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@ -133,8 +133,11 @@ The infrastructure committee of the Python Software Foundation
therefore posted a call for issue trackers, asking volunteers to set
up different products and import some of the bugs and patches from
SourceForge. Four different trackers were examined: Atlassian's `Jira
<XXX>`__, `Launchpad <http://www.launchpad.net>`__, ` `Roundup
<XXX>`__, and Trac <XXX>`__. The committee eventually settled on Jira
<http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/>`__,
`Launchpad <http://www.launchpad.net>`__,
`Roundup <http://roundup.sourceforge.net/>`__, and
Trac <http://trac.edgewall.org/>`__.
The committee eventually settled on Jira
and Roundup as the two candidates. Jira is a commercial product that
offers a no-cost hosted instance to free-software projects; Roundup
is an open-source project that requires volunteers
@ -146,19 +149,18 @@ host multiple trackers, and this server now also hosts issue trackers
for Jython and for the Python web site. It will surely find
other uses in the future.
Hosting is kindly provided by `Upfront <XXX>`__ of XXX. Martin von
Loewis put a lot of effort into importing existing bugs and patches
from SourceForge; his scripts for this import are at XXX.
Hosting is kindly provided by `Upfront Systems <http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za/>`__ of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Martin von Loewis put a
lot of effort into importing existing bugs and patches from
SourceForge; his scripts for this import operation are at
http://svn.python.org/view/tracker/importer/.
.. seealso::
XXX Roundup web site.
http://bugs.python.org: The Python bug tracker.
bugs.python.org
http://bugs.jython.org: The Jython bug tracker.
bugs.jython.org
Python web site bug tracker
http://roundup.sourceforge.net/: Roundup downloads and documentation.
New Documentation Format: ReStructured Text
@ -728,6 +730,21 @@ and it also supports the ``b''`` notation.
.. ======================================================================
.. _pep-3116:
PEP 3116: New I/O Library
=====================================================
XXX write this.
.. seealso::
:pep:`3116` - New I/O
PEP written by Daniel Stutzbach, Mike Verdone, and Guido van Rossum.
XXX code written by who?
.. ======================================================================
.. _pep-3118:
PEP 3118: Revised Buffer Protocol
@ -895,8 +912,9 @@ one, :func:`math.trunc`, that's been backported to Python 2.6.
:pep:`3141` - A Type Hierarchy for Numbers
PEP written by Jeffrey Yasskin.
XXX link: Discusses Scheme's numeric tower.
`Scheme's numerical tower <http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Numerical-Tower.html#Numerical-Tower>`__, from the Guile manual.
`Scheme's number datatypes <http://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-9.html#%_sec_6.2>`__ from the R5RS Scheme specification.
The :mod:`fractions` Module
@ -1229,7 +1247,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
* The :mod:`datetime` module's :meth:`strftime` methods now support a
``%f`` format code that expands to the number of microseconds in the
object, zero-padded on
the left to six places. (Contributed by XXX.)
the left to six places. (Contributed by Skip Montanaro.)
.. Patch 1158
@ -1527,7 +1545,8 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
numbers following a triangular distribution. The returned values
are between *low* and *high*, not including *high* itself, and
with *mode* as the mode, the most frequently occurring value
in the distribution. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger. XXX check)
in the distribution. (Contributed by Wladmir van der Laan and
Raymond Hettinger.)
.. Patch 1681432
@ -1544,7 +1563,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
have a read-only :attr:`queue` attribute that returns the
contents of the scheduler's queue, represented as a list of
named tuples with the fields ``(time, priority, action, argument)``.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger XXX check.)
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
.. Patch 1861
@ -1554,7 +1573,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
objects; ``pollobj.modify(fd, eventmask)`` takes a file descriptor
or file object and an event mask,
(Contributed by XXX.)
(Contributed by Christian Heimes.)
.. Patch 1657
@ -1571,7 +1590,7 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
:cfunc:`PySignal_SetWakeupFd`, for setting the descriptor.
Event loops will use this by opening a pipe to create two descriptors,
one for reading and one for writing. The writeable descriptor
one for reading and one for writing. The writable descriptor
will be passed to :func:`set_wakeup_fd`, and the readable descriptor
will be added to the list of descriptors monitored by the event loop via
:cfunc:`select` or :cfunc:`poll`.
@ -1586,6 +1605,16 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
and allows changing whether signals can interrupt system calls or not.
(Contributed by Ralf Schmitt.)
The :func:`setitimer` and :func:`getitimer` functions have also been
added on systems that support these system calls. :func:`setitimer`
allows setting interval timers that will cause a signal to be
delivered to the process after a specified time, measured in
wall-clock time, consumed process time, or combined process+system
time. (Contributed by Guilherme Polo.)
.. Patch 2240
* The :mod:`smtplib` module now supports SMTP over SSL thanks to the
addition of the :class:`SMTP_SSL` class. This class supports an
interface identical to the existing :class:`SMTP` class. Both