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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex index 1559b6d..7f0895f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex @@ -904,12 +904,11 @@ more information about XML-RPC. \item Various bugfixes and performance improvements have been made to the SRE engine underlying the \module{re} module. For example, - \function{re.sub()} will now use \function{string.replace()} - automatically when the pattern and its replacement are both just - literal strings without regex metacharacters. Another contributed - patch speeds up certain Unicode character ranges by a factor of - two. (SRE is maintained by Fredrik Lundh. The BIGCHARSET patch was - contributed by Martin von L\"owis.) + the \function{re.sub()} and \function{re.split()} functions have + been rewritten in C. Another contributed patch speeds up certain + Unicode character ranges by a factor of two. (SRE is maintained by + Fredrik Lundh. The BIGCHARSET patch was contributed by Martin von + L\"owis.) \item The \module{smtplib} module now supports \rfc{2487}, ``Secure SMTP over TLS'', so it's now possible to encrypt the SMTP traffic @@ -1043,7 +1042,7 @@ using Python as a standard OSA scripting language and much more.'' Most of the MacPython toolbox modules, which interface to MacOS APIs such as windowing, QuickTime, scripting, etc. have been ported to OS~X, -but they've been left commented out in \filename{setup.py}. People who want +but they've been left commented out in \file{setup.py}. People who want to experiment with these modules can uncomment them manually. % Jack's original comments: @@ -1159,8 +1158,9 @@ to experiment with these modules can uncomment them manually. The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred -Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., Carel Fellinger, Mark -Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Jack Jansen, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Tim Peters, Neil -Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum. +Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., Carel +Fellinger, Mark Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Jack Jansen, Marc-Andr\'e +Lemburg, Fredrik Lundh, Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van +Rossum. \end{document} |