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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2000-09-26 06:33:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2000-09-26 06:33:09 (GMT) |
| commit | 482c021b6a41e328063661ef4cf412931d83788b (patch) | |
| tree | 65a3d310bf2c6e25ec4a7f7da9b785769910494c /Misc | |
| parent | 1d6a7297d356d8daf84e3b29e029d2fc4d5f949f (diff) | |
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New info and fixed some typos.
Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ What's new in 2.0 beta 2 (since beta 1)? Core language, builtins, and interpreter -- Add support for unbounded ints in %d,i,y,x,X,o formats for string - inter +- Add support for unbounded ints in %d,i,u,x,X,o formats; for example + "%d" % 2L**64 == "18446744073709551616" - Add -h and -V flags to print the usage message and Python version number and exit immediately.polation. @@ -73,11 +73,12 @@ Standard library and extensions - os: Add support for popen2 and popen3 on all platforms where fork exists. -- os: (Windows only) Add startfile function athat exposes part of - Win32 ShellExecute functionality. +- os: (Windows only) Add startfile function that acts like double- + clicking on a file in Explorer (or passing the file name to the + DOS "start" command). -- os.path: (NT, DOS) Treat trailing colon correctly in os.path.join. - os.path.join("a:", "b") yields "a:b". +- os.path: (Windows, DOS) Treat trailing colon correctly in + os.path.join. os.path.join("a:", "b") yields "a:b". - pickle: Now raises ValueError when an invalid pickle that contains a non-string repr where a string repr was expected. This behavior @@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ Standard library and extensions getdomainliteral are now properly wrapped in brackets. - site: sys.setdefaultencoding() should only be called in case the - standard default encoding ("ascii") is changed. This safes quite a + standard default encoding ("ascii") is changed. This saves quite a few cycles during startup since the first call to setdefaultencoding() will initialize the codec registry and the encodings package. @@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ Standard library and extensions - webbrower: On Windows, use os.startfile instead of os.popen, which works around a bug in certain versions of Norton AntiVirus that - leads directly to a Blue Screen. + leads directly to a Blue Screen freeze. - xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard XML package if PyXML version is greater than 0.6.1. @@ -160,7 +161,8 @@ Internals unicode_internal_decode function to support Unicode objects directly rather than by generating a copy of the object. -- XXX Unicode database compression +- Several of the internal Unicode tables are much smaller now, and + the source code should be much friendlier to weaker compilers. Build and platform-specific issues |