sent over a socket. When compiling Python, you can edit :file:`Modules/Setup`
to include SSL support, which adds an additional function to the :mod:`socket`
module: ``socket.ssl(socket, keyfile, certfile)``, which takes a socket
-object and returns an SSL socket. The :mod:`httplib` and :mod:`urllib` modules
+object and returns an SSL socket. The :mod:`httplib <http>` and :mod:`urllib` modules
were also changed to support ``https://`` URLs, though no one has implemented
FTP or SMTP over SSL.
-The :mod:`httplib` module has been rewritten by Greg Stein to support HTTP/1.1.
-Backward compatibility with the 1.5 version of :mod:`httplib` is provided,
+The :mod:`httplib <http>` module has been rewritten by Greg Stein to support HTTP/1.1.
+Backward compatibility with the 1.5 version of :mod:`!httplib` is provided,
though using HTTP/1.1 features such as pipelining will require rewriting code to
use a different set of interfaces.
* :mod:`pyexpat`: An interface to the Expat XML parser. (Contributed by Paul
Prescod.)
-* :mod:`robotparser`: Parse a :file:`robots.txt` file, which is used for writing
+* :mod:`robotparser <urllib.robotparser>`: Parse a :file:`robots.txt` file, which is used for writing
web spiders that politely avoid certain areas of a web site. The parser accepts
the contents of a :file:`robots.txt` file, builds a set of rules from it, and
can then answer questions about the fetchability of a given URL. (Contributed
:file:`Tools/idle/BrowserControl.py`, and adapted for the standard library by
Fred.)
-* :mod:`_winreg`: An interface to the Windows registry. :mod:`_winreg` is an
+* :mod:`_winreg <winreg>`: An interface to the Windows registry. :mod:`!_winreg` is an
adaptation of functions that have been part of PythonWin since 1995, but has now
been added to the core distribution, and enhanced to support Unicode.
- :mod:`_winreg` was written by Bill Tutt and Mark Hammond.
+ :mod:`!_winreg` was written by Bill Tutt and Mark Hammond.
* :mod:`zipfile`: A module for reading and writing ZIP-format archives. These
are archives produced by :program:`PKZIP` on DOS/Windows or :program:`zip` on
so you can't just subclass, say, lists in order to add a single useful method to
them. The :mod:`!UserList` module provides a class that supports all of the
methods of lists and that can be subclassed further, but there's lots of C code
-that expects a regular Python list and won't accept a :class:`!UserList`
+that expects a regular Python list and won't accept a :class:`~collections.UserList`
instance.
Python 2.2 fixes this, and in the process adds some exciting new capabilities.
* It's also possible to automatically call methods on accessing or setting an
instance attribute by using a new mechanism called :dfn:`properties`. Many uses
- of :meth:`!__getattr__` can be rewritten to use properties instead, making the
+ of :meth:`~object.__getattr__` can be rewritten to use properties instead, making the
resulting code simpler and faster. As a small side benefit, attributes can now
have docstrings, too.
New and Improved Modules
========================
-* The :mod:`!xmlrpclib` module was contributed to the standard library by Fredrik
+* The :mod:`xmlrpclib <xmlrpc.client>` module was contributed to the standard library by Fredrik
Lundh, providing support for writing XML-RPC clients. XML-RPC is a simple
remote procedure call protocol built on top of HTTP and XML. For example, the
following snippet retrieves a list of RSS channels from the O'Reilly Network,
# 'description': 'A utility which converts HTML to XSL FO.',
# 'title': 'html2fo 0.3 (Default)'}, ... ]
- The :mod:`!SimpleXMLRPCServer` module makes it easy to create straightforward
+ The :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer <xmlrpc.server>` module makes it easy to create straightforward
XML-RPC servers. See http://xmlrpc.scripting.com/ for more information about XML-RPC.
* The new :mod:`hmac` module implements the HMAC algorithm described by
* Several functions that originally returned lengthy tuples now return
pseudo-sequences that still behave like tuples but also have mnemonic attributes such
- as :attr:`!memberst_mtime` or :attr:`!tm_year`. The enhanced functions include
+ as :attr:`!memberst_mtime` or :attr:`~time.struct_time.tm_year`. The enhanced functions include
:func:`~os.stat`, :func:`~os.fstat`, :func:`~os.statvfs`, and :func:`~os.fstatvfs` in the
:mod:`os` module, and :func:`~time.localtime`, :func:`~time.gmtime`, and :func:`~time.strptime` in
the :mod:`time` module.
:func:`nsmallest` that use heaps to find the N largest or smallest values in a
dataset without the expense of a full sort. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
-* The :mod:`httplib` module now contains constants for HTTP status codes defined
+* The :mod:`httplib <http>` module now contains constants for HTTP status codes defined
in various HTTP-related RFC documents. Constants have names such as
:const:`OK`, :const:`CREATED`, :const:`CONTINUE`, and
:const:`MOVED_PERMANENTLY`; use pydoc to get a full list. (Contributed by
now include the string ``'%default'``, which will be replaced by the option's
default value. (Contributed by Greg Ward.)
-* The long-term plan is to deprecate the :mod:`rfc822` module in some future
+* The long-term plan is to deprecate the :mod:`!rfc822` module in some future
Python release in favor of the :mod:`email` package. To this end, the
- :func:`email.Utils.formatdate` function has been changed to make it usable as a
- replacement for :func:`rfc822.formatdate`. You may want to write new e-mail
+ :func:`email.Utils.formatdate <email.utils.formatdate>` function has been changed to make it usable as a
+ replacement for :func:`!rfc822.formatdate`. You may want to write new e-mail
processing code with this in mind. (Change implemented by Anthony Baxter.)
* A new ``urandom(n)`` function was added to the :mod:`os` module, returning
sockets, and regular expression pattern objects. (Contributed by Raymond
Hettinger.)
-* The :mod:`xmlrpclib` module now supports a multi-call extension for
+* The :mod:`xmlrpclib <xmlrpc.client>` module now supports a multi-call extension for
transmitting multiple XML-RPC calls in a single HTTP operation. (Contributed by
Brian Quinlan.)
cookielib
---------
-The :mod:`cookielib` library supports client-side handling for HTTP cookies,
-mirroring the :mod:`Cookie` module's server-side cookie support. Cookies are
+The :mod:`cookielib <http.cookiejar>` library supports client-side handling for HTTP cookies,
+mirroring the :mod:`Cookie <http.cookies>` module's server-side cookie support. Cookies are
stored in cookie jars; the library transparently stores cookies offered by the
web server in the cookie jar, and fetches the cookie from the jar when
connecting to the server. As in web browsers, policy objects control whether
use the Mozilla or Lynx cookie files, and one that stores cookies in the same
format as the Perl libwww library.
-:mod:`urllib2` has been changed to interact with :mod:`cookielib`:
+:mod:`urllib2 <urllib.request>` has been changed to interact with :mod:`cookielib <http.cookiejar>`:
:class:`HTTPCookieProcessor` manages a cookie jar that is used when accessing
URLs.
.. Patch 790710
-* The :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`cPickle` modules no longer accept a return value
- of ``None`` from the :meth:`__reduce__` method; the method must return a tuple
+* The :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`!cPickle` modules no longer accept a return value
+ of ``None`` from the :meth:`~object.__reduce__` method; the method must return a tuple
of arguments instead. The ability to return ``None`` was deprecated in Python
2.4, so this completes the removal of the feature.
.. Patch #1472854
-* The :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer` and :mod:`DocXMLRPCServer` classes now have a
+* The :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer <xmlrpc.server>` and :mod:`DocXMLRPCServer <xmlrpc.server>` classes now have a
:attr:`rpc_paths` attribute that constrains XML-RPC operations to a limited set
of URL paths; the default is to allow only ``'/'`` and ``'/RPC2'``. Setting
:attr:`rpc_paths` to ``None`` or an empty tuple disables this path checking.
.. Patch #754022
-* The :mod:`xmlrpclib` module now supports returning :class:`~datetime.datetime` objects
- for the XML-RPC date type. Supply ``use_datetime=True`` to the :func:`loads`
- function or the :class:`Unmarshaller` class to enable this feature. (Contributed
+* The :mod:`xmlrpclib <xmlrpc.client>` module now supports returning :class:`~datetime.datetime` objects
+ for the XML-RPC date type. Supply ``use_datetime=True`` to the :func:`~xmlrpc.client.loads`
+ function or the :class:`!Unmarshaller` class to enable this feature. (Contributed
by Skip Montanaro.)
.. Patch 1120353
appeared. In Python 2.5, the argument must be exactly one %char specifier with
no surrounding text.
-* Library: The :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`cPickle` modules no longer accept a
- return value of ``None`` from the :meth:`__reduce__` method; the method must
+* Library: The :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`!cPickle` modules no longer accept a
+ return value of ``None`` from the :meth:`~object.__reduce__` method; the method must
return a tuple of arguments instead. The modules also no longer accept the
deprecated *bin* keyword parameter.
-* Library: The :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer` and :mod:`DocXMLRPCServer` classes now
+* Library: The :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer <xmlrpc.server>` and :mod:`DocXMLRPCServer <xmlrpc.server>` classes now
have a :attr:`rpc_paths` attribute that constrains XML-RPC operations to a
limited set of URL paths; the default is to allow only ``'/'`` and ``'/RPC2'``.
Setting :attr:`rpc_paths` to ``None`` or an empty tuple disables this path
(In Python 2.6, :class:`io.StringIO` is implemented in
pure Python, so it's pretty slow. You should therefore stick with the
- existing :mod:`StringIO` module or :mod:`cStringIO` for now. At some
+ existing :mod:`!StringIO` module or :mod:`!cStringIO` for now. At some
point Python 3.0's :mod:`io` module will be rewritten into C for speed,
and perhaps the C implementation will be backported to the 2.x releases.)
Nubis; :issue:`1817`.)
The :func:`parse_qs` and :func:`parse_qsl` functions have been
- relocated from the :mod:`!cgi` module to the :mod:`urlparse` module.
+ relocated from the :mod:`!cgi` module to the :mod:`urlparse <urllib.parse>` module.
The versions still available in the :mod:`!cgi` module will
trigger :exc:`PendingDeprecationWarning` messages in 2.6
(:issue:`600362`).
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
-* The :mod:`Cookie` module's :class:`Morsel` objects now support an
- :attr:`httponly` attribute. In some browsers. cookies with this attribute
+* The :mod:`Cookie <http.cookies>` module's :class:`~http.cookies.Morsel` objects now support an
+ :attr:`~http.cookies.Morsel.httponly` attribute. In some browsers. cookies with this attribute
set cannot be accessed or manipulated by JavaScript code.
(Contributed by Arvin Schnell; :issue:`1638033`.)
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
* An optional ``timeout`` parameter, specifying a timeout measured in
- seconds, was added to the :class:`httplib.HTTPConnection` and
- :class:`HTTPSConnection` class constructors. (Added by Facundo
+ seconds, was added to the :class:`httplib.HTTPConnection <http.client.HTTPConnection>` and
+ :class:`HTTPSConnection <http.client.HTTPSConnection>` class constructors. (Added by Facundo
Batista.)
* Most of the :mod:`inspect` module's functions, such as
``socket(socket.AF_INET, ...)`` may be all that's required to make
your code work with IPv6.
-* The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer` module now support
- calling a :meth:`handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity
- specified by the server's :attr:`timeout` attribute. (Contributed
- by Michael Pomraning.) The :meth:`serve_forever` method
+* The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer <socketserver>` module now support
+ calling a :meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity
+ specified by the server's :attr:`~socketserver.BaseServer.timeout` attribute. (Contributed
+ by Michael Pomraning.) The :meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever` method
now takes an optional poll interval measured in seconds,
controlling how often the server will check for a shutdown request.
(Contributed by Pedro Werneck and Jeffrey Yasskin;
``with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tmp: ...``.
(Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky; :issue:`2021`.)
-* The :mod:`test.test_support` module gained a number
+* The :mod:`test.test_support <test.support>` module gained a number
of context managers useful for writing tests.
- :func:`EnvironmentVarGuard` is a
+ :func:`~test.support.os_helper.EnvironmentVarGuard` is a
context manager that temporarily changes environment variables and
automatically restores them to their old values.
(:issue:`1513695`)
* An optional ``timeout`` parameter was added to the
- :func:`urllib.urlopen` function and the
+ :func:`urllib.urlopen <urllib.request.urlopen>` function and the
:class:`urllib.ftpwrapper` class constructor, as well as the
- :func:`urllib2.urlopen` function. The parameter specifies a timeout
+ :func:`urllib2.urlopen <urllib.request.urlopen>` function. The parameter specifies a timeout
measured in seconds. For example::
>>> u = urllib2.urlopen("http://slow.example.com",
intended for testing purposes that lets you temporarily modify the
warning filters and then restore their original values (:issue:`3781`).
-* The XML-RPC :class:`SimpleXMLRPCServer` and :class:`DocXMLRPCServer`
+* The XML-RPC :class:`SimpleXMLRPCServer <xmlrpc.server>` and :class:`DocXMLRPCServer <xmlrpc.server>`
classes can now be prevented from immediately opening and binding to
their socket by passing ``False`` as the *bind_and_activate*
constructor parameter. This can be used to modify the instance's
information. (Contributed by Alan McIntyre as part of his
project for Google's Summer of Code 2007.)
-* The :mod:`xmlrpclib` module no longer automatically converts
+* The :mod:`xmlrpclib <xmlrpc.client>` module no longer automatically converts
:class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.time` to the
- :class:`xmlrpclib.DateTime` type; the conversion semantics were
+ :class:`xmlrpclib.DateTime <xmlrpc.client.DateTime>` type; the conversion semantics were
not necessarily correct for all applications. Code using
- :mod:`xmlrpclib` should convert :class:`date` and :class:`~datetime.time`
+ :mod:`!xmlrpclib` should convert :class:`date` and :class:`~datetime.time`
instances. (:issue:`1330538`) The code can also handle
dates before 1900 (contributed by Ralf Schmitt; :issue:`2014`)
and 64-bit integers represented by using ``<i8>`` in XML-RPC responses
:exc:`StandardError` but now it is, through :exc:`IOError`.
(Implemented by Gregory P. Smith; :issue:`1706815`.)
-* The :mod:`xmlrpclib` module no longer automatically converts
+* The :mod:`xmlrpclib <xmlrpc.client>` module no longer automatically converts
:class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.time` to the
- :class:`xmlrpclib.DateTime` type; the conversion semantics were
+ :class:`xmlrpclib.DateTime <xmlrpc.client.DateTime>` type; the conversion semantics were
not necessarily correct for all applications. Code using
- :mod:`xmlrpclib` should convert :class:`date` and :class:`~datetime.time`
+ :mod:`!xmlrpclib` should convert :class:`date` and :class:`~datetime.time`
instances. (:issue:`1330538`)
* (3.0-warning mode) The :class:`Exception` class now warns
(Contributed by Brian Curtin; :issue:`7301`.)
For example, the following setting will print warnings every time
-they occur, but turn warnings from the :mod:`Cookie` module into an
+they occur, but turn warnings from the :mod:`Cookie <http.cookies>` module into an
error. (The exact syntax for setting an environment variable varies
across operating systems and shells.)
scan. This is sometimes faster by a factor of 10. (Added by
Florent Xicluna; :issue:`7462` and :issue:`7622`.)
-* The :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`cPickle` modules now automatically
+* The :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`!cPickle` modules now automatically
intern the strings used for attribute names, reducing memory usage
of the objects resulting from unpickling. (Contributed by Jake
McGuire; :issue:`5084`.)
-* The :mod:`cPickle` module now special-cases dictionaries,
+* The :mod:`!cPickle` module now special-cases dictionaries,
nearly halving the time required to pickle them.
(Contributed by Collin Winter; :issue:`5670`.)
statement, has been deprecated, because the :keyword:`!with` statement
now supports multiple context managers.
-* The :mod:`cookielib` module now ignores cookies that have an invalid
+* The :mod:`cookielib <http.cookiejar>` module now ignores cookies that have an invalid
version field, one that doesn't contain an integer value. (Fixed by
John J. Lee; :issue:`3924`.)
``('md5', 'sha1', 'sha224', 'sha256', 'sha384', 'sha512')``.
(Contributed by Carl Chenet; :issue:`7418`.)
-* The default :class:`~httplib.HTTPResponse` class used by the :mod:`httplib` module now
+* The default :class:`~http.client.HTTPResponse` class used by the :mod:`httplib <http>` module now
supports buffering, resulting in much faster reading of HTTP responses.
(Contributed by Kristján Valur Jónsson; :issue:`4879`.)
- The :class:`~httplib.HTTPConnection` and :class:`~httplib.HTTPSConnection` classes
+ The :class:`~http.client.HTTPConnection` and :class:`~http.client.HTTPSConnection` classes
now support a *source_address* parameter, a ``(host, port)`` 2-tuple
giving the source address that will be used for the connection.
(Contributed by Eldon Ziegler; :issue:`3972`.)
the :class:`bytearray` and :class:`memoryview` objects. (Implemented by
Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8104`.)
-* The :mod:`SocketServer` module's :class:`~SocketServer.TCPServer` class now
+* The :mod:`SocketServer <socketserver>` module's :class:`~socketserver.TCPServer` class now
supports socket timeouts and disabling the Nagle algorithm.
- The :attr:`~SocketServer.TCPServer.disable_nagle_algorithm` class attribute
+ The :attr:`!disable_nagle_algorithm` class attribute
defaults to ``False``; if overridden to be true,
new request connections will have the TCP_NODELAY option set to
prevent buffering many small sends into a single TCP packet.
- The :attr:`~SocketServer.BaseServer.timeout` class attribute can hold
+ The :attr:`~socketserver.BaseServer.timeout` class attribute can hold
a timeout in seconds that will be applied to the request socket; if
- no request is received within that time, :meth:`~SocketServer.BaseServer.handle_timeout`
- will be called and :meth:`~SocketServer.BaseServer.handle_request` will return.
+ no request is received within that time, :meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.handle_timeout`
+ will be called and :meth:`~socketserver.BaseServer.handle_request` will return.
(Contributed by Kristján Valur Jónsson; :issue:`6192` and :issue:`6267`.)
* Updated module: the :mod:`sqlite3` module has been updated to
and has been updated to version 5.2.0 (updated by
Florent Xicluna; :issue:`8024`).
-* The :mod:`urlparse` module's :func:`~urlparse.urlsplit` now handles
+* The :mod:`urlparse <urllib.parse>` module's :func:`~urllib.parse.urlsplit` now handles
unknown URL schemes in a fashion compliant with :rfc:`3986`: if the
URL is of the form ``"<something>://..."``, the text before the
``://`` is treated as the scheme, even if it's a made-up scheme that
(Python 2.7 actually produces slightly different output, since it
returns a named tuple instead of a standard tuple.)
- The :mod:`urlparse` module also supports IPv6 literal addresses as defined by
+ The :mod:`urlparse <urllib.parse>` module also supports IPv6 literal addresses as defined by
:rfc:`2732` (contributed by Senthil Kumaran; :issue:`2987`).
.. doctest::
or comment (which looks like ``<!-- comment -->``).
(Patch by Neil Muller; :issue:`2746`.)
-* The XML-RPC client and server, provided by the :mod:`xmlrpclib` and
- :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer` modules, have improved performance by
+* The XML-RPC client and server, provided by the :mod:`xmlrpclib <xmlrpc.client>` and
+ :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer <xmlrpc.server>` modules, have improved performance by
supporting HTTP/1.1 keep-alive and by optionally using gzip encoding
to compress the XML being exchanged. The gzip compression is
controlled by the :attr:`encode_threshold` attribute of
and :data:`LIBRARIES_ASSEMBLY_NAME_PREFIX`.
(Contributed by David Cournapeau; :issue:`4365`.)
-* The :mod:`_winreg` module for accessing the registry now implements
- the :func:`~_winreg.CreateKeyEx` and :func:`~_winreg.DeleteKeyEx`
+* The :mod:`_winreg <winreg>` module for accessing the registry now implements
+ the :func:`~winreg.CreateKeyEx` and :func:`~winreg.DeleteKeyEx`
functions, extended versions of previously supported functions that
- take several extra arguments. The :func:`~_winreg.DisableReflectionKey`,
- :func:`~_winreg.EnableReflectionKey`, and :func:`~_winreg.QueryReflectionKey`
+ take several extra arguments. The :func:`~winreg.DisableReflectionKey`,
+ :func:`~winreg.EnableReflectionKey`, and :func:`~winreg.QueryReflectionKey`
were also tested and documented.
(Implemented by Brian Curtin: :issue:`7347`.)
which raises an exception if there's an error.
(Changed by Lars Gustäbel; :issue:`7357`.)
-* The :mod:`urlparse` module's :func:`~urlparse.urlsplit` now handles
+* The :mod:`urlparse <urllib.parse>` module's :func:`~urllib.parse.urlsplit` now handles
unknown URL schemes in a fashion compliant with :rfc:`3986`: if the
URL is of the form ``"<something>://..."``, the text before the
``://`` is treated as the scheme, even if it's a made-up scheme that
PEP 476: Enabling certificate verification by default for stdlib http clients
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-:pep:`476` updated :mod:`httplib` and modules which use it, such as
-:mod:`urllib2` and :mod:`xmlrpclib`, to now verify that the server
+:pep:`476` updated :mod:`httplib <http>` and modules which use it, such as
+:mod:`urllib2 <urllib.request>` and :mod:`xmlrpclib`, to now verify that the server
presents a certificate which is signed by a Certificate Authority in the
platform trust store and whose hostname matches the hostname being requested
by default, significantly improving security for many applications. This
(However, the standard library remains ASCII-only with the exception
of contributor names in comments.)
-* The :mod:`StringIO` and :mod:`cStringIO` modules are gone. Instead,
+* The :mod:`!StringIO` and :mod:`!cStringIO` modules are gone. Instead,
import the :mod:`io` module and use :class:`io.StringIO` or
:class:`io.BytesIO` for text and data respectively.
removal in Python 3.0 due to lack of use or because a better
replacement exists. See :pep:`3108` for an exhaustive list.
-* The :mod:`bsddb3` package was removed because its presence in the
+* The :mod:`!bsddb3` package was removed because its presence in the
core standard library has proved over time to be a particular burden
for the core developers due to testing instability and Berkeley DB's
release schedule. However, the package is alive and well,
* A common pattern in Python 2.x is to have one version of a module
implemented in pure Python, with an optional accelerated version
implemented as a C extension; for example, :mod:`pickle` and
- :mod:`cPickle`. This places the burden of importing the accelerated
+ :mod:`!cPickle`. This places the burden of importing the accelerated
version and falling back on the pure Python version on each user of
these modules. In Python 3.0, the accelerated versions are
considered implementation details of the pure Python versions.
Users should always import the standard version, which attempts to
import the accelerated version and falls back to the pure Python
- version. The :mod:`pickle` / :mod:`cPickle` pair received this
+ version. The :mod:`pickle` / :mod:`!cPickle` pair received this
treatment. The :mod:`profile` module is on the list for 3.1. The
- :mod:`StringIO` module has been turned into a class in the :mod:`io`
+ :mod:`!StringIO` module has been turned into a class in the :mod:`io`
module.
* Some related modules have been grouped into packages, and usually
the submodule names have been simplified. The resulting new
packages are:
- * :mod:`dbm` (:mod:`anydbm`, :mod:`dbhash`, :mod:`dbm`,
- :mod:`dumbdbm`, :mod:`gdbm`, :mod:`whichdb`).
+ * :mod:`dbm` (:mod:`!anydbm`, :mod:`!dbhash`, :mod:`!dbm`,
+ :mod:`!dumbdbm`, :mod:`!gdbm`, :mod:`!whichdb`).
- * :mod:`html` (:mod:`HTMLParser`, :mod:`htmlentitydefs`).
+ * :mod:`html` (:mod:`!HTMLParser`, :mod:`!htmlentitydefs`).
- * :mod:`http` (:mod:`httplib`, :mod:`BaseHTTPServer`,
- :mod:`CGIHTTPServer`, :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer`, :mod:`Cookie`,
- :mod:`cookielib`).
+ * :mod:`http` (:mod:`!httplib`, :mod:`!BaseHTTPServer`,
+ :mod:`!CGIHTTPServer`, :mod:`!SimpleHTTPServer`, :mod:`!Cookie`,
+ :mod:`!cookielib`).
* :mod:`tkinter` (all :mod:`Tkinter`-related modules except
:mod:`turtle`). The target audience of :mod:`turtle` doesn't
really care about :mod:`tkinter`. Also note that as of Python
2.6, the functionality of :mod:`turtle` has been greatly enhanced.
- * :mod:`urllib` (:mod:`urllib`, :mod:`urllib2`, :mod:`urlparse`,
- :mod:`robotparse`).
+ * :mod:`urllib` (:mod:`!urllib`, :mod:`!urllib2`, :mod:`!urlparse`,
+ :mod:`!robotparse`).
- * :mod:`xmlrpc` (:mod:`xmlrpclib`, :mod:`DocXMLRPCServer`,
- :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer`).
+ * :mod:`xmlrpc` (:mod:`!xmlrpclib`, :mod:`!DocXMLRPCServer`,
+ :mod:`!SimpleXMLRPCServer`).
Some other changes to standard library modules, not covered by
:pep:`3108`:
* Cleanup of the :mod:`operator` module: removed
:func:`sequenceIncludes` and :func:`isCallable`.
-* Cleanup of the :mod:`thread` module: :func:`acquire_lock` and
- :func:`release_lock` are gone; use :func:`acquire` and
- :func:`release` instead.
+* Cleanup of the :mod:`!thread` module: :func:`!acquire_lock` and
+ :func:`!release_lock` are gone; use :meth:`~threading.Lock.acquire` and
+ :meth:`~threading.Lock.release` instead.
* Cleanup of the :mod:`random` module: removed the :func:`jumpahead` API.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`21205`.)
* The deprecated "strict" mode and argument of :class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser`,
- :meth:`HTMLParser.error`, and the :exc:`HTMLParserError` exception have been
+ :meth:`!HTMLParser.error`, and the :exc:`!HTMLParserError` exception have been
removed. (Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`15114`.)
The *convert_charrefs* argument of :class:`~html.parser.HTMLParser` is
now ``True`` by default. (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`21047`.)
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