[Python-checkins] r81991 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
andrew.kuchling
python-checkins at python.org
Tue Jun 15 02:38:58 CEST 2010
Author: andrew.kuchling
Date: Tue Jun 15 02:38:58 2010
New Revision: 81991
Log:
Add another bunch of items
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 Tue Jun 15 02:38:58 2010
@@ -780,6 +780,12 @@
(Contributed by Fredrik Johansson and Victor Stinner; :issue:`3439`.)
+* The :keyword:`import` statement will no longer try a relative import
+ if an absolute import (e.g. ``from .os import sep``) fails. This
+ fixes a bug, but could possibly break certain :keyword:`import`
+ statements that were only working by accident. (Fixed by Meador Inge;
+ :issue:`7902`.)
+
* It's now possible for a subclass of the built-in :class:`unicode` type
to override the :meth:`__unicode__` method. (Implemented by
Victor Stinner; :issue:`1583863`.)
@@ -1183,6 +1189,11 @@
will now ignore the name of the module containing the exception
being tested. (Patch by Lennart Regebro; :issue:`7490`.)
+* The :mod:`email` module's :class:`~email.message.Message` class will
+ now accept a Unicode-valued payload, automatically converting the
+ payload to the encoding specified by :attr:`output_charset`.
+ (Added by R. David Murray; :issue:`1368247`.)
+
* The :class:`~fractions.Fraction` class now accepts a single float or
:class:`~decimal.Decimal` instance, or two rational numbers, as
arguments to its constructor. (Implemented by Mark Dickinson;
@@ -1425,6 +1436,11 @@
named pipes like a regular file by opening them for reading, and
this would block indefinitely. (Fixed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`3002`.)
+* The :mod:`signal` module no longer re-installs the signal handler
+ unless this is truly necessary, which fixes a bug that could make it
+ impossible to catch the EINTR signal robustly. (Fixed by
+ Charles-Francois Natali; :issue:`8354`.)
+
* New functions: in the :mod:`site` module, three new functions
return various site- and user-specific paths.
:func:`~site.getsitepackages` returns a list containing all
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