[Python-checkins] r81516 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst

Tue May 25 15:34:09 CEST 2010

Author: andrew.kuchling
Date: Tue May 25 15:34:08 2010
New Revision: 81516
Log:
Add three items
Modified:
 python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
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--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst	Tue May 25 15:34:08 2010
@@ -796,9 +796,11 @@
 deleting an unset attribute would not raise :exc:`AttributeError`
 as you would expect. Fixed by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`7604`.)
 
-* A new encoding named "cp720", used primarily for Arabic text, is now
- supported. (Contributed by Alexander Belchenko and Amaury Forgeot
- d'Arc; :issue:`1616979`.)
+* Two new encodings are now supported: "cp720", used primarily for
+ Arabic text; and "cp858", a variant of CP 850 that adds the euro
+ symbol. (CP720 contributed by Alexander Belchenko and Amaury
+ Forgeot d'Arc in :issue:`1616979`; CP858 contributed by Tim Hatch in
+ :issue:`8016`.)
 
 * The :class:`file` object will now set the :attr:`filename` attribute
 on the :exc:`IOError` exception when trying to open a directory
@@ -1066,6 +1068,11 @@
 
 (Added by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`1818`.)
 
+ Finally, the :class:`~collections.Mapping` abstract base class now
+ raises a :exc:`NotImplemented` exception if a mapping is compared to
+ another type that isn't a :class:`Mapping`.
+ (Fixed by Daniel Stutzbach; :issue:`8729`.)
+
 * Constructors for the parsing classes in the :mod:`ConfigParser` module now
 take a *allow_no_value* parameter, defaulting to false; if true,
 options without values will be allowed. For example::
@@ -1158,6 +1165,12 @@
 a separator in the header giving the filename. (Fixed by Anatoly
 Techtonik; :issue:`7585`.)
 
+* The Distutils ``sdist`` command now always regenerates the
+ :file:`MANIFEST` file, since even if the :file:`MANIFEST.in` or
+ :file:`setup.py` files haven't been modified, the user might have
+ created some new files that should be included.
+ (Fixed by Tarek Ziadé; :issue:`8688`.)
+
 * The :mod:`doctest` module's :const:`IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL` flag
 will now ignore the name of the module containing the exception
 being tested. (Patch by Lennart Regebro; :issue:`7490`.)
