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New info and fixed some typos.

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Tim Peters 2000-09-26 06:33:09 +00:00
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@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ What's new in 2.0 beta 2 (since beta 1)?
Core language, builtins, and interpreter Core language, builtins, and interpreter
- Add support for unbounded ints in %d,i,y,x,X,o formats for string - Add support for unbounded ints in %d,i,u,x,X,o formats; for example
inter "%d" % 2L**64 == "18446744073709551616"
- Add -h and -V flags to print the usage message and Python version - Add -h and -V flags to print the usage message and Python version
number and exit immediately.polation. number and exit immediately.polation.
@ -73,11 +73,12 @@ Standard library and extensions
- os: Add support for popen2 and popen3 on all platforms where fork - os: Add support for popen2 and popen3 on all platforms where fork
exists. exists.
- os: (Windows only) Add startfile function athat exposes part of - os: (Windows only) Add startfile function that acts like double-
Win32 ShellExecute functionality. clicking on a file in Explorer (or passing the file name to the
DOS "start" command).
- os.path: (NT, DOS) Treat trailing colon correctly in os.path.join. - os.path: (Windows, DOS) Treat trailing colon correctly in
os.path.join("a:", "b") yields "a:b". os.path.join. os.path.join("a:", "b") yields "a:b".
- pickle: Now raises ValueError when an invalid pickle that contains - pickle: Now raises ValueError when an invalid pickle that contains
a non-string repr where a string repr was expected. This behavior a non-string repr where a string repr was expected. This behavior
@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ Standard library and extensions
getdomainliteral are now properly wrapped in brackets. getdomainliteral are now properly wrapped in brackets.
- site: sys.setdefaultencoding() should only be called in case the - site: sys.setdefaultencoding() should only be called in case the
standard default encoding ("ascii") is changed. This safes quite a standard default encoding ("ascii") is changed. This saves quite a
few cycles during startup since the first call to few cycles during startup since the first call to
setdefaultencoding() will initialize the codec registry and the setdefaultencoding() will initialize the codec registry and the
encodings package. encodings package.
@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ Standard library and extensions
- webbrower: On Windows, use os.startfile instead of os.popen, which - webbrower: On Windows, use os.startfile instead of os.popen, which
works around a bug in certain versions of Norton AntiVirus that works around a bug in certain versions of Norton AntiVirus that
leads directly to a Blue Screen. leads directly to a Blue Screen freeze.
- xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard - xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard
XML package if PyXML version is greater than 0.6.1. XML package if PyXML version is greater than 0.6.1.
@ -160,7 +161,8 @@ Internals
unicode_internal_decode function to support Unicode objects directly unicode_internal_decode function to support Unicode objects directly
rather than by generating a copy of the object. rather than by generating a copy of the object.
- XXX Unicode database compression - Several of the internal Unicode tables are much smaller now, and
the source code should be much friendlier to weaker compilers.
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