New Features whereto now uses the PCRE library - the same regex library used by mod_alias - for compiling regular expressions. Bug Fixes Literal ‘$’ characters are now handled correctly when they appear in substitution strings for RedirectMatch directives.

A Mind At Play by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman should be on every techie’s gift list this year because it is superb and because everyone in a technology or information field should know who Claude Shannon is. When Jimmy Soni offered me a review copy of this new biography of Claude Shannon, I immediately said yes. I knew a little about Shannon from reading The Idea Factory and The Information, and I was looking forward to learning more.

The cmd module contains one public class, Cmd , designed to be used as a base class for interactive shells and other command interpreters. By default it uses readline for interactive prompt handling, command line editing, and command completion. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See PyMOTW.com for more articles from the series.

What’s new in 1.6.0? TimeLimit Rule (contributed by jacques-cadet) Allow more imap configuration via autofiler config (contributed by Matt Olsen)

The readline module can be used to enhance interactive command line programs to make them easier to use. It is primarily used to provide command line text completion, or “tab completion”. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See PyMOTW.com for more articles from the series.

What’s new in 1.5.0? Add support for using the keyring module to store the IMAP password (contributed by Chris Rose) restore the api documentation Add documentation of mailbox list and example configuration (contributed by Dan Poirier)

The shutil module includes high-level file operations such as copying and archiving. Read more… This post is part of the Python Module of the Week series for Python 3. See PyMOTW.com for more articles from the series.

Creating temporary files with unique names securely, so they cannot be guessed by someone wanting to break the application or steal the data, is challenging. The tempfile module provides several functions for creating temporary file system resources securely. TemporaryFile() opens and returns an unnamed file, NamedTemporaryFile() opens and returns a named file, SpooledTemporaryFile holds its content in memory before writing to disk, and TemporaryDirectory is a context manager what removes the directory when the context is closed.

What’s new in 1.4.0? add i18n support to sort actions add internationalized header support (contributed by Ruslan Nasonov) implement “and” rule

What’s new in 1.3.0? add sort action with the ability to derive a destination mailbox name from a message header add sort-mailing-list action add a rule for checking if a message is from a mailing list add a rule for checking if a header exists do not die if there is an error handling one message