Explain popitem()
Add Unixware 7 port
Ready for RC1
Minor rewrites
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex
index eeeabdd..8ba1e10 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
% $Id$
\title{What's New in Python 2.1}
-\release{0.07}
+\release{0.99}
\author{A.M. Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{amk1@bigfoot.com}}
\begin{document}
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@
\section{Introduction}
-{\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until
-the final version of Python 2.1 is released. Currently it is up to date
-for Python 2.1 beta 2. Please send any comments, bug reports, or
-questions, no matter how minor, to \email{amk1@bigfoot.com}. }
+{\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until the
+final version of Python 2.1 is released. Currently it is up to date
+for Python 2.1 release candidate~1. Please send any comments, bug
+reports, or questions, no matter how minor, to
+\email{amk1@bigfoot.com}. }
-It's that time again... time for a new Python release, version 2.1.
+It's that time again... time for a new Python release, Python 2.1.
One recent goal of the Python development team has been to accelerate
the pace of new releases, with a new release coming every 6 to 9
months. 2.1 is the first release to come out at this faster pace, with
@@ -36,8 +37,7 @@
Refer to the Python 2.1 documentation, or to the specific PEP, for
more details about any new feature that particularly interests you.
-Currently 2.1 is available in a beta release, and the final release is
-planned for April 2001.
+The final release of Python 2.1 is planned for April 2001.
%======================================================================
\section{PEP 227: Nested Scopes}
@@ -795,14 +795,16 @@
\end{verbatim}
For a fuller discussion of the line I/O changes, see the python-dev
-summary for January 1-15, 2001.
+summary for January 1-15, 2001 at
+\url{http://www.amk.ca/python/dev/2001-01-1.html}.
\item A new method, \method{popitem()}, was added to dictionaries to
enable destructively iterating through the contents of a dictionary;
-this can be faster for large dictionaries because XXX.
+this can be faster for large dictionaries because there's no need to
+construct a list containing all the keys or values.
\code{D.popitem()} removes a random \code{(\var{key}, \var{value})}
-pair from the dictionary and returns it as a 2-tuple. This was
-implemented mostly by Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum, after a
+pair from the dictionary~\code{D} and returns it as a 2-tuple. This
+was implemented mostly by Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum, after a
suggestion and preliminary patch by Moshe Zadka.
\item Modules can now control which names are imported when \code{from
@@ -844,7 +846,8 @@
340K thanks to Fredrik Lundh.
\item Some new ports were contributed: MacOS X (by Steven Majewski),
-Cygwin (by Jason Tishler); RISCOS (by Dietmar Schwertberger).
+Cygwin (by Jason Tishler); RISCOS (by Dietmar Schwertberger); Unixware~7
+(by Billy G. Allie).
\end{itemize}