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@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 3? Core and builtins ----------------- -Subclasses of string can no longer be interned. The semantics of -interning were not clear here -- a subclass could be mutable, for -example -- and had bugs. Explicitly interning a subclass of string -via intern() will raise a TypeError. Internal operations that attempt -to intern a string subclass will have no effect. +- Subclasses of string can no longer be interned. The semantics of + interning were not clear here -- a subclass could be mutable, for + example -- and had bugs. Explicitly interning a subclass of string + via intern() will raise a TypeError. Internal operations that attempt + to intern a string subclass will have no effect. Extension modules ----------------- @@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ Extension modules Library ------- +- doctest refactoring continued. See the docs for details. As part of + this effort, some old and little- (never?) used features are now + deprecated: the Tester class, the module is_private() function, and the + isprivate argument to testmod(). The Tester class supplied a feeble + "by hand" way to combine multiple doctests, if you knew exactly what + you were doing. The newer doctest features for unittest integration + already did a better job of that, are stronger now than ever, and the + new DocTestRunner class is a saner foundation if you want to do it by + hand. The "private name" filtering gimmick was a mistake from the + start, and testmod() changed long ago to ignore it by default. If + you want to filter out tests, the new DocTestFinder class can be used + to return a list of all doctests, and you can filter that list by + any computable criteria before passing it to a DocTestRunner instance. + + Tools/Demos ----------- |