From: Fred Drake Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 04:30:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: add some notes about the changes to ConfigParser X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~364 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f15b5c11cb86e5680a40dce288c1e39427b4d2f;p=python add some notes about the changes to ConfigParser --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index bd3818c271..bf2c8cbf98 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -367,6 +367,12 @@ Several modules now take advantage of \class{collections.deque} for improved performance: \module{Queue}, \module{mutex}, \module{shlex} \module{threading}, and \module{pydoc}. +\item The \module{ConfigParser} classes have been enhanced slightly. + The \method{read()} method now returns a list of the files that + were successfully parsed, and the \method{set()} method raises + \exception{TypeError} if passed a \var{value} argument that isn't a + string. + \item The \module{heapq} module has been converted to C. The resulting tenfold improvement in speed makes the module suitable for handling high volumes of data.