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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-08-26 18:22:44 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-08-26 18:22:44 (GMT)
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Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and
structuring it, for now.
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-XXX check that regsub.split / splitx are correctly documented.
-
-======================================
+=========================================
==> Release 1.4beta3 (August 26 1996) <==
-======================================
+=========================================
+
+(XXX This is less readable that it should. I promis to restructure it
+for the final 1.4 release.)
-XXX This needs to be reordered.
What's new in 1.4beta3 (since beta2)?
-------------------------------------
+- In urllib.urlopen(): HTTP URLs containing user:passwd@host are now
+handled correctly when using a proxy server.
+
+- In ntpath.normpath(): don't truncate to 8+3 format.
+
+- In mimetools.choose_boundary(): don't die when getuid() or getpid()
+aren't defined.
+
+- Module urllib: some optimizations to (un)quoting.
+
+- New module MimeWriter for writing MIME documents.
+
+- More changes to formatter module.
+
+- The freeze script works once again and is much more robust (using
+sys.prefix etc.). It also supports a -o option to specify an
+output directory.
+
- New module whichdb recognizes dbm, gdbm and bsddb/dbhash files.
- The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the
@@ -55,9 +73,10 @@ meaningful.
- A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc
subdirectory (Misc/gMakefile).
-- A new version of python-mode.el for Emacs is provided. Ask Barry Warsaw
-for a list of changes. The separate file pyimenu.el is no longer needed,
-imenu support is folded into python-mode.el.
+- A new version of python-mode.el for Emacs is provided. See
+http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/pmdetails.html for details. The
+separate file pyimenu.el is no longer needed, imenu support is folded
+into python-mode.el.
- The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a
non-standard location. The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the the Makefiles
@@ -83,6 +102,8 @@ can use *.so and *.sl as shared libraries.
- Some more fidgeting for AIX shared libraries.
- The mpz module is now compatible with GMP 2.x. (Not tested by me.)
+(Note -- a complete replacement by Niels Mo"ller, called gpmodule, is
+available from the contrib directory on the ftp site.)
- A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an
exception (formerly, such exceptions were completely ignored).