From: Nadeem Vawda Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:18 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Add section on bz2 module to whatsnew/3.3. X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~202^2~4 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7e5c6ed7f8402a3ce2e6acb0cc6253456878773;p=python Add section on bz2 module to whatsnew/3.3. --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index fcc56a59c0..8d3f20f257 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -326,6 +326,28 @@ The :mod:`array` module supports the :c:type:`long long` type using ``q`` and (Contributed by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto in :issue:`1172711`) +bz2 +--- + +The :mod:`bz2` module has been rewritten from scratch. In the process, several +new features have been added: + +* :class:`bz2.BZ2File` can now read from and write to arbitrary file-like + objects, by means of its constructor's *fileobj* argument. + + (Contributed by Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`5863`) + +* :class:`bz2.BZ2File` and :func:`bz2.decompress` can now decompress + multi-stream inputs (such as those produced by the :program:`pbzip2` tool). + :class:`bz2.BZ2File` can now also be used to create this type of file, using + the ``'a'`` (append) mode. + + (Contributed by Nir Aides in :issue:`1625`) + +* :class:`bz2.BZ2File` now implements all of the :class:`io.BufferedIOBase` API, + except for the :meth:`detach` and :meth:`truncate` methods. + + codecs ------