* The :mod:`py_compile` and :mod:`compileall` modules have been updated to
reflect the new naming convention and target directory. The command-line
- invocation of *compileall* has new command-line options: ``-i`` for
+ invocation of *compileall* has new options: ``-i`` for
specifying a list of files and directories to compile and ``-b`` which causes
bytecode files to be written to their legacy location rather than
*__pycache__*.
* There is also a new :meth:`str.format_map` method that extends the
capabilities of the existing :meth:`str.format` method by accepting arbitrary
:term:`mapping` objects. This new method makes it possible to use string
- formatting with any of one of Python's many dictionary-like tools such as
+ formatting with any of Python's many dictionary-like objects such as
:class:`~collections.defaultdict`, :class:`~shelve.Shelf`,
:class:`~configparser.ConfigParser`, or :mod:`dbm`. It is also useful with
custom :class:`dict` subclasses that normalize keys before look-up or that
(Suggested by Raymond Hettinger and implemented by Eric Smith in
:issue:`6081`.)
-* The interpreter can now be started with a quiet option, ``-q``, to suppress
+* The interpreter can now be started with a quiet option, ``-q``, to prevent
the copyright and version information from being displayed in the interactive
mode. The option can be introspected using the :attr:`sys.flags` attribute::
tarfile
-------
-The :class:`~tarfile.TarFile` class can now be used as a content manager. In
+The :class:`~tarfile.TarFile` class can now be used as a context manager. In
addition, its :meth:`~tarfile.TarFile.add` method has a new option, *filter*,
that controls which files are added to the archive and allows the file metadata
to be edited.
...
ValueError: malformed node or string: <_ast.Call object at 0x101739a10>
-(Implemented by Georg Brandl.)
+(Implemented by Benjamin Peterson and Georg Brandl.)
os
--
$ python -m site --user-site
/Users/raymondhettinger/.local/lib/python3.2/site-packages
-(Contributed by Tarek Ziadé.)
+(Contributed by Tarek Ziadé in :issue:`6693`.)
sysconfig
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