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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
% $Id$
\title{What's New in Python 2.3}
-\release{1.00}
+\release{1.01}
\author{A.M.\ Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{amk@amk.ca}}
@@ -2169,6 +2169,11 @@ pre-2.2 versions of Python is important, the code could use
\code{PyArg_ParseTuple(\var{args}, "")} instead, but this will be slower
than using \constant{METH_NOARGS}.
+\item \cfunction{PyArg_ParseTuple()} accepts new format characters for various sizes of unsigned integers: \samp{B} for \ctype{unsigned char},
+\samp{H} for \ctype{unsigned short int},
+\samp{I} for \ctype{unsigned int},
+and \samp{K} for \ctype{unsigned long long}.
+
\item A new function, \cfunction{PyObject_DelItemString(\var{mapping},
char *\var{key})} was added as shorthand for
\code{PyObject_DelItem(\var{mapping}, PyString_New(\var{key}))}.