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@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter - sgmllib.py now calls handle_decl() for simple <!...> declarations. +- It is illegal to assign to the name __debug__, which is set when the + interpreter starts. It is effectively a compile-time constant. + +- A warning will be issued if a global statement for a variable + follows a use or assignment of that variable. + Standard library - unittest.py, a unit testing framework by Steve Purcell (PyUNIT, @@ -67,6 +73,16 @@ Python/C API weakly referencable type in PyObject_INIT(), since most types are not weakly referencable. +- PyFrame_FastToLocals() and PyFrame_LocalsToFast() copy bindings for + free variables and cell variables to and from the frame's f_locals. + +- Variants of several functions defined in pythonrun.h have been added + to support the nested_scopes future statement. The variants all end + in Flags and take an extra argument, a PyCompilerFlags *; examples: + PyRun_AnyFileExFlags(), PyRun_InteractiveLoopFlags(). These + variants may be removed in Python 2.2, when nested scopes are + mandatory. + Distutils - the sdist command now writes a PKG-INFO file, as described in PEP 241, |