will now ignore exceptions triggered while evaluating a name.
(Fixed by Lorenz Quack; :issue:`2250`.)
-* The :mod:`sha` module has been deprecated; use the :mod:`hashlib` module
- instead.
-
* The :mod:`sched` module's :class:`scheduler` instances now
have a read-only :attr:`queue` attribute that returns the
contents of the scheduler's queue, represented as a list of
* The :mod:`sets` module has been deprecated; it's better to
use the built-in :class:`set` and :class:`frozenset` types.
+* The :mod:`sha` module has been deprecated; use the :mod:`hashlib` module
+ instead.
+
* 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
(Contributed by Pedro Werneck and Jeffrey Yasskin;
:issue:`742598`, :issue:`1193577`.)
+* The :mod:`sqlite3` module, maintained by Gerhard Haering,
+ has been updated from version 2.3.2 in Python 2.5 to
+ version 2.4.1.
+
* The :mod:`struct` module now supports the C99 :ctype:`_Bool` type,
using the format character ``'?'``.
(Contributed by David Remahl.)