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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> |
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| date | Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:36:27 +0000 |
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| 8158 | 1 Release notes for MacPython 1.5.1 |
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| 8158 | 6 - Packages ("dotted import") appears to have problems for the cfm68k |
| 7 version of MacPython. Please report anything of interest you find as | |
| 8 soon as possible, preferrably to pythonmac-sig@python.org. I no longer | |
| 9 have access to a reasonable 68K machine, so it may well be that this | |
| 10 means the demise of cfm68k Python is near. | |
| 11 - Printing a NumPy "array([1.2])" may cause a crash in | |
| 12 cfm68k-Python. Same comments as above. | |
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| 8158 | 16 Here are the mac-specific changes since MacPython 1.4, with |
| 17 end-user-visible changes near the top and API changes and other things | |
| 18 that are developer-only more to the bottom. Changes marked with a [*] | |
| 19 are new changes since 1.5b3 (there has never been a MacPython 1.5 | |
| 20 final). And, of course, all Guido's 1.5.1 changes are | |
| 21 incorporated. | |
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| 8158 | 23 - Imported modules are now case-checked: the case of the filename |
| 24 should match the name under which you import it [*] | |
| 25 - There is now some minimal documentation on building true standalone | |
| 26 applications in Python, see building.html [*] | |
| 27 - Python's private resources now use numbers from 228 up, because of | |
| 28 conflicts with Tk. This may affect you if you include private | |
| 29 resources in applets. [*] | |
| 30 - Audio_mac spike bug fixed. [*] | |
| 31 - FrameWork menu cleanup fixed. [*] | |
| 32 - More MacOS errors now have a (somewhat) symbolic description. [*] | |
| 33 - mactty module added to allow basic access to a serial line. [*] | |
| 34 - toolbox modules have been regenerated, occasionally giving access to | |
| 35 new functionality. They are now based upon Universal Headers version | |
| 36 3.1 [*] | |
| 37 - Waste module now uses Waste 1.3 [*] | |
| 38 - Waste module now exports WE{Get,Set}TabSize [*] | |
| 39 - Ordinal support in aetypes added (by Bill Bedford) [*] | |
| 40 - ColorPicker module added (by Just van Rossum). It isn't documented, | |
| 41 but the docstring should be good enough. [*] | |
| 42 - Printing module added (by Just van Rossum). It isn't documented and | |
| 43 it isn't easy to understand, but with Inside Mac beside you it might | |
| 44 be useable. There's a test script in Mac:Lib:test. [*] | |
| 45 - Sndihooks module added to give access to sound-input. Only lightly | |
| 46 tested and not documented yet. [*] | |
| 47 - fstat() added to mac module. [*] | |
| 48 - double dispose in MacOS.splash() fixed. [*] | |
| 49 - Qt module now supports getting/setting movie times [*] | |
| 50 - BuildApplet now also accepts old applets as input, which are updated | |
| 51 to the current Python version [*] | |
| 52 - Moved Mac:Lib:toolbox and scripting to lib-toolbox and | |
| 53 lib-scripting, analogous to Guido's changes. Initial sys.path settings | |
| 54 reflect this change | |
| 55 - Added cPickle and cStringIO modules | |
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| 6474 | 58 - New modules "preferences" and "pythonprefs" which allow access to |
| 59 Python preferences and implements a general preference-handling | |
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| 6474 | 61 - Applescript suite modules are now in a separate Mac:Lib:scripting |
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| 6474 | 66 - Installation is now through an installer |
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| 6474 | 68 ConfigurePython |
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| 6474 | 70 sketchy documentation added to applescript.html |
| 71 - Tkinter now uses tcl/tk 8.0 | |
| 72 - imports should be faster due to caching path information | |
| 73 - Generated suites now live in Mac:Lib:scripting | |
| 74 - Added zlib module | |
| 75 - Tkinter setfilehandler() did not work for sockets, fixed | |
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| 6474 | 81 and MacOS.SetScheduleTimes) has been changed, see the manual |
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