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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's New in Python 2.0b1? +What's New in Python 2.0b2? =========================== Below is a list of all relevant changes since release 1.6. Older @@ -14,6 +14,170 @@ http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/writing/new-python/. ====================================================================== + +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 -h and -V flags to print the usage message and Python version + number and exit immediately.polation. + +Standard library and extensions + +- array: reverse method of array now works. buffer_info now does + argument checking; it still takes no arguments. + +- asyncore/asynchat: included most recent version from Sam Rushing + +- cgi: accept & or ; as separate characters when parsing form data + +- CGIHTTPServer: now works on Windows (and perhaps even Mac). + +- ConfigParser: When reading the file, options spelled in upper case + letters are now accessible. + +- copy: Copy Unicode objects atomically. + +- cPickle: fails gracefully when copy_reg can't be imported + +- cStringIO: implemented readlines method. + +- dbm: Add set and setdefault methods to dbm object. Add constant + library to module that names the library used. Better doc strings + and argument checking. Uses configure to determine which ndbm.h + file to include; Berkeley DB's nbdm is now an option. + +- distutils: Update to version 0.9.3. + +- dl: Add several dl.RTLD_ constants. + +- fpectl: Now supported on FreeBSD. + +- gc: Add DEBUG_SAVEALL option. When enabled all garbage objects + found by the collector will be saved in gc.garbage. This is useful + for debugging a program that creates reference cycles. + +- httplib: Three changes. Restore support for set_debuglevel feature + of HTTP class. Do not close socket on zero-length response. Do not + crash when server sends invalid content-length header. + +- mailbox: XXX conformance to maildir specification ??? + +- operator: Add contains, invert, __invert__ as aliases for + __contains__, inv, and __inv__ respectively. + +- 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.path: (NT, 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 + matches cPickle. + +- posixfile: XXX remove __del__ method ??? + +- py_compile: support \r in source file + +- readline: Does not immediately exit when ^C is hit when readline and + threads are configured. Adds defintion of rl_library_version. + +- rfc822: Domain literals returned by AddrlistClass method + 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 + few cycles during startup since the first call to + setdefaultencoding() will initialize the codec registry and the + encodings package. + +- socket: Support for size hint in readlines method of object returned + by makefile. + +- sre: Added experimental expand method to match objects. Does not + user buffer interface on Unicode strings. Does not hang if group id + is followed by whitespace. + +- StringIO: size hint in readlines is now supported as documented. + +- struct: Check ranges for bytes and shorts. + +- urllib: Improved handling of win32 proxy settings. Fixed quote and + quote_plus functions so that the always encode a comma ','. + +- Tkinter: Image objects are now guaranteed to have unique ids. Set + event.delta to zero if Tk version doesn't support mousewheel. + Removed some debugging prints. + +- UserList: now implements __contains__. + +- 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. + +- xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard + XML package if PyXML version is greater than 0.6.1. + +- xml.dom: XXX + +- xml.sax: XXX + +- XXX pyexpat: XXX + +C API + +- Add three new convenience functions for module initialization -- + PyModule_AddObject(), PyModule_AddIntConstant(), and + PyModule_AddStringConstant(). + +- Cleaned up definition of NULL in C source code; all defintions were + removed and add #error to Python.h if NULL isn't defined after + #include of stdio.h. + +- Py_PROTO macros that were removed in 2.0b1 have been restored for + backwards compatibility (at the source level) with old extensions. + +- XXX PyOS_sighandler_t, PyOS_getsig, PyOS_setsig + +- Add PyString_AsStringAndSize call that provides access to the + internal data buffer and size of a string object -- or the default + encoded version of a Unicode object. + +Internals + +- On Unix, fix code for finding Python installation directory so that + it works when argv[0] is a relative path. + +- Added a true unicode_internal_encode function and fixed the + unicode_internal_decode function to support Unicode objects directly + rather than by generating a copy of the object. + +- XXX Unicode database compression + +Build and platform-specific issues + +- Better support of GNU Pth via --with-pth configure option. + +- Fix linker problems on Reliant UNIX + +- Changes for the benefit of SunOS 4.1.4 (really!). mmapmodule.c: + Don't define MS_SYNC to be zero when it is undefined. Added missing + prototypes in posixmodule.c. + +- Improved support for HP-UX build + + +What's new in 2.0 beta 1? +========================= + Source Incompatibilities ------------------------ |