whatsnew: sqlite3 uri parm, unittest.main defaultTest, ftplib.Netrc deprecation

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R David Murray 2014-01-02 13:44:18 -05:00
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@ -915,6 +915,15 @@ using the new :mod:`enum` module. This allows meaningful names to be printed
during debugging, instead of integer "magic numbers".
sqlite3
-------
A new boolean parameter, *uri*, to the :func:`~sqlite3.connect` function can
be used to indicate that the *database* parameter is a ``uri`` (see
the `SQLite URI documentation <http://www.sqlite.org/uri.html>`_).
(Contributed by poq in :issue:`13773`.)
ssl
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@ -998,6 +1007,10 @@ Support for easy dynamically-generated subtests using the
:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.subTest` context manager.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16997`.)
:func:`unittest.main` now also accepts an iterable of test names for
*defaultTest*, where previously it only accepted a single test name as a
string. (Contributed by Jyrki Pulliainen in :issue:`15132`.)
venv
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@ -1246,6 +1259,10 @@ Deprecated Python Modules, Functions and Methods
* MD5 as default digestmod for :mod:`hmac` is deprecated. Python 3.6 will
require an explicit digest name or constructor as *digestmod* argument.
* The internal ``Netrc`` class in the :mod:`ftplib` module has been documented
as deprecated in its docstring for quite some time. It now emits a
:exc:`DeprecationWarning` and will be removed completely in Python 3.5.
Deprecated Functions and Types in the C API
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