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@@ -1,8 +1,19 @@ -What's New in Python 2.2a0? +What's New in Python 2.2a1? =========================== Core +- Generators were added; this is a new way to create an iterator (see + below) using what looks like a simple function containing one of + more 'yield' statements. See PEP 255. Since this adds a new + keyword to the language, this feature must be enabled by including a + future statement: "from __future__ import generators" (see PEP 236). + Generators will become a standard feature in a future release + (probably 2.3). Without this future statement, 'yield' remains an + ordinary identifier, but a warning is issued each time it is used. + (These warnings currently don't conform to the warnings framework of + PEP 230; we intend to fix this in 2.2a2.) + - The UTF-16 codec was modified to be more RFC compliant. It will now only remove BOM characters at the start of the string and then only if running in native mode (UTF-16-LE and -BE won't remove a @@ -197,6 +208,9 @@ C API _PyTuple_Resize(). If this affects you, you were cheating. +====================================================================== + + What's New in Python 2.1 (final)? ================================= |