Bring back the patch/bug count paragraph.
Correct source of *strip() changes
Small rewrites.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index 604167b..7a91345 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
%
% MacOS framework-related changes (section of its own, probably)
%
-% New sorting code
-%
% xreadlines obsolete; files are their own iterator
%\section{Introduction \label{intro}}
@@ -700,7 +698,7 @@
(Patch contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
-\item The \keyword{assert} statement no longer checks the \code{__debug__}
+\item The \keyword{assert} statement no longer checks the \code{__debug__}
flag, so you can no longer disable assertions by assigning to \code{__debug__}.
Running Python with the \programopt{-O} switch will still generate
code that doesn't execute any assertions.
@@ -804,7 +802,7 @@
>>>
\end{verbatim}
-(Contributed by Simon Brunning.)
+(Suggested by Simon Brunning, and implemented by Walter D\"orwald.)
\item The \method{startswith()} and \method{endswith()}
string methods now accept negative numbers for the start and end
@@ -1301,7 +1299,12 @@
%======================================================================
\section{Other Changes and Fixes}
-Finally, there are various miscellaneous fixes:
+As usual, there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes
+scattered throughout the source tree. A search through the CVS change
+logs finds there were 289 patches applied and 323 bugs fixed between
+Python 2.2 and 2.3. Both figures are likely to be underestimates.
+
+Some of the more notable changes are:
\begin{itemize}
@@ -1317,8 +1320,8 @@
call the trace function, removing the need for \code{SET_LINENO}
entirely.
-Python code will be hard pushed to notice a difference from this
-change, apart from a slight speed up when python is run without
+It would be difficult to detect any resulting difference from Python
+code, apart from a slight speed up when Python is run without
\programopt{-O}.
C extensions that access the \member{f_lineno} field of frame objects
@@ -1340,7 +1343,7 @@
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
-article: Michael Chermside, Scott David Daniels, Fred~L. Drake, Jr.,
+article: Simon Brunning, Michael Chermside, Scott David Daniels, Fred~L. Drake, Jr.,
Michael Hudson, Detlef Lannert, Martin von L\"owis, Andrew MacIntyre,
Lalo Martins, Gustavo Niemeyer, Neal Norwitz, Jason Tishler.