More whatsnew updates. Also move a C-API NEWS item out of library section.

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R David Murray 2012-10-06 22:08:08 -04:00
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@ -940,6 +940,14 @@ ASCII-only Unicode strings are now accepted by the decoding functions of the
modern interface. For example, ``base64.b64decode('YWJj')`` returns ``b'abc'``.
binascii
--------
In addition to the binary objects they normally accept, the ``a2b_`` functions
now all also accept ASCII-only strings as input. (Contributed by Antoine
Pitrou in :issue:`13637`.)
bz2
---
@ -1403,6 +1411,11 @@ can be used to directly manage when the accumlated headers are sent.
:class:`http.server` now produces valid ``HTML 4.01 strict`` output.
(Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`13295`.)
:class:`http.client.HTTPResponse` now has a
:meth:`~http.client.HTTPResponse.readinto` method, which means it can be used
as a :class:`io.RawIOBase` class. (Contributed by John Kuhn in
:issue:`13464`.)
html
----
@ -1912,7 +1925,8 @@ ssl
SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS. (Contributed by Jacek Konieczny in :issue:`12551`)
* You can query the SSL compression algorithm used by an SSL socket, thanks
to its new :meth:`~ssl.SSLSocket.compression` method.
to its new :meth:`~ssl.SSLSocket.compression` method. The new attribute
:attr:`~ssl.OP_NO_COMPRESSION` can be used to disable compression.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`13634`)
* Support has been added for the Next Procotol Negotiation extension using
@ -1926,6 +1940,10 @@ ssl
* The :func:`~ssl.get_server_certificate` function now supports IPv6.
(Contributed by Charles-François Natali in :issue:`11811`.)
* New attribute :attr:`~ssl.OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE` allows setting
SSLv3 server sockets to use the server's cipher ordering preference rather
than the client's (:issue:`13635`).
stat
----
@ -1964,6 +1982,13 @@ sequence` holding informations about the thread implementation
(:issue:`11223`).
tarfile
-------
:mod:`tarfile` now supports ``lzma`` encoding via the :mod:`lzma` module.
(Contributed by Lars Gustäbel in :issue:`5689`.)
tempfile
--------

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@ -2066,6 +2066,10 @@ Core and Builtins
- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
the current locale encoding.
- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
@ -2639,10 +2643,6 @@ Library
- Issue #13560: os.strerror() now uses the current locale encoding instead of
UTF-8.
- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
the current locale encoding.
- Issue #8373: The filesystem path of AF_UNIX sockets now uses the filesystem
encoding and the surrogateescape error handler, rather than UTF-8. Patch
by David Watson.