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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Core and builtins - Bug #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is inherited from a builtin base. -- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as +- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers. - Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled. @@ -207,6 +207,17 @@ Core and builtins Library ------- +- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP + servers which require authentication. + +- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler. + +- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe. + +- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external + log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is + only useful in Unix/Linux environments. + - Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in ".cpp" too. @@ -225,8 +236,8 @@ Library work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and closes patch #723312. -- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be - called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection +- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be + called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection now accepts an optional timeout). - Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup. @@ -349,7 +360,7 @@ Library - Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to build. -- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values +- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values in HTMLParser. - Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules @@ -389,7 +400,7 @@ Library allow appending to empty files. - Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in - subprocess. + subprocess. - Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and iso8859_16. |