[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.210,1.211

[Barry Warsaw]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv12600

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
More NEWS for 2.2a2.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.210
retrieving revision 1.211
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*** NEWS	2001/08/21 19:28:20	1.210
--- NEWS	2001/08/22 04:08:41	1.211
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*** 7,11 ****
    ucs2 and ucs4 (new in 2.2a1). With --disable-unicode, the Unicode
    type and supporting code is completely removed from the interpreter.
!   
  - A new configure option --enable-framework builds a Mac OS X framework,
    which "make frameworkinstall" will install. This provides a starting
--- 7,11 ----
    ucs2 and ucs4 (new in 2.2a1). With --disable-unicode, the Unicode
    type and supporting code is completely removed from the interpreter.
! 
  - A new configure option --enable-framework builds a Mac OS X framework,
    which "make frameworkinstall" will install. This provides a starting
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*** 13,16 ****
--- 13,20 ----
    if you are interested in helping.
  
+ - The NeXT platform is no longer supported.
+ 
+ - The `new' module is now statically linked.
+ 
  Tools
  
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*** 22,26 ****
  
  - regrtest.py now knows which tests are expected to be skipped on some
!   platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output.
  
  - Several new tests in the standard test suite, with special thanks to
--- 26,32 ----
  
  - regrtest.py now knows which tests are expected to be skipped on some
!   platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output.  regrtest
!   also has optional --use/-u switch to run normally disabled tests
!   which require network access or consume significant disk resources.
  
  - Several new tests in the standard test suite, with special thanks to
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*** 29,32 ****
--- 35,47 ----
  Core
  
+ - The floor division operator // has been added as outlined in PEP
+   238.  The / operator still provides classic division (and will until
+   Python 3.0) unless "from __future__ import division" is included, in
+   which case the / operator will provide true division.  The operator
+   module provides truediv() and floordiv() functions.  Augmented
+   assignment variants are included, as are the equivalent overloadable
+   methods and C API methods.  See the PEP for a full discussion:
+   <http://python.sf.net/peps/pep-0238.html>
+ 
  - Future statements are now effective in simulated interactive shells
    (like IDLE).  This should "just work" by magic, but read Michael
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*** 61,64 ****
--- 76,87 ----
  
  - Readline completion support for cmd.Cmd was added.
+ 
+ - Calling os.tempnam() or os.tmpnam() generate RuntimeWarnings.
+ 
+ - Added function threading.BoundedSemaphore()
+ 
+ - Added Ka-Ping Yee's cgitb.py module.
+ 
+ - The `new' module now exposes the CO_xxx flags.
  
  New platforms