[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.472,1.473

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Fix spelling errors and note the addition of operator.pow()



Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	16 Aug 2002 03:40:07 -0000	1.472
--- NEWS	19 Aug 2002 14:25:03 -0000	1.473
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*** 7,11 ****
  - Assignment to __class__ is disallowed if either the old and the new
    class is a statically allocated type object (such as defined by an
!   extenson module).  This prevents anomalies like 2.__class__ = bool.
  
  - New-style object creation and deallocation have been sped up
--- 7,11 ----
  - Assignment to __class__ is disallowed if either the old and the new
    class is a statically allocated type object (such as defined by an
!   extension module).  This prevents anomalies like 2.__class__ = bool.
  
  - New-style object creation and deallocation have been sped up
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*** 160,164 ****
  - Ctrl+C handling on Windows has been made more consistent with
    other platforms.  KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught,
!   and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the
    process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x).  Ctrl+C will
    interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes
--- 160,164 ----
  - Ctrl+C handling on Windows has been made more consistent with
    other platforms.  KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught,
!   and Ctrl+C at an interactive prompt no longer terminates the
    process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x).  Ctrl+C will
    interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes
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*** 299,302 ****
--- 299,304 ----
  Library
  
+ - Added operator.pow(a,b) which is equivalent to a**b.
+ 
  - random.randrange(-sys.maxint-1, sys.maxint) no longer raises
    OverflowError.  That is, it now accepts any combination of 'start'
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*** 1760,1764 ****
    possible, though not likely, that a decision is made not to release
    this code as part of 2.2 final, if any serious backwards
!   incompapatibilities are found during alpha testing that cannot be
    repaired.
  
--- 1762,1766 ----
    possible, though not likely, that a decision is made not to release
    this code as part of 2.2 final, if any serious backwards
!   incompatibilities are found during alpha testing that cannot be
    repaired.
  
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*** 1910,1914 ****
  
  - The constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase. and ascii_uppercase
!   were added to the string module.  These a locale-indenpendent
    constants, unlike letters, lowercase, and uppercase.  These are now
    use in appropriate locations in the standard library.
--- 1912,1916 ----
  
  - The constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase. and ascii_uppercase
!   were added to the string module.  These a locale-independent
    constants, unlike letters, lowercase, and uppercase.  These are now
    use in appropriate locations in the standard library.
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*** 1957,1965 ****
  
  - New test_mutants.py runs dict comparisons where the key and value
!   comparison operators mutute the dicts randomly during comparison.  This
    rapidly causes Python to crash under earlier releases (not for the faint
    of heart:  it can also cause Win9x to freeze or reboot!).
  
! - New test_pprint.py verfies that pprint.isrecursive() and
    pprint.isreadable() return sensible results.  Also verifies that simple
    cases produce correct output.
--- 1959,1967 ----
  
  - New test_mutants.py runs dict comparisons where the key and value
!   comparison operators mutate the dicts randomly during comparison.  This
    rapidly causes Python to crash under earlier releases (not for the faint
    of heart:  it can also cause Win9x to freeze or reboot!).
  
! - New test_pprint.py verifies that pprint.isrecursive() and
    pprint.isreadable() return sensible results.  Also verifies that simple
    cases produce correct output.
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*** 2403,2407 ****
       ImportError if none found.
  
!   The same rules have been implented on other platforms with case-
    insensitive but case-preserving filesystems too (including Cygwin, and
    several flavors of Macintosh operating systems).
--- 2405,2409 ----
       ImportError if none found.
  
!   The same rules have been implemented on other platforms with case-
    insensitive but case-preserving filesystems too (including Cygwin, and
    several flavors of Macintosh operating systems).