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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2002-04-01 19:22:34 (GMT)
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Mention 2.2.1 in intro and in bug/patch counts
Fix two typos spotted by Joonas Paalasmaa
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
% $Id$
\title{What's New in Python 2.2}
-\release{1.00}
+\release{1.01}
\author{A.M. Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}}
\begin{document}
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
\section{Introduction}
-This article explains the new features in Python 2.2, released on
-December 21, 2001.
+This article explains the new features in Python 2.2.1, released on
+April 10, 2002. Python 2.2.1 is a bugfix release of Python 2.2,
+originally released on December 21, 2001.
Python 2.2 can be thought of as the "cleanup release". There are some
features such as generators and iterators that are completely new, but
@@ -1063,7 +1064,7 @@ Jeremy Hylton.}
\begin{itemize}
\item The \module{xmlrpclib} module was contributed to the standard
- library by Fredrik Lundh, provding support for writing XML-RPC
+ library by Fredrik Lundh, providing support for writing XML-RPC
clients. XML-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol built on
top of HTTP and XML. For example, the following snippet retrieves a
list of RSS channels from the O'Reilly Network, and then
@@ -1113,7 +1114,7 @@ more information about XML-RPC.
The original patch for this feature was contributed by Nick Mathewson.
\item The Python profiler has been extensively reworked and various
- errors in its output have been corrected. (Contributed by Fred
+ errors in its output have been corrected. (Contributed by
Fred~L. Drake, Jr. and Tim Peters.)
\item The \module{socket} module can be compiled to support IPv6;
@@ -1276,9 +1277,11 @@ affect you very much.
As usual there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes
scattered throughout the source tree. A search through the CVS change
-logs finds there were 527 patches applied, and 683 bugs fixed; both
-figures are likely to be underestimates. Some of the more notable
-changes are:
+logs finds there were 527 patches applied and 683 bugs fixed between
+Python 2.1 and 2.2; 2.2.1 applied 139 patches and fixed 143 bugs.
+Both figures are likely to be underestimates.
+
+Some of the more notable changes are:
\begin{itemize}