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Add section for http.client. 

Link to OS X build instructions.
Add back issue references for datetime.
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Raymond Hettinger 2011-01-30 00:55:47 +00:00
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@ -1006,7 +1006,11 @@ datetime and time
:func:`time.strftime` functions will accept the full range supported by the
corresponding operating system functions.
(Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky and Victor Stinner.)
(Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky and Victor Stinner in :issue:`1289118`,
:issue:`5094`, :issue:`6641`, :issue:`2706`, :issue:`1777412`, :issue:`8013`,
and :issue:`10827`.)
.. XXX http://bugs.python.org/issue?%40search_text=datetime&%40sort=-activity
math
----
@ -1620,11 +1624,36 @@ the new :mod:`imaplib.IMAP4.starttls` method.
(Contributed by Lorenzo M. Catucci and Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`4471`.)
.. XXX sys._xoptions http://bugs.python.org/issue10089
.. XXX perhaps add issue numbers back to datetime
.. XXX Mac OS fixes and remaining issues
.. XXX Mailbox fixes and remaining issues
.. XXX HTTP client now using latin-1
http.client
-----------
There were a number of small API improvements in the :mod:`http.client` module.
The old-style HTTP 0.9 simple responses are no longer supported and the *strict*
parameter is deprecated in all classes.
The :class:`~http.client.HTTPConnection` and
:class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection` classes now have a *source_address*
parameter for a (host, port) tuple indicating where the HTTP connection is made
from.
Support for certificate checking and HTTPS virtual hosts were added to
:class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection`.
The :meth:`~http.client.HTTPConnection.request` method on connection objects
allowed an optional *body* argument so that a :term:`file object` could be used
to supply the content of the request. Conveniently, the *body* argument now
also accepts an :term:`iterable` object so long as it includes an explicit
``Content-Length`` header. This extended interface is much more flexible than
before.
To establish an HTTPS connection through a proxy server, there is a new
:meth:`~http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel` method that sets the host and
port for HTTP Connect tunneling.
To match the behaviour of :mod:`http.server`, the HTTP client library now also
encodes headers with ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding. It was already doing that
for incoming headers, so now the behaviour is consistent for both incoming and
outgoing traffic. (See work by Armin Ronacher in :issue:`10980`.)
unittest
--------
@ -2413,6 +2442,8 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
There were a number of other small changes to the C-API. See the
:file:`Misc/NEWS` file for a complete list.
Also, the were a number of updates to the OS X build, see
:file:/`Mac/BuildScript/README.txt`.
Porting to Python 3.2
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