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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
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@@ -2,22 +2,23 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a0? =========================== Core + - Some operating systems now support the concept of a default Unicode encoding for file system operations. Notably, Windows supports 'mbcs' as the default. The Macintosh will also adopt this concept in the medium - term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than + term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than 'mbcs'. - On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for + On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for functions that return filenames (such as os.listdir()) to return Python string objects pre-encoded using the default file system encoding for the platform. As this encoding is likely to be different from Python's default encoding, converting this name to a Unicode object before passing it back to the Operating System would result in a Unicode error, as Python - would attempt to use it's default encoding (generally ASCII) rather - than the default encoding for the file system. - In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with - Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as - you expect, increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context. + would attempt to use its default encoding (generally ASCII) rather than + the default encoding for the file system. + In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with + Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as you expect, + increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context. See [????] for more details, including examples. - Float (and complex) literals in source code were evaluated to full @@ -82,6 +83,23 @@ Core to crash if the element comparison routines for the dict keys and/or values mutated the dicts. Making the code bulletproof slowed it down. +Library + +- Cookie.py now sorts key+value pairs by key in output strings. + +- pprint.isrecursive(object) didn't correctly identify recursive objects. + Now it does. + +Tests + +- New test_mutants.py runs dict comparisons where the key and value + comparison operators mutute the dicts randomly during comparison. This + rapidly causes Python to crash under earlier releases (not for the faint + of heart: it can also cause Win9x to freeze or reboot!). + +- New test_pprint.py verfies that pprint.isrecursive() and + pprint.isreadable() return sensible results. + What's New in Python 2.1 (final)? ================================= |