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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index fcc56a5..8d3f20f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -326,6 +326,28 @@ The :mod:`array` module supports the :c:type:`long long` type using ``q`` and (Contributed by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto in :issue:`1172711`) +bz2 +--- + +The :mod:`bz2` module has been rewritten from scratch. In the process, several +new features have been added: + +* :class:`bz2.BZ2File` can now read from and write to arbitrary file-like + objects, by means of its constructor's *fileobj* argument. + + (Contributed by Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`5863`) + +* :class:`bz2.BZ2File` and :func:`bz2.decompress` can now decompress + multi-stream inputs (such as those produced by the :program:`pbzip2` tool). + :class:`bz2.BZ2File` can now also be used to create this type of file, using + the ``'a'`` (append) mode. + + (Contributed by Nir Aides in :issue:`1625`) + +* :class:`bz2.BZ2File` now implements all of the :class:`io.BufferedIOBase` API, + except for the :meth:`detach` and :meth:`truncate` methods. + + codecs ------ |