From c3749a9791d03ed050852be306d34ec15ee70aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:14:41 +0000 Subject: Add a paragraph about PEP 353; add a few more fixes --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 2853bc5..3716fd9 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -694,13 +694,29 @@ in a few releases. \begin{seealso} -\seepep{352}{}{PEP written by +\seepep{352}{Required Superclass for Exceptions}{PEP written by Brett Cannon and Guido van Rossum; implemented by Brett Cannon.} \end{seealso} %====================================================================== +\section{PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type} + +A wide-ranging change to Python's C API, using a new +\ctype{Py_ssize_t} type definition instead of \ctype{int}, +will permit the interpreter to handle more data on 64-bit platforms. +This change doesn't affect Python's capacity on 32-bit platforms. + +This section will be expanded in future alpha releases. + +\begin{seealso} + +\seepep{353}{}{PEP written and implemented by Martin von L\"owis.} + +\end{seealso} + +%====================================================================== \section{PEP 357: The '__index__' method} The NumPy developers had a problem that could only be solved by adding @@ -1201,7 +1217,7 @@ changes to your code: \begin{itemize} -\item XXX the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter. +\item The \module{pickle} module no longer uses the deprecated \var{bin} parameter. \end{itemize} @@ -1211,6 +1227,6 @@ changes to your code: The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this -article: . +article: no one yet. \end{document} -- cgit v0.12