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authorThomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>2014-06-25 18:00:33 -0700
committerThomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>2014-06-25 18:00:33 -0700
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Polish release notes
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@@ -14,17 +14,20 @@ Version 3.3
* Removed the ``pexpect.psh`` module. This was never documented, and we found
no evidence that people use it. The new :mod:`pexpect.replwrap` module
provides a more flexible alternative.
-* Fixed ``TypeError: got <type 'str'> ('\r\n') as pattern`` in ``readline()``
- method of ``spawnu`` (:ghissue:`67`).
-* Fixed issue where EOF was not correctly detected in ``interact()``, causing
+* Fixed ``TypeError: got <type 'str'> ('\r\n') as pattern`` in :meth:`spawnu.readline`
+ method (:ghissue:`67`).
+* Fixed issue where EOF was not correctly detected in :meth:`~.interact`, causing
a repeating loop of output on Linux, and blocking before EOF on BSD and
Solaris (:ghissue:`49`).
-* Several Solaris (SmartOS) bugfixes, preventing IOError exceptions, especially
+* Several Solaris (SmartOS) bugfixes, preventing :exc:`IOError` exceptions, especially
when used with cron(1) (:ghissue:`44`).
-* Added new keyword argument ``echo=True`` for ``spawn()``. On SVR4-like
- systems, the method ``isatty()`` will always return *False*: the child pty
- does not appear as a terminal. Therefore, ``setecho()``, ``getwinsize()``,
- ``setwinsize()``, and ``waitnoecho()`` are not supported on those platforms.
+* Added new keyword argument ``echo=True`` for :class:`spawn`. On SVR4-like
+ systems, the method :meth:`~.isatty` will always return *False*: the child pty
+ does not appear as a terminal. Therefore, :meth:`~.setecho`, :meth:`~.getwinsize`,
+ :meth:`~.setwinsize`, and :meth:`~.waitnoecho` are not supported on those platforms.
+
+After this, we intend to start working on a bigger refactoring of the code, to
+be released as Pexpect 4. There may be more bugfix 3.x releases, however.
Version 3.2
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