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\usepackage{distutils}
% $Id$
% wsgiref section
% Fix XXX comments
% Count up the patches and bugs
@ -19,18 +18,13 @@ This article explains the new features in Python 2.5. The final
release of Python 2.5 is scheduled for August 2006;
\pep{356} describes the planned release schedule.
Comments, suggestions, and error reports are welcome; please e-mail them
to the author or open a bug in the Python bug tracker.
% XXX Compare with previous release in 2 - 3 sentences here.
The changes in Python 2.5 are an interesting mix of language and library
changes. The library changes
will be more important to Python's user community, I think,
because several widely-useful packages were added to the standard library;
the additions include
ElementTree for XML processing (section~\ref{module-etree}),
the SQLite database module (section~\ref{module-sqlite}),
and the \module{ctypes} module for calling C functions (\section~\ref{module-ctypes}).
The changes in Python 2.5 are an interesting mix of language and
library improvements. The library enhancements will be more important
to Python's user community, I think, because several widely-useful
packages were added. New modules include ElementTree for XML
processing (section~\ref{module-etree}), the SQLite database module
(section~\ref{module-sqlite}), and the \module{ctypes} module for
calling C functions (section~\ref{module-ctypes}).
The language changes are of middling significance. Some pleasant new
features were added, but most of them aren't features that you'll use
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language feature or another; none of them are broad modifications to
Python's semantics.
This article doesn't attempt to be a complete specification of the new
features, but instead is a brief introduction to each new feature.
For full details, you should refer to the documentation for Python
2.5.
This article doesn't try to be a complete specification of the new
features; instead changes are briefly introduced using helpful
examples. For full details, you should always refer to the
documentation for Python 2.5.
% XXX add hyperlink when the documentation becomes available online.
If you want to understand the complete implementation and design
rationale, refer to the PEP for a particular new feature.
Comments, suggestions, and error reports for this document are
welcome; please e-mail them to the author or open a bug in the Python
bug tracker.
%======================================================================
\section{PEP 308: Conditional Expressions\label{pep-308}}