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author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2009-04-07 07:11:00 (GMT) |
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committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2009-04-07 07:11:00 (GMT) |
commit | 79d0b0e0ad577b2cca14d27d501beab04a57470c (patch) | |
tree | d8235a80e36dc12ad0752c30f9bb68340d8c7564 /Doc/whatsnew | |
parent | c4faeea9e04e18be1064fedd05d192c517efdb89 (diff) | |
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Put core language changes in a separate section from module changes.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst index c09b06d..7e15059 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst @@ -143,6 +143,30 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: (Contributed by Fredrik Johansson, Victor Stinner, Raymond Hettinger, and Mark Dickinson; :issue:`3439`.) +* The fields in :func:`format` strings can now be automatically + numbered:: + + >>> 'Sir {} of {}'.format('Gallahad', 'Camelot') + 'Sir Gallahad of Camelot' + + Formerly, the string would have required numbered fields such as: + ``'Sir {0} of {1}'``. + + (Contributed by Eric Smith; :issue:`5237`.) + +* ``round(x, n)`` now returns an integer if *x* is an integer. + Previously it returned a float:: + + >>> round(1123, -2) + 1100 + + (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4707`.) + +.. ====================================================================== + +New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules +===================================== + * Added a :class:`collections.Counter` class to support convenient counting of unique items in a sequence or iterable:: @@ -180,17 +204,6 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger and Mark Dickinson.) -* The fields in :func:`format` strings can now be automatically - numbered:: - - >>> 'Sir {} of {}'.format('Gallahad', 'Camelot') - 'Sir Gallahad of Camelot' - - Formerly, the string would have required numbered fields such as: - ``'Sir {0} of {1}'``. - - (Contributed by Eric Smith; :issue:`5237`.) - * The :mod:`itertools` module grew two new functions. The :func:`itertools.combinations_with_replacement` function is one of four for generating combinatorics including permutations and Cartesian @@ -220,14 +233,6 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`1818`.) -* ``round(x, n)`` now returns an integer if *x* is an integer. - Previously it returned a float:: - - >>> round(1123, -2) - 1100 - - (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4707`.) - * The :func:`re.sub`, :func:`re.subn` and :func:`re.split` functions now accept a flags parameter. @@ -283,7 +288,7 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: Optimizations -------------- +============= Major performance enhancements have been added: @@ -334,7 +339,7 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added: Apart from the performance improvements this change should be invisible to end users, with one exception: for testing and debugging purposes there's a - new :class:`structseq` ``sys.int_info`` that provides information about the + new :attr:`sys.int_info` that provides information about the internal format, giving the number of bits per digit and the size in bytes of the C type used to store each digit:: |