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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 27 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@ Build - configure supports a new option --enable-unicode, with the values ucs2 and ucs4 (new in 2.2a1). With --disable-unicode, the Unicode type and supporting code is completely removed from the interpreter. - + - A new configure option --enable-framework builds a Mac OS X framework, which "make frameworkinstall" will install. This provides a starting point for more mac-like functionality, join pythonmac-sig@python.org if you are interested in helping. +- The NeXT platform is no longer supported. + +- The `new' module is now statically linked. + Tools - The new Tools/scripts/cleanfuture.py can be used to automatically @@ -21,13 +25,24 @@ Tools Tests - regrtest.py now knows which tests are expected to be skipped on some - platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output. + platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output. regrtest + also has optional --use/-u switch to run normally disabled tests + which require network access or consume significant disk resources. - Several new tests in the standard test suite, with special thanks to Nick Mathewson. Core +- The floor division operator // has been added as outlined in PEP + 238. The / operator still provides classic division (and will until + Python 3.0) unless "from __future__ import division" is included, in + which case the / operator will provide true division. The operator + module provides truediv() and floordiv() functions. Augmented + assignment variants are included, as are the equivalent overloadable + methods and C API methods. See the PEP for a full discussion: + <http://python.sf.net/peps/pep-0238.html> + - Future statements are now effective in simulated interactive shells (like IDLE). This should "just work" by magic, but read Michael Hudson's "Future statements in simulated shells" PEP 264 for full @@ -61,6 +76,14 @@ Library - Readline completion support for cmd.Cmd was added. +- Calling os.tempnam() or os.tmpnam() generate RuntimeWarnings. + +- Added function threading.BoundedSemaphore() + +- Added Ka-Ping Yee's cgitb.py module. + +- The `new' module now exposes the CO_xxx flags. + New platforms C API |