More whatsnew updates, move some doc NEWS items into the doc section.

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R David Murray 2012-10-06 23:19:17 -04:00
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@ -933,11 +933,12 @@ The :mod:`array` module supports the :c:type:`long long` type using ``q`` and
(Contributed by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto in :issue:`1172711`)
base64, binascii
----------------
base64
------
ASCII-only Unicode strings are now accepted by the decoding functions of the
modern interface. For example, ``base64.b64decode('YWJj')`` returns ``b'abc'``.
:mod:`base64` modern interface. For example, ``base64.b64decode('YWJj')``
returns ``b'abc'``. (Contributed by Catalin Iacob in :issue:`13641`.)
binascii
@ -1797,6 +1798,12 @@ shutil
acts on the symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant).
(Contributed by Hynek Schlawack in :issue:`12715`.)
* When copying files to a different file system, :func:`~shutil.move` now
handles symlinks the way the posix ``mv`` command does, recreating the
symlink rather than copying the target file contents. (Contributed by
Jonathan Niehof in :issue:`9993`.) :func:`~shutil.move` now also returns
the ``dst`` argument as its result.
* :func:`~shutil.rmtree` is now resistant to symlink attacks on platforms
which support the new ``dir_fd`` parameter in :func:`os.open` and
:func:`os.unlink`. (Contributed by Martin von Löwis and Hynek Schlawack
@ -1879,6 +1886,9 @@ socket
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_Datagram_Sockets and
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/rds/).
* The :class:`~socket.socket` class now supports the ``PF_SYSTEM`` protocol
family on OS X. (Contributed by Michael Goderbauer in :issue:`13777`.)
* 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`.)
@ -2094,13 +2104,13 @@ should be used. For example, this will send a ``'HEAD'`` request::
webbrowser
----------
The :mod:`webbrowser` module supports more browsers: Google Chrome (named
The :mod:`webbrowser` module supports more "browsers": Google Chrome (named
:program:`chrome`, :program:`chromium`, :program:`chrome-browser` or
:program:`chromium-browser` depending on the version and operating system) as
well as the the generic launchers :program:`xdg-open` from the FreeDesktop.org
project and :program:`gvfs-open` which is the default URI handler for GNOME 3.
(:issue:`13620` and :issue:`14493`)
:program:`chromium-browser` depending on the version and operating system),
and the generic launchers :program:`xdg-open`, from the FreeDesktop.org
project, and :program:`gvfs-open`, which is the default URI handler for GNOME
3. (The former contributed by Arnaud Calmettes in :issue:`13620`, the latter
by Matthias Klose in :issue:`14493`)
xml.etree.ElementTree

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@ -2484,11 +2484,6 @@ Library
make sure two listeners can't bind to the same socket/pipe (or any existing
socket/pipe).
- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
relevant, instead send method.
- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
raise a ProgrammingError now.
@ -2597,8 +2592,6 @@ Library
- Add a flags parameter to select.epoll.
- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
- Issue #13626: Add support for SSL Diffie-Hellman key exchange, through the
SSLContext.load_dh_params() method and the ssl.OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option.
@ -4217,6 +4210,13 @@ Documentation
- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X.
- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
relevant, instead send method.
- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
- Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New
C API function.