Merge: Add some missing stuff to whatsnew.

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R David Murray 2012-09-30 17:29:54 -04:00
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@ -797,7 +797,9 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(Contributed by Petri Lehtinen in :issue:`12170`)
* New methods have been added to :class:`list` and :class:`bytearray`:
``copy()`` and ``clear()``. (:issue:`10516`)
``copy()`` and ``clear()`` (:issue:`10516`). Consequently,
:class:`~collections.abc.MutableSequence` now also defines a
:meth:`~collections.abc.MutableSequence.clear` method (:issue:`11388`).
* Raw bytes literals can now be written ``rb"..."`` as well as ``br"..."``.
@ -918,6 +920,10 @@ property. The built-in descriptors have been updated accordingly.
(Contributed by Darren Dale in :issue:`11610`)
:meth:`abc.ABCMeta.register` now returns the registered subclass, which means
it can now be used as a class decorator (:issue:`10868`).
array
-----
@ -1057,7 +1063,8 @@ datetime
--------
* Equality comparisons between naive and aware :class:`~datetime.datetime`
instances now return :const:`False` instead of raising :exc:`TypeError`.
instances now return :const:`False` instead of raising :exc:`TypeError`
(:issue:`15006`).
* New :meth:`datetime.datetime.timestamp` method: Return POSIX timestamp
corresponding to the :class:`~datetime.datetime` instance.
* The :meth:`datetime.datetime.strftime` method supports formatting years
@ -1322,18 +1329,20 @@ standard Content Transfer Encodings.
ftplib
------
* :class:`ftplib.FTP` now accepts a ``source_address`` keyword argument to
specify the ``(host, port)`` to use as the source address in the bind call
when creating the outgoing socket. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà
in :issue:`8594`.)
* The :class:`~ftplib.FTP_TLS` class now provides a new
:func:`~ftplib.FTP_TLS.ccc` function to revert control channel back to
plaintext. This can be useful to take advantage of firewalls that know how to
handle NAT with non-secure FTP without opening fixed ports.
(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`12139`)
plaintext. This can be useful to take advantage of firewalls that know how
to handle NAT with non-secure FTP without opening fixed ports. (Contributed
by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`12139`)
* Added :meth:`ftplib.FTP.mlsd` method which provides a parsable directory
listing format and deprecates :meth:`ftplib.FTP.nlst` and
:meth:`ftplib.FTP.dir`.
(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`11072`)
:meth:`ftplib.FTP.dir`. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`11072`)
gc
--
@ -1438,6 +1447,10 @@ multiple objects (such as connections, sockets and pipes) with a timeout.
multiprocessing connections.
(Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`4892`.)
:class:`multiprocessing.Process` now accepts a ``daemon`` keyword argument
to override the default behavior of inheriting the ``daemon`` flag from
the parent process (:issue:`6064`).
nntplib
-------
@ -1640,23 +1653,22 @@ that might be otherwise given special meaning by the shell.
shutil
------
* The :mod:`shutil` module has these new fuctions:
* New functions:
* :func:`~shutil.disk_usage`: provides total, used and free disk space
statistics. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`12442`)
* :func:`~shutil.chown`: allows one to change user and/or group of the given
path also specifying the user/group names and not only their numeric
ids. (Contributed by Sandro Tosi in :issue:`12191`)
* :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size`: returns the size of the terminal window
to which the interpreter is attached. (Contributed by Zbigniew
Jędrzejewski-Szmek in :issue:`13609`.)
* :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`.)
* Several functions now take an optional ``symlinks`` argument: when that
parameter is true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead
acts on the symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant).
@ -1736,6 +1748,10 @@ socket
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_Datagram_Sockets and
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/rds/).
* New function :func:`~socket.sethostname` allows the hostname to be set
on unix systems if the calling process has sufficient privileges.
(Contributed by Ross Lagerwall in :issue:`10866`.)
ssl
---
@ -1811,6 +1827,15 @@ of text.
(:issue:`13857`)
threading
---------
The :class:`threading.Thread` constructor now accepts a ``daemon`` keyword
argument to override the default behavior of inheriting the ``deamon`` flag
value from the parent thread (:issue:`6064`).
time
----
@ -1956,6 +1981,8 @@ OS/2 and VMS are no longer supported due to the lack of a maintainer.
Windows 2000 and Windows platforms which set ``COMSPEC`` to ``command.com``
are no longer supported due to maintenance burden.
OSF support, which was deprecated in 3.2, has been completely removed.
Deprecated Python modules, functions and methods
------------------------------------------------
@ -2153,7 +2180,12 @@ Porting Python code
* :func:`email.utils.formataddr` now does the correct content transfer
encoding when passed non-``ASCII`` display names. Any code that depended on
the previous buggy behavior that preserved the non-``ASCII`` unicode in the
formatted output string will need to be changed.
formatted output string will need to be changed (:issue:`1690608`).
* :meth:`poplib.POP3.quit` may now raise protocol errors like all other
``poplib`` methods. Code that assumes ``quit`` does not raise
:exc:`poplib.error_proto` errors may need to be changed if errors on ``quit``
are encountered by a particular application (:issue:`11291`).
Porting C code

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@ -3869,7 +3869,7 @@ Build
functions (BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
(UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
- Issue #10645: Installing Python does no longer create a
- Issue #10645: Installing Python no longer creates a
Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when