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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2001-10-31 13:13:36 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2001-10-31 13:13:36 (GMT) |
| commit | bbde5880a5a285a2e964b390d83543663455763a (patch) | |
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Add paragraph about difflib suggested by David Goodger
Bump version number
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex index 8913dba..cb0817d 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ % $Id$ \title{What's New in Python 2.2} -\release{0.08} +\release{0.09} \author{A.M. Kuchling} \authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}} \begin{document} @@ -1148,6 +1148,15 @@ more information about XML-RPC. generating e-mail messages. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw, and arising out of his work on Mailman.) + \item The \module{difflib} module now contains a new \class{Differ} + class for producing human-readable lists of changes (a ``delta'') + between two sequences of lines of text. There are also two + generator functions, \function{ndiff()} and \function{restore()}, + which respectively return a delta from two sequences, or one of the + original sequences from a delta. (Grunt work contributed by David + Goodger, from ndiff.py code by Tim Peters who then did the + generatorization.) + \item New constants \constant{ascii_letters}, \constant{ascii_lowercase}, and \constant{ascii_uppercase} were added to the \module{string} module. There were several modules in @@ -1395,7 +1404,7 @@ to experiment with these modules can uncomment them manually. The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this article: Fred Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., -Carel Fellinger, Mark Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Michael Hudson, Jack +Carel Fellinger, David Goodger, Mark Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Michael Hudson, Jack Jansen, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Martin von L\"owis, Fredrik Lundh, Michael McLay, Nick Mathewson, Paul Moore, Tim Peters, Jens Quade, Tom Reinhardt, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum, Greg Ward. |