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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index 73c4304..540b429 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -812,6 +812,10 @@ 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`.) + New function: :func:`make_archive` takes a filename, archive type + (zip or tar-format), and a directory path, and creates an archive + containing the directory's contents. (Added by Tarek Ziadé.) + * New functions: in the :mod:`site` module, three new functions return various site- and user-specific paths. :func:`getsitepackages` returns a list containing all @@ -837,6 +841,13 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. prevent buffering many small sends into a single TCP packet. (Contributed by Kristjan Valur Jonsson; :issue:`6192`.) +* Updated module: the :mod:`sqlite` module has been updated to + version 2.6.0 of the `pysqlite package <http://code.google.com/p/pysqlite/>`__. Version 2.6.0 includes a number of bugfixes, and adds + the ability to load SQLite extensions from shared libraries. + Call the ``enable_load_extension(True)`` method to enable extensions, + and then call :meth:`load_extension` to load a particular shared library. + (Updated by Gerhard Häring.) + * The :mod:`struct` module will no longer silently ignore overflow errors when a value is too large for a particular integer format code (one of ``bBhHiIlLqQ``); it now always raises a @@ -893,6 +904,8 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. resulting archive. This is more powerful than the existing *exclude* argument, which has therefore been deprecated. (Added by Lars Gustäbel; :issue:`6856`.) + The :class:`TarFile` class also now supports the context manager protocol. + (Added by Lars Gustäbel; :issue:`7232`.) * The :mod:`threading` module's :meth:`Event.wait` method now returns the internal flag on exit. This means the method will usually |