From 4aef245827ff0eed1392383d8c4784fa663ddc84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:57:32 +0000 Subject: [Bug #1079134] Mention change to date comparisons; bump version info and release date to 2.4.1 --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index 722aab4..1563bde 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ \maketitle \tableofcontents -This article explains the new features in Python 2.4, released on -November~30, 2004. +This article explains the new features in Python 2.4.1, released on +March~30, 2005. Python 2.4 is a medium-sized release. It doesn't introduce as many changes as the radical Python 2.2, but introduces more features than @@ -1713,6 +1713,11 @@ The \exception{OverflowWarning} warning will disappear in Python 2.5. now return an empty list instead of raising a \exception{TypeError} exception if called with no arguments. +\item You can no longer compare the \class{date} and \class{datetime} + instances provided by the \module{datetime} module. Two + instances of different classes will now always be unequal, and + relative comparisons (\code{<}, \code{>}) will raise a \exception{TypeError}. + \item \function{dircache.listdir()} now passes exceptions to the caller instead of returning empty lists. @@ -1745,7 +1750,8 @@ longer set a handler on the \constant{SIGKILL} signal. The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this -article: Koray Can, Hye-Shik Chang, Michael Dyck, Raymond Hettinger, -Brian Hurt, Hamish Lawson, Fredrik Lundh, Sean Reifschneider. +article: Koray Can, Hye-Shik Chang, Michael Dyck, Raymond Hettinger, +Brian Hurt, Hamish Lawson, Fredrik Lundh, Sean Reifschneider, +Sadruddin Rejeb. \end{document} -- cgit v0.12