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@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ HTTP server. Tkinter -- optimization of function flatten urllib -- scans environment variables for proxy configuration, -e.g. http_proxy. +e.g. http_proxy. whichdb -- recognizes dumbdbm format @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ poly, zmod, strop, util, whatsound. Changed, New, Obsolete Tools ---------------------------- -XXX: are there any? If not, say "None" here. +None. C-level Changes @@ -418,4 +418,35 @@ extra flag argument that tells them to close the file when done. XXX There were other API changes that should be fleshed out here. + +Windows Changes +--------------- + +New popen2/popen3/peopen4 in os module (see Changed Modules above). + +os.popen is much more usable on Windows 95 and 98. See Microsoft +Knowledge Base article Q150956. The Win9x workaround described there +is implemented by the new w9xpopen.exe helper in the root of your +Python installation. Note that Python uses this internally; it is not +a standalone program. + +Administrator privileges are no longer required to install Python +on Windows NT or Windows 2000. If you have administrator privileges, +Python's registry info will be written under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. +Otherwise the installer backs off to writing Python's registry info +under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. The latter is sufficent for all "normal" +uses of Python, but will prevent some advanced uses from working +(for example, running a Python script as an NT service, or possibly +from CGI). + +[This was new in 1.6] The installer no longer runs a separate Tcl/Tk +installer; instead, it installs the needed Tcl/Tk files directly in the +Python directory. If you already have a Tcl/Tk installation, this +wastes some disk space (about 4 Megs) but avoids problems with +conflicting Tcl/Tk installations, and makes it much easier for Python +to ensure that Tcl/Tk can find all its files. + +[This was new in 1.6] The Windows installer now installs by default in +\Python20\ on the default volume, instead of \Program Files\Python-2.0\. + ====================================================================== |