From b0aa54ece8b70ea4e10c0f5e6e1d408dfe01a89f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:20:16 +0000 Subject: Bump version number; add sys._current_frames --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 22a1fe2..f44df62 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ % Count up the patches and bugs \title{What's New in Python 2.5} -\release{0.3} +\release{0.4} \author{A.M. Kuchling} \authoraddress{\email{amk@amk.ca}} @@ -1662,11 +1662,17 @@ string of build information like this: \code{"trunk:45355:45356M, Apr 13 2006, 07:42:19"}. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw.) +\item Another new function, \function{sys._current_frames()}, returns +the current stack frames for all running threads as a dictionary +mapping thread identifiers to the topmost stack frame currently active +in that thread at the time the function is called. (Contributed by +Tim Peters.) + \item The \class{TarFile} class in the \module{tarfile} module now has an \method{extractall()} method that extracts all members from the archive into the current working directory. It's also possible to set a different directory as the extraction target, and to unpack only a -subset of the archive's members. +subset of the archive's members. A tarfile's compression can be autodetected by using the mode \code{'r|*'}. -- cgit v0.12