From 88950fb4d0b945b6a78571eafcd1dcb5356544eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Larry Hastings Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:30:19 -0700 Subject: Add What's New entries for some minor work I did in 3.3. --- Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 7d77472..617700c 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ os files and directories, it is more reliable (and also faster) to manipulate file descriptors instead of file names. Python 3.3 enhances existing functions and introduces new functions to work on file descriptors (:issue:`4761`, - :issue:`10755`). + :issue:`10755` and :issue:`14626`). - The :mod:`os` module has a new :func:`~os.fwalk` function similar to :func:`~os.walk` except that it also yields file descriptors referring to the @@ -1391,6 +1391,12 @@ os Windows. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`8828`.) +* The stat family of functions (:func:`~os.stat`, :func:`~os.fstat`, + and :func:`~os.lstat`) now support reading a file's timestamps + with nanosecond precision. Symmetrically, :func:`~os.utime` + can now write file timestamps with nanosecond precision. (Contributed by + Larry Hastings in :issue:`14127`.) + * The new :func:`os.get_terminal_size` function queries the size of the terminal attached to a file descriptor. See also :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size`. @@ -1510,6 +1516,11 @@ shutil path also specifying the user/group names and not only their numeric ids. (Contributed by Sandro Tosi in :issue:`12191`) +* :func:`~shutil.copy2` and :func:`~shutil.copystat` now preserve file + timestamps with nanosecond precision on platforms that support it. + They also preserve file "extended attributes" on Linux. (Contributed + by Larry Hastings in :issue:`14127` and :issue:`15238`.) + * The new :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size` function returns the size of the terminal window the interpreter is attached to. (Contributed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek in :issue:`13609`.) -- cgit v0.12