From 79f0a106e69db8d0e913fa266c9ff6e3366c2828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 03:32:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add news about strptime and socket.setdefaulttimeout(). --- Misc/NEWS | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 95fad62ab6..0a1ce88e11 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ Core and builtins Extension modules +- The strptime function in the time module is now always available (a + Python implementation is used when the C library doesn't define it). + - The 'new' module is no longer an extension, but a Python module that only exists for backwards compatibility. Its contents are no longer functions but callable type objects. @@ -197,7 +200,9 @@ Library - Sockets now support timeout mode. After s.settimeout(T), where T is a float expressing seconds, subsequent operations raise an exception if they cannot be completed within T seconds. To disable timeout - mode, use s.settimeout(None). + mode, use s.settimeout(None). There's also a module function, + socket.setdefaulttimeout(T), which sets the default for all sockets + created henceforth. - getopt.gnu_getopt was added. This supports GNU-style option processing, where options can be mixed with non-option arguments. -- 2.40.0