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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-10-22 18:41:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-10-22 18:41:51 (GMT) |
| commit | cb7a6b5bf7eb25def865586544cc852e44b39339 (patch) | |
| tree | 25bfe41718c7528cd6acdca2e499fbaa34100df9 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | efef5dae94dd71616d4ae6978ff54e89278c1182 (diff) | |
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Added two very tardy notes about the 2.2b1 release, fixed a typo.
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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Core and builtins exceptions (which could mask bugs in a __getattr__ hook, for example). -- Weak reference objects are now part of the core and offers a C API. +- Weak reference objects are now part of the core and offer a C API. A bug which could allow a core dump when binary operations involved proxy reference has been fixed. weakref.ReferenceError is now a built-in exception. @@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ Library - doctest now excludes functions and classes not defined by the module being tested, thanks to Tim Hochberg. +- HotShot, a new profiler implemented using a C-based callback, has + been added. This substantially reduces the overhead of profiling, + but it is still quite preliminary. Support modules and + documentation will be added in upcoming releases (before 2.2 final). + - profile now produces correct output in situations where an exception raised in Python is cleared by C code (e.g. hasattr()). This used to cause wrong output, including spurious claims of recursive @@ -177,6 +182,9 @@ Library - ConfigParser.getboolean() now also interprets TRUE, FALSE, YES, NO, ON, and OFF. +- xml.dom.minidom NodeList objects now support the length attribute + and item() method as required by the DOM specifications. + Tools/Demos - Demo/dns was removed. It no longer serves any purpose; a package |