Put core language changes in a separate section from module changes.

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Raymond Hettinger 2009-04-07 07:11:00 +00:00
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@ -143,6 +143,30 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(Contributed by Fredrik Johansson, Victor Stinner, Raymond Hettinger,
and Mark Dickinson; :issue:`3439`.)
* The fields in :func:`format` strings can now be automatically
numbered::
>>> 'Sir {} of {}'.format('Gallahad', 'Camelot')
'Sir Gallahad of Camelot'
Formerly, the string would have required numbered fields such as:
``'Sir {0} of {1}'``.
(Contributed by Eric Smith; :issue:`5237`.)
* ``round(x, n)`` now returns an integer if *x* is an integer.
Previously it returned a float::
>>> round(1123, -2)
1100
(Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4707`.)
.. ======================================================================
New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
=====================================
* Added a :class:`collections.Counter` class to support convenient
counting of unique items in a sequence or iterable::
@ -180,17 +204,6 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger and Mark Dickinson.)
* The fields in :func:`format` strings can now be automatically
numbered::
>>> 'Sir {} of {}'.format('Gallahad', 'Camelot')
'Sir Gallahad of Camelot'
Formerly, the string would have required numbered fields such as:
``'Sir {0} of {1}'``.
(Contributed by Eric Smith; :issue:`5237`.)
* The :mod:`itertools` module grew two new functions. The
:func:`itertools.combinations_with_replacement` function is one of
four for generating combinatorics including permutations and Cartesian
@ -220,14 +233,6 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`1818`.)
* ``round(x, n)`` now returns an integer if *x* is an integer.
Previously it returned a float::
>>> round(1123, -2)
1100
(Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4707`.)
* The :func:`re.sub`, :func:`re.subn` and :func:`re.split` functions now
accept a flags parameter.
@ -283,7 +288,7 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
Optimizations
-------------
=============
Major performance enhancements have been added:
@ -334,7 +339,7 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added:
Apart from the performance improvements this change should be invisible to
end users, with one exception: for testing and debugging purposes there's a
new :class:`structseq` ``sys.int_info`` that provides information about the
new :attr:`sys.int_info` that provides information about the
internal format, giving the number of bits per digit and the size in bytes
of the C type used to store each digit::