[Python-checkins] cpython (3.3): Add some missing stuff to whatsnew.
r.david.murray
python-checkins at python.org
Sun Sep 30 23:30:22 CEST 2012
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/51175f1e67fd
changeset: 79347:51175f1e67fd
branch: 3.3
parent: 79345:e7a55a393a80
user: R David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
date: Sun Sep 30 17:28:54 2012 -0400
summary:
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
@@ -3859,7 +3859,7 @@
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
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