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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2001-08-07 14:28:58 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2001-08-07 14:28:58 (GMT)
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Correct error noticed by Keith Briggs Re-indent a paragraph
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@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ something like this:
\method{__getitem__()} is more properly used to define an indexing
operation on an object so that you can write \code{obj[5]} to retrieve
-the fifth element. It's a bit misleading when you're using this only
+the sixth element. It's a bit misleading when you're using this only
to support \keyword{for} loops. Consider some file-like object that
wants to be looped over; the \var{index} parameter is essentially
meaningless, as the class probably assumes that a series of
@@ -510,11 +510,11 @@ Jeremy Hylton.}
\begin{itemize}
\item The \module{xmlrpclib} module was contributed to the standard
-library by Fredrik Lundh. It provides 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 retrieves a
-list of the recent headlines for one channel:
+ library by Fredrik Lundh. It provides 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 retrieves a
+ list of the recent headlines for one channel:
\begin{verbatim}
import xmlrpclib
@@ -585,6 +585,11 @@ See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC.
modules have all been fixed to use \constant{ascii_letters} instead.
(Reported by an unknown person; fixed by Fred L. Drake, Jr.)
+ \item The \module{mimetypes} module now makes it easier to use
+ alternative MIME-type databases by the addition of a
+ \class{MimeTypes} class, which takes a list of filenames to be
+ parsed. (Contributed by Fred L. Drake, Jr.)
+
\end{itemize}
@@ -701,12 +706,19 @@ changes are:
\item On Windows, Python can now be compiled with Borland C thanks
to a number of patches contributed by Stephen Hansen.
-
+
\item Another Windows enhancement: Wise Solutions generously offered
PythonLabs use of their InstallerMaster 8.1 system. Earlier
PythonLabs Windows installers used Wise 5.0a, which was beginning to
show its age. (Packaged up by Tim Peters.)
+ \item Files ending in \samp{.pyw} can now be imported on Windows.
+ \samp{.pyw} is a Windows-only thing, used to indicate that a script
+ needs to be run using PYTHONW.EXE instead of PYTHON.EXE in order to
+ prevent a DOS console from popping up to display the output. This
+ patch makes it possible to import such scripts, in case they're also
+ usable as modules. (Implemented by David Bolen.)
+
\item On platforms where Python uses the C \cfunction{dlopen()} function
to load extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used
by \cfunction{dlopen()} using the \function{sys.getdlopenflags()} and
@@ -720,7 +732,7 @@ changes are:
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred
-Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
-Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
+Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e
+Lemburg, Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
\end{document}