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@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Release date: 14-Dec-2001 Type/class unification and new-style classes +- Guido's tutorial introduction to the new type/class features has + been extensively updated. See + + http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html + + That remains the primary documentation in this area. + - Fixed a leak: instance variables declared with __slots__ were never deleted! @@ -73,10 +80,27 @@ Library - The charset alias windows_1252 has been added. +- types.StringTypes is a tuple containing the defined string types; + usually this will be (str, unicode), but if Python was compiled + without Unicode support it will be just (str,). + +- The pulldom and minidom modules were synchronized to PyXML. + Tools/Demos +- A new script called Tools/scripts/google.py was added, which fires + off a search on Google. + Build +- Note that release builds of Python should arrange to define the + preprocessor symbol NDEBUG on the command line (or equivalent). + In the 2.2 pre-release series we tried to define this by magic in + Python.h instead, but it proved to cause problems for extension + authors. The Unix, Windows and Mac builds now all define NDEBUG in + release builds via cmdline (or equivalent) instead. Ports to + other platforms should do likewise. + - It is no longer necessary to use --with-suffix when building on a case-insensitive file system (such as Mac OS X HFS+). In the build directory an extension is used, but not in the installed python. @@ -105,6 +129,12 @@ Mac - In unix-Python on Mac OS X (and darwin) sys.platform is now "darwin", without any trailing digits. +- Changed logic for finding python home in Mac OS X framework Pythons. + Now sys.executable points to the executable again, in stead of to + the shared library. The latter is used only for locating the python + home. + + What's New in Python 2.2b2? Release date: 16-Nov-2001 =========================== |