Add four library items

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2006-06-20 12:15:09 +00:00
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@ -1384,6 +1384,12 @@ keeps an example from being executed at all. This is intended for
code snippets that are usage examples intended for the reader and
aren't actually test cases.
An \var{encoding} parameter was added to the \function{testfile()}
function and the \class{DocFileSuite} class to specify the file's
encoding. This makes it easier to use non-ASCII characters in
tests contained within a docstring. (Contributed by Bjorn Tillenius.)
% Patch 1080727
\item The \module{fileinput} module was made more flexible.
Unicode filenames are now supported, and a \var{mode} parameter that
defaults to \code{"r"} was added to the
@ -1540,6 +1546,9 @@ tuple slicing, method lookups, and numeric operations, instead of
performing many different operations and reducing the result to a
single number as \file{pystone.py} does.
\item The \module{pyexpat} module now uses version 2.0 of the Expat parser.
(Contributed by Trent Mick.)
\item The old \module{regex} and \module{regsub} modules, which have been
deprecated ever since Python 2.0, have finally been deleted.
Other deleted modules: \module{statcache}, \module{tzparse},
@ -1682,6 +1691,14 @@ UUID('886313e1-3b8a-5372-9b90-0c9aee199e5d')
(Contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.)
\item The \module{weakref} module's \class{WeakKeyDictionary} and
\class{WeakValueDictionary} types gained new methods for iterating
over the weak references contained in the dictionary.
\method{iterkeyrefs()} and \method{keyrefs()} methods were
added to \class{WeakKeyDictionary}, and
\method{itervaluerefs()} and \method{valuerefs()} were added to
\class{WeakValueDictionary}. (Contributed by Fred L.~Drake, Jr.)
\item The \module{webbrowser} module received a number of
enhancements.
It's now usable as a script with \code{python -m webbrowser}, taking a
@ -1705,6 +1722,12 @@ Brandl.)
(Contributed by Skip Montanaro.)
% Patch 1120353
\item The \module{zipfile} module now supports the ZIP64 version of the
format, meaning that a .zip archive can now be larger than 4 GiB and
can contain individual files larger than 4 GiB. (Contributed by
Ronald Oussoren.)
% Patch 1446489
\item The \module{zlib} module's \class{Compress} and \class{Decompress}
objects now support a \method{copy()} method that makes a copy of the
object's internal state and returns a new