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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex index 09fc473..9a3b9ce 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex @@ -370,6 +370,13 @@ standard exceptions will now always be classes. The translated from Python to a built-in C module, written by Barry Warsaw and Fredrik Lundh. +% Commented out for now -- I don't think anyone will care. +%The pattern and match objects provided by SRE are C types, not Python +%class instances as in 1.5. This means you can no longer inherit from +%\class{RegexObject} or \class{MatchObject}, but that shouldn't be much +%of a problem since no one should have been doing that in the first +%place. + % ====================================================================== \section{Optional Collection of Cycles} @@ -621,8 +628,10 @@ interfaces. The \module{Tkinter} module now supports Tcl/Tk version 8.1, 8.2, or 8.3, and support for the older 7.x versions has been dropped. The -Tkinter module also supports displaying Unicode strings in Tk -widgets. +Tkinter module now supports displaying Unicode strings in Tk widgets. +Also, Fredrik Lundh contributed an optimization which make operations +like \code{create_line} and \code{create_polygon} are much faster, +especially when using lots of coordinates. The \module{curses} module has been greatly extended, starting from Oliver Andrich's enhanced version, to provide many additional |