_info` if no traceback is supplied. (Contributed by Facundo Batista; @@ -2226,6 +2230,9 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. opcodes, returning a shorter pickle that contains the same data structure. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) +* The :mod:`popen2` module has been deprecated; use the :mod:`subprocess` + module. + * A :func:`get_data` function was added to the :mod:`pkgutil` module that returns the contents of resource files included with an installed Python package. For example:: @@ -2305,6 +2312,9 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. * The :mod:`sets` module has been deprecated; it's better to use the built-in :class:`set` and :class:`frozenset` types. +* The :mod:`sha` module has been deprecated; use the :mod:`hashlib` module + instead. + * The :func:`shutil.copytree` function now has an optional *ignore* argument that takes a callable object. This callable will receive each directory path and a list of the directory's contents, and returns a list of names that @@ -2390,6 +2400,10 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. (Contributed by Pedro Werneck and Jeffrey Yasskin; :issue:`742598`, :issue:`1193577`.) +* The :mod:`sqlite3` module, maintained by Gerhard Haering, + has been updated from version 2.3.2 in Python 2.5 to + version 2.4.1. + * The :mod:`struct` module now supports the C99 :ctype:`_Bool` type, using the format character ``'?'``. (Contributed by David Remahl.) @@ -3158,6 +3172,13 @@ that may require changes to your code: before adding elements from the iterable. This change makes the behavior match ``list.__init__()``. +* :meth:`object.__init__` previously accepted arbitrary arguments and + keyword arguments, ignoring them. In Python 2.6, this is no longer + allowed and will result in a :exc:`TypeError`. This will affect + :meth:`__init__` methods that end up calling the corresponding + method on :class:`object` (perhaps through using :func:`super`). + See :issue:`1683368` for discussion. + * The :class:`Decimal` constructor now accepts leading and trailing whitespace when passed a string. Previously it would raise an :exc:`InvalidOperation` exception. On the other hand, the |