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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index b6b5c58..7c96342 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -1354,9 +1354,15 @@ sequence type. For example: \item The \module{imaplib} module now supports IMAP over SSL. (Contributed by Piers Lauder and Tino Lange.) -\item The \ulink{\module{itertools}}{../lib/module-itertools.html} -module provides several functions to support efficient looping using -iterators. +\item The \module{itertools} contains a number of useful functions for +use with iterators, inspired by various functions provided by the ML +and Haskell languages. For example, +\code{itertools.ifilter(predicate, iterator)} returns all elements in +the iterator for which the function \function{predicate()} returns +\constant{True}, and \code{itertools.times(\var{N}, obj)} returns +\code{obj} \var{N} times. There are a number of other functions in +the module; see the \ulink{package's reference +documentation}{../lib/module-itertools.html} for details. \item Two new functions in the \module{math} module, \function{degrees(\var{rads})} and \function{radians(\var{degs})}, |