http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5876a24b613a changeset: 79348:5876a24b613a parent: 79346:b392a39970bb parent: 79347:51175f1e67fd user: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> date: Sun Sep 30 17:29:54 2012 -0400 summary: Merge: Add some missing stuff to whatsnew. files: Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------- Misc/NEWS | 2 +- 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -797,7 +797,9 @@ (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 @@ (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 @@ -------- * 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 @@ 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 @@ 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 @@ 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 @@ (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 @@ (: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 @@ 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 @@ * :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 diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -3869,7 +3869,7 @@ 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 -- Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython