[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.243,1.244

[Guido van Rossum]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv13258

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
All the news that fits, we print.

(Went through the logs looking for nuggets.  This is what I found.)


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.243
retrieving revision 1.244
diff -C2 -d -r1.243 -r1.244
*** NEWS	2001/09/14 16:35:16	1.243
--- NEWS	2001/09/18 15:21:04	1.244
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*** 9,12 ****
--- 9,17 ----
    file() is now the preferred way to open a file.
  
+ - In 2.2a3, __new__ would only see sequential arguments passed to the
+   type in a constructor call; __init__ would see both sequential and
+   positional arguments.  This made no sense whatsoever any more, so
+   now both __new__ and __init__ see all arguments.
+ 
  - In 2.2a3, hash() applied to an instance of a subclass of str or unicode
    always returned 0.  This has been repaired.
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*** 19,44 ****
    as-is.  Now it returns a str with the same value as s.
  
  Library
  
  - operator.indexOf() (PySequence_Index() in the C API) now works with any
    iterable object.
  
! - The smtplib module now supports various authentication and security
!   features of the SMTP protocol through the new login() and starttls()
!   methods.
  
! - A new hmac module implementing keyed hashing for message authentication.
  
  Tools
  
  Build
  
  C API
  
  New platforms
  
  Tests
  
  Windows
  
  
--- 24,98 ----
    as-is.  Now it returns a str with the same value as s.
  
+ - Applications using Jim Fulton's ExtensionClass module can now safely
+   be used with Python 2.2.  In particular, Zope 2.4.1 now works with
+   Python 2.2 (as well as with Python 2.1.1).  The Demo/metaclass
+   examples also work again.
+ 
+ - Thread scheduling on Solaris should be improved; it is no longer
+   necessary to insert a small sleep at the start of a thread in order
+   to let other runnable threads be scheduled.
+ 
  Library
  
+ - SimpleXMLRPCServer: a new module (based upon SimpleHTMLServer)
+   simplifies writing XML RPC servers.
+ 
+ - os.path.realpath(): a new function that returns the absoute pathname
+   after interpretation of symbolic links.  On non-Unix systems, this
+   is an alias for os.path.abspath().
+ 
  - operator.indexOf() (PySequence_Index() in the C API) now works with any
    iterable object.
  
! - smtplib now supports various authentication and security features of
!   the SMTP protocol through the new login() and starttls() methods.
  
! - hmac: a new module implementing keyed hashing for message
!   authentication.
! 
! - mimetypes now recognizes more extensions and file types.  At the
!   same time, some mappings not sanctioned by IANA were removed.
  
  Tools
  
+ - The "compiler" package has been brought up to date to the state of
+   Python 2.2 bytecode generation.
+ 
  Build
  
+ - Large file support (LFS) is now automatic when the platform supports
+   it; no more manual configuration tweaks are needed.  On Linux, at
+   least, it's possible to have a system whose C library supports large
+   files but whose kernel doesn't; in this case, large file support is
+   still enabled but doesn't do you any good unless you upgrade your
+   kernel or share your Python executable with another system whose
+   kernel has large file support.
+ 
+ - The configure script now supplies plausible defaults in a
+   cross-compilation environment.  This doesn't mean that the supplied
+   values are always correct, or that cross-compilation now works
+   flawlessly -- but it's a first step (and it shuts up most of
+   autoconf's warnings about AC_TRY_RUN).
+ 
+ - The Unix build is now a bit less chatty, courtesy of the parser
+   generator.  The build is completely silent (except for errors) when
+   using "make -s", thanks to a -q option to setup.py.
+ 
  C API
  
+ - The "structmember" API now supports some new flag bits to deny read
+   and/or write access to attributes in restricted execution mode.
+ 
  New platforms
  
+ - Compaq's iPAQ handheld, running the "familiar" Linux distribution
+   (http://familiar.handhelds.org).
+ 
  Tests
  
  Windows
+ 
+ - Large file support now also works for files > 4GB, on filesystems
+   that support it (NTFS under Windows 2000).