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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-10-07 19:12:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-10-07 19:12:50 (GMT) |
| commit | b68b77f62d02b172c803bd9a63bf8a4f2630eed6 (patch) | |
| tree | a8dfb56e3c38b4c301d9e287147774f308dc6e01 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | 0e8457c4ecf63ffc1826c30f27cbd4756c2b7101 (diff) | |
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A few last-minute additions and some rearrangements and corrections.
What's "xlib"? I took the line that mentioned it out.
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -952,8 +952,7 @@ _tkinter.createfilehandler(). - The truncate() method for file objects now works on Windows. - Py_Initialize() is no longer called when the DLL is loaded. You -must call it yourself. (And you can't call it twice -- it's a fatal -error to call it when Python is already initialized.) +must call it yourself. - The time module's clock() function now has good precision through the use of the Win32 API QueryPerformanceCounter(). @@ -1101,8 +1100,6 @@ file to buildno1. - Moved Include/assert.h to Parser/assert.h, which seems to be the only place where it's needed. -- Alas, the thread support for _tkinter didn't work. Withdrew it. - - Tweaked the dictionary lookup code again for some more speed (Vladimir Marangozov). @@ -1263,11 +1260,12 @@ using sys.exc_info(). Also, the command argument can now be either a string (passed to the shell) or a list of arguments (passed directly to execv). -- The thread support for _tkinter.c now works. The bad news is that -it requires a modified version of a file in the standard Tcl -distribution, which you must compile with a -I option pointing to the -standard Tcl source tree. For this reason, the thread support is -disabled by default. + +- Alas, the thread support for _tkinter released with 1.5a3 didn't +work. It's been rewritten. The bad news is that it now requires a +modified version of a file in the standard Tcl distribution, which you +must compile with a -I option pointing to the standard Tcl source +tree. For this reason, the thread support is disabled by default. - The errno extension module adds two tables: errorcode maps errno numbers to errno names (e.g. EINTR), and errorcode maps them to @@ -1336,7 +1334,7 @@ default. - The imp module now supports parts of the functionality to implement import of hierarchical module names. It now supports find_module() and load_module() for all types of modules. Docstrings have been -added for those functions in the built-in impo module that are still +added for those functions in the built-in imp module that are still relevant (some old interfaces are obsolete). For a sample implementation of hierarchical module import in Python, see the new library module knee.py. @@ -1358,8 +1356,6 @@ others are PyObject*s). - The 'p' format in the struct extension module alloded to above is new in 1.5a4. -- The xlib extension module has been debugged and improved. - - The types.py module now uses try-except in a few places to make it more likely that it can be imported in restricted mode. Some type names are undefined in that case, e.g. CodeType (inaccessible), @@ -1409,7 +1405,7 @@ Adding support for a new OS is now a bit more work, but I bet that - Tools/faqwiz/: New installation instructions show how to maintain multiple FAQs. Removed bootstrap script from end of faqwiz.py module. -Added instructions to bootstrap script, too. Version bumped to 0.8. +Added instructions to bootstrap script, too. Version bumped to 0.8.1. Added <html>...</html> feature suggested by Skip Montanaro. Added leading text for Roulette, default to 'Hit Reload ...'. Fix typo in default SRCDIR. @@ -1417,3 +1413,10 @@ default SRCDIR. - Documentation for the relatively new modules "keyword" and "symbol" has been added (to the end of the section on the parser extension module). + +- In module bisect.py, but functions have two optional argument 'lo' +and 'hi' which allow you to specify a subsequence of the array to +operate on. + +- In ftplib.py, changed most methods to return their status (even when +it is always "200 OK") rather than swallowing it. |