cpython-lru_cache-weakref: Misc/NEWS annotate

annotate Misc/NEWS @ 5817:48b94de85bf3 legacy-trunk

Extensive changes by AMK.

author	Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
date	Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:29:42 +0000
parents	20fd96648510
children	d240851cc8c5

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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	2 ==> Release 1.4 (October 25 1996) <==
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4499 20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	5 (Starting in reverse chronological order:)
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	9 - Added SHELL=/bin/sh to Misc/Makefile.pre.in -- some Make versions
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	12 - In Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py, removed bogus binding of <Delete> in Text
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	18 - Fixed the NT Makefile (PC/vc40.mak) for VC 4.0 to set /MD for all
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4499 20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	22 - In Lib/py_compile.py, cast mtime to long() so it will work on Mac
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	24 - Set self.rfile unbuffered (like self.wfile) in SocketServer.py, to
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	27 - Version 2.83 of Misc/python-mode.el for Emacs is included.
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	29 - In Modules/regexmodule.c, fixed symcomp() to correctly handle a new
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	32 - In Lib/SocketServer.py, changed the mode for rfile to unbuffered.
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	34 - In Objects/stringobject.c, fixed the compare function to do the
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	38 - In Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py, fixed Scale.get() to support floats.
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	40 - In Lib/urllib.py, fix another case where openedurl wasn't set.
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20fd96648510 Added last-minute changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4436 diff changeset	42 (XXX Sorry, the rest is in totally random order. No time to fix it.)
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	44 - SyntaxError exceptions detected during code generation
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	50 - Added a note to Tools/scripts/classfix.py abouts its historical
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	53 - Added Misc/Makefile.pre.in, a universal Makefile for extensions
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	56 - Rewritten Misc/faq2html.py, by Ka-Ping Yee.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	58 - Install shared modules with mode 555 (needed for performance on some
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	61 - Some changes to standard library modules to avoid calling append()
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	68 - Fixed an embarrassing bug cgi.py which prevented correct uploading
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	73 - Added default writer to constructor of NullFormatter class.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	75 - Use binary mode for socket.makefile() calls in ftplib.py.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	77 - The ihooks module no longer "installs" itself upon import -- this
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	83 - The test program for mailbox.py is now more useful.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	85 - Added getparamnames() to Message class in mimetools.py -- it returns
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	94 - Fix a small bug in pyclbr -- don't add names starting with _ when
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	97 - Fixed a series of embarrassing typos in rexec's handling of standard
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	185 - The getopt module now supports long option names, thanks to Lars
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	191 - Use more bits of time.time() in whrandom's default seed().
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	195 - Don't close already closed socket in socket module.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	197 - Correctly handle separators containing embedded nulls in
a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	198 strop.split, strop.find and strop.rfind. Also added more detail to
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	201 - Moved fallback definition for hypot() to Python/hypot.c.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	203 - Added fallback definition for strdup, in Python/strdup.c.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	205 - Fixed some bugs where a function would return 0 to indicate an error
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	208 - Test for error returned by time.localtime(), and rationalized its MS
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	211 - Added Modules/Setup.local file, which is processed after Setup.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	213 - Corrected bug in toplevel Makefile.in -- execution of regen script
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	216 - Various and sundry NeXT configuration changes (sigh).
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	218 - Support systems where libreadline needs neither termcap nor curses.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	220 - Improved ld_so_aix script and python.exp file (for AIX).
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	222 - More stringent test for working <stdarg.h> in configure script.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	224 - Removed Demo/www subdirectory -- it was totally out of date.
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a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	226 - Improved demos and docs for Fred Drake's parser module; fixed one
a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	227 typo in the module itself.
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4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	231 ==> Release 1.4beta3 (August 26 1996) <==
4154 02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	232 =========================================
1942 85f1d2bec632 For release 1.1 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1738 diff changeset	233
3886 81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	234
4436 a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	235 (XXX This is less readable that it should. I promise to restructure
a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	236 it for the final 1.4 release.)
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4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	238
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	239 What's new in 1.4beta3 (since beta2)?
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a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	241
4436 a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	242 - Name mangling to implement a simple form of class-private variables.
a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	243 A name of the form "__spam" can't easily be used outside the class.
a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	244 (This was added in 1.4beta3, but left out of the 1.4beta3 release
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4154 02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	247 - In urllib.urlopen(): HTTP URLs containing user:passwd@host are now
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	248 handled correctly when using a proxy server.
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	249
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	250 - In ntpath.normpath(): don't truncate to 8+3 format.
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	251
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	252 - In mimetools.choose_boundary(): don't die when getuid() or getpid()
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	253 aren't defined.
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	254
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	255 - Module urllib: some optimizations to (un)quoting.
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02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	257 - New module MimeWriter for writing MIME documents.
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02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	259 - More changes to formatter module.
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	260
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	261 - The freeze script works once again and is much more robust (using
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	262 sys.prefix etc.). It also supports a -o option to specify an
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	263 output directory.
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	264
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	265 - New module whichdb recognizes dbm, gdbm and bsddb/dbhash files.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	266
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	267 - The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	268 insistence on always generating PostScript.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	269
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	270 - The texinfo to html filter (Doc/texi2html.py) has been improved somewhat.
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a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	272 - "errors.h" has been renamed to "pyerrors.h" to resolve a long-standing
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	273 name conflict on the Mac.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	274
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	275 - Linking a module compiled with a different setting for Py_TRACE_REFS now
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	276 generates a linker error rather than a core dump.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	277
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	278 - The cgi module has a new convenience function print_exception(), which
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	279 formats a python exception using HTML. It also fixes a bug in the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	280 compatibility code and adds a dubious feature which makes it possible to
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	281 have two query strings, one in the URL and one in the POST data.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	282
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	283 - A subtle change in the unpickling of class instances makes it possible
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	284 to unpickle in restricted execution mode, where the __dict__ attribute is
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	285 not available (but setattr() is).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	286
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	287 - Documentation for os.path.splitext() (== posixpath.splitext()) has been
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	288 cleared up. It splits at the last dot.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	289
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	290 - posixfile locking is now also correctly supported on AIX.
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a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	292 - The tempfile module once again honors an initial setting of tmpdir. It
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	293 now works on Windows, too.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	294
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	295 - The traceback module has some new functions to extract, format and print
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	296 the active stack.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	297
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	298 - Some translation functions in the urllib module have been made a little
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	299 less sluggish.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	300
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	301 - The addtag_* methods for Canvas widgets in Tkinter as well as in the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	302 separate Canvas class have been fixed so they actually do something
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	303 meaningful.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	304
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	305 - A tiny _test() function has been added to Tkinter.py.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	306
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	307 - A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	308 subdirectory (Misc/gMakefile).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	309
4154 02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	310 - A new version of python-mode.el for Emacs is provided. See
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	311 http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/pmdetails.html for details. The
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02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	313 into python-mode.el.
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	314
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	315 - The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	316 non-standard location. The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the the Makefiles
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	317 from the configure script.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	318
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	319 - Shared libraries are now installed as programs (i.e. with executable
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	320 permission). This is required on HP-UX and won't hurt on other systems.
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a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	322 - The objc.c module is no longer part of the distribution. Objective-C
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	323 support may become available as contributed software on the ftp site.
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4436 a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	325 - The sybase module is no longer part of the distribution. A much
a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	326 improved sybase module is available as contributed software from the
a36235631273 Added all current changes. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4155 diff changeset	327 ftp site.
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	328
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	329 - _tkinter is now compatible with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 patch1 on Windows and
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	330 Mac (don't use unpatched Tcl/Tk!). The default line in the Setup.in file
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	331 now links with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 rather than 7.4/4.0.
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a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	333 - In Setup, you can now write "shared" instead of "noconfig", and you
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	334 can use .so and .sl as shared libraries.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	335
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	336 - Some more fidgeting for AIX shared libraries.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	337
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	338 - The mpz module is now compatible with GMP 2.x. (Not tested by me.)
4154 02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	339 (Note -- a complete replacement by Niels Mo"ller, called gpmodule, is
02621b877ee5 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4133 diff changeset	340 available from the contrib directory on the ftp site.)
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	341
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	342 - A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	343 exception (formerly, such exceptions were completely ignored).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	344
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	345 - The configure script now defines HAVE_OLD_CPP if the C preprocessor is
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	346 incapable of ANSI style token concatenation and stringification.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	347
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	348 - All source files (except a few platform specific modules) are once again
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	349 compatible with K&R C compilers as well as ANSI compilers. In particular,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	350 ANSI-isms have been removed or made conditional in complexobject.c,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	351 getargs.c and operator.c.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	352
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	353 - The abstract object API has three new functions, PyObject_DelItem,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	354 PySequence_DelItem, and PySequence_DelSlice.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	355
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	356 - The operator module has new functions delitem and delslice, and the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	357 functions "or" and "and" are renamed to "or_" and "and_" (since "or" and
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	358 "and" are reserved words). ("__or__" and "__and__" are unchanged.)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	359
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	360 - The environment module is no longer supported; putenv() is now a function
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	361 in posixmodule (also under NT).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	362
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	363 - Error in filter(<function>, "") has been fixed.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	364
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	365 - Unrecognized keyword arguments raise TypeError, not KeyError.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	366
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	367 - Better portability, fewer bugs and memory leaks, fewer compiler warnings,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	368 some more documentation.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	369
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	370 - Bug in float power boundary case (0.0 to the negative integer power)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	371 fixed.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	372
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	373 - The test of negative number to the float power has been moved from the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	374 built-in pow() functin to floatobject.c (so complex numbers can yield the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	375 correct result).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	376
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	377 - The bug introduced in beta2 where shared libraries loaded (using
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	378 dlopen()) from the current directory would fail, has been fixed.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	379
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	380 - Modules imported as shared libraries now also have a __file__ attribute,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	381 giving the filename from which they were loaded. The only modules without
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	382 a __file__ attribute now are built-in modules.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	383
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	384 - On the Mac, dynamically loaded modules can end in either ".slb" or
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	385 ".<platform>.slb" where <platform> is either "CFM68K" or "ppc". The ".slb"
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	386 extension should only be used for "fat" binaries.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	387
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	388 - C API addition: marshal.c now supports
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	389 PyMarshal_WriteObjectToString(object).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	390
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	391 - C API addition: getargs.c now supports
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	392 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwdict, format, kwnames, ...)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	393 to parse keyword arguments.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	394
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	395 - The PC versioning scheme (sys.winver) has changed once again. the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	396 version number is now "<digit>.<digit>.<digit>.<apiversion>", where the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	397 first three <digit>s are the Python version (e.g. "1.4.0" for Python 1.4,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	398 "1.4.1" for Python 1.4.1 -- the beta level is not included) and
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	399 <apiversion> is the four-digit PYTHON_API_VERSION (currently 1005).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	400
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	401 - h2py.py accepts whitespace before the # in CPP directives
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	402
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	403 - On Solaris 2.5, it should now be possible to use either Posix threads or
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	404 Solaris threads (XXX: how do you select which is used???). (Note: the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	405 Python pthreads interface doesn't fully support semaphores yet -- anyone
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	406 care to fix this?)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	407
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	408 - Thread support should now work on AIX, using either DCE threads or
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	409 pthreads.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	410
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	411 - New file Demo/sockets/unicast.py
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	412
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	413 - Working Mac port, with CFM68K support, with Tk 4.1 support (though not
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	414 both) (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	415
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	416 - New project setup for PC port, now compatible with PythonWin, with
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	417 _tkinter and NumPy support (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	418
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	419 - New module site.py (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	420
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	421 - New module xdrlib.py and optional support module _xdrmodule.c (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	422
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	423 - parser module adapted to new grammar, complete w/ Doc & Demo (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	424
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	425 - regen script fixed (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	426
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	427 - new machdep subdirectories Lib/{aix3,aix4,next3_3,freebsd2,linux2} (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	428
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	429 - testall now also tests math module (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	430
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	431 - string.atoi c.s. now raise an exception for an empty input string.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	432
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	433 - At last, it is no longer necessary to define HAVE_CONFIG_H in order to
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	434 have config.h included at various places.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	435
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	436 - Unrecognized keyword arguments now raise TypeError rather than KeyError.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	437
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	438 - The makesetup script recognizes files with extension .so or .sl as
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	439 (shared) libraries.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	440
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	441 - 'access' is no longer a reserved word, and all code related to its
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	442 implementation is gone (or at least #ifdef'ed out). This should make
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	443 Python a little speedier too!
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	444
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	445 - Performance enhancements suggested by Sjoerd Mullender. This includes
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	446 the introduction of two new optional function pointers in type object,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	447 getattro and setattro, which are like getattr and setattr but take a
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	448 string object instead of a C string pointer.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	449
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	450 - New operations in string module: lstrip(s) and rstrip(s) strip whitespace
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	451 only on the left or only on the right, A new optional third argument to
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	452 split() specifies the maximum number of separators honored (so
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	453 splitfields(s, sep, n) returns a list of at most n+1 elements). (Since
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	454 1.3, splitfields(s, None) is totally equivalent to split(s).)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	455 string.capwords() has an optional second argument specifying the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	456 separator (which is passed to split()).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	457
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	458 - regsub.split() has the same addition as string.split(). regsub.splitx(s,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	459 sep, maxsep) implements the functionality that was regsub.split(s, 1) in
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	460 1.4beta2 (return a list containing the delimiters as well as the words).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	461
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	462 - Final touch for AIX loading, rewritten Misc/AIX-NOTES.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	463
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	464 - In Modules/_tkinter.c, when using Tk 4.1 or higher, use className
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	465 argument to _tkinter.create() to set Tcl's argv0 variable, so X
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	466 resources use the right resource class again.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	467
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	468 - Add #undef fabs to Modules/mathmodule.c for macintosh.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	469
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	470 - Added some macro renames for AIX in Modules/operator.c.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	471
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	472 - Removed spurious 'E' from Doc/liberrno.tex.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	473
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	474 - Got rid of some cruft in Misc/ (dlMakefile, pyimenu.el); added new
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	475 Misc/gMakefile and new version of Misc/python-mode.el.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	476
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	477 - Fixed typo in Lib/ntpath.py (islink has "return false" which gives a
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	478 NameError).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	479
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	480 - Added missing "from types import *" to Lib/tkinter/Canvas.py.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	481
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	482 - Added hint about using default args for __init__ to pickle docs.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	483
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	484 - Corrected typo in Inclide/abstract.h: PySequence_Lenth ->
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	485 PySequence_Length.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	486
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	487 - Some improvements to Doc/texi2html.py.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	488
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	489 - In Python/import.c, Cast unsigned char * in struct _frozen to char *
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	490 in calls to rds_object().
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	491
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	492 - In doc/ref4.tex, added note about scope of lambda bodies.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	493
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	494 What's new in 1.4beta2 (since beta1)?
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	495 -------------------------------------
1942 85f1d2bec632 For release 1.1 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1738 diff changeset	496
3886 81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	497 - Portability bug in the md5.h header solved.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	498
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	499 - The PC build procedure now really works, and sets sys.platform to a
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	500 meaningful value (a few things were botched in beta 1). Lib/dos_8x3
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	501 is now a standard part of the distribution (alas).
1942 85f1d2bec632 For release 1.1 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1738 diff changeset	502
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	503 - More improvements to the installation procedure. Typing "make install"
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	504 now inserts the version number in the pathnames of almost everything
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	505 installed, and creates the machine dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	506 supplied by the distribution. (XXX There's still a problem with the latter
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	507 because the "regen" script requires that Python is installed. Some manual
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	508 intervention may still be required.) (This has been fixed in 1.4beta3.)
3886 81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	509
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	510 - New modules: errno, operator (XXX).
1942 85f1d2bec632 For release 1.1 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1738 diff changeset	511
3886 81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	512 - Changes for use with Numerical Python: builtin function slice() and
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	513 Ellipses object, and corresponding syntax:
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	514
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	515 x[lo:hi:stride] == x[slice(lo, hi, stride)]
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	516 x[a, ..., z] == x[(a, Ellipses, z)]
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	517
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	518 - New documentation for errno and cgi mdoules.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	519
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	520 - The directory containing the script passed to the interpreter is
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	521 inserted in from of sys.path; "." is no longer a default path
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	522 component.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	523
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	524 - Optional third string argument to string.translate() specifies
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	525 characters to delete. New function string.maketrans() creates a
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	526 translation table for translate() or for regex.compile().
2659 266ad13287a4 updates for final release of 1.2 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2511 diff changeset	527
3886 81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	528 - Module posix (and hence module os under Unix) now supports putenv().
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	529 Moreover, module os is enhanced so that if putenv() is supported,
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	530 assignments to os.environ entries make the appropriate putenv() call.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	531 (XXX the putenv() implementation can leak a small amount of memory per
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	532 call.)
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	533
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	534 - pdb.py can now be invoked from the command line to debug a script:
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	535 python pdb.py <script> <arg> ...
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	536
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	537 - Much improved parseaddr() in rfc822.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	538
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	539 - In cgi.py, you can now pass an alternative value for environ to
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	540 nearly all functions.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	541
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	542 - You can now assign to instance variables whose name begins and ends
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	543 with '__'.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	544
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	545 - New version of Fred Drake's parser module and associates (token,
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	546 symbol, AST).
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	547
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	548 - New PYTHON_API_VERSION value and .pyc file magic number (again!).
2511 c6a6e2b20bd8 the usual Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2167 diff changeset	549
3886 81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	550 - The "complex" internal structure type is now called "Py_complex" to
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	551 avoid name conflicts.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	552
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	553 - Numerous small bugs fixed.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	554
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	555 - Slight pickle speedups.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	556
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	557 - Some slight speedups suggested by Sjoerd (more coming in 1.4 final).
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	558
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	559 - NeXT portability mods by Bill Bumgarner integrated.
2511 c6a6e2b20bd8 the usual Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2167 diff changeset	560
3886 81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	561 - Modules regexmodule.c, bsddbmodule.c and xxmodule.c have been
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	562 converted to new naming style.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	563
2511 c6a6e2b20bd8 the usual Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2167 diff changeset	564
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	565 What's new in 1.4beta1 (since 1.3)?
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	566 -----------------------------------
3886 81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	567
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	568 - Added sys.platform and sys.exec_platform for Bill Janssen.
81f60f52b873 Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3866 diff changeset	569
4133 a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	570 - Installation has been completely overhauled. "make install" now installs
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	571 everything, not just the python binary. Installation uses the install-sh
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	572 script (borrowed from X11) to install each file.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	573
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	574 - New functions in the posix module: mkfifo, plock, remove (== unlink),
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	575 and ftruncate. More functions are also available under NT.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	576
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	577 - New function in the fcntl module: flock.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	578
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	579 - Shared library support for FreeBSD.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	580
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	581 - The --with-readline option can now be used without a DIRECTORY argument,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	582 for systems where libreadline.* is in one of the standard places. It is
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	583 also possible for it to be a shared library.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	584
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	585 - The extension tkinter has been renamed to _tkinter, to avoid confusion
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	586 with Tkinter.py oncase insensitive file systems. It now supports Tk 4.1 as
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	587 well as 4.0.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	588
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	589 - Author's change of address from CWI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	590 CNRI in Reston, VA, USA.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	591
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	592 - The math.hypot() function is now always available (if it isn't found in
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	593 the C math library, Python provides its own implementation).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	594
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	595 - The latex documentation is now compatible with latex2e, thanks to David
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	596 Ascher.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	597
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	598 - The expression x**y is now equivalent to pow(x, y).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	599
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	600 - The indexing expression x[a, b, c] is now equivalent to x[(a, b, c)].
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	601
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	602 - Complex numbers are now supported. Imaginary constants are written with
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	603 a 'j' or 'J' prefix, general complex numbers can be formed by adding a real
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	604 part to an imaginary part, like 3+4j. Complex numbers are always stored in
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	605 floating point form, so this is equivalent to 3.0+4.0j. It is also
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	606 possible to create complex numbers with the new built-in function
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	607 complex(re, [im]). For the footprint-conscious, complex number support can
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	608 be disabled by defining the symbol WITHOUT_COMPLEX.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	609
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	610 - New built-in function list() is the long-awaited counterpart of tuple().
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	611
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	612 - There's a new "cmath" module which provides the same functions as the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	613 "math" library but with complex arguments and results. (There are very
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	614 good reasons why math.sqrt(-1) still raises an exception -- you have to use
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	615 cmath.sqrt(-1) to get 1j for an answer.)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	616
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	617 - The Python.h header file (which is really the same as allobjects.h except
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	618 it disables support for old style names) now includes several more files,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	619 so you have to have fewer #include statements in the average extension.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	620
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	621 - The NDEBUG symbol is no longer used. Code that used to be dependent on
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	622 the presence of NDEBUG is now present on the absence of DEBUG. TRACE_REFS
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	623 and REF_DEBUG have been renamed to Py_TRACE_REFS and Py_REF_DEBUG,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	624 respectively. At long last, the source actually compiles and links without
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	625 errors when this symbol is defined.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	626
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	627 - Several symbols that didn't follow the new naming scheme have been
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	628 renamed (usually by adding to rename2.h) to use a Py or _Py prefix. There
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	629 are no external symbols left without a Py or _Py prefix, not even those
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	630 defined by sources that were incorporated from elsewhere (regexpr.c,
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	631 md5c.c). (Macros are a different story...)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	632
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	633 - There are now typedefs for the structures defined in config.c and
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	634 frozen.c.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	635
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	636 - New PYTHON_API_VERSION value and .pyc file magic number.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	637
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	638 - New module Bastion. (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	639
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	640 - Improved performance of StringIO module.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	641
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	642 - UserList module now supports + and * operators.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	643
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	644 - The binhex and binascii modules now actually work.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	645
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	646 - The cgi module has been almost totally rewritten and documented.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	647 It now supports file upload and a new data type to handle forms more
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	648 flexibly.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	649
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	650 - The formatter module (for use with htmllib) has been overhauled (again).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	651
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	652 - The ftplib module now supports passive mode and has doc strings.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	653
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	654 - In (ideally) all places where binary files are read or written, the file
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	655 is now correctly opened in binary mode ('rb' or 'wb') so the code will work
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	656 on Mac or PC.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	657
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	658 - Dummy versions of os.path.expandvars() and expanduser() are now provided
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	659 on non-Unix platforms.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	660
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	661 - Module urllib now has two new functions url2pathname and pathname2url
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	662 which turn local filenames into "file:..." URLs using the same rules as
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	663 Netscape (why be different). it also supports urlretrieve() with a
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	664 pathname parameter, and honors the proxy environment variables (http_proxy
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	665 etc.). The URL parsing has been improved somewhat, too.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	666
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	667 - Micro improvements to urlparse. Added urlparse.urldefrag() which
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	668 removes a trailing ``#fragment'' if any.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	669
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	670 - The mailbox module now supports MH style message delimiters as well.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	671
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	672 - The mhlib module contains some new functionality: setcontext() to set the
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	673 current folder and parsesequence() to parse a sequence as commonly passed
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	674 to MH commands (e.g. 1-10 or last:5).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	675
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	676 - New module mimify for conversion to and from MIME format of email
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	677 messages.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	678
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	679 - Module ni now automatically installs itself when first imported -- this
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	680 is against the normal rule that modules should define classes and functions
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	681 but not invoke them, but appears more useful in the case that two
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	682 different, independent modules want to use ni's features.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	683
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	684 - Some small performance enhancements in module pickle.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	685
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	686 - Small interface change to the profile.run*() family of functions -- more
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	687 sensible handling of return values.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	688
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	689 - The officially registered Mac creator for Python files is 'Pyth'. This
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	690 replaces 'PYTH' which was used before but never registered.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	691
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	692 - Added regsub.capwords(). (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	693
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	694 - Added string.capwords(), string.capitalize() and string.translate().
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	695 (XXX)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	696
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	697 - Fixed an interface bug in the rexec module: it was impossible to pass a
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	698 hooks instance to the RExec class. rexec now also supports the dynamic
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	699 loading of modules from shared libraries. Some other interfaces have been
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	700 added too.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	701
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	702 - Module rfc822 now caches the headers in a dictionary for more efficient
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	703 lookup.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	704
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	705 - The sgmllib module now understands a limited number of SGML "shorthands"
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	706 like <A/.../ for <A>...</A>. (It's not clear that this was a good idea...)
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	707
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	708 - The tempfile module actually tries a number of different places to find a
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	709 usable temporary directory. (This was prompted by certain Linux
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	710 installations that appear to be missing a /usr/tmp directory.) [A bug in
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	711 the implementation that would ignore a pre-existing tmpdir global has been
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	712 fixed in beta3.]
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	713
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	714 - Much improved and enhanved FileDialog module for Tkinter.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	715
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	716 - Many small changes to Tkinter, to bring it more in line with Tk 4.0 (as
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	717 well as Tk 4.1).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	718
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	719 - New socket interfaces include ntohs(), ntohl(), htons(), htonl(), and
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	720 s.dup(). Sockets now work correctly on Windows. On Windows, the built-in
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	721 extension is called _socket and a wrapper module win/socket.py provides
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	722 "makefile()" and "dup()" functionality. On Windows, the select module
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	723 works only with socket objects.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	724
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	725 - Bugs in bsddb module fixed (e.g. missing default argument values).
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	726
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	727 - The curses extension now includes <ncurses.h> when available.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	728
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	729 - The gdbm module now supports opening databases in "fast" mode by
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	730 specifying 'f' as the second character or the mode string.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	731
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	732 - new variables sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix pass corresponding
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	733 configuration options / Makefile variables to the Python programmer.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	734
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	735 - The ``new'' module now supports creating new user-defined classes as well
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	736 as instances thereof.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	737
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	738 - The soundex module now sports get_soundex() to get the soundex value for an
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	739 arbitrary string (formerly it would only do soundex-based string
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	740 comparison) as well as doc strings.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	741
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	742 - New object type "cobject" to safely wrap void pointers for passing them
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	743 between various extension modules.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	744
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	745 - More efficient computation of float**smallint.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	746
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	747 - The mysterious bug whereby "x.x" (two occurrences of the same
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	748 one-character name) typed from the commandline would sometimes fail
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	749 mysteriously.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	750
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	751 - The initialization of the readline function can now be invoked by a C
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	752 extension through PyOS_ReadlineInit().
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	753
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	754 - There's now an externally visible pointer PyImport_FrozenModules which
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	755 can be changed by an embedding application.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	756
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	757 - The argument parsing functions now support a new format character 'D' to
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	758 specify complex numbers.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	759
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	760 - Various memory leaks plugged and bugs fixed.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	761
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	762 - Improved support for posix threads (now that real implementations are
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	763 beginning to apepar). Still no fully functioning semaphores.
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	764
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	765 - Some various and sundry improvements and new entries in the Tools
a2bc941564a1 Added all changes in beta1 and beta3. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3913 diff changeset	766 directory.

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