From ca083146543d68774ca003e78a7cd9f63b849788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elias Dorneles Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 21:38:25 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] makes more explicit source of problems in Python 3 limitations --- docs/news.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst index 5a4049e26..d38fe34ef 100644 --- a/docs/news.rst +++ b/docs/news.rst @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ This 1.1 release brings a lot of interesting features and bug fixes: use ``scrapy shell ./index.html`` to load a local file. - Robots.txt compliance is now enabled by default for newly-created projects (:issue:`1724`). Scrapy will also wait for robots.txt to be downloaded - before proceeding with the crawl. (:issue:`1735`). If you want to disable + before proceeding with the crawl (:issue:`1735`). If you want to disable this behavior, update :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` in ``settings.py`` file after creating a new project. - Exporters now work on unicode, instead of bytes by default (:issue:`1080`). @@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ features are still missing (and some may never be ported). Almost all builtin extensions/middlewares are expected to work. However, we are aware of some limitations in Python 3: -- Doesn't work in Windows yet (non-Python 3 ported Twisted dependency) +- Scrapy doesn't work yet in Windows with Python 3 (non-Python 3 ported Twisted dependency) - S3 downloads are not supported (see :issue:`1718`) - Sending emails is not supported (non-Python 3 ported Twisted dependency) - FTP download handler is not supported (non-Python 3 ported Twisted dependency) - Telnet is not supported (non-Python 3 ported Twisted dependency) -- There are problems with non-ASCII URLs in Python 3 +- Scrapy has problems handling non-ASCII URLs in Python 3 Additional New Features and Enhancements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~