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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY index 5e5bc60..f964f5f 100644 --- a/Misc/HISTORY +++ b/Misc/HISTORY @@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ Library functions to support PEP 3115 compliant dynamic class creation. Patch by Daniel Urban and Nick Coghlan. -- Issue #13152: Allow to specify a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in +- Issue #13152: Allow specifying a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in textwrap. Patch by John Feuerstein. - Issue #14721: Send the correct 'Content-length: 0' header when the body is an @@ -2234,7 +2234,7 @@ Library fixed. - Issue #14166: Pickler objects now have an optional ``dispatch_table`` - attribute which allows to set custom per-pickler reduction functions. + attribute which allows setting custom per-pickler reduction functions. Patch by sbt. - Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given an unicode @@ -3185,7 +3185,7 @@ Library binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the encoding of the script. -- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in +- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow specifying 0 as a backlog value in order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers. - Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError, @@ -3885,7 +3885,7 @@ Tests - Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed Python. -- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter +- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow filtering tests using a glob filter with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option. This works with all test cases using the unittest module. This is useful with long test suites such as test_io or test_subprocess. @@ -4221,7 +4221,7 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2? Core and Builtins ----------------- -- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer. +- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow mutating a readable buffer. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall. Library @@ -4765,7 +4765,7 @@ Library - Add the "display" and "undisplay" pdb commands. -- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows to break a program again +- Issue #7245: Add a SIGINT handler in pdb that allows breaking a program again after a "continue" command. - Add the "interact" pdb command. @@ -6916,7 +6916,7 @@ Library correct encoding. - Issue #4870: Add an `options` attribute to SSL contexts, as well as several - ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows to selectively disable + ``OP_*`` constants to the `ssl` module. This allows selectively disabling protocol versions, when used in combination with `PROTOCOL_SSLv23`. - Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes. @@ -9497,8 +9497,8 @@ Extension Modules - Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle. -- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress - or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL +- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing several streams + to be compressed or decompressed at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe. - Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format. @@ -9996,7 +9996,7 @@ Core and Builtins as bytes string, please use PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() instead. - Issue #3460: PyUnicode_Join() implementation is 10% to 80% faster thanks - to Python 3.0's stricter semantics which allow to avoid successive + to Python 3.0's stricter semantics which allow avoiding successive reallocations of the result string (this also affects str.join()). @@ -12762,7 +12762,7 @@ Library - Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush. -- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject. +- Patch #1107973: Allow iterating over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject. - Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands. @@ -13739,7 +13739,7 @@ Library same as when the argument is omitted). [SF bug 658254, patch 663482] -- nntplib does now allow to ignore a .netrc file. +- nntplib does now allow ignoring a .netrc file. - urllib2 now recognizes Basic authentication even if other authentication schemes are offered. @@ -14157,7 +14157,7 @@ Extension modules - fcntl.ioctl now warns if the mutate flag is not specified. -- nt now properly allows to refer to UNC roots, e.g. in nt.stat(). +- nt now properly allows referring to UNC roots, e.g. in nt.stat(). - the weakref module now supports additional objects: array.array, sre.pattern_objects, file objects, and sockets. @@ -16715,7 +16715,7 @@ C API - New functions PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr() and PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename(). Similar to PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and - PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), but they allow to specify + PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), but they allow specifying the exception type to raise. Available on Windows. - Py_FatalError() is now declared as taking a const char* argument. It @@ -17590,8 +17590,8 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes - property() now takes 4 keyword arguments: fget, fset, fdel and doc. These map to read-only attributes 'fget', 'fset', 'fdel', and '__doc__' in the constructed property object. fget, fset and fdel weren't - discoverable from Python in 2.2a3. __doc__ is new, and allows to - associate a docstring with a property. + discoverable from Python in 2.2a3. __doc__ is new, and allows + associating a docstring with a property. - Comparison overloading is now more completely implemented. For example, a str subclass instance can properly be compared to a str @@ -18006,7 +18006,7 @@ Tests ----- - regrtest.py now knows which tests are expected to be skipped on some - platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output. regrtest + platforms, allowing clearer test result output to be given. regrtest also has optional --use/-u switch to run normally disabled tests which require network access or consume significant disk resources. |