Moving pickletools.py from the sandbox into the std library. I started
this over the weekend, and it made faster & better progress than I
expected -- it's already useful <wink>.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6ff35fb..c88537b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@
Library
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+- The new pickletools.py contains lots of documentation about pickle
+ internals, and supplies some helpers for working with pickles, such as
+ a symbolic pickle disassembler.
+
- Xmlrpclib.py now supports the builtin boolean type.
- py_compile has a new 'doraise' flag and a new PyCompileError
@@ -151,7 +155,7 @@
the gain value which is passed to Tk. SF bug# 602259.
- Fix logging.handlers.SysLogHandler protocol when using UNIX domain sockets.
- See SF patch #642974.
+ See SF patch #642974.
Tools/Demos
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@@ -214,7 +218,7 @@
- There are new dialogs EasyDialogs.AskFileForOpen, AskFileForSave
and AskFolder. The old macfs.StandardGetFile and friends are deprecated.
-
+
- Type Carbon.File.FSCatalogInfo and supporting methods have been implemented.
This also makes macfs.FSSpec.SetDates() work again.