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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2009-10-27 20:24:45 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ................ r75797 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 16:28:25 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 129 lines Merged revisions 75365,75394,75402-75403,75418,75459,75484,75592-75596,75600,75602-75607,75610-75613,75616-75617,75623,75627,75640,75647,75696,75795 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r75365 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 22:16:16 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix broken links found by "make linkcheck". scipy.org seems to be done right now, so I could not verify links going there. ........ r75394 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-13 20:10:59 +0200 (Di, 13 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix markup. ........ r75402 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 17:51:48 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7125: fix typo. ........ r75403 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 17:57:46 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7126: os.environ changes *do* take effect in subprocesses started with os.system(). ........ r75418 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-14 20:48:32 +0200 (Mi, 14 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7116: str.join() takes an iterable. ........ r75459 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-17 10:57:43 +0200 (Sa, 17 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix refleaks in _ctypes PyCSimpleType_New, which fixes the refleak seen in test___all__. ........ r75484 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-18 09:58:12 +0200 (So, 18 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix missing word. ........ r75592 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:05:48 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix punctuation. ........ r75593 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:06:49 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Revert unintended change. ........ r75594 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:56:02 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix markup. ........ r75595 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 09:56:56 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix duplicate target. ........ r75596 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 10:05:04 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Add a new directive marking up implementation details and start using it. ........ r75600 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:01:46 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Make it more robust. ........ r75602 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:28:06 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Document new directive. ........ r75603 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:28:23 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Allow short form with text as argument. ........ r75604 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:36:50 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix stylesheet for multi-paragraph impl-details. ........ r75605 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 13:48:10 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Use "impl-detail" directive where applicable. ........ r75606 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:00:06 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #6324: membership test tries iteration via __iter__. ........ r75607 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:04:09 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7088: document new functions in signal as Unix-only. ........ r75610 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:27:24 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Reorder __slots__ fine print and add a clarification. ........ r75611 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:42:32 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7035: improve docs of the various <method>_errors() functions, and give them docstrings. ........ r75612 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:52:15 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7156: document curses as Unix-only. ........ r75613 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 17:54:35 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line #6977: getopt does not support optional option arguments. ........ r75616 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 18:17:05 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Add proper references. ........ r75617 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-22 18:20:55 +0200 (Do, 22 Okt 2009) | 1 line Make printout margin important. ........ r75623 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-23 10:14:44 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 1 line #7188: fix optionxform() docs. ........ r75627 | fred.drake | 2009-10-23 15:04:51 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 2 lines add further note about what's passed to optionxform ........ r75640 | neil.schemenauer | 2009-10-23 21:58:17 +0200 (Fr, 23 Okt 2009) | 2 lines Improve some docstrings in the 'warnings' module. ........ r75647 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-24 12:04:19 +0200 (Sa, 24 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix markup. ........ r75696 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-25 21:25:43 +0100 (So, 25 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix a demo. ........ r75795 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 16:10:22 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 1 line Fix a strange mis-edit. ........ ................
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/whatsnew')
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst7
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst18
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst8
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst5
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst4
5 files changed, 19 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
index f5326d7..5fd53d1 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
@@ -572,8 +572,7 @@ Work has been done on porting Python to 64-bit Windows on the Itanium processor,
mostly by Trent Mick of ActiveState. (Confusingly, ``sys.platform`` is still
``'win32'`` on Win64 because it seems that for ease of porting, MS Visual C++
treats code as 32 bit on Itanium.) PythonWin also supports Windows CE; see the
-Python CE page at http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/ce/ for more
-information.
+Python CE page at http://pythonce.sourceforge.net/ for more information.
Another new platform is Darwin/MacOS X; initial support for it is in Python 2.0.
Dynamic loading works, if you specify "configure --with-dyld --with-suffix=.x".
@@ -1041,8 +1040,8 @@ sent over a socket. When compiling Python, you can edit :file:`Modules/Setup`
to include SSL support, which adds an additional function to the :mod:`socket`
module: :func:`socket.ssl(socket, keyfile, certfile)`, which takes a socket
object and returns an SSL socket. The :mod:`httplib` and :mod:`urllib` modules
-were also changed to support "https://" URLs, though no one has implemented FTP
-or SMTP over SSL.
+were also changed to support ``https://`` URLs, though no one has implemented
+FTP or SMTP over SSL.
The :mod:`httplib` module has been rewritten by Greg Stein to support HTTP/1.1.
Backward compatibility with the 1.5 version of :mod:`httplib` is provided,
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
index acdba83..31e8dd0 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ understand the complete implementation and design rationale for a change, refer
to the PEP for a particular new feature.
-.. seealso::
+.. seealso (now defunct)
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1356/urm0109h/0109h.htm
"What's So Special About Python 2.2?" is also about the new 2.2 features, and
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ amazing new capabilities. Before beginning this, the longest and most
complicated section of this article, I'll provide an overview of the changes and
offer some comments.
-A long time ago I wrote a Web page (http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/warts.html)
-listing flaws in Python's design. One of the most significant flaws was that
-it's impossible to subclass Python types implemented in C. In particular, it's
-not possible to subclass built-in types, so you can't just subclass, say, lists
-in order to add a single useful method to them. The :mod:`UserList` module
-provides a class that supports all of the methods of lists and that can be
-subclassed further, but there's lots of C code that expects a regular Python
-list and won't accept a :class:`UserList` instance.
+A long time ago I wrote a Web page listing flaws in Python's design. One of the
+most significant flaws was that it's impossible to subclass Python types
+implemented in C. In particular, it's not possible to subclass built-in types,
+so you can't just subclass, say, lists in order to add a single useful method to
+them. The :mod:`UserList` module provides a class that supports all of the
+methods of lists and that can be subclassed further, but there's lots of C code
+that expects a regular Python list and won't accept a :class:`UserList`
+instance.
Python 2.2 fixes this, and in the process adds some exciting new capabilities.
A brief summary:
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
index fd0f77f..3894f87 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
@@ -1855,10 +1855,10 @@ and bundle it with the source of your extension.
.. seealso::
- http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Objects/obmalloc.c
- For the full details of the pymalloc implementation, see the comments at the top
- of the file :file:`Objects/obmalloc.c` in the Python source code. The above
- link points to the file within the SourceForge CVS browser.
+ http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/obmalloc.c
+ For the full details of the pymalloc implementation, see the comments at
+ the top of the file :file:`Objects/obmalloc.c` in the Python source code.
+ The above link points to the file within the python.org SVN browser.
.. ======================================================================
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
index 9e438ac..27e412e 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
@@ -680,9 +680,6 @@ includes a quick-start tutorial and a reference.
Written by Facundo Batista and implemented by Facundo Batista, Eric Price,
Raymond Hettinger, Aahz, and Tim Peters.
- http://research.microsoft.com/~hollasch/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html
- A more detailed overview of the IEEE-754 representation.
-
http://www.lahey.com/float.htm
The article uses Fortran code to illustrate many of the problems that floating-
point inaccuracy can cause.
@@ -756,7 +753,7 @@ API that perform ASCII-only conversions, ignoring the locale setting:
:ctype:`double` to an ASCII string.
The code for these functions came from the GLib library
-(http://developer.gnome.org/arch/gtk/glib.html), whose developers kindly
+(http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/), whose developers kindly
relicensed the relevant functions and donated them to the Python Software
Foundation. The :mod:`locale` module can now change the numeric locale,
letting extensions such as GTK+ produce the correct results.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index cc8a29a..27d8e5c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
The :mod:`bsddb.dbshelve` module now uses the highest pickling protocol
available, instead of restricting itself to protocol 1.
- (Contributed by W. Barnes; :issue:`1551443`.)
+ (Contributed by W. Barnes.)
* The :mod:`cgi` module will now read variables from the query string
of an HTTP POST request. This makes it possible to use form actions
@@ -2977,7 +2977,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
* The BerkeleyDB module now has a C API object, available as
``bsddb.db.api``. This object can be used by other C extensions
that wish to use the :mod:`bsddb` module for their own purposes.
- (Contributed by Duncan Grisby; :issue:`1551895`.)
+ (Contributed by Duncan Grisby.)
* The new buffer interface, previously described in
`the PEP 3118 section <#pep-3118-revised-buffer-protocol>`__,