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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex index 88a45f9..25ea1f0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ % $Id$ \title{What's New in Python 2.1} -\release{0.01} +\release{0.03} \author{A.M. Kuchling} \authoraddress{\email{amk1@bigfoot.com}} \begin{document} @@ -142,11 +142,6 @@ based on earlier work by David Ascher, and implemented by Guido van Rossum.} \end{seealso} % ====================================================================== -\section{XXX Nested Scopes ?} - -xxx - -% ====================================================================== \section{PEP 230: Warning Framework} Over its 10 years of existence, Python has accumulated a certain @@ -335,6 +330,13 @@ for line in sys.stdin.xreadlines(): For a fuller discussion of the line I/O changes, see the python-dev summary for January 1-15, 2001. + +\item A new method, \method{popitem()}, was added to dictionaries to enable +destructively iterating through the contents of a dictionary; this can be faster for large dictionaries because . +\code{D.popitem()} removes a random \code{(\var{key}, \var{value})} pair +from the dictionary and returns it as a 2-tuple. This was implemented +mostly by Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum, after a suggestion and +preliminary patch by Moshe Zadka. \item \module{curses.panel}, a wrapper for the panel library, part of ncurses and of SYSV curses, was contributed by Thomas Gellekum. The @@ -357,17 +359,15 @@ __all__ = ['Database', 'open'] \end{verbatim} A stricter version of this patch was first suggested and implemented -by Ben Wolfson, but after some python-dev discussion, this weaker final version +by Ben Wolfson, but after some python-dev discussion, a weaker +final version was checked in. -\item The \module{ftplib} module now defaults to retrieving files in passive mode, -because passive mode is more likely to work from behind a firewall. -This request came from the Debian bug tracking system, since other -Debian packages use \module{ftplib} to retrieve files and then don't -work from behind a firewall. It's deemed unlikely that this will -cause problems for anyone, because Netscape defaults to passive mode -and few people complain, but if passive mode is unsuitable for your -application or network setup, call -\method{set_pasv(0)} on FTP objects to disable passive mode. +\item The PyXML package has gone through a few releases since Python +2.0, and Python 2.1 includes an updated version of the \module{xml} +package. Some of the noteworthy changes include support for Expat +1.2, the ability for Expat parsers to handle files in any encoding +supported by Python, and various bugfixes for SAX, DOM, and the +\module{minidom} module. \item Various functions in the \module{time} module, such as \function{asctime()} and \function{localtime()}, @@ -382,6 +382,18 @@ previously required. This change was proposed and implemented by Thomas Wouters. +\item The \module{ftplib} module now defaults to retrieving files in passive mode, +because passive mode is more likely to work from behind a firewall. +This request came from the Debian bug tracking system, since other +Debian packages use \module{ftplib} to retrieve files and then don't +work from behind a firewall. It's deemed unlikely that this will +cause problems for anyone, because Netscape defaults to passive mode +and few people complain, but if passive mode is unsuitable for your +application or network setup, call +\method{set_pasv(0)} on FTP objects to disable passive mode. + +\item The size of the Unicode character database was compressed by another 55K thanks to Fredrik Lundh. + \end{itemize} And there's the usual list of bugfixes, minor memory leaks, docstring @@ -390,10 +402,21 @@ CVS logs for the full details if you want them. % ====================================================================== +\section{XXX Nested Scopes ?} + +xxx + +% ====================================================================== +\section{XXX Weak References ?} + +xxx + +% ====================================================================== \section{Acknowledgements} The author would like to thank the following people for offering -suggestions on various drafts of this article: Neil Schemenauer, -Thomas Wouters. +suggestions on various drafts of this article: Michael Hudson, +Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, +Neil Schemenauer, Thomas Wouters. \end{document} |