[Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Note that the #1548891 fix indirectly fixes shlex (#6988, #1170)

[eric.araujo]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0b39f2486314
changeset:   73060:0b39f2486314
branch:      2.7
parent:      73054:27ae7d4e1983
user:        Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org>
date:        Sun Oct 23 04:37:51 2011 +0200
summary:
  Note that the #1548891 fix indirectly fixes shlex (#6988, #1170)

files:
  Doc/library/shlex.rst |  4 +---
  Misc/NEWS             |  3 ++-
  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/library/shlex.rst b/Doc/library/shlex.rst
--- a/Doc/library/shlex.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shlex.rst
@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@
 writing minilanguages, (for example, in run control files for Python
 applications) or for parsing quoted strings.
 
-.. note::
-
-   The :mod:`shlex` module currently does not support Unicode input.
+Prior to Python 2.7.3, this module did not support Unicode input.
 
 The :mod:`shlex` module defines the following functions:
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@
 
 - Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
   arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
-  does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer.
+  does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer.  This also fixes handling of
+  unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
 
 - Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
 

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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython