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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index 604167b..7a91345 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ % % MacOS framework-related changes (section of its own, probably) % -% New sorting code -% % xreadlines obsolete; files are their own iterator %\section{Introduction \label{intro}} @@ -700,7 +698,7 @@ KeyError: pop(): dictionary is empty (Patch contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) -\item The \keyword{assert} statement no longer checks the \code{__debug__} +\item The \keyword{assert} statement no longer checks the \code{__debug__} flag, so you can no longer disable assertions by assigning to \code{__debug__}. Running Python with the \programopt{-O} switch will still generate code that doesn't execute any assertions. @@ -804,7 +802,7 @@ u'\u4001abc' >>> \end{verbatim} -(Contributed by Simon Brunning.) +(Suggested by Simon Brunning, and implemented by Walter D\"orwald.) \item The \method{startswith()} and \method{endswith()} string methods now accept negative numbers for the start and end @@ -1301,7 +1299,12 @@ Python now supports AtheOS (\url{http://www.atheos.cx}) and GNU/Hurd. %====================================================================== \section{Other Changes and Fixes} -Finally, there are various miscellaneous fixes: +As usual, there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes +scattered throughout the source tree. A search through the CVS change +logs finds there were 289 patches applied and 323 bugs fixed between +Python 2.2 and 2.3. Both figures are likely to be underestimates. + +Some of the more notable changes are: \begin{itemize} @@ -1317,8 +1320,8 @@ using a different mechanism that works with ``python -O''. For Python call the trace function, removing the need for \code{SET_LINENO} entirely. -Python code will be hard pushed to notice a difference from this -change, apart from a slight speed up when python is run without +It would be difficult to detect any resulting difference from Python +code, apart from a slight speed up when Python is run without \programopt{-O}. C extensions that access the \member{f_lineno} field of frame objects @@ -1340,7 +1343,7 @@ XXX write this The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this -article: Michael Chermside, Scott David Daniels, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., +article: Simon Brunning, Michael Chermside, Scott David Daniels, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., Michael Hudson, Detlef Lannert, Martin von L\"owis, Andrew MacIntyre, Lalo Martins, Gustavo Niemeyer, Neal Norwitz, Jason Tishler. |