Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.1.rst

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.. release date: 2010-11-27
.. section: Library

distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.

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Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).

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itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs before
stopping.  Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
undefined.

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.. section: Library

The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both ``__iter__`` and ``next``.

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.. section: Library

Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.

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.. section: Library

Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.

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.. section: Library

Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.

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.. section: Library

In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.

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.. section: Library

Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty XML namespace
attribute is encountered.

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.. section: Library

Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is created in modes
'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise BadZipfile
(rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.

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.. section: Library

urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not start with '/.
Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.

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.. section: Library

Fix one NameError in distutils.

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.. section: Library

fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is called
without data.

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.. section: Library

Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the end of the
file.

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.. section: Library

IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.

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.. section: IDLE

idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than the system
default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.

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.. section: Build

Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.

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.. section: Build

Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.

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.. section: Tests

Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.

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.. section: Documentation

List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.