From: Guido van Rossum Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 05:52:37 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Move socket news to 2.3b1 section! And mention has_ipv6. X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~998 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7adda903500e3467f8d892c6ad46a73a19164b4;p=python Move socket news to 2.3b1 section! And mention has_ipv6. --- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 8c1d7c531d..f3fef11753 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ Core and builtins Extension modules ----------------- +- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop + for converting between string and packed representation of IP + addresses. There is also a new module variable, has_ipv6, which is + True iff the current Python has IPv6 support. See SF patch #658327. + - Tkinter wrappers around Tcl variables now pass objects directly to Tcl, instead of first converting them to strings. @@ -383,10 +388,6 @@ Extension modules zlib test suite using the unittest module. (SF bug #640230 and patch #678531.) -- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop - for converting between string and packed representation of IP addresses. - See SF patch #658327. - - Added an itertools module containing high speed, memory efficient looping constructs inspired by tools from Haskell and SML.