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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2001-09-28 20:46:46 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2001-09-28 20:46:46 (GMT)
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
% $Id$
\title{What's New in Python 2.2}
-\release{0.05}
+\release{0.06}
\author{A.M. Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}}
\begin{document}
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
{\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until the
final version of Python 2.2 is released. Currently it's up to date
-for Python 2.2 alpha 1. Please send any comments, bug reports, or
+for Python 2.2 alpha 4. Please send any comments, bug reports, or
questions, no matter how minor, to \email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}.
}
@@ -388,8 +388,6 @@ identically. You can still distinguish them with the
\function{int()} function will now return a long integer if the value
is large enough.
-% XXX is there a warning-enabling command-line option for this?
-
\begin{seealso}
\seepep{237}{Unifying Long Integers and Integers}{Written by
@@ -397,6 +395,7 @@ Moshe Zadka and Guido van Rossum. Implemented mostly by Guido van Rossum.}
\end{seealso}
+
%======================================================================
\section{PEP 238: Changing the Division Operator}
@@ -667,7 +666,12 @@ items = s.meerkat.getItems( {'channel': 4} )
# 'title': 'html2fo 0.3 (Default)'}, ... ]
\end{verbatim}
-See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC.
+The \module{SimpleXMLRPCServer} module makes it easy to create
+straightforward XML-RPC servers. See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for
+more information about XML-RPC.
+
+ \item The new \module{hmac} module implements implements the HMAC
+ algorithm described by \rfc{2104}.
\item The \module{socket} module can be compiled to support IPv6;
specify the \longprogramopt{enable-ipv6} option to Python's configure
@@ -707,10 +711,12 @@ See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC.
in \rfc{2342}, SORT, GETACL and SETACL. (Contributed by Anthony
Baxter and Michel Pelletier.)
- \item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is
- now compliant with \rfc{2822}, an update to \rfc{822}. The module's
- name is \emph{not} going to be changed to \samp{rfc2822}.
- (Contributed by Barry Warsaw.)
+ \item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is now
+ compliant with \rfc{2822}, an update to \rfc{822}. (The module's
+ name is \emph{not} going to be changed to \samp{rfc2822}.) A new
+ package, \module{email}, has also been added for parsing and
+ generating e-mail messages. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw, and
+ arising out of his work on Mailman.)
\item New constants \constant{ascii_letters},
\constant{ascii_lowercase}, and \constant{ascii_uppercase} were