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@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ Core and builtins Extension modules +- mmap has a new keyword argument, "access", allowing a uniform way for + both Windows and Unix users to create read-only, write-through and + copy-on-write memory mappings. This was previously possible only on + Unix. A new keyword argument was required to support this in a + uniform way because the mmap() signuatures had diverged across + platforms. Thanks to Jay T Miller for repairing this! + - By default, the gc.garbage list now contains only those instances in unreachable cycles that have __del__ methods; in 2.1 it contained all instances in unreachable cycles. "Instances" here has been generalized @@ -55,7 +62,7 @@ Extension modules Library -- tkFileDialog exposes a Directory class and askdirectory +- tkFileDialog exposes a Directory class and askdirectory convenience function. - Symbolic group names in regular expressions must be unique. For |