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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2002-08-06 17:01:51 (GMT)
committerBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2002-08-06 17:01:51 (GMT)
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Describe new "str1 in str2" behavior.
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@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
Core and builtins
+- Previously, "str1 in str2" required str1 to be a string of length 1.
+ This restriction has been relaxed to allow str1 to be a string of
+ any length. Thus "'el' in 'hello world'" returns True now.
+
- File objects are now their own iterators. For a file f, iter(f) now
returns f (unless f is closed), and f.next() is similar to
f.readline() when EOF is not reached; however, f.next() uses a