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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 16 |
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes - Assignment to __class__ is disallowed if either the old and the new class is a statically allocated type object (such as defined by an - extenson module). This prevents anomalies like 2.__class__ = bool. + extension module). This prevents anomalies like 2.__class__ = bool. - New-style object creation and deallocation have been sped up significantly; they are now faster than classic instance creation @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Core and builtins - Ctrl+C handling on Windows has been made more consistent with other platforms. KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught, - and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the + and Ctrl+C at an interactive prompt no longer terminates the process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x). Ctrl+C will interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes created via the popen family (on win2k; we can't make win9x work @@ -298,6 +298,8 @@ Extension modules Library +- Added operator.pow(a,b) which is equivalent to a**b. + - random.randrange(-sys.maxint-1, sys.maxint) no longer raises OverflowError. That is, it now accepts any combination of 'start' and 'stop' arguments so long as each is in the range of Python's @@ -1759,7 +1761,7 @@ Core with Python 2.2a1 is to test backwards compatibility. It is possible, though not likely, that a decision is made not to release this code as part of 2.2 final, if any serious backwards - incompapatibilities are found during alpha testing that cannot be + incompatibilities are found during alpha testing that cannot be repaired. - Generators were added; this is a new way to create an iterator (see @@ -1909,7 +1911,7 @@ Core Library - The constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase. and ascii_uppercase - were added to the string module. These a locale-indenpendent + were added to the string module. These a locale-independent constants, unlike letters, lowercase, and uppercase. These are now use in appropriate locations in the standard library. @@ -1956,11 +1958,11 @@ Library Tests - New test_mutants.py runs dict comparisons where the key and value - comparison operators mutute the dicts randomly during comparison. This + comparison operators mutate the dicts randomly during comparison. This rapidly causes Python to crash under earlier releases (not for the faint of heart: it can also cause Win9x to freeze or reboot!). -- New test_pprint.py verfies that pprint.isrecursive() and +- New test_pprint.py verifies that pprint.isrecursive() and pprint.isreadable() return sensible results. Also verifies that simple cases produce correct output. @@ -2402,7 +2404,7 @@ Windows changes B. Else search sys.path for the first case-sensitive match; raise ImportError if none found. - The same rules have been implented on other platforms with case- + The same rules have been implemented on other platforms with case- insensitive but case-preserving filesystems too (including Cygwin, and several flavors of Macintosh operating systems). |