Tweaks for MacPython 2.2b1
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-Changes in 2.2a3 since 2.1.1
+Changes in 2.2b1 since 2.1.1
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These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder)
-for machine-independent changes.
+for machine-independent changes. Changes that were already in 2.2a3 are flagged as such.
+
- The main change is that all toolbox modules have moved to a package called Carbon.
So things like "import Res" should be changed to "from Carbon import Res", and
"from Res import *" to "from Carbon.Res import *". Please see the readme file for
some open questions and join the discussions on pythonmac-sig if you have anything
to contribute. Aside from reducing clutter this change will also benefit the
- port to Mach-O/OSX Python later.
+ port to Mach-O/OSX Python later. [2.2a3]
- On input MacPython now accepts either \n (unix style) or \r (mac style) newlines
for text files. This behaviour can be turned off with a preference.
- This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested.
+ This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested. [2.2a3]
- There is a new module macresource which makes it easier to open a resource file
accompanying your script when the script is not (yet) converted to an applet.
- This module will later also do the right thing in Mach-O/OSX Python.
+ This module will later also do the right thing in Mach-O/OSX Python. [2.2a3]
- Threads had a stack that was too small for many serious Python applications (20K).
- They now get 64K. There is still no overflow check, though.
-- Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled.
+ They now get 64K. There is still no overflow check, though. [2.2a3]
+- Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled. [2.2a3]
- EasyDialogs.ProgressBar now has indeterminate progressbars if you specify maxval=0.
- This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer.
+ This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer. [2.2a3]
- There are new preferences for enabling old-style division warnings and for
accepting unix-style newlines in text input files. These can also be set during
- startup, and in addition you can select very verbose import tracing.
-- Various outdated scripts have been moved to :Mac:Unsupported.
-- Various outdated items from :Mac:Lib:test have been removed.
+ startup, and in addition you can select very verbose import tracing. [2.2a3]
+- Various outdated scripts have been moved to :Mac:Unsupported. [2.2a3]
+- Various outdated items from :Mac:Lib:test have been removed. [2.2a3]
+- C Developers: you know have control over the Python console if you are embedding
+ MacPython in another application, thanks to Alexandre Parenteau. :Mac:Demo:embed.html
+ has very minimal documentation.
+- BuildCGIApplet works again.
+- The CodeWarrior OSA suite missed quit(). It is back.
+- Contrib:morefindertools is gone, the functionality has been integrated into
+ the standard module findertools.py.
What is not in this distribution
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