From ba290db6017d75d5fc5cf20e0eed566102175209 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 11:46:05 +0000 Subject: Update planned release date. Uncomment PEP 370 section. Add some module items --- Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index e27109b..6554b43 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -40,25 +40,26 @@ * Credit the author of a patch or bugfix. Just the name is sufficient; the e-mail address isn't necessary. - * It's helpful to add the bug/patch number in an parenthetical + * It's helpful to add the bug/patch number in a parenthetical comment. XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the socket module. (Contributed by P.Y. Developer; :issue:`12345`.) - This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the SVN logs + This saves the maintainer some effort going through the SVN logs when researching a change. -This article explains the new features in Python 2.6. No release date for -Python 2.6 has been set; it will probably be released in mid 2008. +This article explains the new features in Python 2.6. The release +schedule is described in :pep:`361`; currently the final release is +scheduled for September 3 2008. This article doesn't attempt to provide a complete specification of the new features, but instead provides a convenient overview. For full details, you should refer to the documentation for Python 2.6. If -you want to understand the complete implementation and design -rationale, refer to the PEP for a particular new feature. For smaller -changes, this edition of "What's New in Python" links to the bug/patch -item for each change whenever possible. +you want to understand the rationale for the design and +implementation, refer to the PEP for a particular new feature. +Whenever possible, "What's New in Python" links to the bug/patch item +for each change. .. Compare with previous release in 2 - 3 sentences here. add hyperlink when the documentation becomes available online. @@ -481,24 +482,41 @@ can now be used in scripts running from inside a package. .. ====================================================================== -.. :: +.. _pep-0370: - .. _pep-0370: +PEP 370: Per-user ``site-packages`` Directory +===================================================== + +When you run Python, the module search path ``sys.modules`` usually +includes a directory whose path ends in ``"site-packages"``. This +directory is intended to hold locally-installed packages available to +all users on a machine or using a particular site installation. + +Python 2.6 introduces a convention for user-specific site directories. +The directory varies depending on the platform: + +* Unix and MacOS: :file:`~/.local/` +* Windows: :file:`%APPDATA%/Python` - PEP 370: XXX - ===================================================== +Within this directory, there will be version-specific subdirectories, +such as :file:`lib/python2.6/site-packages` on Unix/MacOS and +:file:`Python26/site-packages` on Windows. - When you run Python, the module search page ``sys.modules`` usually - includes a directory whose path ends in ``"site-packages"``. This - directory is intended to hold locally-installed packages available to - all users on a machine or using a particular site installation. +If you don't like the default directory, it can be overridden by an +environment variable. :envvar:`PYTHONUSERBASE` sets the root +directory used for all Python versions supporting this feature. On +Windows, the directory for application-specific data can be changed by +setting the :envvar:`APPDATA` environment variable. You can also +modify the :file:`site.py` file for your Python installation. - Python 2.6 introduces a convention for user-specific site directories. +The feature can be disabled entirely by running Python with the +:option:`-s` option or setting the :envvar:`PYTHONNOUSERSITE` +environment variable. - .. seealso:: +.. seealso:: - :pep:`370` - XXX - PEP written by XXX; implemented by Christian Heimes. + :pep:`370` - Per-user ``site-packages`` Directory + PEP written and implemented by Christian Heimes. .. ====================================================================== @@ -1450,6 +1468,12 @@ fixes. Here's a partial list of the most notable changes, sorted alphabetically by module name. Consult the :file:`Misc/NEWS` file in the source tree for a more complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. +* (3.0-warning mode) The :mod:`audiodev` module is being deprecated, + and has been removed from Python 3.0, so importing it now triggers a + warning. The module hasn't been maintained for several versions, + and is written against an outdated sound interface for SunOS and + IRIX. + * The :mod:`bsddb.dbshelve` module now uses the highest pickling protocol available, instead of restricting itself to protocol 1. (Contributed by W. Barnes; :issue:`1551443`.) @@ -2104,7 +2128,12 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. (Added by Facundo Batista.) -* The XML-RPC classes :class:`SimpleXMLRPCServer` and :class:`DocXMLRPCServer` +* The :mod:`warnings` module's :func:`formatwarning` and :func:`showwarning` + gained an optional *line* argument that can be used to supply the + line of source code. (Added as part of :issue:`1631171`, which re-implemented + part of the :mod:`warnings` module in C code.) + +* The XML-RPC :class:`SimpleXMLRPCServer` and :class:`DocXMLRPCServer` classes can now be prevented from immediately opening and binding to their socket by passing True as the ``bind_and_activate`` constructor parameter. This can be used to modify the instance's @@ -2144,6 +2173,9 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details. (Contributed by Alan McIntyre; :issue:`467924`.) + Also, :mod:`zipfile` now supports using Unicode filenames + for archived files. (Contributed by Alexey Borzenkov; :issue:`1734346`.) + .. ====================================================================== .. whole new modules get described in subsections here -- cgit v0.12