Merged in NEWS changes from the r22b2 branch.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2d4c0c0..38b80dc 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
- Assignment to __debug__ raises SyntaxError at compile-time. This
was promised when 2.1c1 was released as "What's New in Python 2.1c1"
- (below) says.
+ (see below) says.
- Clarified the error messages for unsupported operands to an operator
(like 1 + '').
@@ -78,8 +78,12 @@
- Symbolic group names in regular expressions must be unique. For
example, the regexp r'(?P<abc>)(?P<abc>)' is not allowed, because a
single name can't mean both "group 1" and "group 2" simultaneously.
- Python 2.2 detects this error at regexp compilation time; previously,
- the error went undetected, and results were unpredictable.
+ Python 2.2 detects this error at regexp compilation time;
+ previously, the error went undetected, and results were
+ unpredictable. Also in sre, the pattern.split(), pattern.sub(), and
+ pattern.subn() methods have been rewritten in C. Also, an
+ experimental function/method finditer() has been added, which works
+ like findall() but returns an iterator.
- Tix exposes more commands through the classes DirSelectBox,
DirSelectDialog, ListNoteBook, Meter, CheckList, and the
@@ -95,16 +99,53 @@
RISCOS, where it is '/'. There is no need to use this variable
unless you have a masochistic desire to port your code to RISCOS.
+- mimetypes.py has optional support for non-standard, but commonly
+ found types. guess_type() and guess_extension() now accept an
+ optional `strict' flag, defaulting to true, which controls whether
+ recognize non-standard types or not. A few non-standard types we
+ know about have been added. Also, when run as a script, there are
+ new -l and -e options.
+
+- statcache is now deprecated.
+
+- email.Utils.formatdate() now produces the preferred RFC 2822 style
+ dates with numeric timezones (it used to produce obsolete dates
+ hard coded to "GMT" timezone). An optional `localtime' flag is
+ added to produce dates in the local timezone, with daylight savings
+ time properly taken into account.
+
+- In pickle and cPickle, instead of masking errors in load() by
+ transforming them into SystemError, we let the original exception
+ propagate out. Also, implement support for __safe_for_unpickling__
+ in pickle, as it already was supported in cPickle.
+
Tools/Demos
Build
+- The dbm module is built using libdb1 if available. The bsddb module
+ is built with libdb3 if available.
+
+- Misc/Makefile.pre.in has been removed by BDFL pronouncement.
+
C API
- New function PySequence_Fast_GET_SIZE() returns the size of a non-
NULL result from PySequence_Fast(), more quickly than calling
PySequence_Size().
+- New argument unpacking function PyArg_UnpackTuple() added.
+
+- New functions PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs() and
+ PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs() have been added to make it more
+ convenient and efficient to call functions and methods from C.
+
+- PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() no longer masks errors, so it's
+ possible that this will propagate errors it didn't before.
+
+- New function PyObject_CheckReadBuffer(), which returns true if its
+ argument supports the single-segment readable buffer interface.
+
New platforms
- We've finally confirmed that this release builds on HP-UX 11.00,
@@ -122,6 +163,19 @@
Windows
+Mac
+
+- PythonScript has been moved to unsupported and is slated to be
+ removed completely in the next release.
+
+- It should now be possible to build applets that work on both OS9 and
+ OSX.
+
+- The core is now linked with CoreServices not Carbon; as a side
+ result, default 8bit encoding on OSX is now ASCII.
+
+- Python should now build on OSX 10.1.1
+
What's New in Python 2.2b1?
Release date: 19-Oct-2001