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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2001-10-27 22:28:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2001-10-27 22:28:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 86443216b71d3a2ae25561ab1288e8a03db594d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 50de389db614b96ab1998ddbc19013d2bbff778e /Misc | |
| parent | 384ca9c6dd4906c825e126218895f20b8f686372 (diff) | |
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News about the socket type and the HP-UX port.
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@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes (formerly these were silently ignored). The only built-in methods that take keyword arguments are __call__, __init__ and __new__. +- The socket function has been converted to a type; see below. + Core and builtins - Clarified the error messages for unsupported operands to an operator @@ -26,7 +28,9 @@ Extension modules - The socket module defines a new method for socket objects, sendall(). This is like send() but may make multiple calls to - send() until all data has been sent. + send() until all data has been sent. Also, the socket function has + been converted to a subclassable type, like list and tuple (etc.) + before it; socket and SocketType are now the same thing. - Various bugfixes to the curses module. There is now a test suite for the curses module (you have to run it manually). @@ -54,6 +58,9 @@ C API New platforms +- We've finally confirmed that this release builds on HP-UX 11.00, + *with* threads, and passes the test suite. + - Updated RISCOS port by Dietmar Schwertberger. Tests |