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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index 6ad19bf..841837f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -1000,9 +1000,15 @@ euc-jisx0213, iso-2022-jp, iso-2022-jp-1, iso-2022-jp-2, \item Korean: cp949, euc-kr, johab, iso-2022-kr \end{itemize} +\item The UTF-8 and UTF-16 codecs now cope better with receiving partial input. +Previously the \class{StreamReader} class would try to read more data, +which made it impossible to resume decoding from the stream. The +\method{read()} method will now return as much data as it can and future +calls will resume decoding where previous ones left off. +(Implemented by Walter D\"orwald.) + \item Some other new encodings were added: HP Roman8, -ISO_8859-11, ISO_8859-16, PCTP-154, -and TIS-620. +ISO_8859-11, ISO_8859-16, PCTP-154, and TIS-620. \item There is a new \module{collections} module for various specialized collection datatypes. @@ -1046,12 +1052,15 @@ improved performance, such as the \module{Queue} and that creates an HTML table showing a side by side comparison of two versions of a text. (Contributed by Dan Gass.) -\item The \module{email} package uses a new incremental parser for MIME -message, available in the \module{email.FeedParser} module. -The new parser doesn't require reading the entire message into memory, -and doesn't throw exceptions if a message is malformed; instead it records -any problems as a \member{defect} attribute of the message. -(Developed by Anthony Baxter, Barry Warsaw, Thomas Wouters, and others.) +\item The \module{email} package was updated to version 3.0, +which dropped various deprecated APIs and removes support for Python +versions earlier than 2.3. The 3.0 version of the package uses a new +incremental parser for MIME message, available in the +\module{email.FeedParser} module. The new parser doesn't require +reading the entire message into memory, and doesn't throw exceptions +if a message is malformed; instead it records any problems as a +\member{defect} attribute of the message. (Developed by Anthony +Baxter, Barry Warsaw, Thomas Wouters, and others.) \item The \module{heapq} module has been converted to C. The resulting tenfold improvement in speed makes the module suitable for handling @@ -1170,13 +1179,16 @@ logging.basicConfig(filename = '/var/log/application.log', format='%(levelname):%(process):%(thread):%(message)') \end{verbatim} -Another addition to \module{logging} is a -\class{TimedRotatingFileHandler} class which rotates its log files at +Other additions to \module{logging} include a \method{log(\var{level}, +\var{msg})} convenience method, and a +\class{TimedRotatingFileHandler} class that rotates its log files at a timed interval. The module already had \class{RotatingFileHandler}, which rotated logs once the file exceeded a certain size. Both classes derive from a new \class{BaseRotatingHandler} class that can be used to implement other rotating handlers. +(Changes implemented by Vinay Sajip.) + \item The \module{marshal} module now shares interned strings on unpacking a data structure. This may shrink the size of certain pickle strings, but the primary effect is to make \file{.pyc} files significantly smaller. |