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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index d402b28..222003b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -1006,7 +1006,11 @@ datetime and time :func:`time.strftime` functions will accept the full range supported by the corresponding operating system functions. -(Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky and Victor Stinner.) +(Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky and Victor Stinner in :issue:`1289118`, +:issue:`5094`, :issue:`6641`, :issue:`2706`, :issue:`1777412`, :issue:`8013`, +and :issue:`10827`.) + +.. XXX http://bugs.python.org/issue?%40search_text=datetime&%40sort=-activity math ---- @@ -1620,11 +1624,36 @@ the new :mod:`imaplib.IMAP4.starttls` method. (Contributed by Lorenzo M. Catucci and Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`4471`.) -.. XXX sys._xoptions http://bugs.python.org/issue10089 -.. XXX perhaps add issue numbers back to datetime -.. XXX Mac OS fixes and remaining issues -.. XXX Mailbox fixes and remaining issues -.. XXX HTTP client now using latin-1 +http.client +----------- + +There were a number of small API improvements in the :mod:`http.client` module. +The old-style HTTP 0.9 simple responses are no longer supported and the *strict* +parameter is deprecated in all classes. + +The :class:`~http.client.HTTPConnection` and +:class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection` classes now have a *source_address* +parameter for a (host, port) tuple indicating where the HTTP connection is made +from. + +Support for certificate checking and HTTPS virtual hosts were added to +:class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection`. + +The :meth:`~http.client.HTTPConnection.request` method on connection objects +allowed an optional *body* argument so that a :term:`file object` could be used +to supply the content of the request. Conveniently, the *body* argument now +also accepts an :term:`iterable` object so long as it includes an explicit +``Content-Length`` header. This extended interface is much more flexible than +before. + +To establish an HTTPS connection through a proxy server, there is a new +:meth:`~http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel` method that sets the host and +port for HTTP Connect tunneling. + +To match the behaviour of :mod:`http.server`, the HTTP client library now also +encodes headers with ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding. It was already doing that +for incoming headers, so now the behaviour is consistent for both incoming and +outgoing traffic. (See work by Armin Ronacher in :issue:`10980`.) unittest -------- @@ -2413,6 +2442,8 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include: There were a number of other small changes to the C-API. See the :file:`Misc/NEWS` file for a complete list. +Also, the were a number of updates to the OS X build, see +:file:/`Mac/BuildScript/README.txt`. Porting to Python 3.2 ===================== |