Commit 79f0a106 authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Add news about strptime and socket.setdefaulttimeout().

parent 58b63bf4
......@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ Core and builtins
Extension modules
- The strptime function in the time module is now always available (a
Python implementation is used when the C library doesn't define it).
- The 'new' module is no longer an extension, but a Python module that
only exists for backwards compatibility. Its contents are no longer
functions but callable type objects.
......@@ -197,7 +200,9 @@ Library
- Sockets now support timeout mode. After s.settimeout(T), where T is
a float expressing seconds, subsequent operations raise an exception
if they cannot be completed within T seconds. To disable timeout
mode, use s.settimeout(None).
mode, use s.settimeout(None). There's also a module function,
socket.setdefaulttimeout(T), which sets the default for all sockets
created henceforth.
- getopt.gnu_getopt was added. This supports GNU-style option
processing, where options can be mixed with non-option arguments.
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