From 6e73f9e5dbd94f548d86e6a99ad4263f84729899 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:15:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a few more items --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index 0fd88c95770..ad88b54a626 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -12,10 +12,6 @@ \tableofcontents % To do: -% PYTHONINSPECT -% doctest extensions -% new version of IDLE -% XML-RPC nil extension % MacOS framework-related changes (section of its own, probably) %\section{Introduction \label{intro}} @@ -1503,6 +1499,14 @@ sequence type. Here's an example that uses a Python list: (Contributed by Kevin O'Connor.) +\item The IDLE integrated development environment has been updated +using the code from the IDLEfork project +(\url{http://idlefork.sf.net}). The most notable feature is that the +code being developed is now executed in a subprocess, meaning that +there's no longer any need for manual \code{reload()} operations. +IDLE's core code has been incorporated into the standard library as the +\module{idlelib} package. + \item The \module{imaplib} module now supports IMAP over SSL. (Contributed by Piers Lauder and Tino Lange.) @@ -1850,12 +1854,18 @@ For example: (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) - \item The DOM implementation in \module{xml.dom.minidom} can now generate XML output in a particular encoding by providing an optional encoding argument to the \method{toxml()} and \method{toprettyxml()} methods of DOM nodes. +\item The \module{xmlrpclib} module now supports an XML-RPC extension +for handling nil data values such as Python's \code{None}. Nil values +are always supported on unmarshalling an XML-RPC response. To +generate requests containing \code{None}, you must supply a true value +for the \var{allow_none} parameter when creating a \class{Marshaller} +instance. + \item The new \module{DocXMLRPCServer} module allows writing self-documenting XML-RPC servers. Run it in demo mode (as a program) to see it in action. Pointing the Web browser to the RPC server @@ -2244,6 +2254,13 @@ Some of the more notable changes are: \begin{itemize} +\item If the \envvar{PYTHONINSPECT} environment variable is set, the +Python interpreter will enter the interactive prompt after running a +Python program, as if Python had been invoked with the \programopt{-i} +option. The environment variable can be set before running the Python +interpreter, or it can be set by the Python program as part of its +execution. + \item The \file{regrtest.py} script now provides a way to allow ``all resources except \var{foo}.'' A resource name passed to the \programopt{-u} option can now be prefixed with a hyphen