Remove some XXX markers
Update the patch and bug counts
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
index 51697a1..c188556 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
@@ -44,17 +44,16 @@
%======================================================================
\section{PEP 252: Type and Class Changes}
-XXX
-
-I need to read and digest the relevant PEPs.
-
-GvR's description at http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
+XXX I need to read and digest the relevant PEPs.
\begin{seealso}
\seepep{252}{Making Types Look More Like Classes}{Written and implemented
by Guido van Rossum.}
+\seeurl{http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html}{A tutorial
+on the type/class changes in 2.2.}
+
\end{seealso}
@@ -354,7 +353,7 @@
\method{tell()} method of file objects has to return a long integer.
However, there were various bits of Python that expected plain
integers and would raise an error if a long integer was provided
-instead. For example, in version XXX of Python, only regular integers
+instead. For example, in Python 1.5, only regular integers
could be used as a slice index, and \code{'abc'[1L:]} would raise a
\exception{TypeError} exception with the message 'slice index must be
int'.
@@ -369,9 +368,9 @@
\begin{verbatim}
>>> 1234567890123
-XXX
->>> 2 ** 32
-XXX put output here
+1234567890123L
+>>> 2 ** 64
+18446744073709551616L
\end{verbatim}
In most cases, integers and long integers will now be treated
@@ -714,7 +713,9 @@
\class{MimeTypes} class, which takes a list of filenames to be
parsed. (Contributed by Fred L. Drake, Jr.)
- \item XXX threading.Timer class
+ \item A \class{Timer} class was added to the \module{threading}
+ module that allows scheduling an activity to happen at some future
+ time. (Contributed by Itamar Shtull-Trauring.)
\end{itemize}
@@ -758,8 +759,7 @@
desired encoding. This differs from the \samp{es} format character,
which assumes that 8-bit strings are in Python's default ASCII
encoding and converts them to the specified new encoding.
- (Contributed by M.-A. Lemburg, and used for the MBCS support on
- Windows described in the previous section.)
+ (Contributed by M.-A. Lemburg.)
\item Two new flags \constant{METH_NOARGS} and \constant{METH_O} are
available in method definition tables to simplify implementation of
@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@
% XXX update the patch and bug figures as we go
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 43 patches applied, and 77 bugs fixed; both
+logs finds there were 119 patches applied, and 179 bugs fixed; both
figures are likely to be underestimates. Some of the more notable
changes are:
@@ -854,10 +854,12 @@
file APIs. As MBCS is explicitly used by the file APIs, Python's
choice of ASCII as the default encoding turns out to be an
annoyance.
-
(Contributed by Mark Hammond with assistance from Marc-Andr\'e
Lemburg.)
+ \item Large file support is now enabled on Windows. (Contributed by
+ Tim Peters.)
+
\item The \file{Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py} script
now parses a \file{.netrc} file, if you have one.
(Contributed by Mike Romberg.)
@@ -908,7 +910,7 @@
\code{pow(\var{x}, \var{y}, \var{z})} returns \code{(x**y) % z}, but
this is never useful for floating point numbers, and the final
result varies unpredictably depending on the platform. A call such
- as \code{pow(2.0, 8.0, 7.0)} will now raise a \exception{XXX}
+ as \code{pow(2.0, 8.0, 7.0)} will now raise a \exception{TypeError}
exception.
\end{itemize}