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@@ -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`.)