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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Core - In 2.2a3, __new__ would only see sequential arguments passed to the type in a constructor call; __init__ would see both sequential and - positional arguments. This made no sense whatsoever any more, so + keyword arguments. This made no sense whatsoever any more, so now both __new__ and __init__ see all arguments. - In 2.2a3, hash() applied to an instance of a subclass of str or unicode @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Core Library +- difflib.ndiff() and difflib.Differ.compare() are generators now. This + restores the ability of Tools/scripts/ndiff.py to start producing output + before the entire comparison is complete. + - StringIO.StringIO instances and cStringIO.StringIO instances support iteration just like file objects (i.e. their .readline() method is called for each iteration until it returns an empty string). @@ -124,10 +128,25 @@ New platforms Tests +- The "classic" standard tests, which work by comparing stdout to + an expected-output file under Lib/test/output/, no longer stop at + the first mismatch. Instead the test is run to completion, and a + variant of ndiff-style comparison is used to report all differences. + This is much easier to understand than the previous style of reporting. + +- The unittest-based standard tests now use regrtest's test_main() + convention, instead of running as a side-effect of merely being + imported. This allows these tests to be run in more natural and + flexible ways as unittests, outside the regrtest framework. + +- regrtest.py is much better integrated with unittest and doctest now, + especially in regard to reporting errors. + Windows - Large file support now also works for files > 4GB, on filesystems - that support it (NTFS under Windows 2000). + that support it (NTFS under Windows 2000). See "What's New in + Python 2.2a3" for more detail. What's New in Python 2.2a3? |