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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index be8bac6..6434617 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -780,6 +780,12 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: (Contributed by Fredrik Johansson and Victor Stinner; :issue:`3439`.) +* The :keyword:`import` statement will no longer try a relative import + if an absolute import (e.g. ``from .os import sep``) fails. This + fixes a bug, but could possibly break certain :keyword:`import` + statements that were only working by accident. (Fixed by Meador Inge; + :issue:`7902`.) + * It's now possible for a subclass of the built-in :class:`unicode` type to override the :meth:`__unicode__` method. (Implemented by Victor Stinner; :issue:`1583863`.) @@ -1183,6 +1189,11 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. will now ignore the name of the module containing the exception being tested. (Patch by Lennart Regebro; :issue:`7490`.) +* The :mod:`email` module's :class:`~email.message.Message` class will + now accept a Unicode-valued payload, automatically converting the + payload to the encoding specified by :attr:`output_charset`. + (Added by R. David Murray; :issue:`1368247`.) + * The :class:`~fractions.Fraction` class now accepts a single float or :class:`~decimal.Decimal` instance, or two rational numbers, as arguments to its constructor. (Implemented by Mark Dickinson; @@ -1425,6 +1436,11 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. named pipes like a regular file by opening them for reading, and this would block indefinitely. (Fixed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`3002`.) +* The :mod:`signal` module no longer re-installs the signal handler + unless this is truly necessary, which fixes a bug that could make it + impossible to catch the EINTR signal robustly. (Fixed by + Charles-Francois Natali; :issue:`8354`.) + * New functions: in the :mod:`site` module, three new functions return various site- and user-specific paths. :func:`~site.getsitepackages` returns a list containing all |