From 9af2a6e56f9c9b45c42579c23c0de378929e7d60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:18:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Rewrap NEWS (Builbot test commit.) --- Misc/NEWS | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index b15721bc08..fec96484d3 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -9,23 +9,23 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1? Core and Builtins ----------------- - + - Issue #9915: Speed up sorting with a key. -- Issue #7475: Added transform() and untransform() methods to both bytes - and string types. They can be used to access those codecs providing +- Issue #7475: Added transform() and untransform() methods to both bytes and + string types. They can be used to access those codecs providing bytes-to-bytes and string-to-string mappings. -- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is - much larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts. +- Issue #8685: Speed up set difference ``a - b`` when source set ``a`` is much + larger than operand ``b``. Patch by Andrew Bennetts. - Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin. -- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to - __format__ method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more - precise control over when decimal points are displayed. +- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to ``__format__`` + method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more precise control over + when decimal points are displayed. -- Issue #10474: range().count() should return integers. +- Issue #10474: range.count() should return integers. - Issue #1574217: isinstance now catches only AttributeError, rather than masking all errors. @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- -- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for - membership of non-weakrefable objects. +- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for membership + of non-weakrefable objects. - Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters. -- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to - prevent DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena. +- Issue #1745035: Add a command size and data size limit to smtpd.py, to prevent + DoS attacks. Patch by Savio Sena. - Issue #4925: Add filename to error message when executable can't be found in subprocess. @@ -50,28 +50,28 @@ Library - Issue #10027: st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto. -- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege - is held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used. +- Issue #9333: Expose os.symlink only when the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is + held by the user's account, i.e., when the function can actually be used. - Issue #8879: Add os.link support for Windows. -- Issue #7911: `unittest.TestCase.longMessage` defaults to True for improved +- Issue #7911: ``unittest.TestCase.longMessage`` defaults to True for improved failure messages by default. Patch by Mark Roddy. - -- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it - tries to guess at the correct parsing of invalid html. + +- Issue #1486713: HTMLParser now has an optional tolerant mode where it tries to + guess at the correct parsing of invalid html. - Issue #10554: Add context manager support to subprocess.Popen objects. - Issue #8989: email.utils.make_msgid now has a domain parameter that can override the domain name used in the generated msgid. -- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the - 'File exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the - specified mode. Patch by Ray Allen. +- Issue #9299: Add exist_ok parameter to os.makedirs to suppress the 'File + exists' exception when a target directory already exists with the specified + mode. Patch by Ray Allen. -- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect - of a module import +- Issue #9573: os.fork() now works correctly when triggered as a side effect of + a module import. - Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters. @@ -85,26 +85,26 @@ Library - Issue #10535: Enable silenced warnings in unittest by default. -- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept - ASCII byte sequences as input in addition to character strings. +- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept ASCII byte + sequences as input in addition to character strings. -- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has - been changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple. +- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has been + changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple. -- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of - inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying - iterator was undefined. +- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs + before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was + undefined. -- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both - __iter__ and __next__. +- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both __iter__ and + __next__. -- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it - a new more informative name, unittest.CountEqual. +- Issue #10242: Fixed implementation of unittest.ItemsEqual and gave it a new + more informative name, unittest.CountEqual. - Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number. -- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which - can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity' +- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which can + be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity' heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky. - Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects. @@ -124,14 +124,14 @@ Library output stream only when end_headers is invoked. This is a speedup and an internal optimization. Patch by endian. -- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by - Rodolpho Eckhardt. +- Issue #10220: Added inspect.getgeneratorstate. Initial patch by Rodolpho + Eckhardt. - Issue #10453: compileall now uses argparse instead of getopt, and thus provides clean output when called with '-h'. -- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. - Patch by Rodolpho Eckhardt. +- Issue #8078: Add constants for higher baud rates in the termios module. Patch + by Rodolpho Eckhardt. - Issue #10407: Fix two NameErrors in distutils. @@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ Library - Issue 9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed. -- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to - complex zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect - the sign of zero. This fixes a test failure on AIX. +- Issue #9920: Skip tests for cmath.atan and cmath.atanh applied to complex + zeros on systems where the log1p function fails to respect the sign of zero. + This fixes a test failure on AIX. - Issue #9732: Addition of getattr_static to the inspect module. @@ -175,16 +175,16 @@ Library - Issue #10440: Support RUSAGE_THREAD as a constant in the resource module. Patch by Robert Collins. -- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, - rather than strings. +- Issue #10429: IMAP.starttls() stored the capabilities as bytes objects, rather + than strings. C-API ----- - Issue #9518: Extend the PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT macro to explicitly zero-initialize all fields, fixing compiler warnings seen when building - extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied - by "-W"). + extension modules with gcc with "-Wmissing-field-initializers" (implied by + "-W"). - Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil Schemenauer. @@ -196,15 +196,15 @@ C-API Tests ----- -- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from - sys.path when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module +- regrtest.py once again ensures the test directory is removed from sys.path + when it is invoked directly as the __main__ module - Issue #9424: Deprecate the `unittest.TestCase` methods `assertEquals`, `assertNotEquals`, `assertAlmostEquals`, `assertNotAlmostEquals` and `assert_` and replace them with the correct methods in the Python test suite. -- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname - cannot be looked up. +- Do not fail test_socket when the IP address of the local hostname cannot be + looked up. - Issue #8886: Use context managers throughout test_zipfile. Patch by Eric Carstensen. -- 2.40.0