[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.315,1.315.2.1

[Barry Warsaw]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv2701

Modified Files:
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	NEWS 
Log Message:
Updated NEWS for version 2.2beta2.

Note that I added (guessed at ;) some items for the Mac platform.
Jack should proofread and make any necessary corrections in both the
branch (when he takes it over for the Mac release), and in the trunk
so that it'll be updated for 2.2rc1.  Corrections won't make it into
the Windows or source releases for 2.2b2, so that'll have to be okay.


Index: NEWS
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*** NEWS	2001/11/15 20:33:10	1.315
--- NEWS	2001/11/16 16:16:43	1.315.2.1
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*** 40,44 ****
  - Assignment to __debug__ raises SyntaxError at compile-time.  This
    was promised when 2.1c1 was released as "What's New in Python 2.1c1"
!   (below) says.
  
  - Clarified the error messages for unsupported operands to an operator
--- 40,44 ----
  - Assignment to __debug__ raises SyntaxError at compile-time.  This
    was promised when 2.1c1 was released as "What's New in Python 2.1c1"
!   (see below) says.
  
  - Clarified the error messages for unsupported operands to an operator
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*** 79,84 ****
    example, the regexp r'(?P<abc>)(?P<abc>)' is not allowed, because a
    single name can't mean both "group 1" and "group 2" simultaneously.
!   Python 2.2 detects this error at regexp compilation time; previously,
!   the error went undetected, and results were unpredictable.
  
  - Tix exposes more commands through the classes DirSelectBox,
--- 79,88 ----
    example, the regexp r'(?P<abc>)(?P<abc>)' is not allowed, because a
    single name can't mean both "group 1" and "group 2" simultaneously.
!   Python 2.2 detects this error at regexp compilation time;
!   previously, the error went undetected, and results were
!   unpredictable.  Also in sre, the pattern.split(), pattern.sub(), and
!   pattern.subn() methods have been rewritten in C.  Also, an
!   experimental function/method finditer() has been added, which works
!   like findall() but returns an iterator.
  
  - Tix exposes more commands through the classes DirSelectBox,
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*** 96,103 ****
--- 100,132 ----
    unless you have a masochistic desire to port your code to RISCOS.
  
+ - mimetypes.py has optional support for non-standard, but commonly
+   found types.  guess_type() and guess_extension() now accept an
+   optional `strict' flag, defaulting to true, which controls whether
+   recognize non-standard types or not.  A few non-standard types we
+   know about have been added.  Also, when run as a script, there are
+   new -l and -e options.
+ 
+ - statcache is now deprecated.
+ 
+ - email.Utils.formatdate() now produces the preferred RFC 2822 style
+   dates with numeric timezones (it used to produce obsolete dates
+   hard coded to "GMT" timezone).  An optional `localtime' flag is
+   added to produce dates in the local timezone, with daylight savings
+   time properly taken into account.
+ 
+ - In pickle and cPickle, instead of masking errors in load() by
+   transforming them into SystemError, we let the original exception
+   propagate out.  Also, implement support for __safe_for_unpickling__
+   in pickle, as it already was supported in cPickle.
+ 
  Tools/Demos
  
  Build
  
+ - The dbm module is built using libdb1 if available.  The bsddb module
+   is built with libdb3 if available.
+ 
+ - Misc/Makefile.pre.in has been removed by BDFL pronouncement.
+ 
  C API
  
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*** 106,109 ****
--- 135,150 ----
    PySequence_Size().
  
+ - New argument unpacking function PyArg_UnpackTuple() added.
+ 
+ - New functions PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs() and
+   PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs() have been added to make it more
+   convenient and efficient to call functions and methods from C.
+ 
+ - PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() no longer masks errors, so it's
+   possible that this will propagate errors it didn't before.
+ 
+ - New function PyObject_CheckReadBuffer(), which returns true if its
+   argument supports the single-segment readable buffer interface.
+ 
  New platforms
  
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*** 122,125 ****
--- 163,179 ----
  
  Windows
+ 
+ Mac
+ 
+ - PythonScript has been moved to unsupported and is slated to be
+   removed completely in the next release.
+ 
+ - It should now be possible to build applets that work on both OS9 and
+   OSX.
+ 
+ - The core is now linked with CoreServices not Carbon; as a side
+   result, default 8bit encoding on OSX is now ASCII.
+ 
+ - Python should now build on OSX 10.1.1