[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.61,1.62

[Jeremy Hylton]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv13284/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
partial list of changes between 2.0b1 and 2.0b2


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	2000/09/06 23:34:25	1.61
--- NEWS	2000/09/26 05:32:36	1.62
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*** 1,3 ****
! What's New in Python 2.0b1?
  ===========================
  
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! What's New in Python 2.0b2?
  ===========================
  
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*** 14,17 ****
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+ 
+ 
+ What's new in 2.0 beta 2 (since beta 1)?
+ ========================================
+ 
+ Core language, builtins, and interpreter
+ 
+ - Add support for unbounded ints in %d,i,y,x,X,o formats for string
+   inter
+ 
+ - Add -h and -V flags to print the usage message and Python version
+   number and exit immediately.polation.  
+ 
+ Standard library and extensions
+ 
+ - array: reverse method of array now works.  buffer_info now does
+   argument checking; it still takes no arguments.
+ 
+ - asyncore/asynchat: included most recent version from Sam Rushing
+ 
+ - cgi: accept & or ; as separate characters when parsing form data
+ 
+ - CGIHTTPServer: now works on Windows (and perhaps even Mac).
+ 
+ - ConfigParser: When reading the file, options spelled in upper case
+   letters are now accessible.
+ 
+ - copy: Copy Unicode objects atomically.
+ 
+ - cPickle: fails gracefully when copy_reg can't be imported
+ 
+ - cStringIO: implemented readlines method.
+ 
+ - dbm: Add set and setdefault methods to dbm object.  Add constant
+   library to module that names the library used.  Better doc strings
+   and argument checking.  Uses configure to determine which ndbm.h
+   file to include; Berkeley DB's nbdm is now an option.
+ 
+ - distutils: Update to version 0.9.3.
+ 
+ - dl: Add several dl.RTLD_ constants.
+ 
+ - fpectl: Now supported on FreeBSD.
+ 
+ - gc: Add DEBUG_SAVEALL option.  When enabled all garbage objects
+   found by the collector will be saved in gc.garbage.  This is useful
+   for debugging a program that creates reference cycles.
+ 
+ - httplib: Three changes.  Restore support for set_debuglevel feature
+   of HTTP class.  Do not close socket on zero-length response.  Do not
+   crash when server sends invalid content-length header.
+ 
+ - mailbox: XXX conformance to maildir specification ???
+ 
+ - operator: Add contains, invert, __invert__ as aliases for
+   __contains__, inv, and __inv__ respectively.
+ 
+ - os: Add support for popen2 and popen3 on all platforms where fork
+   exists.  
+ 
+ - os: (Windows only) Add startfile function athat exposes part of
+   Win32 ShellExecute functionality.
+ 
+ - os.path: (NT, DOS) Treat trailing colon correctly in os.path.join.
+   os.path.join("a:", "b") yields "a:b".
+ 
+ - pickle: Now raises ValueError when an invalid pickle that contains
+   a non-string repr where a string repr was expected.  This behavior
+   matches cPickle.
+ 
+ - posixfile: XXX remove __del__ method ???
+ 
+ - py_compile: support \r in source file
+ 
+ - readline: Does not immediately exit when ^C is hit when readline and
+   threads are configured.  Adds defintion of rl_library_version.
+ 
+ - rfc822: Domain literals returned by AddrlistClass method
+   getdomainliteral are now properly wrapped in brackets.
+ 
+ - site: sys.setdefaultencoding() should only be called in case the
+   standard default encoding ("ascii") is changed. This safes quite a
+   few cycles during startup since the first call to
+   setdefaultencoding() will initialize the codec registry and the
+   encodings package.
+ 
+ - socket: Support for size hint in readlines method of object returned
+   by makefile.
+ 
+ - sre: Added experimental expand method to match objects.  Does not
+   user buffer interface on Unicode strings.  Does not hang if group id
+   is followed by whitespace.
+ 
+ - StringIO: size hint in readlines is now supported as documented. 
+ 
+ - struct: Check ranges for bytes and shorts.
+ 
+ - urllib: Improved handling of win32 proxy settings. Fixed quote and
+   quote_plus functions so that the always encode a comma ','.
+ 
+ - Tkinter: Image objects are now guaranteed to have unique ids.  Set
+   event.delta to zero if Tk version doesn't support mousewheel.
+   Removed some debugging prints.
+ 
+ - UserList: now implements __contains__.
+ 
+ - webbrower: On Windows, use os.startfile instead of os.popen, which
+   works around a bug in certain versions of Norton AntiVirus that
+   leads directly to a Blue Screen.
+ 
+ - xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard
+   XML package if PyXML version is greater than 0.6.1.
+ 
+ - xml.dom: XXX
+ 
+ - xml.sax: XXX
+ 
+ - XXX pyexpat: XXX
+ 
+ C API
+ 
+ - Add three new convenience functions for module initialization --
+   PyModule_AddObject(), PyModule_AddIntConstant(), and
+   PyModule_AddStringConstant().
+ 
+ - Cleaned up definition of NULL in C source code; all defintions were
+   removed and add #error to Python.h if NULL isn't defined after
+   #include of stdio.h.
+ 
+ - Py_PROTO macros that were removed in 2.0b1 have been restored for
+   backwards compatibility (at the source level) with old extensions.
+ 
+ - XXX PyOS_sighandler_t, PyOS_getsig, PyOS_setsig
+ 
+ - Add PyString_AsStringAndSize call that provides access to the
+   internal data buffer and size of a string object -- or the default
+   encoded version of a Unicode object.
+ 
+ Internals
+ 
+ - On Unix, fix code for finding Python installation directory so that
+   it works when argv[0] is a relative path.
+ 
+ - Added a true unicode_internal_encode function and fixed the
+   unicode_internal_decode function to support Unicode objects directly
+   rather than by generating a copy of the object.
+ 
+ - XXX Unicode database compression
+ 
+ Build and platform-specific issues
+ 
+ - Better support of GNU Pth via --with-pth configure option.
+ 
+ - Fix linker problems on Reliant UNIX
+ 
+ - Changes for the benefit of SunOS 4.1.4 (really!).  mmapmodule.c:
+   Don't define MS_SYNC to be zero when it is undefined.  Added missing
+   prototypes in posixmodule.c.
+ 
+ - Improved support for HP-UX build
+ 
+ 
+ What's new in 2.0 beta 1?
+ =========================
  
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