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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes - doctest now finds and runs docstrings attached to new-style classes, class methods, static methods, and properties. -Core +Core and builtins - A very subtle syntactical pitfall in list comprehensions was fixed. For example: [a+b for a in 'abc', for b in 'def']. The comma in @@ -31,15 +31,26 @@ Core Note that [a for a in <singleton>] is a convoluted way to say [<singleton>] anyway, so it's not like any expressiveness is lost. +- getattr(obj, name, default) now only catches AttributeError, as + documented, rather than returning the default value for all + exceptions (which could mask bugs in a __getattr__ hook, for + example). + +Extension modules + +- thread.start_new_thread() now returns the thread ID (previously None). + - binascii has now two quopri support functions, a2b_qp and b2a_qp. - readline now supports setting the startup_hook and the pre_event_hook. - posix supports chroot where available. -Library +- Decompression objects in the zlib module now accept an optional + second parameter to decompress() that specifies the maximum amount + of memory to use for the uncompressed data. -- thread.start_new_thread() now returns the thread ID (previously None). +Library - doctest now excludes functions and classes not defined by the module being tested, thanks to Tim Hochberg. @@ -75,10 +86,6 @@ Library which indicates whether output is intended for the header 'Q' encoding. -- Decompression objects in the zlib module now accept an optional - second parameter to decompress() that specifies the maximum amount - of memory to use for the uncompressed data. - Tools/Demos - Demo/dns was removed. It no longer serves any purpose; a package |