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+==> Release 1.2 (13 April 1995) <==
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+
+- Changes to Misc/python-mode.el:
+  - Wrapping and indentation within triple quote strings should work
+    properly now.
+  - `Standard' bug reporting mechanism (use C-c C-b)
+  - py-mark-block was moved to C-c C-m
+  - C-c C-v shows you the python-mode version
+  - a basic python-font-lock-keywords has been added for Emacs 19
+    font-lock colorizations.
+  - proper interaction with pending-del and del-sel modes.
+  - New py-electric-colon (:) command for improved outdenting.  Also
+    py-indent-line (TAB) should handle outdented lines better.
+  - New commands py-outdent-left (C-c C-l) and py-indent-right (C-c C-r)
+
+- The Library Reference has been restructured, and many new and
+existing modules are now documented, in particular the debugger and
+the profiler, as well as the persistency and the WWW/Internet support
+modules.
+
+- All known bugs have been fixed.  For example the pow(2,2,3L) bug on
+Linux has been fixed.  Also the re-entrancy problems with __del__ have
+been fixed.
+
+- All known memory leaks have been fixed.
+
+- Phase 2 of the Great Renaming has been executed.  The header files
+now use the new names (PyObject instead of object, etc.).  The linker
+also sees the new names.  Most source files still use the old names,
+by virtue of the rename2.h header file.  If you include Python.h, you
+only see the new names.  Dynamically linked modules have to be
+recompiled.  (Phase 3, fixing the rest of the sources, will be
+executed gradually with the release later versions.)
+
+- The hooks for implementing "safe-python" (better called "restricted
+execution") are in place.  Specifically, the import statement is
+implemented by calling the built-in function __import__, and the
+built-in names used in a particular scope are taken from the
+dictionary __builtins__ in that scope's global dictionary.  See also
+the new (unsupported, undocumented) module rexec.py.
+
+- The import statement now supports the syntax "import a.b.c" and
+"from a.b.c import name".  No officially supported implementation
+exists, but one can be prototyped by replacing the built-in __import__
+function.  A proposal by Ken Manheimer is provided as newimp.py.
+
+- All machinery used by the import statement (or the built-in
+__import__ function) is now exposed through the new built-in module
+"imp" (see the library reference manual).  All dynamic loading
+machinery is moved to the new file importdl.c.
+
+- Persistent storage is supported through the use of the modules
+"pickle" and "shelve" (implemented in Python).  There's also a "copy"
+module implementing deepcopy and normal (shallow) copy operations.
+See the library reference manual.
+
+- Documentation strings for many objects types are accessible through
+the __doc__ attribute.  Modules, classes and functions support special
+syntax to initialize the __doc__ attribute: if the first statement
+consists of just a string literal, that string literal becomes the
+value of the __doc__ attribute.  The default __doc__ attribute is
+None.  Documentation strings are also supported for built-in
+functions, types and modules; however this feature hasn't been widely
+used yet.  See the 'new' module for an example.  (Basically, the type
+object's tp_doc field contains the doc string for the type, and the
+4th member of the methodlist structure contains the doc string for the
+method.)
+
+- The __coerce__ and __cmp__ methods for user-defined classes once
+again work as expected.  As an example, there's a new standard class
+Complex in the library.
+
+- The functions posix.popen() and posix.fdopen() now have an optional
+third argument to specify the buffer size, and default their second
+(mode) argument to 'r' -- in analogy to the builtin open() function.
+The same applies to posixfile.open() and the socket method makefile().
+
+- The thread.exit_thread() function now raises SystemExit so that
+'finally' clauses are honored and a memory leak is plugged.
+
+- Improved X11 and Motif support, by Sjoerd Mullender.  This extension
+is being maintained and distributed separately.
+
+- Improved support for the Apple Macintosh, in part by Jack Jansen,
+e.g. interfaces to (a few) resource mananger functions, get/set file
+type and creator, gestalt, sound manager, speech manager, MacTCP, comm
+toolbox, and the think C console library.  This is being maintained
+and distributed separately.
+
+- Improved version for Windows NT, by Mark Hammond.  This is being
+maintained and distributed separately.
+
+- Used autoconf 2.0 to generate the configure script.  Adapted
+configure.in to use the new features in autoconf 2.0.
+
+- It now builds on the NeXT without intervention, even on the 3.3
+Sparc pre-release.
+
+- Characters passed to isspace() and friends are masked to nonnegative
+values.
+
+- Correctly compute pow(-3.0, 3).
+
+- Fix portability problems with getopt (configure now checks for a
+non-GNU getopt).
+
+- Don't add frozenmain.o to libPython.a.
+
+- Exceptions can now be classes.  ALl built-in exceptions are still
+string objects, but this will change in the future.
+
+- The socket module exports a long list of socket related symbols.
+(More built-in modules will export their symbolic constants instead of
+relying on a separately generated Python module.)
+
+- When a module object is deleted, it clears out its own dictionary.
+This fixes a circularity in the references between functions and
+their global dictionary.
+
+- Changed the error handling by [new]getargs() e.g. for "O&".
+
+- Dynamic loading of modules using shared libraries is supported for
+several new platforms.
+
+- Support "O&", "[...]" and "{...}" in mkvalue().
+
+- Extension to findmethod(): findmethodinchain() (where a chain is a
+linked list of methodlist arrays).  The calling interface for
+findmethod() has changed: it now gets a pointer to the (static!)
+methodlist structure rather than just to the function name -- this
+saves copying flags etc. into the (short-lived) method object.
+
+- The callable() function is now public.
+
+- Object types can define a few new operations by setting function
+pointers in the type object structure: tp_call defines how an object
+is called, and tp_str defines how an object's str() is computed.
+
+
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 ==> Release 1.1.1 (10 Nov 1994) <==
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