[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.56,1.57

[Jeremy Hylton]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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	NEWS 
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current progress on 2.0 NEWS


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*** NEWS	2000/09/05 15:43:23	1.56
--- NEWS	2000/09/05 18:28:54	1.57
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      dict[key].append(item)
  
+ New exceptions, TabError and IndentationError, thate are subclasses on
+ SyntaxError.  XXX
  
+ The limits on the size of expressions and file in Python source code
+ have been raised from 2**16 to 2**32.  Previous versions of Python
+ were limited because the maximum argument size the Python VM accepted
+ was 2**16.  This limited the size of object constructor expressions,
+ e.g. [1,2,3] or {'a':1, 'b':2}, and the size of source files.  This
+ limit was raised thanks to a patch by Charles Waldman that effectively
+ fixes the problem.  It is now much more likely that you will be
+ limited by available memory than by an arbitrary limit in Python.
+ 
+ The interpreter's maximum recursion depth can be modified by Python
+ programs using sys.getrecursionlimit and sys.setrecursionlimit.  This
+ limit is the maximum number of recursive calls that can be made by
+ Python code.  The limit exists to prevent infinite recursion from
+ overflowing the C stack and causing a core dump.  The default value is
+ 1000.  The maximum safe value for a particular platform can be found
+ by running Misc/find_recursionlimit.py.
+ 
  New Modules and Packages
  ------------------------
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*** 252,267 ****
  Changed Modules
  ---------------
  
! ftplib - ntransfercmd(), transfercmd(), and retrbinary() all now
  optionally support the RFC 959 REST command.
  
! socket - new function getfqdn()
  
! readline - new functions to read, write and truncate history files.  The
! readline section of the library reference manual contains an example.
  
! XXX: I'm sure there are others
  
  
  Obsolete Modules
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--- 271,323 ----
  Changed Modules
  ---------------
+ 
+ calendar -- Many new functions that support features including control
+ over which day of the week is the first day, returning strings instead
+ of printing them.  Also new symbolic constants for days of week,
+ e.g. MONDAY, ..., SUNDAY.
+ 
+ cgi -- FieldStorage objects have a getvalue method that works like a
+ dictionary's get method and returns the value attribute of the object.
+ 
+ ConfigParser -- The parser object has new methods has_option,
+ remove_section, remove_option, set, and write.  They allow the module
+ to be used for writing config files as well as reading them.
  
! ftplib -- ntransfercmd(), transfercmd(), and retrbinary() all now
  optionally support the RFC 959 REST command.
+ 
+ gzip -- readline and readlines now accept optional size arguments
+ 
+ httplib -- New interfaces and support for HTTP/1.1 by Greg Stein.  See
+ the module doc strings for details.
+ 
+ os/popen2 -- popen2/popen3/popen4 support under Windows.  popen2/popen3
+ support under Unix.
+ 
+ os/pty -- support for openpty and forkpty by Thomas Wouters.
+ 
+ os.path -- fix semantics of os.path.commonprefix
+ 
+ smtplib -- support for sending very long messages
  
! socket -- new function getfqdn()
  
! readline -- new functions to read, write and truncate history files.
! The readline section of the library reference manual contains an
! example.
  
! shutil -- new copyfileobj function
  
+ SimpleHTTPServer, CGIHTTPServer -- Fix problems with buffering in the
+ HTTP server.
  
+ Tkinter -- flatten optimization by Fredrik Lundh
+ 
+ urllib -- scans environment variables for proxy configuration,
+ e.g. http_proxy. 
+ 
+ whichdb -- recognizes dumbdbm format
+ 
+ 
  Obsolete Modules
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  Trent Mick ensured portability to 64-bit platforms, under both Linux
  and Win64, especially for the new Intel Itanium processor.
+ 
+ The C APIs to return an object's size have been update to consistently
+ use the form PyXXX_Size, e.g. PySequence_Size and PyDict_Size.  In
+ previous versions, the abstract interfaces used PyXXX_Length and the
+ concrete interfaces used PyXXX_Size.  The old names,
+ e.g. PyObject_Length, are still available for backwards compatibility
+ at the API level, but are deprecated.
+ 
+ PyOS_CheckStack - XXX
+ 
+ The GC changes resulted in creation of two new slots on object,
+ tp_traverse and tp_clear.  The augmented assignment changes result in
+ the createion of a new slot for each in-place operator.
+ 
+ The GC API creates new requirements for container types implemented in
+ C extesion modules.  See Include/objimpl.h for details.
+ 
+ PyString_Decode / PyString_Encode. ???
  
  Numerous new APIs were added, e.g.