[Python-checkins] r45358 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex (original) (raw)

andrew.kuchling python-checkins at python.org
Thu Apr 13 13:51:08 CEST 2006

Author: andrew.kuchling Date: Thu Apr 13 13:51:07 2006 New Revision: 45358

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex Log: Describe sys.subversion, Py_GetBuildInfo() Add metadata example

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex

--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex (original) +++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex Thu Apr 13 13:51:07 2006 @@ -227,7 +227,16 @@ possible to look up an entry in the package index, determine the dependencies for a package, and download the required packages. -% XXX put example here +\begin{verbatim} +VERSION = '1.0' +setup(name='PyPackage', + version=VERSION, + requires=['numarray', 'zlib (>=1.1.4)'], + obsoletes=['OldPackage'] + download_url=('http://www.example.com/pypackage/dist/pkg-%s.tar.gz' + % VERSION), + ) +\end{verbatim}
\begin{seealso} @@ -1070,7 +1079,18 @@ shadow password database on systems that support it. % XXX give example -% XXX patch #1382163: sys.subversion, Py_GetBuildNumber() +\item The Python developers switched from CVS to Subversion during the 2.5 +development process. Information about the exact build version is +available as the \code{sys.subversion} variable, a 3-tuple +of \code{(\var{interpreter-name}, \var{branch-name}, \var{revision-range})}. +For example, at the time of writing +my copy of 2.5 was reporting \code{('CPython', 'trunk', '45313:45315')}. + +This information is also available to C extensions via the +\cfunction{Py_GetBuildInfo()} function that returns a +string of build information like this: +\code{"trunk:45355:45356M, Apr 13 2006, 07:42:19"}.
+(Contributed by Barry Warsaw.) \item The \class{TarFile} class in the \module{tarfile} module now has an \method{extractall()} method that extracts all members from the @@ -1106,6 +1126,7 @@ %====================================================================== % whole new modules get described in subsections here +%====================================================================== \subsection{The ctypes package} The \module{ctypes} package, written by Thomas Heller, has been added @@ -1179,8 +1200,6 @@ Python wrappers atop a library accessed through \module{ctypes} instead of extension modules, now that \module{ctypes} is included with core Python. -% XXX write introduction

\begin{seealso}

\seeurl{http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/} @@ -1188,6 +1207,8 @@

\end{seealso}

@@ -1298,6 +1319,7 @@ \end{seealso}

+%====================================================================== \subsection{The hashlib package}

A new \module{hashlib} module has been added to replace the @@ -1346,6 +1368,7 @@ This module was contributed by Gregory P. Smith.

+%====================================================================== \subsection{The sqlite3 package}

The pysqlite module (\url{http://www.pysqlite.org}), a wrapper for the @@ -1525,6 +1548,13 @@ add and remove elements, and \cfunction{PySet_Contains} and \cfunction{PySet_Size} to examine the set's state.

+\item C code can now obtain information about the exact revision +of the Python interpreter by calling the +\cfunction{Py_GetBuildInfo()} function that returns a +string of build information like this: +\code{"trunk:45355:45356M, Apr 13 2006, 07:42:19"}.
+(Contributed by Barry Warsaw.) + \item The \cfunction{PyRange_New()} function was removed. It was never documented, never used in the core code, and had dangerously lax error checking.

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