[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Doc/whatsnew whatsnew24.tex, 1.107, 1.108

Mon Oct 11 21:20:13 CEST 2004

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--- whatsnew24.tex	8 Oct 2004 18:29:29 -0000	1.107
+++ whatsnew24.tex	11 Oct 2004 19:20:06 -0000	1.108
@@ -1230,6 +1230,14 @@
 for options can now include the string \code{'\%default'}, which will
 be replaced by the option's default value.
 
+\item The long-term plan is to deprecate the \module{rfc822} module
+in some future Python release in favor of the \module{email} package.
+To this end, the \function{email.Utils.formatdate()} function has been
+changed to make it usable as a replacement for
+\function{rfc822.formatdate()}. You may want to write new e-mail
+processing code with this in mind. (Change implemented by Anthony
+Baxter.)
+
 \item A new \function{urandom(\var{n})} function 
 was added to the \module{os} module, providing access to
 platform-specific sources of randomness such as
@@ -1384,6 +1392,12 @@
 its float or double argument \var{X} is a NaN. 
 (Contributed by Tim Peters.)
 
+ \item C code can avoid unnecessary locking by using the new
+ \cfunction{PyEval_ThreadsInitialized()} function to tell 
+ if any thread operations have been performed. If this function 
+ returns false, no lock operations are needed.
+ (Contributed by Nick Coghlan.)
+
 \item A new function, \cfunction{PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()},
 is the same as \cfunction{PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()} but takes a 
 \ctype{va_list} instead of a number of arguments.
