From d4707e3b62554fbef272487be4624d4dbbc80285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:46:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Minor additions and rewrites. Bump version number. --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex index 2b3a9b21f1f..57afe097ef5 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ % $Id$ \title{What's New in Python 2.2} -\release{0.05} +\release{0.06} \author{A.M. Kuchling} \authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}} \begin{document} @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ {\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until the final version of Python 2.2 is released. Currently it's up to date -for Python 2.2 alpha 1. Please send any comments, bug reports, or +for Python 2.2 alpha 4. Please send any comments, bug reports, or questions, no matter how minor, to \email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}. } @@ -388,8 +388,6 @@ identically. You can still distinguish them with the \function{int()} function will now return a long integer if the value is large enough. -% XXX is there a warning-enabling command-line option for this? - \begin{seealso} \seepep{237}{Unifying Long Integers and Integers}{Written by @@ -397,6 +395,7 @@ Moshe Zadka and Guido van Rossum. Implemented mostly by Guido van Rossum.} \end{seealso} + %====================================================================== \section{PEP 238: Changing the Division Operator} @@ -667,7 +666,12 @@ items = s.meerkat.getItems( {'channel': 4} ) # 'title': 'html2fo 0.3 (Default)'}, ... ] \end{verbatim} -See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC. +The \module{SimpleXMLRPCServer} module makes it easy to create +straightforward XML-RPC servers. See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for +more information about XML-RPC. + + \item The new \module{hmac} module implements implements the HMAC + algorithm described by \rfc{2104}. \item The \module{socket} module can be compiled to support IPv6; specify the \longprogramopt{enable-ipv6} option to Python's configure @@ -707,10 +711,12 @@ See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC. in \rfc{2342}, SORT, GETACL and SETACL. (Contributed by Anthony Baxter and Michel Pelletier.) - \item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is - now compliant with \rfc{2822}, an update to \rfc{822}. The module's - name is \emph{not} going to be changed to \samp{rfc2822}. - (Contributed by Barry Warsaw.) + \item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is now + compliant with \rfc{2822}, an update to \rfc{822}. (The module's + name is \emph{not} going to be changed to \samp{rfc2822}.) A new + package, \module{email}, has also been added for parsing and + generating e-mail messages. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw, and + arising out of his work on Mailman.) \item New constants \constant{ascii_letters}, \constant{ascii_lowercase}, and \constant{ascii_uppercase} were