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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-09-05 18:43:35 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-09-05 18:43:35 (GMT)
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Describe -E (which was added to 2.2a2).
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to a dictionary object. Getting func.__dict__ before any attributes
have been assigned now returns an empty dictionary instead of None.
+- A new command line option, -E, was added which disables the use of
+ all environment variables, or at least those that are specifically
+ significant to Python. Usually those have a name starting with
+ "PYTHON". This was used to fix a problem where the tests fail if
+ the user happens to have PYTHONHOME or PYTHONPATH pointing to an
+ older distribution.
+
Library
- New class Differ and new functions ndiff() and restore() in difflib.py.