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@@ -1801,4 +1801,79 @@ directory to eval(). - Fixed a buffer overrun in PC/getpathp.c. + +====================================================================== + + +From 1.5b2 to 1.5 +================= + +- Newly documentated module: BaseHTTPServer.py, thanks to Greg Stein. + +- Added doc strings to string.py, stropmodule.c, structmodule.c, +thanks to Charles Waldman. + +- Many nits fixed in the manuals, thanks to Fred Drake and many others +(especially Rob Hooft and Andrew Kuchling). The HTML version now uses +HTML markup instead of inline GIF images for tables; only two images +are left (for obsure bits of math). The index of the HTML version has +also been much improved. Finally, it is once again possible to +generate an Emacs info file from the library manual (but I don't +commit to supporting this in future versions). + +- New module: telnetlib.py (a simple telnet client library). + +- New tool: Tools/versioncheck/, by Jack Jansen. + +- Ported zlibmodule.c and bsddbmodule.c to NT; The project file for MS +DevStudio 5.0 now includes new subprojects to build the zlib and bsddb +extension modules. + +- Many small changes again to Tkinter.py -- mostly bugfixes and adding +missing routines. Thanks to Greg McFarlane for reporting a bunch of +problems and proofreading my fixes. + +- The re module and its documentation are up to date with the latest +version released to the string-sig (Dec. 22). + +- Stop test_grp.py from failing when the /etc/group file is empty +(yes, this happens!). + +- Fix bug in integer conversion (mystrtoul.c) that caused +4294967296==0 to be true! + +- The VC++ 4.2 project file should be complete again. + +- In tempfile.py, use a better template on NT, and add a new optional +argument "suffix" with default "" to specify a specific extension for +the temporary filename (needed sometimes on NT but perhaps also handy +elsewhere). + +- Fixed some bugs in the FAQ wizard, and converted it to use re +instead of regex. + +- Fixed a mysteriously undetected error in dlmodule.c (it was using a +totally bogus routine name to raise an exception). + +- Fixed bug in import.c which wasn't using the new "dos-8x3" name yet. + +- Hopefully harmless changes to the build process to support shared +libraries on DG/UX. This adds a target to create +libpython$(VERSION).so; however this target is *only* for DG/UX. + +- Fixed a bug in the new format string error checking in getargs.c. + +- A simple fix for infinite recursion when printing __builtins__: +reset '_' to None before printing and set it to the printed variable +*after* printing (and only when printing is successful). + +- Fixed lib-tk/SimpleDialog.py to keep the dialog visible even if the +parent window is not (Skip Montanaro). + +- Fixed the two most annoying problems with ftp URLs in +urllib.urlopen(); an empty file now correctly raises an error, and it +is no longer required to explicitly close the returned "file" object +before opening another ftp URL to the same host and directory. + + ====================================================================== |