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Add list.insert() change for negative positions 

Add ~ to MvL's last name
Fix use of all-caps for a name
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% $Id$
\title{What's New in Python 2.3}
\release{0.10}
\release{0.11}
\author{A.M.\ Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{amk@amk.ca}}
@ -300,8 +300,8 @@ alphanumerics.
\begin{seealso}
\seepep{263}{Defining Python Source Code Encodings}{Written by
Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg and Martin von L\"owis; implemented by SUZUKI
Hisao and Martin von L\"owis.}
Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg and Martin von~L\"owis; implemented by Suzuki
Hisao and Martin von~L\"owis.}
\end{seealso}
@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ Under MacOS, \function{os.listdir()} may now return Unicode filenames.
\begin{seealso}
\seepep{277}{Unicode file name support for Windows NT}{Written by Neil
Hodgson; implemented by Neil Hodgson, Martin von L\"owis, and Mark
Hodgson; implemented by Neil Hodgson, Martin von~L\"owis, and Mark
Hammond.}
\end{seealso}
@ -1091,6 +1091,12 @@ adds up the numeric items in the iterable object and returns their sum.
to concatenate a bunch of strings, for example. (Contributed by Alex
Martelli.)
\item \code{list.insert(\var{pos}, \var{value})} used to
insert \var{value} at the front of the list when \var{pos} was
negative. The behaviour has now been changed to be consistent with
slice indexing, so when \var{pos} is -1 the value will be inserted
before the last element, and so forth.
\item Dictionaries have a new method, \method{pop(\var{key}\optional{,
\var{default}})}, that returns the value corresponding to \var{key}
and removes that key/value pair from the dictionary. If the requested
@ -1786,7 +1792,7 @@ results. Other interfaces can't be handled automatically but
at least you can find out about the problem. See
\url{http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-December/031107.html} %
for a more detailed explanation of this change. (Implemented by
Martin von L\"owis.)
Martin von~L\"owis.)
\item Calling Tcl methods through \module{_tkinter} no longer
returns only strings. Instead, if Tcl returns other objects those
@ -2328,9 +2334,9 @@ suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
article: Jeff Bauer, Simon Brunning, Brett Cannon, Michael Chermside,
Andrew Dalke, Scott David Daniels, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., Kelly Gerber,
Raymond Hettinger, Michael Hudson, Chris Lambert, Detlef Lannert,
Martin von L\"owis, Andrew MacIntyre, Lalo Martins, Gustavo Niemeyer,
Neal Norwitz, Hans Nowak, Chris Reedy, Francesco Ricciardi,
Vinay Sajip, Neil Schemenauer,
Roman Suzi, Jason Tishler, Just van~Rossum.
Martin von~L\"owis, Andrew MacIntyre, Lalo Martins, Chad Netzer,
Gustavo Niemeyer, Neal Norwitz, Hans Nowak, Chris Reedy, Francesco
Ricciardi, Vinay Sajip, Neil Schemenauer, Roman Suzi, Jason Tishler,
Just van~Rossum.
\end{document}