Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/whatsnew In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv9038 Modified Files: whatsnew24.tex Log Message: Last pass to fill in contributor names; remove stray 'contributed by' from the incompatible changes section; remove some XXX comments Index: whatsnew24.tex =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex,v retrieving revision 1.115 retrieving revision 1.116 diff -u -d -r1.115 -r1.116 --- whatsnew24.tex 19 Nov 2004 14:27:54 -0000 1.115 +++ whatsnew24.tex 19 Nov 2004 14:43:36 -0000 1.116 @@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ % Feel free to add commented-out reminders of things that need % to be covered. --amk -% XXX pydoc can display links to module docs -- but when? -% - \title{What's New in Python 2.4} \release{1.0} \author{A.M.\ Kuchling} @@ -1021,7 +1018,7 @@ a partially-initialized module object in \code{sys.modules}. The incomplete module object left behind would fool further imports of the same module into succeeding, leading to confusing errors. -% (XXX contributed by Tim?) +(Fixed by Tim Peters.) \item \constant{None} is now a constant; code that binds a new value to the name \samp{None} is now a syntax error. @@ -1177,7 +1174,7 @@ The \method{read()} method now returns a list of the files that were successfully parsed, and the \method{set()} method raises \exception{TypeError} if passed a \var{value} argument that isn't a - string. + string. (Contributed by John Belmonte and David Goodger.) \item The \module{curses} module now supports the ncurses extension \function{use_default_colors()}. On platforms where the terminal @@ -1389,7 +1386,8 @@ \module{posix} module that underlies the \module{os} module. (Contributed by J. Raynor.) -\item The \module{poplib} module now supports POP over SSL. +\item The \module{poplib} module now supports POP over SSL. (Contributed by +Hector Urtubia.) \item The \module{profile} module can now profile C extension functions. (Contributed by Nick Bastin.) @@ -1408,6 +1406,7 @@ earlier in the expression. If the specified group matched, the regular expression pattern \var{A} will be tested against the string; if the group didn't match, the pattern \var{B} will be used instead. + (Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.) \item The \module{re} module is also no longer recursive, thanks to a massive amount of work by Gustavo Niemeyer. In a recursive regular @@ -1462,6 +1461,7 @@ \item The \module{xmlrpclib} module now supports a multi-call extension for transmitting multiple XML-RPC calls in a single HTTP operation. +(Contributed by Brian Quinlan.) \item The \module{mpz}, \module{rotor}, and \module{xreadlines} modules have been removed. @@ -1492,6 +1492,9 @@ \class{HTTPCookieProcessor} manages a cookie jar that is used when accessing URLs. +This module was contributed by John J. Lee. + + % ================== \subsection{doctest} @@ -1654,11 +1657,11 @@ \program{configure} script will let you profile the interpreter with \program{gprof}, and providing the \longprogramopt{--with-tsc} switch enables profiling using the Pentium's Time-Stamp-Counter - register. (The \longprogramopt{--with-tsc} switch is slightly + register. Note that the \longprogramopt{--with-tsc} switch is slightly misnamed, because the profiling feature also works on the PowerPC platform, though that processor architecture doesn't call that - register ``the TSC register''.) - + register ``the TSC register''. (Contributed by Jeremy Hylton.) + \item The \ctype{tracebackobject} type has been renamed to \ctype{PyTracebackObject}. \end{itemize} @@ -1694,7 +1697,6 @@ \item The \function{zip()} built-in function and \function{itertools.izip()} now return an empty list instead of raising a \exception{TypeError} exception if called with no arguments. - (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) \item \function{dircache.listdir()} now passes exceptions to the caller instead of returning empty lists.