Why are these new features being backported to 2.4 ?

georg.brandl wrote:
> Author: georg.brandl
> Date: Sun Feb 19 10:51:33 2006
> New Revision: 42490
> 
> Modified:
>    python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py
>    python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py
>    python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS
> Log:
> Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
> 
> 
> Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py
> ==============================================================================
> --- python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py  (original)
> +++ python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/fileinput.py  Sun Feb 19 10:51:33 2006
> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
>      """
>  
>      def __init__(self, files=None, inplace=0, backup="", bufsize=0):
> -        if type(files) == type(''):
> +        if isinstance(files, basestring):
>              files = (files,)
>          else:
>              if files is None:
> 
> Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py
> ==============================================================================
> --- python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py        
> (original)
> +++ python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/test/test_fileinput.py        Sun Feb 
> 19 10:51:33 2006
> @@ -157,3 +157,13 @@
>      verify(fi.lineno() == 6)
>  finally:
>      remove_tempfiles(t1, t2)
> +
> +if verbose:
> +    print "15. Unicode filenames"
> +try:
> +    t1 = writeTmp(1, ["A\nB"])
> +    fi = FileInput(files=unicode(t1, sys.getfilesystemencoding()))
> +    lines = list(fi)
> +    verify(lines == ["A\n", "B"])
> +finally:
> +    remove_tempfiles(t1)
> 
> Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS
> ==============================================================================
> --- python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS (original)
> +++ python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS Sun Feb 19 10:51:33 2006
> @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@
>  Library
>  -------
>  
> +- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
> +
>  - Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
>    two gigabytes.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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