[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.1057,1.1058

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Mention upgrade of optparse to Optik 1.5a1.


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    as informed by locale module's getpreferredencoding().
  
+ - optparse module (and tests) upgraded to Optik 1.5a1.  Changes:
+ 
+   - Add expansion of default values in help text: the string
+     "%default" in an option's help string is expanded to str() of
+     that option's default value, or "none" if no default value.
+     
+   - Bug #955889: option default values that happen to be strings are
+     now processed in the same way as values from the command line; this
+     allows generation of nicer help when using custom types.  Can
+     be disabled with parser.set_process_default_values(False).
+ 
+   - Bug #960515: don't crash when generating help for callback
+     options that specify 'type', but not 'dest' or 'metavar'.
+ 
+   - Feature #815264: change the default help format for short options
+     that take an argument from e.g. "-oARG" to "-o ARG"; add
+     set_short_opt_delimiter() and set_long_opt_delimiter() methods to
+     HelpFormatter to allow (slight) customization of the formatting.
+ 
+   - Patch #736940: internationalize Optik: all built-in user-
+     targeted literal strings are passed through gettext.gettext().  (If
+     you want translations (.po files), they're not included with Python
+     -- you'll find them in the Optik source distribution from
+     http://optik.sourceforge.net/ .)
+ 
+   - Bug #878453: respect $COLUMNS environment variable for
+     wrapping help output.
+ 
+   - Feature #988122: expand "%prog" in the 'description' passed
+     to OptionParser, just like in the 'usage' and 'version' strings.
+     (This is *not* done in the 'description' passed to OptionGroup.)
  
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