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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ Extension modules - Fix a crash on Solaris that occurred when calling close() on an mmap'ed file which was already closed. (SF patch #665913) -- Fixed serveral serious bugs in the zipimport implementation. +- Fixed several serious bugs in the zipimport implementation. - datetime changes: @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ Core and builtins compatible with those that have been implemented in Jython since Jython 2.1. -- PEP 302 has been accepted. Although it was inititally developed to +- PEP 302 has been accepted. Although it was initially developed to support zipimport, it offers a new, general import hook mechanism. Several new variables have been added to the sys module: sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks, and sys.path_importer_cache; these @@ -1023,9 +1023,9 @@ Library - os.path exposes getctime. - unittest.py now has two additional methods called assertAlmostEqual() - and failIfAlmostEqual(). They implement an approximate comparision + and failIfAlmostEqual(). They implement an approximate comparison by rounding the difference between the two arguments and comparing - the result to zero. Approximate comparision is essential for + the result to zero. Approximate comparison is essential for unit tests of floating point results. - calendar.py now depends on the new datetime module rather than @@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ Library - doctest.testmod can now be called without argument, which means to test the current module. -- When cancelling a server that implemented threading with a keyboard +- When canceling a server that implemented threading with a keyboard interrupt, the server would shut down but not terminate (waiting on client threads). A new member variable, daemon_threads, was added to the ThreadingMixIn class in SocketServer.py to make it explicit that @@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ C API the ob_sval member, so as a precaution the API_VERSION has been incremented. The apparently unused feature of "indirect interned strings", supported by the ob_sinterned member, is gone. Interned - strings are now usually mortal; theres a new API, + strings are now usually mortal; there is a new API, PyString_InternImmortal() that creates immortal interned strings. (The ob_sstate member can only take three values; however, while making it a char saves a few bytes per string object on average, in @@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ Windows improvement over the previous Berkeley DB 1.85, which had many bugs. XXX What are the licensing issues here? - XXX If a user has a database created with a previous verion of + XXX If a user has a database created with a previous version of XXX Python, what must they do to convert it? XXX I'm still not sure how to link this thing (see PCbuild/readme.txt). XXX The version # is likely to change before 2.3a1. @@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@ Windows - When Python is built under a Microsoft compiler, sys.version now includes the compiler version number (_MSC_VER). For example, under - MSVC 6, sys.version constains the substring "MSC v.1200 ". 1200 is + MSVC 6, sys.version contains the substring "MSC v.1200 ". 1200 is the value of _MSC_VER under MSVC 6. - Sometimes the uninstall executable (UNWISE.EXE) vanishes. One cause @@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ Mac There are hooks in the IDE to allow accessing the Python documentation (and Apple's Carbon and Cocoa documentation) through the Help Viewer. See Mac/OSX/README for converting the Python documentation to a - Help Viewer comaptible form and installing it. + Help Viewer compatible form and installing it. - OSA support has been redesigned and the generated Python classes now mirror the inheritance defined by the underlying OSA classes. @@ -2175,7 +2175,7 @@ Library Calibration must still be done manually (see the docs for the profile module). - Note that Profile.calibrate() must be overriden by subclasses. + Note that Profile.calibrate() must be overridden by subclasses. Improving the accuracy required exploiting detailed knowledge of profiler internals; the earlier method abstracted away the details and measured a simplified model instead, but consequently computed |