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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst index 7fa2316..a28875f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst @@ -147,6 +147,15 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: (Contributed by Eric Smith; :issue:`5237`.) +* The :func:`string.maketrans` function is deprecated and is replaced by new + static methods, :meth:`bytes.maketrans` and :meth:`bytearray.maketrans`. + This change solves the confusion around which types were supported by the + :mod:`string` module. Now, :class:`str`, :class:`bytes`, and + :class:`bytearray` each have their own **maketrans** and **translate** + methods with intermediate translation tables of the appropriate type. + + (Contributed by Georg Brandl; :issue:`5675`.) + * ``round(x, n)`` now returns an integer if *x* is an integer. Previously it returned a float:: @@ -248,8 +257,8 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules [2, 3, 5, 7] >>> c = count(start=Fraction(1,2), step=Fraction(1,6)) - >>> next(c), next(c), next(c), next(c) - (Fraction(1, 2), Fraction(2, 3), Fraction(5, 6), Fraction(1, 1)) + >>> [next(c), next(c), next(c), next(c)] + [Fraction(1, 2), Fraction(2, 3), Fraction(5, 6), Fraction(1, 1)] (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) @@ -433,10 +442,10 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added: (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, :issue:`4868`.) -* The :mod:`json` module is getting a C extension to substantially improve +* The :mod:`json` module now has a C extension to substantially improve its performance. In addition, the API was modified so that json works only with :class:`str`, not with :class:`bytes`. That change makes the - module more closely conform to the `JSON specification <http://json.org/>`_ + module closely match the `JSON specification <http://json.org/>`_ which is defined in terms of Unicode. (Contributed by Bob Ippolito and converted to Py3.1 by Antoine Pitrou @@ -482,6 +491,11 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include: (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4910`.) +* Added a new :cfunc:`PyOS_string_to_double` function to replace the + deprecated functions :cfunc:`PyOS_ascii_strtod` and :cfunc:`PyOS_ascii_atof`. + + (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`5914`.) + * Added :ctype:`PyCapsule` as a replacement for the :ctype:`PyCObject` API. The principal difference is that the new type has a well defined interface for passing typing safety information and a less complicated signature |