[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.65,1.66

[Jeremy Hylton]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv19334/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
The rest of the news for 2.0b2


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.65
retrieving revision 1.66
diff -C2 -r1.65 -r1.66
*** NEWS	2000/09/26 16:21:35	1.65
--- NEWS	2000/09/26 16:31:30	1.66
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*** 19,23 ****
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- 
  Core language, builtins, and interpreter
  
--- 19,22 ----
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*** 28,32 ****
--- 27,44 ----
    Python version number and exit immediately.
  
+ - eval() and exec accept Unicode objects as code parameters.
+ 
+ - getattr() and setattr() now also accept Unicode objects for the
+   attribute name, which are converted to strings using the default
+   encoding before lookup.
+ 
+ - Multiplication on string and Unicode now does proper bounds
+   checking; e.g. 'a' * 65536 * 65536 will raise ValueError, "repeated
+   string is too long."
+ 
+ - Better error message when continue is found in try statement in a
+   loop. 
  
+ 
  Standard library and extensions
  
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*** 70,73 ****
--- 82,90 ----
  - mailbox: Mailbox class conforms better to qmail specifications.
  
+ - marshal: When reading a short, sign-extend on platforms where shorts
+   are bigger than 16 bits.  When reading a long, repair the unportable
+   sign extension that was being done for 64-bit machines.  (It assumed
+   that signed right shift sign-extends.)
+ 
  - operator: Add contains(), invert(), __invert__() as aliases for
    __contains__(), inv(), and __inv__() respectively.
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*** 92,96 ****
  
  - readline: Does not immediately exit when ^C is hit when readline and
!   threads are configured.  Adds defintion of rl_library_version.  (The
    latter addition requires GNU readline 2.2 or later.)
  
--- 109,113 ----
  
  - readline: Does not immediately exit when ^C is hit when readline and
!   threads are configured.  Adds definition of rl_library_version.  (The
    latter addition requires GNU readline 2.2 or later.)
  
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*** 151,155 ****
    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.
--- 168,172 ----
    PyModule_AddStringConstant().
  
! - Cleaned up definition of NULL in C source code; all definitions were
    removed and add #error to Python.h if NULL isn't defined after
    #include of stdio.h.
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*** 167,175 ****
--- 184,210 ----
    encoded version of a Unicode object.
  
+ - PyString_Size() and PyString_AsString() accept Unicode objects.
+ 
  - The standard header <limits.h> is now included by Python.h (if it
    exists).  INT_MAX and LONG_MAX will always be defined, even if
    <limits.h> is not available.
  
+ - PyFloat_FromString takes a second argument, pend, that was
+   effectively useless.  It is now officially useless but preserved for
+   backwards compatibility.  If the pend argument is not NULL, *pend is
+   set to NULL.
+ 
+ - PyObject_GetAttr() and PyObject_SetAttr() now accept Unicode objects
+   for the attribute name.  See note on getattr() above.
+ 
+ - A few bug fixes to argument processing for Unicode.
+   PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() now accepts "es#" and "es".
+   PyArg_Parse() special cases "s#" for Unicode objects; it returns a
+   pointer to the default encoded string data instead of to the raw
+   UTF-16. 
  
+ - Py_BuildValue accepts B format (for bgen-generated code).
+ 
+ 
  Internals
  
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*** 177,181 ****
    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.
--- 212,216 ----
    it works when argv[0] is a relative path.
  
! - Added a true tnicode_internal_encode() function and fixed the
    unicode_internal_decode function() to support Unicode objects directly
    rather than by generating a copy of the object.
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*** 184,193 ****
    the source code should be much friendlier to weaker compilers.
  
  
  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:
--- 219,244 ----
    the source code should be much friendlier to weaker compilers.
  
+ - Fixed GC bug that caused some instances to be removed from the
+   container set while they were still live.
+ 
+ - Fixed refcount problem in instance deallocation that only occurred
+   when Py_REF_DEBUG was defined and Py_TRACE_REFS was not.
+ 
+ - In the garbage collector: No longer sets an object's type slot to
+   NULL.  Fix bug in collection of tuples.  
+ 
+ - On Windows, getpythonregpath is now protected against null data in
+   registry key.
  
+ - On Unix, create .pyc/.pyo files with O_EXCL flag to avoid a race
+   condition. 
+ 
+ 
  Build and platform-specific issues
  
  - Better support of GNU Pth via --with-pth configure option.
  
! - Python/C API now properly exposed to dynamically-loaded extension
!   modules on Reliant UNIX.
  
  - Changes for the benefit of SunOS 4.1.4 (really!).  mmapmodule.c:
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    prototypes in posixmodule.c.
  
! - Improved support for HP-UX build -- threads should now be correctly
    configured (on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00).
  
! - Python/C API now properly exposed to dynamically-loaded extension
!   modules on Reliant UNIX.
  
  
--- 246,267 ----
    prototypes in posixmodule.c.
  
! - Improved support for HP-UX build.  Threads should now be correctly
    configured (on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00).
  
! - Fix largefile support on older NetBSD systems and OpenBSD by adding
!   define for TELL64.
! 
! 
! Tools and other miscellany
! 
! - ftpmirror: Call to main() is wrapped in if __name__ == "__main__".
! 
! - freeze: The modulefinder now works with 2.0 opcodes.
! 
! - IDLE: 
!   Move hackery of sys.argv until after the Tk instance has been
!   created, which allows the application-specific Tkinter
!   initialization to be executed if present; also pass an explicit
!   className parameter to the Tk() constructor.