I'm starting to compile a list of changes from 1.5.2 to 1.6. Here's what I came up with so far -- string objects now have methods (though they are still immutable) -- unicode support: Unicode strings are marked with u"string", and there is support for arbitrary encoders/decoders -- "in" operator can now be overriden in user-defined classes to mean anything: it calls the magic method __contains__ -- SRE is the new regular expression engine. re.py became an interface to the same engine. The new engine fully supports unicode regular expressions. -- Some methods which would take multiple arguments and treat them as a tuple were fixed: list.{append, insert, remove, count}, socket.connect -- Some modules were made obsolete -- filecmp.py (supersedes the old cmp.py and dircmp.py modules), -- tabnanny.py (make sure the source file doesn't assume a specific tab-width) -- win32reg (win32 registry editor) -- unicode module, and codecs package -- New calling syntax: f(*args, **kw) equivalent to apply(f, args, kw) -- _tkinter now uses the object, rather then string, interface to Tcl. Please e-mail me personally if you think of any other changes, and I'll try to integrate them into a complete "changes" document. Thanks in advance -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>:
-- _tkinter now uses the object, rather then string, interface to Tcl.
Hm, does this mean that the annoying requirement to do explicit gets and sets to move data between the Python world and the Tcl/Tk world is gone? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> "A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
I doubt it. It's just that Python and Tcl have such a different outlook about variables, that I don't think it can be slided over. -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>:
-- _tkinter now uses the object, rather then string, interface to Tcl.
Eric Raymond:
Hm, does this mean that the annoying requirement to do explicit gets and sets to move data between the Python world and the Tcl/Tk world is gone?
Not sure what you are referring to -- this should be completely transparant to Python/Tkinter users. If you are thinking of the way Tcl variables are created and manipulated in Python, no, this doesn't change, alas (Tcl variables aren't objects -- they are manipulated through get and set commands. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Moshe Zadka writes:
-- filecmp.py (supersedes the old cmp.py and dircmp.py modules), -- tabnanny.py (make sure the source file doesn't assume a specific tab-width)
Weren't these in 1.5.2? I think filecmp is documented in the released docs... ah, no, I'm safe. ;)
Please e-mail me personally if you think of any other changes, and I'll try to integrate them into a complete "changes" document.
The documentation is updated. ;) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
Tabnanny wasn't a module, and filecmp wasn't at all.
The documentation is updated. ;)
Yes, but it was released as a late part of 1.5.2. -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>:
-- _tkinter now uses the object, rather then string, interface to Tcl.
Hm, does this mean that the annoying requirement to do explicit gets and sets to move data between the Python world and the Tcl/Tk world is gone? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> "A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
I doubt it. It's just that Python and Tcl have such a different outlook about variables, that I don't think it can be slided over. -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>:
-- _tkinter now uses the object, rather then string, interface to Tcl.
Eric Raymond:
Hm, does this mean that the annoying requirement to do explicit gets and sets to move data between the Python world and the Tcl/Tk world is gone?
Not sure what you are referring to -- this should be completely transparant to Python/Tkinter users. If you are thinking of the way Tcl variables are created and manipulated in Python, no, this doesn't change, alas (Tcl variables aren't objects -- they are manipulated through get and set commands. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Moshe Zadka writes:
-- filecmp.py (supersedes the old cmp.py and dircmp.py modules), -- tabnanny.py (make sure the source file doesn't assume a specific tab-width)
Weren't these in 1.5.2? I think filecmp is documented in the released docs... ah, no, I'm safe. ;)
Please e-mail me personally if you think of any other changes, and I'll try to integrate them into a complete "changes" document.
The documentation is updated. ;) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
Tabnanny wasn't a module, and filecmp wasn't at all.
The documentation is updated. ;)
Yes, but it was released as a late part of 1.5.2. -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com
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