[Python-checkins] r50579 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
andrew.kuchling
python-checkins at python.org
Tue Jul 11 19:20:18 CEST 2006
Author: andrew.kuchling
Date: Tue Jul 11 19:20:16 2006
New Revision: 50579
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
Log:
Bump version number; add sys._current_frames
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex Tue Jul 11 19:20:16 2006
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
% Count up the patches and bugs
\title{What's New in Python 2.5}
-\release{0.3}
+\release{0.4}
\author{A.M. Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{amk at amk.ca}}
@@ -1662,11 +1662,17 @@
\code{"trunk:45355:45356M, Apr 13 2006, 07:42:19"}.
(Contributed by Barry Warsaw.)
+\item Another new function, \function{sys._current_frames()}, returns
+the current stack frames for all running threads as a dictionary
+mapping thread identifiers to the topmost stack frame currently active
+in that thread at the time the function is called. (Contributed by
+Tim Peters.)
+
\item The \class{TarFile} class in the \module{tarfile} module now has
an \method{extractall()} method that extracts all members from the
archive into the current working directory. It's also possible to set
a different directory as the extraction target, and to unpack only a
-subset of the archive's members.
+subset of the archive's members.
A tarfile's compression can be autodetected by
using the mode \code{'r|*'}.
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