From 1fb8d83a540693b03f0bcf273a1b352d5b048157 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:20:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [Bug #1504456] Mention xml -> xmlcore change --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index a95c195dcbe..ee6ad07341c 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -1733,6 +1733,11 @@ Konqueror, and elinks. (Contributed by Oleg Broytmann and George Brandl.) % Patch #754022 +\item Python's standard library no longer includes +a package named \module{xml}; the library's XML-related package +has been renamed to \module{xmlcore}. This means +it will always be possible to import the standard library's +XML support whether or not the PyXML package is installed. \item The \module{xmlrpclib} module now supports returning \class{datetime} objects for the XML-RPC date type. Supply @@ -2348,6 +2353,10 @@ to allow only \code{'/'} and \code{'/RPC2'}. Setting \member{rpc_paths} to \code{None} or an empty tuple disables this path checking. +\item Library: the \module{xml} package has been renamed to \module{xmlcore}. +The PyXML package will therefore be \module{xml}, and the Python +distribution's code will always be accessible as \module{xmlcore}. + \item C API: Many functions now use \ctype{Py_ssize_t} instead of \ctype{int} to allow processing more data on 64-bit machines. Extension code may need to make the same change to avoid