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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex index 646af68..3abff12 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{0.04} +\release{0.05} \author{A.M. Kuchling} \authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}} \begin{document} @@ -707,14 +707,24 @@ affect you very much. encoding and converts them to the specified new encoding. (Contributed by M.-A. Lemburg, and used for the MBCS support on Windows described in the previous section.) - - \item Two new wrapper functions, \cfunction{PyOS_snprintf()} and - \cfunction{PyOS_vsnprintf()} were added. which provide a cross-platform - implementations for the relatively new snprintf()/vsnprintf() C lib - APIs. In contrast to the standard sprintf() and vsprintf() C lib - APIs, these versions apply bounds checking on the used buffer which - enhances protection against buffer overruns. - (Contributed by M.-A. Lemburg.) + + \item Two new flags \constant{METH_NOARGS} and \constant{METH_O} are + available in method definition tables to simplify implementation of + methods with no arguments or a single untyped argument. Calling + such methods is more efficient than calling a corresponding method + that uses \constant{METH_VARARGS}. + Also, the old \constant{METH_OLDARGS} style of writing C methods is + now officially deprecated. + +\item + Two new wrapper functions, \cfunction{PyOS_snprintf()} and + \cfunction{PyOS_vsnprintf()} were added. which provide a + cross-platform implementations for the relatively new + \cfunction{snprintf()} and \cfunction{vsnprintf()} C lib APIs. In + contrast to the standard \cfunction{sprintf()} and + \cfunction{vsprintf()} functions, the Python versions check the + bounds of the buffer used to protect against buffer overruns. + (Contributed by M.-A. Lemburg.) \end{itemize} |