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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2013-12-28 23:15:12 -0500 |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2013-12-28 23:15:12 -0500 |
| commit | 2691ee61833f7f460b5f67795b232a9b6f4518d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2cd01a7a0eb69c71be77a7506e457fd7ddf9b729 | |
| parent | 880fee60caf0da8da57713b9dcdf3eee9767aac7 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-2691ee61833f7f460b5f67795b232a9b6f4518d8.tar.gz | |
whatsnew: abc.ABC. Also add issue number to news entry and reword.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 1f0a1f1210..4f408ccac6 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -481,6 +481,12 @@ New function :func:`abc.get_cache_token` can be used to know when to invalidate caches that are affected by changes in the object graph. (Contributed by Łukasz Langa in :issue:`16832`.) +New class :class:`~abc.ABC` has :class:`~abc.ABCMeta` as its meta class. +Using ``ABC`` as a base class has essentially the same effect as specifying +``metaclass=abc.ABCMeta``, but is simpler to type and easier to read. +(Contributed by Bruno Dupuis in :issue:`16049`.) + + aifc ---- @@ -2671,8 +2671,9 @@ Library Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran Rundstein. -- Add abc.ABC class to use inheritance rather than a direct invocation of - ABCMeta metaclass. Patch by Bruno Dupuis. +- Issue #16049: Add abc.ABC class to enable the use of inheritance to create + ABCs, rather than the more cumbersome metaclass=ABCMeta. Patch by Bruno + Dupuis. - Expose the TCP_FASTOPEN and MSG_FASTOPEN flags in socket when they're available. |