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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 21 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ Core and builtins ----------------- - Patch #550732: Add PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords(). Analogous to -PyArg_VaParse(). Both are now documented. Thanks Greg Chapman. + PyArg_VaParse(). Both are now documented. Thanks Greg Chapman. - Allow string and unicode return types from .encode()/.decode() - methods on string and unicode objects. Added unicode.decode() + methods on string and unicode objects. Added unicode.decode() which was missing for no apparent reason. -- An attempt to fix the mess that is Python's behaviour with +- An attempt to fix the mess that is Python's behaviour with signal handlers and threads, complicated by readline's behaviour. It's quite possible that there are still bugs here. @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ Extension modules Library ------- -- Bug #979794: difflib.get_grouped_opcodes() now handles the case of when it is - comparing two empty lists. Was affecting both context_diff() and - unified_diff(). Was also a duplicate of bug #980117. +- Bugs #979794 and #980117: difflib.get_grouped_opcodes() now handles the + case of comparing two empty lists. This affected both context_diff() and + unified_diff(), - Bug #980938: smtplib now prints debug output to sys.stderr. @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Library for file sizes (compressed and uncompressed) was being stored as signed instead of unsigned. -- decimal.py now only uses signals in the spec. The other conditions are +- decimal.py now only uses signals in the IBM spec. The other conditions are no longer part of the public API. - codecs module now has two new generic APIs: encode() and decode() @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Library - asyncore's dispatcher.set_reuse_addr() now works correctly on Windows. SF patch 982681. -- Non-blocking SSL sockets work again; they were broken in Python 2.3. +- Non-blocking SSL sockets work again; they were broken in Python 2.3. SF patch 945642. Tools/Demos @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ Build C API ----- +- A large pile of datetime field-extraction macros is now documented, + thanks to Anthony Tuininga (patch #986010). + New platforms ------------- @@ -438,7 +441,7 @@ Extension modules Library ------- - + - Bug #981530: Fix UnboundLocalError in shutil.rmtree(). This affects the documented behavior: the function passed to the onerror() handler can now also be os.listdir. |