Andrew M. Kuchling
4dbf87152e
Began actually writing:
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* iterators
* generators
* copied the nested scopes section from the 2.1 article
* standard library changes
2001-07-16 02:17:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
7bf8277e98
Note addition of xmlrpclib
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Comment out descr-branch section
Update e-mail address
(Time to begin writing this...)
2001-07-11 18:54:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
a43e70396e
Add more items that need to be written about
2001-06-27 20:32:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3b923fcff5
Add another item
2001-05-19 19:35:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
a8defaae04
Skeletal version; I'm checking this in now so I can keep a list of changes,
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but don't plan on actually writing any text until, ooh, say, July or
thereabouts.
2001-05-05 16:37:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1fcd438956
Update document for the actual 2.1rc1
2001-04-16 02:27:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
9ad526fac3
Markup nit: use \envvar to mark environment variables.
2001-04-12 04:11:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
db7657d4e0
Explain popitem()
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Add Unixware 7 port
Ready for RC1
Minor rewrites
2001-04-12 03:37:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4240bc50f6
Note missing explanation
2001-03-26 13:34:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
ac1abe0bfe
Add a paragraph about obmalloc turning up bugs in extension modules
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Mention the new ports
2001-03-23 03:52:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
ef85cc84a0
Add section for PEP 241
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Add PyUnit and sys.excepthook
2001-03-23 03:29:08 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
45bbda2593
Fix a further markup problem noted by FLD
2001-03-10 16:49:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
61af5605fa
Discuss PEP 236.
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Update nested scope section.
2001-03-03 03:25:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
81df7be2a2
Update estimate bug and patch counts
2001-03-02 21:19:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
694e1816c2
Fix markup nit pointed out by FLD
2001-03-01 01:02:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
8bad993dd3
Add description of PEP235
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Remove references to 2.1alpha
Update description of PEP229
2001-02-28 22:39:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
74d18ed076
Cover pydoc
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Update reference Python version to beta1
Rip out PEP 232 section
Add placeholders for PEP 236 and 235
Fix erroneous \filename references
2001-02-28 22:22:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
bf140147d8
Document the object allocator
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Minor sentence change
2001-02-28 22:10:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
15ad28cf89
Finished the section on weak references
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Mentioned doctest, difflib, sys._getframe(), and the change to use
PyImport_ImportModule() everywhere in C code
No more XXX!
2001-02-14 02:44:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
81b6ae7ef7
Create separate section for changes to the standard library
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Make note about difflib and doctest
Bump version number
2001-02-11 16:55:39 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
6a360bd3a7
Wrote section on nested scopes, and moved it to the front
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Began a section on weak references
Various rewrites and paragraph refills
Added: non-recursive makefiles, repr() of strings now uses \n, raw socket I/O
Bumped version number
2001-02-05 02:47:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4308d3c4b5
Add note about non-recursive Makefiles
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Get Fred's name right
Add some XXX items that need to be written
2001-01-29 17:36:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1ae43c4341
Add names of people who've pointed out broken links and images
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Bump version number
2001-01-24 01:11:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
d975196d57
Fredrik pointed out that the database shrank more than 55K
2001-01-24 00:52:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
26e94a8822
Jeremy didn't write PEP 205, Fred did!
2001-01-23 15:21:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f33c118869
Add introductory note about this article's draft status
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Grammatical and typographic fixes from David Goodger
Expanded notes about PEP 229
Removed user-visible XXXes; they're in comments now
2001-01-23 02:48:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
91834c6c7e
Added dictionary.popitem() and the improved XML modules.
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Reorder the smaller items, roughly in decreasing order of visibility to
the Python coder
Finished an incomplete sentence.
Moved the unwritten sections down to the bottom.
Bumped version number and added acknowledgements
2001-01-22 19:51:13 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f228fd10d9
Add reference to PEP 232.
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Use correct flag name Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES
Mention that numeric methods can return Py_NotImplemented (NAS)
Mention optional arguments in time modules (TW)
Various minor rewrites and additional attributions
2001-01-22 17:52:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
b216ab632f
Fill out various transcripts and XXX bits, thanks to the WMATA.
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The only missing section is the Nested Scopes section, which has to wait
to see if a patch is actually committed. (Plus any other notable changes
that get made or backed out between now and 2.1final, of course...)
2001-01-22 16:15:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
90cecee894
Beginning of a "What's New in Python 2.1" article
2001-01-22 04:02:09 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
a8d10785f1
Correction from David Bolen: the Windows version no longer crashes
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on trying to import a 1.5 module
Bump the document version number
2000-10-19 01:42:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
ad6f2c8007
Bump version number -- this document is pretty much finished!
2000-10-17 13:02:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f155170f09
Correct form of FourThought's name
2000-10-16 14:19:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
ec1722e8d4
Various minor additions and clarifications, mostly suggested by Jeremy
2000-10-12 03:04:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
7486c6b0ef
Comment out a separator line, since all the others are commented out,
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and it would look kind of silly if typeset.
2000-10-12 02:49:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
6032c48b47
Add new section on the XML package. (This was the only major new 2.0 feature
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left that wasn't covered. The article is therefore now essentially complete.)
A few minor changes
2000-10-12 02:37:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
d44dc3ca6f
Rewrites to section on new development process, after Usenet discussion
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of the text
2000-10-04 12:40:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
fc1b60e3da
Fix double negative spotted by matt@mondoinfo.com
2000-09-27 02:49:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
be870dd96f
Added a section describing the new development process. Part of it
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comes from two comp.lang.tcl postings of mine, with much rewriting
and expansion of the material.
Note that 2.0 will be released in the autumn, not the summer.
2000-09-27 02:36:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3ad4e74870
Wrote text for features added between 2.0b1 and b2.
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Minor rewrites, and added the CVS ID in a comment.
2000-09-27 01:33:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
118ee9680e
Fixed error in explanation of codec decode_func pointed out by Gregg Hauser,
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and rewrote paragraph a bit.
2000-09-27 01:01:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
6d4addd1f4
Update URL for Python 2.0
2000-09-25 14:40:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4d46d38292
Add new section "What About Python 1.6?"
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Document some things in the 2.0 NEWS files that should be mentioned here.
2000-09-06 17:58:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
d500e44297
Removed mention of the winreg module, since it was deleted from 2.0b1
2000-09-06 12:30:25 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
5e08a01a98
Various corrections pointed out by Detlef Lannert
2000-09-04 17:59:27 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3cdb5761c5
Fix markup error
2000-08-30 12:55:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
43737641c2
Removed forgotten text in list comprehensions section (taken from the Haskell
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description of listcomps and used as inspiration)
Rearranged sections (which accounts for much of the size of the diffs)
Added section on augmented assignment
Mentioned 'print >>file'
Broke up the "Core Changes" section into subsections
2000-08-30 00:51:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
59ecafa526
Mention the new 'import X as Y' syntax
2000-08-17 23:37:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2d2dc9fde5
Add section on list comprehension
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Comment out the unwritten XML section
mymalloc.h -> pymem.h
2000-08-17 00:27:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2337f5519a
Mention setdefault() method for dicts
2000-08-16 02:52:37 +00:00