[Python-checkins] r78104 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
andrew.kuchling
python-checkins at python.org
Mon Feb 8 14:22:24 CET 2010
Author: andrew.kuchling
Date: Mon Feb 8 14:22:24 2010
New Revision: 78104
Log:
Add two items; move a subsection
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst Mon Feb 8 14:22:24 2010
@@ -412,7 +412,10 @@
* The :class:`file` object will now set the :attr:`filename` attribute
on the :exc:`IOError` exception when trying to open a directory
- on POSIX platforms. (Noted by Jan Kaliszewski; :issue:`4764`.)
+ on POSIX platforms (noted by Jan Kaliszewski; :issue:`4764`), and
+ now explicitly checks for and forbids writing to read-only file objects
+ instead of trusting the C library to catch and report the error
+ (fixed by Stefan Krah; :issue:`5677`).
* The Python tokenizer now translates line endings itself, so the
:func:`compile` built-in function can now accept code using any
@@ -896,15 +899,18 @@
accepts a file object, in addition to the path names accepted in earlier
versions. (Contributed by Gabriel Genellina; :issue:`4756`.)
-.. ======================================================================
-.. whole new modules get described in subsections here
+New module: sysconfig
+---------------------------------
+
+XXX A new :mod:`sysconfig` module has been extracted from
+:mod:`distutils` and put in the standard library.
-* XXX A new :mod:`sysconfig` module has been extracted from :mod:`distutils`
- and put in the standard library.
+The :mod:`sysconfig` module provides access to Python's configuration
+information like the list of installation paths and the configuration
+variables relevant for the current platform.
- The :mod:`sysconfig` module provides access to Python's configuration
- information like the list of installation paths and the configuration
- variables relevant for the current platform.
+.. ======================================================================
+.. whole new modules get described in subsections here
Distutils Enhancements
@@ -955,6 +961,7 @@
archives using the :option:`--owner` and :option:`--group` switches
(:issue:`6516`).
+
Unit Testing Enhancements
---------------------------------
@@ -1296,6 +1303,12 @@
Other Changes and Fixes
=======================
+* Two benchmark scripts, :file:`iobench` and :file:`ccbench`, were
+ added to the :file:`Tools` directory. :file:`iobench` measures the
+ speed of the built-in :class:`file` objects while performing various
+ operations, and :file:`ccbench` is a concurrency that performs
+ several tasks using a varying number of threads.
+
* When importing a module from a :file:`.pyc` or :file:`.pyo` file
with an existing :file:`.py` counterpart, the :attr:`co_filename`
attributes of the resulting code objects are overwritten when the
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