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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2001-10-31 13:13:36 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2001-10-31 13:13:36 (GMT)
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@@ -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.