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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2003-05-07 17:00:35 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2003-05-07 17:00:35 (GMT)
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Add list.insert() change for negative positions
Add ~ to MvL's last name Fix use of all-caps for a name Bump version number
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
% $Id$
\title{What's New in Python 2.3}
-\release{0.10}
+\release{0.11}
\author{A.M.\ Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{amk@amk.ca}}
@@ -300,8 +300,8 @@ alphanumerics.
\begin{seealso}
\seepep{263}{Defining Python Source Code Encodings}{Written by
-Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg and Martin von L\"owis; implemented by SUZUKI
-Hisao and Martin von L\"owis.}
+Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg and Martin von~L\"owis; implemented by Suzuki
+Hisao and Martin von~L\"owis.}
\end{seealso}
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ Under MacOS, \function{os.listdir()} may now return Unicode filenames.
\begin{seealso}
\seepep{277}{Unicode file name support for Windows NT}{Written by Neil
-Hodgson; implemented by Neil Hodgson, Martin von L\"owis, and Mark
+Hodgson; implemented by Neil Hodgson, Martin von~L\"owis, and Mark
Hammond.}
\end{seealso}
@@ -1091,6 +1091,12 @@ adds up the numeric items in the iterable object and returns their sum.
to concatenate a bunch of strings, for example. (Contributed by Alex
Martelli.)
+\item \code{list.insert(\var{pos}, \var{value})} used to
+insert \var{value} at the front of the list when \var{pos} was
+negative. The behaviour has now been changed to be consistent with
+slice indexing, so when \var{pos} is -1 the value will be inserted
+before the last element, and so forth.
+
\item Dictionaries have a new method, \method{pop(\var{key}\optional{,
\var{default}})}, that returns the value corresponding to \var{key}
and removes that key/value pair from the dictionary. If the requested
@@ -1786,7 +1792,7 @@ results. Other interfaces can't be handled automatically but
at least you can find out about the problem. See
\url{http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-December/031107.html} %
for a more detailed explanation of this change. (Implemented by
-Martin von L\"owis.)
+Martin von~L\"owis.)
\item Calling Tcl methods through \module{_tkinter} no longer
returns only strings. Instead, if Tcl returns other objects those
@@ -2328,9 +2334,9 @@ suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
article: Jeff Bauer, Simon Brunning, Brett Cannon, Michael Chermside,
Andrew Dalke, Scott David Daniels, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., Kelly Gerber,
Raymond Hettinger, Michael Hudson, Chris Lambert, Detlef Lannert,
-Martin von L\"owis, Andrew MacIntyre, Lalo Martins, Gustavo Niemeyer,
-Neal Norwitz, Hans Nowak, Chris Reedy, Francesco Ricciardi,
-Vinay Sajip, Neil Schemenauer,
-Roman Suzi, Jason Tishler, Just van~Rossum.
+Martin von~L\"owis, Andrew MacIntyre, Lalo Martins, Chad Netzer,
+Gustavo Niemeyer, Neal Norwitz, Hans Nowak, Chris Reedy, Francesco
+Ricciardi, Vinay Sajip, Neil Schemenauer, Roman Suzi, Jason Tishler,
+Just van~Rossum.
\end{document}