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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2005-06-09 15:57:32 (GMT)
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[Bug #1079134] Mention change to date comparisons; bump version info and release date to 2.4.1
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\maketitle
\tableofcontents
-This article explains the new features in Python 2.4, released on
-November~30, 2004.
+This article explains the new features in Python 2.4.1, released on
+March~30, 2005.
Python 2.4 is a medium-sized release. It doesn't introduce as many
changes as the radical Python 2.2, but introduces more features than
@@ -1713,6 +1713,11 @@ The \exception{OverflowWarning} warning will disappear in Python 2.5.
now return an empty list instead of raising a \exception{TypeError}
exception if called with no arguments.
+\item You can no longer compare the \class{date} and \class{datetime}
+ instances provided by the \module{datetime} module. Two
+ instances of different classes will now always be unequal, and
+ relative comparisons (\code{<}, \code{>}) will raise a \exception{TypeError}.
+
\item \function{dircache.listdir()} now passes exceptions to the caller
instead of returning empty lists.
@@ -1745,7 +1750,8 @@ longer set a handler on the \constant{SIGKILL} signal.
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
-article: Koray Can, Hye-Shik Chang, Michael Dyck, Raymond Hettinger,
-Brian Hurt, Hamish Lawson, Fredrik Lundh, Sean Reifschneider.
+article: Koray Can, Hye-Shik Chang, Michael Dyck, Raymond Hettinger,
+Brian Hurt, Hamish Lawson, Fredrik Lundh, Sean Reifschneider,
+Sadruddin Rejeb.
\end{document}