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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex index 8783549..19963ef 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ something like this: \method{__getitem__()} is more properly used to define an indexing operation on an object so that you can write \code{obj[5]} to retrieve -the fifth element. It's a bit misleading when you're using this only +the sixth element. It's a bit misleading when you're using this only to support \keyword{for} loops. Consider some file-like object that wants to be looped over; the \var{index} parameter is essentially meaningless, as the class probably assumes that a series of @@ -510,11 +510,11 @@ Jeremy Hylton.} \begin{itemize} \item The \module{xmlrpclib} module was contributed to the standard -library by Fredrik Lundh. It provides support for writing XML-RPC -clients; XML-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol built on -top of HTTP and XML. For example, the following snippet retrieves a -list of RSS channels from the O'Reilly Network, and then retrieves a -list of the recent headlines for one channel: + library by Fredrik Lundh. It provides support for writing XML-RPC + clients; XML-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol built on + top of HTTP and XML. For example, the following snippet retrieves a + list of RSS channels from the O'Reilly Network, and then retrieves a + list of the recent headlines for one channel: \begin{verbatim} import xmlrpclib @@ -585,6 +585,11 @@ See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC. modules have all been fixed to use \constant{ascii_letters} instead. (Reported by an unknown person; fixed by Fred L. Drake, Jr.) + \item The \module{mimetypes} module now makes it easier to use + alternative MIME-type databases by the addition of a + \class{MimeTypes} class, which takes a list of filenames to be + parsed. (Contributed by Fred L. Drake, Jr.) + \end{itemize} @@ -701,12 +706,19 @@ changes are: \item On Windows, Python can now be compiled with Borland C thanks to a number of patches contributed by Stephen Hansen. - + \item Another Windows enhancement: Wise Solutions generously offered PythonLabs use of their InstallerMaster 8.1 system. Earlier PythonLabs Windows installers used Wise 5.0a, which was beginning to show its age. (Packaged up by Tim Peters.) + \item Files ending in \samp{.pyw} can now be imported on Windows. + \samp{.pyw} is a Windows-only thing, used to indicate that a script + needs to be run using PYTHONW.EXE instead of PYTHON.EXE in order to + prevent a DOS console from popping up to display the output. This + patch makes it possible to import such scripts, in case they're also + usable as modules. (Implemented by David Bolen.) + \item On platforms where Python uses the C \cfunction{dlopen()} function to load extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used by \cfunction{dlopen()} using the \function{sys.getdlopenflags()} and @@ -720,7 +732,7 @@ changes are: The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred -Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, -Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum. +Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e +Lemburg, Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum. \end{document} |