[Python-checkins] r87158 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst

raymond.hettinger python-checkins at python.org
Fri Dec 10 18:45:13 CET 2010


Author: raymond.hettinger
Date: Fri Dec 10 18:45:13 2010
New Revision: 87158

Log:
Move nntp entry back to changed modules section and add entry for non-ascii import directories.

Modified:
   python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst	Fri Dec 10 18:45:13 2010
@@ -570,6 +570,12 @@
 
   (See :issue:`10518`.)
 
+* Python's import mechanism can now load module installed in directories with
+  non-ASCII characters in the path name.
+
+  (Required extensive work by Victor Stinner in :issue:`9425`.)
+
+
 New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
 =====================================
 
@@ -794,6 +800,13 @@
   5-tuple), and :data:`ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER` (an integer).  (Added by
   Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8321`.)
 
+* The :mod:`nntplib` module has a revamped implementation with better bytes and
+  unicode semantics as well as more practical APIs.  These improvements break
+  compatibility with the nntplib version in Python 3.1, which was partly
+  dysfunctional in itself.
+
+  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`9360`)
+
 * :class:`http.client.HTTPSConnection`, :class:`urllib.request.HTTPSHandler`
   and :func:`urllib.request.urlopen` now take optional arguments to allow for
   server certificate checking against a set of Certificate Authorities,
@@ -1221,13 +1234,6 @@
    reproduce Python 3.1 sequences, set the *version* argument to *1*,
    ``random.seed(s, version=1)``.
 
-* The :mod:`nntplib` module has a revamped implementation with better bytes and
-  unicode semantics as well as more practical APIs.  These improvements break
-  compatibility with the nntplib version in Python 3.1, which was partly
-  dysfunctional in itself.
-
-  (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


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