[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.285,1.286

[Guido van Rossum]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv7266/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
SF patch #462296: Add attributes to os.stat results; by Nick Mathewson.

This is a big one, touching lots of files.  Some of the platforms
aren't tested yet.  Briefly, this changes the return value of the
os/posix functions stat(), fstat(), statvfs(), fstatvfs(), and the
time functions localtime(), gmtime(), and strptime() from tuples into
pseudo-sequences.  When accessed as a sequence, they behave exactly as
before.  But they also have attributes like st_mtime or tm_year.  The
stat return value, moreover, has a few platform-specific attributes
that are not available through the sequence interface (because
everybody expects the sequence to have a fixed length, these couldn't
be added there).  If your platform's struct stat doesn't define
st_blksize, st_blocks or st_rdev, they won't be accessible from Python
either.

(Still missing is a documentation update.)



Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	2001/10/18 19:20:25	1.285
--- NEWS	2001/10/18 20:34:25	1.286
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*** 49,53 ****
  - readline now supports setting the startup_hook and the pre_event_hook.
  
! - posix supports chroot and setgroups where available.
  
  - Decompression objects in the zlib module now accept an optional
--- 49,63 ----
  - readline now supports setting the startup_hook and the pre_event_hook.
  
! - os and posix supports chroot() and setgroups() where available.  The
!   stat(), fstat(), statvfs() and fstatvfs() functions now return
!   "pseudo-sequences" -- the various fields can now be accessed as
!   attributes (e.g. os.stat("/").st_mtime) but for backwards
!   compatibility they also behave as a fixed-length sequence.  Some
!   platform-specific fields (e.g. st_rdev) are only accessible as
!   attributes.
! 
! - time: localtime(), gmtime() and strptime() now return a
!   pseudo-sequence similar to the os.stat() return value, with
!   attributes like tm_year etc.
  
  - Decompression objects in the zlib module now accept an optional