Note various changes that need to be described

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2005-03-01 00:53:46 +00:00
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@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ rationale, refer to the PEP for a particular new feature.
%====================================================================== %======================================================================
\section{PEP 309: Partial Function Application}
% Large, PEP-level features and changes should be described here. XXX describe this PEP.
%====================================================================== %======================================================================
@ -54,6 +55,8 @@ print max(L, key=len)
print max(L) print max(L)
\end{verbatim} \end{verbatim}
% XXX also supported by heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest().
(Contributed by Steven Bethard and Raymond Hettinger.) (Contributed by Steven Bethard and Raymond Hettinger.)
\end{itemize} \end{itemize}
@ -84,7 +87,23 @@ details.
\begin{itemize} \begin{itemize}
\item Descriptions go here. % the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
% args tuple returned by __reduce__().
% csv module improvements
% datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
% create datetime object using a string and format.
% itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
\item New module: \module{spwd} provides functions for accessing the
shadow password database on systems that support it.
% XXX give example
% XXX os.stat_float_times is now True
% os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
\end{itemize} \end{itemize}
@ -137,7 +156,11 @@ changes to your code:
\begin{itemize} \begin{itemize}
\item Everything is all in the details! \item Some old deprecated modules (\module{statcache}, \module{tzparse},
\module{whrandom}) have been moved to \file{Lib/lib-old}.
% XXX note how to get them back
% the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
\end{itemize} \end{itemize}