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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2002-06-18 20:43:18 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2002-06-18 20:43:18 (GMT)
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Minor tweaks to existing items (radian/degree, and UTF-16 readers..
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@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Library
big endian systems were added to the codecs module. The old names
BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2.
-- added degree/radian conversion functions to the math module.
+- Added conversion functions math.degrees() and math.radians().
- ftplib.retrlines() now tests for callback is None rather than testing
for False. Was causing an error when given a callback object which
@@ -221,10 +221,10 @@ Library
people to submit more packagers, e.g. for Debian, FreeBSD
and other systems.
-- The UTF-16, -LE and -BE now raise a NotImplementedError
- for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they used to just
- produce garbage or fail with an encoding error -- UTF-16 is
- a 2-byte encoding and the C lib's line reading APIs don't
+- The UTF-16, -LE and -BE stream readers now raise a
+ NotImplementedError for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they
+ used to just produce garbage or fail with an encoding error --
+ UTF-16 is a 2-byte encoding and the C lib's line reading APIs don't
work well with these.
- compileall now supports quiet operation.