SF patch 986010: add missing doc for datetime C API, from
Anthony Tuininga.
This is a derived patch, taking the opportunity to add some organization
to the now-large pile of datetime-related macros, and to factor out
tedious repeated text.
Also improved some clumsy wording in NEWS.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 507c7a5..5593f00 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
-----------------
- Patch #550732: Add PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords(). Analogous to
-PyArg_VaParse(). Both are now documented. Thanks Greg Chapman.
+ PyArg_VaParse(). Both are now documented. Thanks Greg Chapman.
- Allow string and unicode return types from .encode()/.decode()
- methods on string and unicode objects. Added unicode.decode()
+ methods on string and unicode objects. Added unicode.decode()
which was missing for no apparent reason.
-- An attempt to fix the mess that is Python's behaviour with
+- An attempt to fix the mess that is Python's behaviour with
signal handlers and threads, complicated by readline's behaviour.
It's quite possible that there are still bugs here.
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
Library
-------
-- Bug #979794: difflib.get_grouped_opcodes() now handles the case of when it is
- comparing two empty lists. Was affecting both context_diff() and
- unified_diff(). Was also a duplicate of bug #980117.
+- Bugs #979794 and #980117: difflib.get_grouped_opcodes() now handles the
+ case of comparing two empty lists. This affected both context_diff() and
+ unified_diff(),
- Bug #980938: smtplib now prints debug output to sys.stderr.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
for file sizes (compressed and uncompressed) was being stored as signed
instead of unsigned.
-- decimal.py now only uses signals in the spec. The other conditions are
+- decimal.py now only uses signals in the IBM spec. The other conditions are
no longer part of the public API.
- codecs module now has two new generic APIs: encode() and decode()
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
- asyncore's dispatcher.set_reuse_addr() now works correctly on Windows.
SF patch 982681.
-- Non-blocking SSL sockets work again; they were broken in Python 2.3.
+- Non-blocking SSL sockets work again; they were broken in Python 2.3.
SF patch 945642.
Tools/Demos
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@
C API
-----
+- A large pile of datetime field-extraction macros is now documented,
+ thanks to Anthony Tuininga (patch #986010).
+
New platforms
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@@ -438,7 +441,7 @@
Library
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-
+
- Bug #981530: Fix UnboundLocalError in shutil.rmtree(). This affects
the documented behavior: the function passed to the onerror()
handler can now also be os.listdir.