From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 01:05:42 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: whatsnew: compression libraries support 'x' mode.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~166
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0bec63e67d581a55bda3fa9809c6c57bd108d3df;p=python

whatsnew: compression libraries support 'x' mode.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 121d2810f7..b0522832f7 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1609,6 +1609,10 @@ Other Improvements
   set just the error handler, without changing the default encoding.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`18818`.)
 
+* The :mod:`bz2`, :mod:`lzma`, and :mod:`gzip` module ``open`` functions now
+  support ``x`` (exclusive creation) mode.  (Contributed by Tim Heaney and
+  Vajrasky Kok in :issue:`19201`, :issue:`19222`, and :issue:`19223`.)
+
 
 Significant Optimizations
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