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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex index cacb054..c43fc38 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ % $Id$ \title{What's New in Python 2.2} -\release{1.00} +\release{1.01} \author{A.M. Kuchling} \authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}} \begin{document} @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ \section{Introduction} -This article explains the new features in Python 2.2, released on -December 21, 2001. +This article explains the new features in Python 2.2.1, released on +April 10, 2002. Python 2.2.1 is a bugfix release of Python 2.2, +originally released on December 21, 2001. Python 2.2 can be thought of as the "cleanup release". There are some features such as generators and iterators that are completely new, but @@ -1063,7 +1064,7 @@ Jeremy Hylton.} \begin{itemize} \item The \module{xmlrpclib} module was contributed to the standard - library by Fredrik Lundh, provding support for writing XML-RPC + library by Fredrik Lundh, providing 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 @@ -1113,7 +1114,7 @@ more information about XML-RPC. The original patch for this feature was contributed by Nick Mathewson. \item The Python profiler has been extensively reworked and various - errors in its output have been corrected. (Contributed by Fred + errors in its output have been corrected. (Contributed by Fred~L. Drake, Jr. and Tim Peters.) \item The \module{socket} module can be compiled to support IPv6; @@ -1276,9 +1277,11 @@ affect you very much. As usual there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes scattered throughout the source tree. A search through the CVS change -logs finds there were 527 patches applied, and 683 bugs fixed; both -figures are likely to be underestimates. Some of the more notable -changes are: +logs finds there were 527 patches applied and 683 bugs fixed between +Python 2.1 and 2.2; 2.2.1 applied 139 patches and fixed 143 bugs. +Both figures are likely to be underestimates. + +Some of the more notable changes are: \begin{itemize} |