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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 91ade01..8e435ce 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -841,9 +841,7 @@ false values. \function{any()} returns \constant{True} if any value returned by the iterator is true; otherwise it will return \constant{False}. \function{all()} returns \constant{True} only if all of the values returned by the iterator evaluate as being true. - -% XXX who added? - +(Suggested by GvR, and implemented by Raymond Hettinger.) \item The list of base classes in a class definition can now be empty. As an example, this is now legal: @@ -976,8 +974,7 @@ will return a function that retrieves the \member{a} and \member{b} attributes. Combining this new feature with the \method{sort()} method's \code{key} parameter lets you easily sort lists using multiple fields. - -% XXX who added? +(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) \item The \module{os} module underwent a number of changes. The @@ -1001,13 +998,14 @@ as input, so it waits for any child process to exit and returns a 3-tuple of \var{process-id}, \var{exit-status}, \var{resource-usage} as returned from the \function{resource.getrusage()} function. \function{wait4(\var{pid})} does take a process ID. -(Contributed by XXX.) +(Contributed by Chad J. Schroeder.) On FreeBSD, the \function{os.stat()} function now returns times with nanosecond resolution, and the returned object now has \member{st_gen} and \member{st_birthtime}. The \member{st_flags} member is also available, if the platform supports it. -% XXX patch 1180695, 1212117 +(Contributed by Antti Louko and Diego Petten\`o.) +% (Patch 1180695, 1212117) \item The old \module{regex} and \module{regsub} modules, which have been deprecated ever since Python 2.0, have finally been deleted. @@ -1061,7 +1059,8 @@ by some specifications, so it's still available as \class{datetime} objects for the XML-RPC date type. Supply \code{use_datetime=True} to the \function{loads()} function or the \class{Unmarshaller} class to enable this feature. -% XXX patch 1120353 + (Contributed by Skip Montanaro.) +% Patch 1120353 \end{itemize} |