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May 4, 2012, 2:18 PM
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cpython: Add some whatsnew entries
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http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/66ccd993dfdf
changeset: 76766:66ccd993dfdf
parent: 76764:cd519a923d41
user: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis [at] pitrou>
date: Fri May 04 23:15:47 2012 +0200
summary:
Add some whatsnew entries
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Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -569,8 +569,17 @@
(:issue:`10516`)
+* Raw bytes literals can now be written ``rb"..."`` as well as ``br"..."``.
+ (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`13748`.)
+
+* :meth:`dict.setdefault` now does only one lookup for the given key, making
+ it atomic when used with built-in types.
+ (Contributed by Filip Gruszczyński in :issue:`13521`.)
+
+
.. XXX mention new error messages for passing wrong number of arguments to functions
+
New and Improved Modules
========================
@@ -851,6 +860,18 @@
(Written by Mark Dickinson in :issue:`11888`).
+multiprocessing
+---------------
+
+The new :func:`multiprocessing.connection.wait` function allows to poll
+multiple objects (such as connections, sockets and pipes) with a timeout.
+(Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`12328`.)
+
+:class:`multiprocessing.Connection` objects can now be transferred over
+multiprocessing connections.
+(Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`4892`.)
+
+
nntplib
-------
@@ -897,6 +918,16 @@
:func:`~os.walk` except that it also yields file descriptors referring to the
directories visited. This is especially useful to avoid symlink races.
+* The new :func:`os.replace` function allows cross-platform renaming of a
+ file with overwriting the destination. With :func:`os.rename`, an existing
+ destination file is overwritten under POSIX, but raises an error under
+ Windows.
+ (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`8828`.)
+
+* The new :func:`os.get_terminal_size` function queries the size of the
+ terminal attached to a file descriptor.
+ (Contributed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek in :issue:`13609`.)
+
* "at" functions (:issue:`4761`):
* :func:`~os.faccessat`
@@ -988,6 +1019,15 @@
are completed. (Contributed by Georg Brandl in :issue:`14210`)
+pickle
+------
+
+:class:`pickle.Pickler` objects now have an optional
+:attr:`~pickle.Pickler.dispatch_table` attribute allowing to set per-pickler
+reduction functions.
+(Contributed by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`14166`.)
+
+
pydoc
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@@ -1034,6 +1074,16 @@
path also specifying the user/group names and not only their numeric
ids. (Contributed by Sandro Tosi in :issue:`12191`)
+* The new :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size` function returns the size of the
+ terminal window the interpreter is attached to.
+ (Contributed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek in :issue:`13609`.)
+
+* Several functions now take an optional ``symlinks`` argument: when that
+ parameter is true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead
+ acts on the symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant).
+ (Contributed by Hynek Schlawack in :issue:`12715`.)
+
+
signal
------
@@ -1129,6 +1179,11 @@
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`13634`)
+* Support has been added for the Next Procotol Negotiation extension using
+ the :meth:`ssl.SSLContext.set_npn_protocols` method.
+
+ (Contributed by Colin Marc in :issue:`14204`)
+
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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython
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