Document addition of webbrowser.py

Mention the ANSIfication of the source.
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Andrew M. Kuchling 2000-07-09 15:05:15 +00:00
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@ -603,6 +603,10 @@ which are an order of magnitude faster. A threaded version of Python
changes, the difference is only 10\%. These improvements were
contributed by Yakov Markovitch.
Python 2.0's source now uses only ANSI C prototypes, so compiling Python now
requires an ANSI C compiler, and can no longer be done using a compiler that
only supports K\&R C.
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\section{Module changes}
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\item{\module{UserString}:} A base class useful for deriving objects that behave like strings.
\item{\module{webbrowser}:} A module that provides a platform independent
way to launch a web browser on a specific URL. For each platform, various
browsers are tried in a specific order. The user can alter which browser
is launched by setting the \var{BROWSER} environment variable.
(Originally inspired by Eric S. Raymond's patch to \module{urllib}
which added similar functionality, but
the final module comes from code originally
implemented by Fred Drake as \file{Tools/idle/BrowserControl.py},
and adapted for the standard library by Fred.)
\item{\module{winreg} and \module{_winreg}:} An interface to the
Windows registry. \module{_winreg} is an adaptation of functions that
have been part of PythonWin since 1995, but has now been added to the core