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| ==> Release 1.4 (sometime 3Q 1996) <== |
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| What's new since 1.4 beta 1? |
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| - Portability bug in the md5.h header solved. |
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| - The PC build procedure now really works, and sets sys.platform to a |
| meaningful value (a few things were botched in beta 1). Lib/dos_8x3 |
| is now a standard part of the distribution (alas). |
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| - Installation has been completely overhauled. Typing "make install" |
| now installs everything (not just the binary), inserts the version |
| number in the pathnames of almost everything installed, uses the |
| install-sh script to install each file, and creates the machine |
| dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not supplied by the |
| distribution. (XXX There's still a problem with the latter because |
| the "regen" script requires that Python is installed. Some manual |
| intervention may still be required.) |
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| - New modules: errno, operator. |
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| - Changes for use with Numerical Python: builtin function slice() and |
| Ellipses object, and corresponding syntax: |
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| x[lo:hi:stride] == x[slice(lo, hi, stride)] |
| x[a, ..., z] == x[(a, Ellipses, z)] |
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| - New documentation for errno and cgi mdoules. |
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| - The directory containing the script passed to the interpreter is |
| inserted in from of sys.path; "." is no longer a default path |
| component. |
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| - Optional third string argument to string.translate() specifies |
| characters to delete. New function string.maketrans() creates a |
| translation table for translate() or for regex.compile(). |
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| - Module posix (and hence module os under Unix) now supports putenv(). |
| Moreover, module os is enhanced so that if putenv() is supported, |
| assignments to os.environ entries make the appropriate putenv() call. |
| (XXX the putenv() implementation can leak a small amount of memory per |
| call.) |
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| - pdb.py can now be invoked from the command line to debug a script: |
| python pdb.py <script> <arg> ... |
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| - Much improved parseaddr() in rfc822. |
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| - In cgi.py, you can now pass an alternative value for environ to |
| nearly all functions. |
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| - You can now assign to instance variables whose name begins and ends |
| with '__'. |
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| - New version of Fred Drake's parser module and associates (token, |
| symbol, AST). |
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| - New PYTHON_API_VERSION value, as well as .pyc file magic number. |
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| - The "complex" internal structure type is now called "Py_complex" to |
| avoid name conflicts. |
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| - Numerous small bugs fixed. |
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| - Slight pickle speedups. |
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| - Some slight speedups suggested by Sjoerd (more coming in 1.4 final). |
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| - NeXT portability mods by Bill Bumgarner integrated. |
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| - Modules regexmodule.c, bsddbmodule.c and xxmodule.c have been |
| converted to new naming style. |
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| What's new since Python release 1.3? |
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| - Added sys.platform and sys.exec_platform for Bill Janssen. |
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| XXX more... |