From 8b1e74b2741675f9164e1159c1d2495ac3644005 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:28:12 +0000 Subject: Touch up the news for dict() keyword args. --- Misc/NEWS | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 94caddb..71da82d 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 1? Type/class unification and new-style classes -------------------------------------------- -- dict() now accepts keyword arguments so that dict(one=1,two=2) - is the equivalent of dict([('one',1),('two',2)]). Accordingly, + +- dict() now accepts keyword arguments so that dict(one=1, two=2) + is the equivalent of {"one": 1, "two": 2}. Accordingly, the existing (but undocumented) 'items' keyword argument has - been eliminated. This means that dict(items=someMapping) now has + been eliminated. This means that dict(items=someMapping) now has a different meaning than before. - int() now returns a long object if the argument is outside the -- cgit v0.12