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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -48,7 +48,17 @@ Extension modules - readline now supports setting the startup_hook and the pre_event_hook. -- posix supports chroot and setgroups where available. +- os and posix supports chroot() and setgroups() where available. The + stat(), fstat(), statvfs() and fstatvfs() functions now return + "pseudo-sequences" -- the various fields can now be accessed as + attributes (e.g. os.stat("/").st_mtime) but for backwards + compatibility they also behave as a fixed-length sequence. Some + platform-specific fields (e.g. st_rdev) are only accessible as + attributes. + +- time: localtime(), gmtime() and strptime() now return a + pseudo-sequence similar to the os.stat() return value, with + attributes like tm_year etc. - Decompression objects in the zlib module now accept an optional second parameter to decompress() that specifies the maximum amount |