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*** NEWS 2000/09/05 15:43:23 1.56
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*** 228,232 ****
--- 228,251 ----
dict[key].append(item)
+ New exceptions, TabError and IndentationError, thate are subclasses on
+ SyntaxError. XXX
+ The limits on the size of expressions and file in Python source code
+ have been raised from 2**16 to 2**32. Previous versions of Python
+ were limited because the maximum argument size the Python VM accepted
+ was 2**16. This limited the size of object constructor expressions,
+ e.g. [1,2,3] or {'a':1, 'b':2}, and the size of source files. This
+ limit was raised thanks to a patch by Charles Waldman that effectively
+ fixes the problem. It is now much more likely that you will be
+ limited by available memory than by an arbitrary limit in Python.
+
+ The interpreter's maximum recursion depth can be modified by Python
+ programs using sys.getrecursionlimit and sys.setrecursionlimit. This
+ limit is the maximum number of recursive calls that can be made by
+ Python code. The limit exists to prevent infinite recursion from
+ overflowing the C stack and causing a core dump. The default value is
+ 1000. The maximum safe value for a particular platform can be found
+ by running Misc/find_recursionlimit.py.
+
New Modules and Packages
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*** 252,267 ****
Changed Modules
---------------
! ftplib - ntransfercmd(), transfercmd(), and retrbinary() all now
optionally support the RFC 959 REST command.
! socket - new function getfqdn()
! readline - new functions to read, write and truncate history files. The
! readline section of the library reference manual contains an example.
! XXX: I'm sure there are others
Obsolete Modules
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--- 271,323 ----
Changed Modules
---------------
+
+ calendar -- Many new functions that support features including control
+ over which day of the week is the first day, returning strings instead
+ of printing them. Also new symbolic constants for days of week,
+ e.g. MONDAY, ..., SUNDAY.
+
+ cgi -- FieldStorage objects have a getvalue method that works like a
+ dictionary's get method and returns the value attribute of the object.
+
+ ConfigParser -- The parser object has new methods has_option,
+ remove_section, remove_option, set, and write. They allow the module
+ to be used for writing config files as well as reading them.
! ftplib -- ntransfercmd(), transfercmd(), and retrbinary() all now
optionally support the RFC 959 REST command.
+
+ gzip -- readline and readlines now accept optional size arguments
+
+ httplib -- New interfaces and support for HTTP/1.1 by Greg Stein. See
+ the module doc strings for details.
+
+ os/popen2 -- popen2/popen3/popen4 support under Windows. popen2/popen3
+ support under Unix.
+
+ os/pty -- support for openpty and forkpty by Thomas Wouters.
+
+ os.path -- fix semantics of os.path.commonprefix
+
+ smtplib -- support for sending very long messages
! socket -- new function getfqdn()
! readline -- new functions to read, write and truncate history files.
! The readline section of the library reference manual contains an
! example.
! shutil -- new copyfileobj function
+ SimpleHTTPServer, CGIHTTPServer -- Fix problems with buffering in the
+ HTTP server.
+ Tkinter -- flatten optimization by Fredrik Lundh
+
+ urllib -- scans environment variables for proxy configuration,
+ e.g. http_proxy.
+
+ whichdb -- recognizes dumbdbm format
+
+
Obsolete Modules
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Trent Mick ensured portability to 64-bit platforms, under both Linux
and Win64, especially for the new Intel Itanium processor.
+
+ The C APIs to return an object's size have been update to consistently
+ use the form PyXXX_Size, e.g. PySequence_Size and PyDict_Size. In
+ previous versions, the abstract interfaces used PyXXX_Length and the
+ concrete interfaces used PyXXX_Size. The old names,
+ e.g. PyObject_Length, are still available for backwards compatibility
+ at the API level, but are deprecated.
+
+ PyOS_CheckStack - XXX
+
+ The GC changes resulted in creation of two new slots on object,
+ tp_traverse and tp_clear. The augmented assignment changes result in
+ the createion of a new slot for each in-place operator.
+
+ The GC API creates new requirements for container types implemented in
+ C extesion modules. See Include/objimpl.h for details.
+
+ PyString_Decode / PyString_Encode. ???
Numerous new APIs were added, e.g.
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