Barry Warsaw: Fixed -+ operator. Added some new sections. Leave some
XXX notes for now.
I could use help here!!!! Please mail me patches ASAP. We may have
to put some of this off to 2.0final, but it's best to have it in shape
now...
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b74a852..bd0595f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
This must have been the most-requested feature of the past years!
Eleven new assignment operators were added:
- += -+ *= /= %= **= <<= >>= &= ^= |=
+ += -= *= /= %= **= <<= >>= &= ^= |=
For example,
@@ -249,6 +249,31 @@
webbrowser - a platform-independent API to launch a web browser.
+Changed Modules
+---------------
+
+ftplib - ntransfercmd(), transfercmd(), and retrbinary() all now
+optionally support the RFC 959 REST command.
+
+socket - new function getfqdn()
+
+XXX: I'm sure there are others
+
+
+Obsolete Modules
+----------------
+
+None. However note that 1.6 made a whole slew of modules obsolete:
+stdwin, soundex, cml, cmpcache, dircache, dump, find, grep, packmail,
+poly, zmod, strop, util, whatsound.
+
+
+Changed, New, Obsolete Tools
+----------------------------
+
+XXX: are there any? If not, say "None" here.
+
+
C-level Changes
---------------
@@ -269,6 +294,8 @@
Trent Mick ensured portability to 64-bit platforms, under both Linux
and Win64, especially for the new Intel Itanium processor.
-Numerous new APIs were added, e.g.
+Numerous new APIs were added, e.g.
+
+ XXX: Fill this out.
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