The rest of the news for 2.0b2
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2e00180..177de32 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
What's new in 2.0 beta 2 (since beta 1)?
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-
Core language, builtins, and interpreter
- Add support for unbounded ints in %d,i,u,x,X,o formats; for example
@@ -27,6 +26,19 @@
- Add -h and -V command line options to print the usage message and
Python version number and exit immediately.
+- eval() and exec accept Unicode objects as code parameters.
+
+- getattr() and setattr() now also accept Unicode objects for the
+ attribute name, which are converted to strings using the default
+ encoding before lookup.
+
+- Multiplication on string and Unicode now does proper bounds
+ checking; e.g. 'a' * 65536 * 65536 will raise ValueError, "repeated
+ string is too long."
+
+- Better error message when continue is found in try statement in a
+ loop.
+
Standard library and extensions
@@ -69,6 +81,11 @@
- mailbox: Mailbox class conforms better to qmail specifications.
+- marshal: When reading a short, sign-extend on platforms where shorts
+ are bigger than 16 bits. When reading a long, repair the unportable
+ sign extension that was being done for 64-bit machines. (It assumed
+ that signed right shift sign-extends.)
+
- operator: Add contains(), invert(), __invert__() as aliases for
__contains__(), inv(), and __inv__() respectively.
@@ -91,7 +108,7 @@
- py_compile: support CR+LF line terminators in source file.
- readline: Does not immediately exit when ^C is hit when readline and
- threads are configured. Adds defintion of rl_library_version. (The
+ threads are configured. Adds definition of rl_library_version. (The
latter addition requires GNU readline 2.2 or later.)
- rfc822: Domain literals returned by AddrlistClass method
@@ -150,7 +167,7 @@
PyModule_AddObject(), PyModule_AddIntConstant(), and
PyModule_AddStringConstant().
-- Cleaned up definition of NULL in C source code; all defintions were
+- Cleaned up definition of NULL in C source code; all definitions were
removed and add #error to Python.h if NULL isn't defined after
#include of stdio.h.
@@ -166,39 +183,86 @@
internal data buffer and size of a string object -- or the default
encoded version of a Unicode object.
+- PyString_Size() and PyString_AsString() accept Unicode objects.
+
- The standard header <limits.h> is now included by Python.h (if it
exists). INT_MAX and LONG_MAX will always be defined, even if
<limits.h> is not available.
+- PyFloat_FromString takes a second argument, pend, that was
+ effectively useless. It is now officially useless but preserved for
+ backwards compatibility. If the pend argument is not NULL, *pend is
+ set to NULL.
+
+- PyObject_GetAttr() and PyObject_SetAttr() now accept Unicode objects
+ for the attribute name. See note on getattr() above.
+
+- A few bug fixes to argument processing for Unicode.
+ PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() now accepts "es#" and "es".
+ PyArg_Parse() special cases "s#" for Unicode objects; it returns a
+ pointer to the default encoded string data instead of to the raw
+ UTF-16.
+
+- Py_BuildValue accepts B format (for bgen-generated code).
+
Internals
- On Unix, fix code for finding Python installation directory so that
it works when argv[0] is a relative path.
-- Added a true unicode_internal_encode() function and fixed the
+- Added a true tnicode_internal_encode() function and fixed the
unicode_internal_decode function() to support Unicode objects directly
rather than by generating a copy of the object.
- Several of the internal Unicode tables are much smaller now, and
the source code should be much friendlier to weaker compilers.
+- Fixed GC bug that caused some instances to be removed from the
+ container set while they were still live.
+
+- Fixed refcount problem in instance deallocation that only occurred
+ when Py_REF_DEBUG was defined and Py_TRACE_REFS was not.
+
+- In the garbage collector: No longer sets an object's type slot to
+ NULL. Fix bug in collection of tuples.
+
+- On Windows, getpythonregpath is now protected against null data in
+ registry key.
+
+- On Unix, create .pyc/.pyo files with O_EXCL flag to avoid a race
+ condition.
+
Build and platform-specific issues
- Better support of GNU Pth via --with-pth configure option.
-- Fix linker problems on Reliant UNIX.
+- Python/C API now properly exposed to dynamically-loaded extension
+ modules on Reliant UNIX.
- Changes for the benefit of SunOS 4.1.4 (really!). mmapmodule.c:
Don't define MS_SYNC to be zero when it is undefined. Added missing
prototypes in posixmodule.c.
-- Improved support for HP-UX build -- threads should now be correctly
+- Improved support for HP-UX build. Threads should now be correctly
configured (on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00).
-- Python/C API now properly exposed to dynamically-loaded extension
- modules on Reliant UNIX.
+- Fix largefile support on older NetBSD systems and OpenBSD by adding
+ define for TELL64.
+
+
+Tools and other miscellany
+
+- ftpmirror: Call to main() is wrapped in if __name__ == "__main__".
+
+- freeze: The modulefinder now works with 2.0 opcodes.
+
+- IDLE:
+ Move hackery of sys.argv until after the Tk instance has been
+ created, which allows the application-specific Tkinter
+ initialization to be executed if present; also pass an explicit
+ className parameter to the Tk() constructor.
What's new in 2.0 beta 1?