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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 24 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Core and builtins - A new built-in type, bool, has been added, as well as built-in names for its two values, True and False. Comparisons and sundry other operations that return a truth value have been changed to - return a bool instead. Read PEP 285 for an explanantion of why this + return a bool instead. Read PEP 285 for an explanation of why this is backward compatible. - Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions, @@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ Core and builtins Previously, an xreadlines object was returned which would raise a ValueError when the xreadlines.next() method was called. -- posix.killpg has been added where available. - -- sys.exit() inadvertantly allowed more than one argument. +- sys.exit() inadvertently allowed more than one argument. An exception will now be raised if more than one argument is used. Extension modules @@ -81,7 +79,7 @@ Extension modules This will create a temporary in-memory bsddb that won't be written to disk. -- posix.mknod was added. +- posix.killpg and posix.mknod have been added where available. - The locale module now exposes the C library's gettext interface. @@ -142,7 +140,7 @@ Library - compileall now supports quiet operation. -- The BaseHTTPServer implements now optionally HTTP/1.1 persistent +- The BaseHTTPServer now implements optional HTTP/1.1 persistent connections. - socket module: the SSL support was broken out of the main @@ -221,7 +219,7 @@ C API PyMem_MALLOC and PyMem_FREE, even if pymalloc is enabled. The PyCore_* family of APIs have been removed. -- The "u#" parser marker will now pass through Unicode object as-is +- The "u#" parser marker will now pass through Unicode objects as-is without going through the buffer API. - The enumerators of cmp_op have been renamed to use the prefix PyCmp_. @@ -268,7 +266,7 @@ Windows Windows (not the same thing as a Windows process id). - New tempfile.TemporaryFile implementation for Windows: this doesn't - need a TemproraryFileWrapper wrapper anymore, and should be immune + need a TemporaryFileWrapper wrapper anymore, and should be immune to a nasty problem: before 2.3, if you got a temp file on Windows, it got wrapped in an object whose close() method first closed the underlying file, then deleted the file. This usually worked fine. @@ -329,7 +327,7 @@ Library - xmlrpclib.py: version 1.0.0; uses precision for doubles. - test suite: the pickle and cPickle tests were not executing any code - when run from the standard regresssion test. + when run from the standard regression test. Tools/Demos @@ -512,7 +510,7 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes The MRO (method resolution order) for each base class is respected according to its kind, but the MRO for the derived class is computed - using new-style MRO rules if any base clase is a new-style class. + using new-style MRO rules if any base class is a new-style class. This needs to be documented. - The new builtin dictionary() constructor, and dictionary type, have @@ -550,7 +548,7 @@ Extension modules 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 + uniform way because the mmap() signatures had diverged across platforms. Thanks to Jay T Miller for repairing this! - By default, the gc.garbage list now contains only those instances in @@ -916,7 +914,7 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes report on SourceForge.) - property() now takes 4 keyword arguments: fget, fset, fdel and doc. - These map to readonly attributes 'fget', 'fset', 'fdel', and '__doc__' + These map to read-only attributes 'fget', 'fset', 'fdel', and '__doc__' in the constructed property object. fget, fset and fdel weren't discoverable from Python in 2.2a3. __doc__ is new, and allows to associate a docstring with a property. @@ -966,7 +964,7 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes where the subtype didn't override the operation (and so the operation was handled by the builtin type), could return that instance instead a value of the base type. For example, if s was of - a str sublass type, s[:] returned s as-is. Now it returns a str + a str subclass type, s[:] returned s as-is. Now it returns a str with the same value as s. - Provisional support for pickling new-style objects has been added. |