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| author | Kevin Christopher Henry <k@severian.com> | 2013-09-17 21:34:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Kevin Christopher Henry <k@severian.com> | 2014-02-08 15:52:06 -0500 |
| commit | 6fe26bd3ee75a6d804ca3861181ad61b1cca45ea (patch) | |
| tree | 106fa42c5398a9eae486364f6faa21d3dc754340 /docs | |
| parent | 07ae47f7f8b5d5f80238ea3018163cad12917852 (diff) | |
Fixed #19373 -- Ported Windows file locking from PyWin32 to ctypes
There wasn't any file locking under Windows unless PyWin32 was
installed. This removes that (undocumented) dependency by using ctypes
instead.
Thanks to Anatoly Techtonik for writing the ctypes port upon which this
is based.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.7.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt index 1fe2b25ecf..5cd2570552 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt @@ -415,6 +415,14 @@ Email * The SMTP :class:`~django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend` now accepts a :attr:`~django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend.timeout` parameter. +File Storage +^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +* File locking on Windows previously depended on the PyWin32 package; if it + wasn't installed, file locking failed silently. That dependency has been + removed, and file locking is now implemented natively on both Windows + and Unix. + File Uploads ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |