[Python-checkins] r45579 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex (original) (raw)

andrew.kuchling python-checkins at python.org
Thu Apr 20 15:36:06 CEST 2006

Author: andrew.kuchling Date: Thu Apr 20 15:36:06 2006 New Revision: 45579

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex Log: Add some items; add "New module" consistently; make contextlib.closing example more interesting and more correct (thanks Gustavo!); add a name

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

--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex (original) +++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex Thu Apr 20 15:36:06 2006 @@ -865,9 +865,12 @@ and calls \code{\var{object}.close()} at the end of the block. \begin{verbatim} -with closing(open('/tmp/file', 'r')) as f: +import urllib, sys +from contextlib import closing + +with closing(urllib.urlopen('http://www.yahoo.com')) as f: for line in f: - ... + sys.stdout.write(line) \end{verbatim} \begin{seealso} @@ -1193,11 +1196,6 @@ % the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the % args tuple returned by reduce(). -% XXX fileinput: opening hook used to control how files are opened. -% .input() now has a mode parameter -% now has a fileno() function -% accepts Unicode filenames

\item The \module{audioop} module now supports the a-LAW encoding, and the code for u-LAW encoding has been improved. (Contributed by Lars Immisch.) @@ -1242,11 +1240,12 @@ method that removes the first occurrence of \var{value} in the queue, raising \exception{ValueError} if the value isn't found. -\item The \module{contextlib} module contains helper functions for use -with the new \keyword{with} statement. See section\ref{module-contextlib} -for more about this module. (Contributed by Phillip J. Eby.) +\item New module: The \module{contextlib} module contains helper functions for use +with the new \keyword{with} statement. See +section\ref{module-contextlib} for more about this module. +(Contributed by Phillip J. Eby.) -\item The \module{cProfile} module is a C implementation of +\item New module: The \module{cProfile} module is a C implementation of the existing \module{profile} module that has much lower overhead. The module's interface is the same as \module{profile}: you run \code{cProfile.run('main()')} to profile a function, can save profile @@ -1279,6 +1278,17 @@ '%H:%M:%S %Y-%m-%d') \end{verbatim} +\item The \module{fileinput} module was made more flexible. +Unicode filenames are now supported, and a \var{mode} parameter that +defaults to \code{"r"} was added to the +\function{input()} function to allow opening files in binary or +universal-newline mode. Another new parameter, \var{openhook}, +lets you use a function other than \function{open()} +to open the input files. Once you're iterating over +the set of files, the \class{FileInput} object's new +\method{fileno()} returns the file descriptor for the currently opened file. +(Contributed by Georg Brandl.) + \item In the \module{gc} module, the new \function{get_count()} function returns a 3-tuple containing the current collection counts for the three GC generations. This is accounting information for the garbage @@ -1385,9 +1395,9 @@ \method{gettype()}, and \method{getproto()} methods to retrieve the family, type, and protocol values for the socket. -\item New module: \module{spwd} provides functions for accessing the -shadow password database on systems that support it. -% XXX give example +\item New module: the \module{spwd} module provides functions for +accessing the shadow password database on systems that support +shadow passwords. \item The Python developers switched from CVS to Subversion during the 2.5 development process. Information about the exact build version is @@ -1418,7 +1428,20 @@ by some specifications, so it's still available as \member{unicodedata.db_3_2_0}. -% patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann). +\item The \module{webbrowser} module received a number of +enhancements. +It's now usable as a script with \code{python -m webbrowser}, taking a +URL as the argument; there are a number of switches +to control the behaviour (\programopt{-n} for a new browser window, +\programopt{-t} for a new tab). New module-level functions, +\function{open_new()} and \function{open_new_tab()}, were added +to support this. The module's \function{open()} function supports an +additional feature, an \var{autoraise} parameter that signals whether +to raise the open window when possible. A number of additional +browsers were added to the supported list such as Firefox, Opera, +Konqueror, and elinks. (Contributed by Oleg Broytmann and George +Brandl.) +% Patch #754022 \item The \module{xmlrpclib} module now supports returning @@ -1434,9 +1457,6 @@ %====================================================================== -% whole new modules get described in subsections here

-%====================================================================== \subsection{The ctypes package}

The \module{ctypes} package, written by Thomas Heller, has been added @@ -1878,6 +1898,10 @@ now uses the \cfunction{dlopen()} function instead of MacOS-specific functions.

+\item Windows: \file{.dll} is no longer supported as a filename extension for +extension modules. \file{.pyd} is now the only filename extension that will +be searched for. + \end{itemize}

@@ -1972,7 +1996,7 @@

The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this -article: Phillip J. Eby, Kent Johnson, Martin vonL"owis, Mike -Rovner, Thomas Wouters. +article: Phillip J. Eby, Kent Johnson, Martin vonL"owis, Gustavo +Niemeyer, Mike Rovner, Thomas Wouters.

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