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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 39 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -38,13 +38,25 @@ Core and builtins - Weak reference objects are now part of the core and offers a C API. A bug which could allow a core dump when binary operations involved - proxy reference has been fixed. + proxy reference has been fixed. weekref.ReferenceError is now a + built-in exception. - unicode(obj) now behaves more like str(obj), accepting arbitrary objects, and calling a __unicode__ method if it exists. unicode(obj, encoding) and unicode(obj, encoding, errors) still require an 8-bit string argument. +- isinstance() now allows any object as the first argument and a + class, a type or something with a __bases__ tuple attribute for the + second argument. The second argument may also be a tuple of a + class, type, or something with __bases__, in which case isinstance() + will return true if the first argument is an instance of any of the + things contained in the second argument tuple. E.g. + + isinstance(x, (A, B)) + + returns true if x is an instance of A or B. + Extension modules - thread.start_new_thread() now returns the thread ID (previously None). @@ -73,7 +85,11 @@ Extension modules - optional SSL support in the socket module now exports OpenSSL functions RAND_add(), RAND_egd(), and RAND_status(). These calls are useful on platforms like Solaris where OpenSSL does not - automatically seed its PRNG. + automatically seed its PRNG. Also, the keyfile and certfile + arguments to socket.ssl() are now optional. + +- posixmodule (and by extension, the os module on POSIX platforms) now + exports O_LARGEFILE, O_DIRECT, O_DIRECTORY, and O_NOFOLLOW. Library @@ -114,14 +130,33 @@ Library - The SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn class now closes the request after finish_request() returns. (Not when it errors out though.) +- The nntplib module's NNTP.body() method has grown a `file' argument + to allow saving the message body to a file. + +- The email package has added a class email.Parser.HeaderParser which + only parses headers and does not recurse into the message's body. + Also, the module/class MIMEAudio has been added for representing + audio data (contributed by Anthony Baxter). + +- ftplib should be able to handle files > 2GB. + +- ConfigParser.getboolean() now also interprets TRUE, FALSE, YES, NO, + ON, and OFF. + Tools/Demos - Demo/dns was removed. It no longer serves any purpose; a package derived from it is now maintained by Anthony Baxter, see http://PyDNS.SourceForge.net. +- The freeze tool has been made more robust, and two new options have + been added: -X and -E. + Build +- configure will use CXX in LINKCC if CXX is used to build main() and + the system requires to link a C++ main using the C++ compiler. + C API - The documentation for the tp_compare slot is updated to require that |