available, instead of restricting itself to protocol 1.
(Contributed by W. Barnes; :issue:`1551443`.)
+* The :mod:`cgi` module will now read variables from the query string of an
+ HTTP POST request. This makes it possible to use form actions with
+ URLs such as "/cgi-bin/add.py?category=1". (Contributed by
+ Alexandre Fiori and Nubis; :issue:`1817`.)
+
* The :mod:`cmath` module underwent an extensive set of revisions,
thanks to Mark Dickinson and Christian Heimes, that added some new
features and greatly improved the accuracy of the computations.
* The :mod:`sets` module has been deprecated; it's better to
use the built-in :class:`set` and :class:`frozenset` types.
+* The :func:`shutil.copytree` function now has an optional **ignore** argument
+ that takes a callable object. This callable will receive each directory path
+ and a list of the directory's contents, and returns a list of names that
+ will be ignored, not copied.
+
+ The :mod:`shutil` module also provides an :func:`ignore_patterns`
+ function for use with this new parameter.
+ :func:`ignore_patterns` takes an arbitrary number of glob-style patterns
+ and will ignore any files and directories that match this pattern.
+ The following example copies a directory tree, but skip both SVN's internal
+ :file:`.svn` directories and Emacs backup
+ files, which have names ending with '~'::
+
+ shutil.copytree('Doc/library', '/tmp/library',
+ ignore=shutil.ignore_patterns('*~'))
+
+ (Contributed by Tarek Ziadé; :issue:`2663`.)
+
* Integrating signal handling with GUI handling event loops
like those used by Tkinter or GTk+ has long been a problem; most
software ends up polling, waking up every fraction of a second.
...
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-The module also includes
-:class:`NodeVisitor` and :class:`NodeTransformer` classes
-for traversing and modifying an AST, and functions for common transformations such as changing line numbers.
+The module also includes :class:`NodeVisitor` and
+:class:`NodeTransformer` classes for traversing and modifying an AST,
+and functions for common transformations such as changing line
+numbers.
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