[Python-checkins] r88053 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst

Sun Jan 16 19:29:34 CET 2011

Author: antoine.pitrou
Date: Sun Jan 16 19:29:34 2011
New Revision: 88053
Log:
Mention the new context parameter to FTP_TLS, and the small API change
in subprocess.Popen.
Modified:
 python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
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--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst	Sun Jan 16 19:29:34 2011
@@ -1031,6 +1031,13 @@
 (Contributed by Tarek Ziadé and Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`4972`, and
 by Georg Brandl in :issue:`8046` and :issue:`1286`.)
 
+The :class:`~ftplib.FTP_TLS` class now accepts a *context* parameter, which is a
+:class:`ssl.SSLContext` object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
+certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)
+structure.
+
+(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà; :issue:`8806`.)
+
 popen
 -----
 
@@ -1883,3 +1890,11 @@
 
 * The new, longer :func:`str` value on floats may break doctests which rely on
 the old output format.
+
+* In :class:`subprocess.Popen`, the default value for *close_fds* is now
+ ``True`` under Unix; under Windows, it is ``True`` if the three standard
+ streams are set to ``None``, ``False`` otherwise. Previously, *close_fds*
+ was always ``False`` by default, which produced difficult to solve bugs
+ or race conditions when open file descriptors would leak into the child
+ process.
+
