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Andrew M. Kuchling a6d2a04065 More Unicode corrections from MAL to match a post-2.2a1 change
Mention additional new imaplib.py features

(Don't expect to see an updated version of the Web page until around the 28th
   of July.  Vacation time!)
2001-07-20 18:34:34 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5120eac6c6 Bump release number to 1.00, while I'm at it 2001-07-20 03:22:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ab01087109 Revise the Unicode section after getting comments from MAL, GvR, and others.
Add new low-level API for interpreter introspection
Bump version number.
2001-07-19 14:59:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f5fec3c88a Fill out the Unicode section, somewhat uncertainly 2001-07-19 01:48:08 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8cfa9055cf Finish the "Other changes" section
Bump version number
Insert a few blank lines here and there
2001-07-19 01:19:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b39fa8a75b Remove note about this being a draft document.
Note the actual date of 2.1's release
2001-07-19 00:29:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c32cc7c11d Delete sentence fragment (noted by Fred Bremmer) 2001-07-17 18:25:01 +00:00
Fred Drake f8a17b14c4 Now we're picking nits: get my name right! ;-) 2001-07-17 14:54:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6ea9f0bb20 Add FLD to credit list
Correct grammatical error
2001-07-17 14:50:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 0d00254cc1 Cleaned up a number of minor nits, use markup a little more consistently. 2001-07-17 13:55:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4cf52a9a80 Minor rewrites to iterator and generator sections
Credit both Neil and Tim for generators
Fix indentation of a few paragraphs
2001-07-17 12:48:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ddeb1358a4 Use \longprogramopt, as suggested by FLD 2001-07-16 14:35:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ced2366a05 Use \verb for configure switches, because inside \code multiple dashes
are merged to a single hyphen.
Delete forgotten CVS conflict marker
2001-07-16 13:45:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2cd712b812 Write some entries in the "Other changes" section
Write description of .encode()/.decode for the Unicode section
Bump version number
2001-07-16 13:39:08 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4dbf87152e Began actually writing:
* iterators
* generators
* copied the nested scopes section from the 2.1 article
* standard library changes
2001-07-16 02:17:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7bf8277e98 Note addition of xmlrpclib
Comment out descr-branch section
Update e-mail address
    (Time to begin writing this...)
2001-07-11 18:54:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a43e70396e Add more items that need to be written about 2001-06-27 20:32:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3b923fcff5 Add another item 2001-05-19 19:35:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a8defaae04 Skeletal version; I'm checking this in now so I can keep a list of changes,
but don't plan on actually writing any text until, ooh, say, July or
   thereabouts.
2001-05-05 16:37:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1fcd438956 Update document for the actual 2.1rc1 2001-04-16 02:27:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ad526fac3 Markup nit: use \envvar to mark environment variables. 2001-04-12 04:11:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling db7657d4e0 Explain popitem()
Add Unixware 7 port
Ready for RC1
Minor rewrites
2001-04-12 03:37:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4240bc50f6 Note missing explanation 2001-03-26 13:34:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ac1abe0bfe Add a paragraph about obmalloc turning up bugs in extension modules
Mention the new ports
2001-03-23 03:52:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ef85cc84a0 Add section for PEP 241
Add PyUnit and sys.excepthook
2001-03-23 03:29:08 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 45bbda2593 Fix a further markup problem noted by FLD 2001-03-10 16:49:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 61af5605fa Discuss PEP 236.
Update nested scope section.
2001-03-03 03:25:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 81df7be2a2 Update estimate bug and patch counts 2001-03-02 21:19:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 694e1816c2 Fix markup nit pointed out by FLD 2001-03-01 01:02:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8bad993dd3 Add description of PEP235
Remove references to 2.1alpha
Update description of PEP229
2001-02-28 22:39:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 74d18ed076 Cover pydoc
Update reference Python version to beta1
Rip out PEP 232 section
Add placeholders for PEP 236 and 235
Fix erroneous \filename references
2001-02-28 22:22:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bf140147d8 Document the object allocator
Minor sentence change
2001-02-28 22:10:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 15ad28cf89 Finished the section on weak references
Mentioned doctest, difflib, sys._getframe(), and the change to use
   PyImport_ImportModule() everywhere in C code
No more XXX!
2001-02-14 02:44:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 81b6ae7ef7 Create separate section for changes to the standard library
Make note about difflib and doctest
Bump version number
2001-02-11 16:55:39 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6a360bd3a7 Wrote section on nested scopes, and moved it to the front
Began a section on weak references
Various rewrites and paragraph refills
Added: non-recursive makefiles, repr() of strings now uses \n, raw socket I/O
Bumped version number
2001-02-05 02:47:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4308d3c4b5 Add note about non-recursive Makefiles
Get Fred's name right
Add some XXX items that need to be written
2001-01-29 17:36:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1ae43c4341 Add names of people who've pointed out broken links and images
Bump version number
2001-01-24 01:11:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d975196d57 Fredrik pointed out that the database shrank more than 55K 2001-01-24 00:52:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 26e94a8822 Jeremy didn't write PEP 205, Fred did! 2001-01-23 15:21:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f33c118869 Add introductory note about this article's draft status
Grammatical and typographic fixes from David Goodger
Expanded notes about PEP 229
Removed user-visible XXXes; they're in comments now
2001-01-23 02:48:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 91834c6c7e Added dictionary.popitem() and the improved XML modules.
Reorder the smaller items, roughly in decreasing order of visibility to
   the Python coder
Finished an incomplete sentence.
Moved the unwritten sections down to the bottom.
Bumped version number and added acknowledgements
2001-01-22 19:51:13 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f228fd10d9 Add reference to PEP 232.
Use correct flag name Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES
Mention that numeric methods can return Py_NotImplemented (NAS)
Mention optional arguments in time modules (TW)
Various minor rewrites and additional attributions
2001-01-22 17:52:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b216ab632f Fill out various transcripts and XXX bits, thanks to the WMATA.
The only missing section is the Nested Scopes section, which has to wait
    to see if a patch is actually committed.  (Plus any other notable changes
    that get made or backed out between now and 2.1final, of course...)
2001-01-22 16:15:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 90cecee894 Beginning of a "What's New in Python 2.1" article 2001-01-22 04:02:09 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a8d10785f1 Correction from David Bolen: the Windows version no longer crashes
on trying to import a 1.5 module
Bump the document version number
2000-10-19 01:42:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ad6f2c8007 Bump version number -- this document is pretty much finished! 2000-10-17 13:02:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f155170f09 Correct form of FourThought's name 2000-10-16 14:19:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ec1722e8d4 Various minor additions and clarifications, mostly suggested by Jeremy 2000-10-12 03:04:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 7486c6b0ef Comment out a separator line, since all the others are commented out,
and it would look kind of silly if typeset.
2000-10-12 02:49:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6032c48b47 Add new section on the XML package. (This was the only major new 2.0 feature
left that wasn't covered.  The article is therefore now essentially complete.)
A few minor changes
2000-10-12 02:37:14 +00:00