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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 21 |
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@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Standard library and extensions 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. +- StringIO: Size hint in readlines() is now supported as documented. - struct: Check ranges for bytes and shorts. @@ -130,11 +130,18 @@ Standard library and extensions - 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.dom: DOM level 1 support for basic XML. Includes xml.dom.minidom + (conventional DOM), and xml.dom.pulldom, which allows building the DOM + tree only for nodes which are sufficiently interesting to a specific + application. Does not provide the HTML-specific extensions. Still + undocumented. -- xml.sax: XXX +- xml.sax: SAX 2 support for Python, including all the handler + interfaces needed to process XML 1.0 compliant XML. Some + documentation is already available. -- XXX pyexpat: XXX +- pyexpat: Renamed to xml.parsers.expat since this is part of the new, + packagized XML support. C API @@ -160,7 +167,8 @@ C API encoded version of a Unicode object. - The standard header <limits.h> is now included by Python.h (if it - exists). + exists). INT_MAX and LONG_MAX will always be defined, even if + <limits.h> is not available. Internals @@ -189,6 +197,9 @@ Build and platform-specific issues - Improved support for HP-UX build -- threads should now be correctly configured (on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00). +- Python/C API now properly exposed to dynamically-loaded extension + modules on Reliant UNIX. + What's new in 2.0 beta 1? ========================= |