[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.62,1.63

[Tim Peters]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7191/python/dist/src/misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
New info and fixed some typos.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.62
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -C2 -r1.62 -r1.63
*** NEWS	2000/09/26 05:32:36	1.62
--- NEWS	2000/09/26 06:33:09	1.63
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*** 21,26 ****
  Core language, builtins, and interpreter
  
! - Add support for unbounded ints in %d,i,y,x,X,o formats for string
!   inter
  
  - Add -h and -V flags to print the usage message and Python version
--- 21,26 ----
  Core language, builtins, and interpreter
  
! - Add support for unbounded ints in %d,i,u,x,X,o formats; for example
!   "%d" % 2L**64 == "18446744073709551616"
  
  - Add -h and -V flags to print the usage message and Python version
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    exists.  
  
! - os: (Windows only) Add startfile function athat exposes part of
!   Win32 ShellExecute functionality.
  
! - os.path: (NT, DOS) Treat trailing colon correctly in os.path.join.
!   os.path.join("a:", "b") yields "a:b".
  
  - pickle: Now raises ValueError when an invalid pickle that contains
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    exists.  
  
! - os: (Windows only) Add startfile function that acts like double-
!   clicking on a file in Explorer (or passing the file name to the
!   DOS "start" command).
  
! - os.path: (Windows, DOS) Treat trailing colon correctly in
!   os.path.join.  os.path.join("a:", "b") yields "a:b".
  
  - pickle: Now raises ValueError when an invalid pickle that contains
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*** 95,99 ****
  
  - site: sys.setdefaultencoding() should only be called in case the
!   standard default encoding ("ascii") is changed. This safes quite a
    few cycles during startup since the first call to
    setdefaultencoding() will initialize the codec registry and the
--- 96,100 ----
  
  - site: sys.setdefaultencoding() should only be called in case the
!   standard default encoding ("ascii") is changed. This saves quite a
    few cycles during startup since the first call to
    setdefaultencoding() will initialize the codec registry and the
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*** 122,126 ****
  - webbrower: On Windows, use os.startfile instead of os.popen, which
    works around a bug in certain versions of Norton AntiVirus that
!   leads directly to a Blue Screen.
  
  - xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard
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  - webbrower: On Windows, use os.startfile instead of os.popen, which
    works around a bug in certain versions of Norton AntiVirus that
!   leads directly to a Blue Screen freeze.
  
  - xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard
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    rather than by generating a copy of the object.
  
! - XXX Unicode database compression
  
  Build and platform-specific issues
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    rather than by generating a copy of the object.
  
! - Several of the internal Unicode tables are much smaller now, and
!   the source code should be much friendlier to weaker compilers.
  
  Build and platform-specific issues