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| What's New in Python 2.7 |
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| :Author: A.M. Kuchling (amk at amk.ca) |
| :Release: |release| |
| :Date: |today| |
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| .. $Id$ |
| Rules for maintenance: |
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| * Anyone can add text to this document. Do not spend very much time |
| on the wording of your changes, because your text will probably |
| get rewritten to some degree. |
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| * The maintainer will go through Misc/NEWS periodically and add |
| changes; it's therefore more important to add your changes to |
| Misc/NEWS than to this file. |
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| * This is not a complete list of every single change; completeness |
| is the purpose of Misc/NEWS. Some changes I consider too small |
| or esoteric to include. If such a change is added to the text, |
| I'll just remove it. (This is another reason you shouldn't spend |
| too much time on writing your addition.) |
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| * If you want to draw your new text to the attention of the |
| maintainer, add 'XXX' to the beginning of the paragraph or |
| section. |
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| * It's OK to just add a fragmentary note about a change. For |
| example: "XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the |
| socket module." The maintainer will research the change and |
| write the necessary text. |
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| * You can comment out your additions if you like, but it's not |
| necessary (especially when a final release is some months away). |
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| * Credit the author of a patch or bugfix. Just the name is |
| sufficient; the e-mail address isn't necessary. |
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| * It's helpful to add the bug/patch number in a parenthetical comment. |
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| XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the socket |
| module. |
| (Contributed by P.Y. Developer; :issue:`12345`.) |
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| This saves the maintainer some effort going through the SVN logs |
| when researching a change. |
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| This article explains the new features in Python 2.7. |
| No release schedule has been decided yet for 2.7. |
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| .. Compare with previous release in 2 - 3 sentences here. |
| add hyperlink when the documentation becomes available online. |
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| .. Large, PEP-level features and changes should be described here. |
| .. Should there be a new section here for 3k migration? |
| .. Or perhaps a more general section describing module changes/deprecation? |
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| Other Language Changes |
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| Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: |
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| * List of changes to be written here. |
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| Optimizations |
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| To be written. |
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| New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules |
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| As in every release, Python's standard library received a number of |
| enhancements and bug fixes. Here's a partial list of the most notable |
| changes, sorted alphabetically by module name. Consult the |
| :file:`Misc/NEWS` file in the source tree for a more complete list of |
| changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. |
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| * To be written. |
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| .. whole new modules get described in subsections here |
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| Build and C API Changes |
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| Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include: |
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| * To be written. |
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| Port-Specific Changes: Windows |
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| Port-Specific Changes: Mac OS X |
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| Porting to Python 2.7 |
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| This section lists previously described changes and other bugfixes |
| that may require changes to your code: |
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| To be written. |
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| .. _acks27: |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| The author would like to thank the following people for offering |
| suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this |
| article: no one yet. |
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