From: Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:45:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add info re: pydoc, pkgutil, and setuptools additions
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a2~123
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=17a35f906c29e71510d749283b381d95a5de0316;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

add info re: pydoc, pkgutil, and setuptools additions
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 08c3905cb19c..a061bdb1357d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- New modules: setuptools, easy_install, and pkg_resources, to support
+  building, installing, and using Python eggs, respectively.
+
+- The pydoc module now supports documenting packages contained in
+  .zip or .egg files.
+
+- The pkgutil module now has several new utility functions, such
+  as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either
+  in the filesystem or zip files.
+
+
 - The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local``
   returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup.