From: Barry Warsaw Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:57:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add a note about the backport of email 2.4 X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~73 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f0bcc42f04c56b9595e03328390e7fe30ca5194;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Add a note about the backport of email 2.4 --- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index ae3a91960336..05728f2d4d6a 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ Extension modules Library +- The email package from the Python 2.3 development tree has been + backported, including updated documentation. This version + corresponds to email 2.4 and should be nearly completely backward + compatible. However there have been lots of improvements in the + API, so you should read the section in the library manual about the + changes since email v1. + - random.gauss() uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing else, and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it. In other words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the sequence of