sys.stdin.readlines() in 2.2a ?

[CCLittle]

Thanks for the reply.  For some reason yesterday it wasn't there and today
it is...  so no big deal now.

I was using IDLE for win32.

"Martin von Loewis" <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote in message
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> "CCLittle" <nospam at ihatespam.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all, I'm trying to learn and master python.  I encountered an
> > example in "Programming Python 2nd Edition" by Mark Lutz that used
> > sys.stdin.readlines(), which does not exist in python 2.2a.
>
> I still have it in my 2.2a1 copy on Solaris. What system are you
> using?
>
> > 1. Where did it go?
>
> It did not go away.
>
> > 2. What kind of problems am I going to get by doing examples written
> > for 1.5.2 but on 2.2a?
>
> Very few. I might not remember all potential problems, so I won't
> attempt to list them here.
>
> > 3. Where can I get information on this sort of changes?
>
> Andrew Kuchling always publishes an article on new features, which
> always offer advise for compatibility as well. These are
>
> http://amk.ca/python/2.0/
> http://amk.ca/python/2.1/
> http://amk.ca/python/2.2/
>
> For Python 1.6, the information is somewhat merged into the 2.0
> document above. An independently-developed document is at
>
> http://www.python.org/1.6/
>
> For a detailed list of changes, see Misc/NEWS in the Python sources.
>
> Regards,
> Martin