A few last-minute additions and some rearrangements and corrections.
What's "xlib"? I took the line that mentioned it out.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3718fbe..8946b75 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -952,8 +952,7 @@
- The truncate() method for file objects now works on Windows.
- Py_Initialize() is no longer called when the DLL is loaded. You
-must call it yourself. (And you can't call it twice -- it's a fatal
-error to call it when Python is already initialized.)
+must call it yourself.
- The time module's clock() function now has good precision through
the use of the Win32 API QueryPerformanceCounter().
@@ -1101,8 +1100,6 @@
- Moved Include/assert.h to Parser/assert.h, which seems to be the
only place where it's needed.
-- Alas, the thread support for _tkinter didn't work. Withdrew it.
-
- Tweaked the dictionary lookup code again for some more speed
(Vladimir Marangozov).
@@ -1263,11 +1260,12 @@
Also, the command argument can now be either a string (passed to the
shell) or a list of arguments (passed directly to execv).
-- The thread support for _tkinter.c now works. The bad news is that
-it requires a modified version of a file in the standard Tcl
-distribution, which you must compile with a -I option pointing to the
-standard Tcl source tree. For this reason, the thread support is
-disabled by default.
+
+- Alas, the thread support for _tkinter released with 1.5a3 didn't
+work. It's been rewritten. The bad news is that it now requires a
+modified version of a file in the standard Tcl distribution, which you
+must compile with a -I option pointing to the standard Tcl source
+tree. For this reason, the thread support is disabled by default.
- The errno extension module adds two tables: errorcode maps errno
numbers to errno names (e.g. EINTR), and errorcode maps them to
@@ -1336,7 +1334,7 @@
- The imp module now supports parts of the functionality to implement
import of hierarchical module names. It now supports find_module()
and load_module() for all types of modules. Docstrings have been
-added for those functions in the built-in impo module that are still
+added for those functions in the built-in imp module that are still
relevant (some old interfaces are obsolete). For a sample
implementation of hierarchical module import in Python, see the new
library module knee.py.
@@ -1358,8 +1356,6 @@
- The 'p' format in the struct extension module alloded to above is
new in 1.5a4.
-- The xlib extension module has been debugged and improved.
-
- The types.py module now uses try-except in a few places to make it
more likely that it can be imported in restricted mode. Some type
names are undefined in that case, e.g. CodeType (inaccessible),
@@ -1409,7 +1405,7 @@
- Tools/faqwiz/: New installation instructions show how to maintain
multiple FAQs. Removed bootstrap script from end of faqwiz.py module.
-Added instructions to bootstrap script, too. Version bumped to 0.8.
+Added instructions to bootstrap script, too. Version bumped to 0.8.1.
Added <html>...</html> feature suggested by Skip Montanaro. Added
leading text for Roulette, default to 'Hit Reload ...'. Fix typo in
default SRCDIR.
@@ -1417,3 +1413,10 @@
- Documentation for the relatively new modules "keyword" and "symbol"
has been added (to the end of the section on the parser extension
module).
+
+- In module bisect.py, but functions have two optional argument 'lo'
+and 'hi' which allow you to specify a subsequence of the array to
+operate on.
+
+- In ftplib.py, changed most methods to return their status (even when
+it is always "200 OK") rather than swallowing it.