add info to changes.txt and whatsnew about pshell changes; removed unused import and unwrap string

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst b/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst
index a9df38a45..b249b0ba7 100644
--- a/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst
+++ b/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst
@@ -94,6 +94,19 @@ Default HTTP Exception View
 Minor Feature Additions
 -----------------------
 
+- It is now possible to invoke ``paster pshell`` even if the paste ini file
+  section name pointed to in its argument is not actually a Pyramid WSGI
+  application.  The shell will work in a degraded mode, and will warn the
+  user.  See "The Interactive Shell" in the "Creating a Pyramid Project"
+  narrative documentation section.
+
+- ``paster pshell`` now offers more built-in global variables by default
+  (including ``app`` and ``settings``).  See :ref:`interactive_shell`.
+
+- It is now possible to add a ``[pshell]`` section to your application's .ini
+  configuration file, which influences the global names available to a pshell
+  session.  See :ref:`extending_pshell`.
+
 - The :meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.scan` method has grown a ``**kw``
   argument.  ``kw`` argument represents a set of keyword arguments to pass to
   the Venusian ``Scanner`` object created by Pyramid.  (See the
@@ -295,6 +308,12 @@ Backwards Incompatibilities
 Deprecations and Behavior Differences
 -------------------------------------
 
+- The ``paster pshell``, ``paster proutes``, and ``paster pviews`` commands
+  now take a single argument in the form ``/path/to/config.ini#sectionname``
+  rather than the previous 2-argument spelling ``/path/to/config.ini
+  sectionname``.  ``#sectionname`` may be omitted, in which case ``#main`` is
+  assumed.
+
 - The default Mako renderer is now configured to escape all HTML in
   expression tags. This is intended to help prevent XSS attacks caused by
   rendering unsanitized input from users. To revert this behavior in user's