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What's New in Python 2.2a0?
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What's New in Python 2.2a1?
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===========================
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Core
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- Generators were added; this is a new way to create an iterator (see
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below) using what looks like a simple function containing one of
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more 'yield' statements. See PEP 255. Since this adds a new
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keyword to the language, this feature must be enabled by including a
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future statement: "from __future__ import generators" (see PEP 236).
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Generators will become a standard feature in a future release
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(probably 2.3). Without this future statement, 'yield' remains an
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ordinary identifier, but a warning is issued each time it is used.
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(These warnings currently don't conform to the warnings framework of
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PEP 230; we intend to fix this in 2.2a2.)
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- The UTF-16 codec was modified to be more RFC compliant. It will now
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only remove BOM characters at the start of the string and then
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only if running in native mode (UTF-16-LE and -BE won't remove a
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_PyTuple_Resize(). If this affects you, you were cheating.
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======================================================================
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What's New in Python 2.1 (final)?
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=================================
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