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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex index 8b96e15..e09de7e 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex @@ -603,6 +603,10 @@ which are an order of magnitude faster. A threaded version of Python changes, the difference is only 10\%. These improvements were contributed by Yakov Markovitch. +Python 2.0's source now uses only ANSI C prototypes, so compiling Python now +requires an ANSI C compiler, and can no longer be done using a compiler that +only supports K\&R C. + % ====================================================================== \section{Module changes} @@ -704,6 +708,16 @@ checks Python source code for ambiguous indentation. \item{\module{UserString}:} A base class useful for deriving objects that behave like strings. +\item{\module{webbrowser}:} A module that provides a platform independent +way to launch a web browser on a specific URL. For each platform, various +browsers are tried in a specific order. The user can alter which browser +is launched by setting the \var{BROWSER} environment variable. +(Originally inspired by Eric S. Raymond's patch to \module{urllib} +which added similar functionality, but +the final module comes from code originally +implemented by Fred Drake as \file{Tools/idle/BrowserControl.py}, +and adapted for the standard library by Fred.) + \item{\module{winreg} and \module{_winreg}:} An interface to the Windows registry. \module{_winreg} is an adaptation of functions that have been part of PythonWin since 1995, but has now been added to the core |