Commit 522cc0a9 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

Reclassify some entries and remove a couple of minor ones.

parent 21ec4bc2
......@@ -390,9 +390,15 @@ format.
build the model, including message bodies with a
:mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding` of *8bit*.
* The :mod:`smtplib` :class:`~smtplib.SMTP` class now accepts a byte string
for the *msg* argument to the :meth:`~smtplib.SMTP.sendmail` method,
and a new method, :meth:`~smtplib.SMTP.send_message` accepts a
:class:`~email.message.Message` object and can optionally obtain the
*from_addr* and *to_addrs* addresses directly from the object.
.. XXX Update before 3.2rc1 to reflect all of the last work and add examples.
(Proposed and implemented by R. David Murray, :issue:`4661`.)
(Proposed and implemented by R. David Murray, :issue:`4661` and :issue:`10321`.)
Other Language Changes
......@@ -668,20 +674,6 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
(Patch submitted by Daniel Urban; :issue:`5867`.)
* The previously deprecated :func:`contextlib.nested` function has been removed
in favor of a plain :keyword:`with` statement which can accept multiple
context managers. The latter technique is faster (because it is built-in),
and it does a better job finalizing multiple context managers when one of them
raises an exception::
>>> with open('mylog.txt') as infile, open('a.out', 'w') as outfile:
... for line in infile:
... if '<critical>' in line:
... outfile.write(line)
(Contributed by Georg Brandl and Mattias Brändström;
`appspot issue 53094 <http://codereview.appspot.com/53094>`_.)
* The :class:`ftplib.FTP` class now supports the context manager protocol to
unconditionally consume :exc:`socket.error` exceptions and to close the FTP
connection when done::
......@@ -734,16 +726,6 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
Aides and Brian Curtin in :issue:`9962`, :issue:`1675951`, :issue:`7471` and
:issue:`2846`.)
* The :mod:`os` module now has the :const:`ST_RDONLY` and :const:`ST_NOSUID`
constants for use with the :func:`~os.statvfs` function.
(Patch by Adam Jackson; :issue:`7647`.)
* :func:`os.getppid` is now supported on Windows. Note that it will continue to
return the same pid even after the parent process has exited.
(Patch by Jon Anglin; :issue:`6394`.)
* The :func:`shutil.copytree` function has two new options:
* *ignore_dangling_symlinks*: when ``symlinks=False`` so that the function
......@@ -875,16 +857,6 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
(Contributed by Ezio Melotti; :issue:`9424`.)
* The previously deprecated :func:`string.maketrans` function has been removed
in favor of the static methods, :meth:`bytes.maketrans` and
:meth:`bytearray.maketrans`. This change solves the confusion around which
types were supported by the :mod:`string` module. Now, :class:`str`,
:class:`bytes`, and :class:`bytearray` each have their own **maketrans** and
**translate** methods with intermediate translation tables of the appropriate
type.
(Contributed by Georg Brandl; :issue:`5675`.)
* :class:`~poplib.POP3_SSL` class now accepts a *context* parameter, which is a
:class:`ssl.SSLContext` object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
......@@ -916,14 +888,6 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
(Contributed by Neil Schemenauer and Nick Coghlan; :issue:`5178`.)
* The :mod:`smtplib` :class:`~smtplib.SMTP` class now accepts a byte string
for the *msg* argument to the :meth:`~smtplib.SMTP.sendmail` method,
and a new method, :meth:`~smtplib.SMTP.send_message` accepts a
:class:`~email.message.Message` object and can optionally obtain the
*from_addr* and *to_addrs* addresses directly from the object.
(Contributed by R. David Murray, :issue:`10321`.)
* The :mod:`inspect` module has a new function :func:`getgenatorstate`
to easily identify the current state of a generator as one of
``GEN_CREATED``, ``GEN_RUNNING``, ``GEN_SUSPENDED`` or ``GEN_CLOSED``.
......@@ -1264,3 +1228,26 @@ require changes to your code:
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`9360`)
* The previously deprecated :func:`string.maketrans` function has been removed
in favor of the static methods, :meth:`bytes.maketrans` and
:meth:`bytearray.maketrans`. This change solves the confusion around which
types were supported by the :mod:`string` module. Now, :class:`str`,
:class:`bytes`, and :class:`bytearray` each have their own **maketrans** and
**translate** methods with intermediate translation tables of the appropriate
type.
(Contributed by Georg Brandl; :issue:`5675`.)
* The previously deprecated :func:`contextlib.nested` function has been removed
in favor of a plain :keyword:`with` statement which can accept multiple
context managers. The latter technique is faster (because it is built-in),
and it does a better job finalizing multiple context managers when one of them
raises an exception::
>>> with open('mylog.txt') as infile, open('a.out', 'w') as outfile:
... for line in infile:
... if '<critical>' in line:
... outfile.write(line)
(Contributed by Georg Brandl and Mattias Brändström;
`appspot issue 53094 <http://codereview.appspot.com/53094>`_.)
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