More NEWS for 2.2a2.
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@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@
- configure supports a new option --enable-unicode, with the values
ucs2 and ucs4 (new in 2.2a1). With --disable-unicode, the Unicode
type and supporting code is completely removed from the interpreter.
-
+
- A new configure option --enable-framework builds a Mac OS X framework,
which "make frameworkinstall" will install. This provides a starting
point for more mac-like functionality, join pythonmac-sig@python.org
if you are interested in helping.
+- The NeXT platform is no longer supported.
+
+- The `new' module is now statically linked.
+
Tools
- The new Tools/scripts/cleanfuture.py can be used to automatically
@@ -21,13 +25,24 @@
Tests
- regrtest.py now knows which tests are expected to be skipped on some
- platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output.
+ platforms, allowing to give clearer test result output. regrtest
+ also has optional --use/-u switch to run normally disabled tests
+ which require network access or consume significant disk resources.
- Several new tests in the standard test suite, with special thanks to
Nick Mathewson.
Core
+- The floor division operator // has been added as outlined in PEP
+ 238. The / operator still provides classic division (and will until
+ Python 3.0) unless "from __future__ import division" is included, in
+ which case the / operator will provide true division. The operator
+ module provides truediv() and floordiv() functions. Augmented
+ assignment variants are included, as are the equivalent overloadable
+ methods and C API methods. See the PEP for a full discussion:
+ <http://python.sf.net/peps/pep-0238.html>
+
- Future statements are now effective in simulated interactive shells
(like IDLE). This should "just work" by magic, but read Michael
Hudson's "Future statements in simulated shells" PEP 264 for full
@@ -61,6 +76,14 @@
- Readline completion support for cmd.Cmd was added.
+- Calling os.tempnam() or os.tmpnam() generate RuntimeWarnings.
+
+- Added function threading.BoundedSemaphore()
+
+- Added Ka-Ping Yee's cgitb.py module.
+
+- The `new' module now exposes the CO_xxx flags.
+
New platforms
C API