summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst')
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index c2cf524..a3abc11 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
:Release: |release|
:Date: |today|
-.. $Id$
- Rules for maintenance:
+.. Rules for maintenance:
* Anyone can add text to this document. Do not spend very much time
on the wording of your changes, because your text will probably
@@ -40,25 +39,25 @@
* It's helpful to add the bug/patch number as a comment:
- % Patch 12345
XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the socket
module.
- (Contributed by P.Y. Developer.)
+ (Contributed by P.Y. Developer in :issue:`12345`.)
- This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the SVN log
+ This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the Mercurial log
when researching a change.
This article explains the new features in Python 3.3, compared to 3.2.
-PEP XXX: Stub
-=============
-
-
PEP 393: Flexible String Representation
=======================================
-XXX Give a short introduction about :pep:`393`.
+[Abstract copied from the PEP: The Unicode string type is changed to support
+multiple internal representations, depending on the character with the largest
+Unicode ordinal (1, 2, or 4 bytes). This allows a space-efficient
+representation in common cases, but gives access to full UCS-4 on all systems.
+For compatibility with existing APIs, several representations may exist in
+parallel; over time, this compatibility should be phased out.]
PEP 393 is fully backward compatible. The legacy API should remain
available at least five years. Applications using the legacy API will not
@@ -109,6 +108,7 @@ XXX Add list of changes introduced by :pep:`393` here:
XXX mention new and deprecated functions and macros
+
Other Language Changes
======================