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Martin v. Löwis e214baa209 Fix binfmt_register documentation to always register the right magic. 2001-02-04 22:37:56 +00:00
Tim Peters d66595fe42 Renamed _testXXX to _testcapiXXX. Jack is my hero -- good call! 2001-02-04 03:09:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ba38123b75 Clarify the news item about "from M import X" if "M is not a real
module" after a complaint from Tim.
2001-02-03 15:06:40 +00:00
Tim Peters b16c56f0ba Teach Windows build and installer about new _symtable module/DLL. 2001-02-02 21:24:51 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton d6b1cf9a55 Fix spelling errors.
Add note about _symtable.
Add note that 'from ... import *' restriction may go away -- and move
the whole entry closer to the top, because it might bite people.
2001-02-02 20:06:28 +00:00
Tim Peters 9ea17ac595 Patch derived from Trent's 101162: a Python/C API testing framework.
STILL NEEDS UNIX BUILD CHANGES.
2001-02-02 05:57:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 4c4fda0f57 add info about Grant Edwards' raw packet support 2001-02-02 03:29:24 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 0072d5aa33 continue now allowed in try block 2001-02-01 22:53:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 4589bd82da Add item about nested scopes.
Revise item about restriction on 'from ... import *'.  It was in the
wrong section and the section restriction was removed.
2001-02-01 20:38:45 +00:00
Fred Drake fb9d712721 Added comments about the weak reference support. 2001-02-01 20:00:40 +00:00
Tim Peters 0de88fc4b1 Change random.seed() so that it can get at the full range of possible
internal states.  Put the old .seed() (which could only get at about
the square root of the # of possibilities) under the new name .whseed(),
for bit-level compatibility with older versions.  This occurred to me
while reviewing effbot's book (he found himself stumbling over .seed()
more than once there ...).
2001-02-01 04:59:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 30dbd1429a Document the two changes to the mailbox.py module:
- All constructors grow an optional argument `factory' which is a
  callable used when new message instances are created by the next()
  methods.  Defaults to the rfc822.Message class.

- A new subclass of UnixMailbox is added, called PortableUnixMailbox.
  It's identical to UnixMailbox, but uses a more portable test for
  From_ delimiter lines.  With PortableUnixMailbox, any line that
  starts with "From " is considered a delimiter (this should really
  check for two newlines before the F, but it doesn't.
2001-01-31 22:14:01 +00:00
Tim Peters ee826f88c9 Docs for new Windows zlib build procedure. 2001-01-31 19:39:44 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 69c327988a add note about two kinds of illegal imports that are now checked 2001-01-30 01:27:28 +00:00
Moshe Zadka 6af0ce0501 Added news of function comparison and hashing by identity 2001-01-29 06:41:00 +00:00
Tim Peters 40ead76ed6 Added news about repr(string). 2001-01-27 05:35:26 +00:00
Tim Peters d52269bfd0 Fix bugs introduced by rewrite (in particular, time-based initialization
got broken).  Also added new method .jumpahead(N).  This finally gives us
a semi-decent answer to how Python's RNGs can be used safely and efficiently
in multithreaded programs (although it requires the user to use the new
machinery!).
2001-01-25 06:23:18 +00:00
Tim Peters d7b5e88e8e Reworked random.py so that it no longer depends on, and offers all the
functionality of, whrandom.py.  Also closes all the "XXX" todos in
random.py.  New frequently-requested functions/methods getstate() and
setstate().  All exported functions are now bound methods of a hidden
instance.  Killed all unintended exports.  Updated the docs.
FRED:  The more I fiddle the docs, the less I understand the exact
intended use of the \var, \code, \method tags.  Please review critically.
GUIDO:  See email.  I updated NEWS as if whrandom were deprecated; I
think it should be.
2001-01-25 03:36:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1e33bdcb76 Added notes about setup.py and cygwin build; removed note about
the previous auto-configuring modules feature (already obsolete :-).
2001-01-23 03:17:00 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg ebb195b270 Updating NEWS to match the current state of affairs. 2001-01-20 10:34:52 +00:00
Thomas Wouters fe385251f4 Make the 'time' argument to the timemodule functions strftime, asctime,
ctime, gmtime and localtime optional, defaulting to 'the current time' in
all cases. Adjust docs, add news item. Also convert all argument-handling to
METH_VARARGS. Closes SF patch #103265.
2001-01-19 23:16:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a88479f0e3 - Add note about complex numbers.
- Changed description of rich comparisons to emphasize that < and >
  (etc.) are each other's reflection.  Also use this word in the note
  about the demise of __rcmp__.
2001-01-18 14:28:08 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg ad7c98e264 This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
except that it always returns Unicode objects.

A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.

This closes patch #101664.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
2001-01-17 17:09:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f98eda01ab News item for rich comparisons.
(I'm going to check in some more uses of rich comparisons, but the
basic feature should be in place now.)
2001-01-17 15:54:45 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 573b54125d Add a NEWS item about function attributes. 2001-01-15 20:43:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 051e335d42 Add note about new and improved xrange(). 2001-01-15 19:11:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum da91f227ec Add note about ftplib defaulting to passive mode. 2001-01-15 16:36:08 +00:00
Tim Peters f29b64d243 Use the "MS" getline hack (fgets()) by default on non-get_unlocked
platforms.  See NEWS for details.
2001-01-15 06:33:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f6f3a89fbd Mention new curses.panel module 2001-01-13 14:53:34 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 10a2787313 Document extensions to .pth files. 2001-01-13 09:54:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1cc8f83666 News about from...import. 2001-01-12 16:25:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ae72d87822 Typo. 2001-01-11 15:00:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f61f166bca Added a whole slew of news items. Not striving for completeness --
I've skipped all bugfixes, Unicode, distutils changes.  But this
should be a start!
2001-01-10 20:13:55 +00:00
Tim Peters 742bb6f9fd Clarification of new bisect module functions. 2001-01-05 08:05:32 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis be4c0f56a2 Recognize pyc files even if they don't end in pyc.
Patch #103067 with modifications as discussed in email.
2001-01-04 20:30:56 +00:00
Tim Peters 36cdad12dd Fred, THIS NEEDS DOCS! The function docstrings tell the tale.
Christmas present to myself:  the bisect module didn't define what
happened if the new element was already in the list.  It so happens
that it inserted the new element "to the right" of all equal elements.
Since it wasn't defined, among other bad implications it was a mystery
how to use bisect to determine whether an element was already in the
list (I've seen code that *assumed* "to the right" without justification).
Added new methods bisect_left and insort_left that insert "to the left"
instead; made the old names bisect and insort aliases for the new names
bisect_right and insort_right; beefed up docstrings to explain what
these actually do; and added a std test for the bisect module.
2000-12-29 02:06:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a1099be778 Fix typo 2000-12-15 01:16:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3661d39474 Describe {}.popitem(). 2000-12-12 22:10:31 +00:00
Tim Peters d92dfe0ef5 SF bug 110843: Low FD_SETSIZE limit on Win32 (PR#41). Boosted to 512. 2000-12-12 01:18:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 9940b800a4 Made the description of %[udxXo] formats of negative longs in 2.1 more accurate.
I suggested to Guido that %u be deprecated (it seems useless in Python to me).
2000-12-01 07:59:35 +00:00
Tim Peters a3a3a030af Fox for SF bug #123859: %[duxXo] long formats inconsistent. 2000-11-30 05:22:44 +00:00
Tim Peters adfb94fd79 Typo repair. 2000-10-16 20:51:33 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton d867a2cc21 revise xml comment 2000-10-16 20:41:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a640506ec Updated the XML package comment. 2000-10-16 20:27:25 +00:00
Tim Peters 989b7b91a1 Filled in math-module info; fixed a typo or two. 2000-10-16 20:24:53 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton d6e2023107 Add NEWS for 2.0 final (there are a few XXX comments that must be
addressed).

Fix a few nits in 2.0c1 news.
2000-10-16 20:08:38 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 6040aaa9a2 add note explaining what a release candidate is 2000-10-09 21:27:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 46446d6242 Repaired IDLE Unicode bug description.
Added tokenize.py bugfix info.
2000-10-09 21:19:31 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 32e20ff838 typo 2000-10-09 19:48:11 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 109212037b added better description of BeOS changes from Donn Cave 2000-10-09 18:34:12 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton ed9e644793 Summary of changes between 2.0b2 and 2.0c1 2000-10-09 18:26:42 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 625915eb4f typo 2000-10-02 13:43:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f11cf8811 Capitalized an "if" that should have been -- noted by Grant Griffin
<grant.griffin@honeywell.com>.
2000-09-29 17:54:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 45888ffbd4 Added a missing "is" -- noted by Grant Griffin
<grant.griffin@honeywell.com>.
2000-09-29 17:09:11 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 97693b0479 Fix GC news 2000-09-26 17:42:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 67233bc405 Fixed typo, description of changes to dbm module. 2000-09-26 16:40:27 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton fa2e2c1469 The rest of the news for 2.0b2 2000-09-26 16:31:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 64bb380c09 Elaborated the notes on the XML support.
In the limits.h comment, noted that INT_MAX and LONG_MAX are guaranteed
to be defined.

Noted that Reliant UNIX now gets proper API support for extension modules.
2000-09-26 16:21:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f62ed9c775 Fixed some typos, added some punctuation (e.g. consistently terminate
sentences with a period and put () after function/method names), and
filled in the blanks on mailbox and posixfile.  Noted <limits.h> change.
2000-09-26 11:16:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 482c021b6a New info and fixed some typos. 2000-09-26 06:33:09 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 1b6185941e partial list of changes between 2.0b1 and 2.0b2 2000-09-26 05:32:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 56db095018 Another typo (in the list comprehension example). 2000-09-06 23:34:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4338a284b8 Fix three typos. 2000-09-06 13:02:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 8b09233f93 Added Windows news. Also repeated 1.6 Windows news since most people getting
2.0b1 for Windows will not have bothered getting 1.6.  Also changed
"Changed, New, Obsolete Tools" to say "None" since nobody had put an entry
there.
2000-09-05 20:15:25 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 24c3d6080d All the NEWS that I could finish in 15 minutes (and then some)
Removed some attributions from the shorter entries in Changed Modules,
because that section is so long.
2000-09-05 19:36:26 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton bdebd54571 current progress on 2.0 NEWS 2000-09-05 18:28:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b1156badb4 The malloc rearrangement was actually already in 1.6. 2000-09-05 15:43:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 830ca2af5a Added readline news. (Skip) 2000-09-05 15:34:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e905e95721 Barry Warsaw: Fixed -+ operator. Added some new sections. Leave some
XXX notes for now.

I could use help here!!!!  Please mail me patches ASAP.  We may have
to put some of this off to 2.0final, but it's best to have it in shape
now...
2000-09-05 12:42:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f2ffce0518 Added the 2.0b1 news. 2000-09-05 04:38:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8ed602b6e2 Remove the 1.5.2 news. 2.0 news is still to be done. 2000-09-01 22:34:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b65a43a970 News for 1.5.2 (final). 1999-04-13 15:52:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 437cfe842f News for the 1.5.2c1 release. 1999-04-08 20:17:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 0df2188d08 Typo: "apparentlt" --> "apparently" 1999-02-22 15:38:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 74608e6a05 New in 1.5.2b2. 1999-02-18 16:02:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum de8b026148 Added shlex and netrc modules; added warning about urllib change
affecting subclasses (which Jeremy just found out).
1998-12-22 16:41:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e96bd3f60f News for 1.5.2b1. Moved news before 1.5.1 to HISTORY. 1998-12-21 21:45:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8c10f90a7 All the news that's fit to print. In other words, it's 1.5.2a2 time. 1998-10-17 19:43:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 27b3bc3fbf Reordered the news to make it more accessible. Also removed some dups. 1998-08-11 18:42:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ab9d6f0be9 Got all the 1.5.2 news that's fit to print. Now we may need to
organize it better...
1998-08-10 22:01:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6ca3defcfa mini-faq on porting python 1998-08-10 16:36:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f5475c95a7 Checkpointing news for 1.5.2a1... (Not all done.) 1998-08-06 17:55:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fc8f5d1a7f typo (pwill -> will). 1998-08-04 22:58:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 974f295dd4 Some more new stuff. 1998-04-13 21:00:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c45cf02938 Added changes from 1.5 to 1.5.1.
The sections are now in a more useful order: the most recent changes
are listed first.
1998-04-10 20:06:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fbea1d35db Added from 1.5b2 to 1.5. 1997-12-31 00:04:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 105ff952bd Typed in the relevant changes since 1.5b1. 1997-12-11 20:35:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2888a12eed Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py. 1997-12-02 19:44:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7ea639b133 Added list of what's new in 1.5b1. Changed intro and some section titles. 1997-11-26 16:36:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9a513efffa Final touch -- Don's SGI_ABI patches. 1997-10-09 23:32:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 764a377cef Typo in description of news in errno; added setlocale() call. 1997-10-08 22:49:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b68b77f62d A few last-minute additions and some rearrangements and corrections.
What's "xlib"?  I took the line that mentioned it out.
1997-10-07 19:12:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 92664b890b Completed the changes between 1.5a3 and now. Not yet sorted though. 1997-10-07 00:12:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1f83ccee88 Done with adding changes from 1.4 till 1.5a3. 1997-10-06 21:04:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 522578e90f Complete log of changes since 1.5a3 at the end. 1997-08-28 03:43:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2da391f387 I'm tired -- checking in more news items. This isn't complete; I'm
about halfways.
1997-08-18 21:17:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61000333bf Another checkpoint -- reorganized, in sections. 1997-08-15 04:39:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f0b69f01eb Checkpoint checkin of list of changes. Much more to follow, but it's
late...
1997-08-15 02:50:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5624abd086 Emptied (in expectation of a laundry list of what's new in 1.5). 1997-07-19 20:45:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7704bb7f32 Added last-minute changes. 1996-10-25 14:21:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 02afd080ec Added all current changes. 1996-10-22 02:16:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 52a42fe9e7 Remove the entry for private variables (it's supposed to be a surprise!) 1996-08-26 18:23:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5f9aa9e1f0 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and
structuring it, for now.
1996-08-26 18:22:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4a67a16d8f Added all changes in beta1 and beta3.
Still very rough (needs reordering etc.).
1996-08-26 02:40:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 64d376a670 New .pyc magic numnber, too. 1996-08-01 01:06:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ccdfce386a Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1.
Now all we need to do is do the same for beta1 compared to 1.3.
1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c30e95f4b0 Moved 1.3 news to HISTORY; put some 1.4 news in NEWS 1996-07-30 18:53:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bf032a97b9 mention syslog upgrade 1995-10-11 19:28:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5e639d446c transcribed changes from tut.tex 1995-10-11 18:03:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0082c1a121 updates for final release of 1.2 1995-04-10 11:52:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 04cba5bcec the usual 1995-03-09 14:44:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5426ab33d9 1.2beta news 1995-01-17 17:00:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 635649f90f next release 1994-11-10 23:04:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ac5a4e39ca add hints about doco 1994-10-11 15:04:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1146c8736a final release date of release 1.1 is Oct 11 1994-10-10 18:05:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum aa25386fc2 Moved older news to HISTORY file 1994-10-06 17:18:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 061f182a16 For release 1.1 1994-10-06 16:03:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8c9736561b ACKS: some new names; NEWS: 1.0.3 1994-07-14 13:57:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5c74304731 News for 1.0.2 1994-05-04 13:10:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 617536e6cf Added news 1994-04-14 13:01:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5125908d2b Amrit Prem 1994-01-26 18:20:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a85d053135 Initial revision 1994-01-26 17:24:14 +00:00