big endian systems were added to the codecs module. The old names
BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2.
-- added degree/radian conversion functions to the math module.
+- Added conversion functions math.degrees() and math.radians().
- ftplib.retrlines() now tests for callback is None rather than testing
for False. Was causing an error when given a callback object which
people to submit more packagers, e.g. for Debian, FreeBSD
and other systems.
-- The UTF-16, -LE and -BE now raise a NotImplementedError
- for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they used to just
- produce garbage or fail with an encoding error -- UTF-16 is
- a 2-byte encoding and the C lib's line reading APIs don't
+- The UTF-16, -LE and -BE stream readers now raise a
+ NotImplementedError for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they
+ used to just produce garbage or fail with an encoding error --
+ UTF-16 is a 2-byte encoding and the C lib's line reading APIs don't
work well with these.
- compileall now supports quiet operation.