From 55a78992daed1005d537697ac344703d8dbf3f5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:22:32 +0000 Subject: - Add news about generators. - Change header to 2.2a1. - Add separator between 2.2 and 2.1 news. --- Misc/NEWS | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 7e0f425..feb6f87 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,19 @@ -What's New in Python 2.2a0? +What's New in Python 2.2a1? =========================== Core +- Generators were added; this is a new way to create an iterator (see + below) using what looks like a simple function containing one of + more 'yield' statements. See PEP 255. Since this adds a new + keyword to the language, this feature must be enabled by including a + future statement: "from __future__ import generators" (see PEP 236). + Generators will become a standard feature in a future release + (probably 2.3). Without this future statement, 'yield' remains an + ordinary identifier, but a warning is issued each time it is used. + (These warnings currently don't conform to the warnings framework of + PEP 230; we intend to fix this in 2.2a2.) + - The UTF-16 codec was modified to be more RFC compliant. It will now only remove BOM characters at the start of the string and then only if running in native mode (UTF-16-LE and -BE won't remove a @@ -197,6 +208,9 @@ C API _PyTuple_Resize(). If this affects you, you were cheating. +====================================================================== + + What's New in Python 2.1 (final)? ================================= -- cgit v0.12