[Python-checkins] r51149 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex

[andrew.kuchling]

Author: andrew.kuchling
Date: Tue Aug  8 21:00:14 2006
New Revision: 51149

Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
Log:
'Other changes' section now has only one item; move the item elsewhere and remove the section

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
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--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex	Tue Aug  8 21:00:14 2006
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@
 language feature or another; none of them are broad modifications to
 Python's semantics.
 
+As well as the language and library additions, other improvements and
+bugfixes were made throughout the source tree.  A search through the
+SVN change logs finds there were 334 patches applied and 443 bugs
+fixed between Python 2.4 and 2.5.  (Both figures are likely to be
+underestimates.)  
+
 This article doesn't try to be a complete specification of the new
 features; instead changes are briefly introduced using helpful
 examples.  For full details, you should always refer to the
@@ -2214,6 +2220,13 @@
 carried out by Martin von~L\"owis.  The procedure was developed as
 \pep{347}.
 
+\item Coverity, a company that markets a source code analysis tool
+called Prevent, provided the results of their examination of the Python
+source code.  The analysis found about 60 bugs that 
+were quickly fixed.  Many of the bugs were refcounting problems, often
+occurring in error-handling code.  See
+\url{http://scan.coverity.com} for the statistics.
+
 \item The largest change to the C API came from \pep{353},
 which modifies the interpreter to use a \ctype{Py_ssize_t} type
 definition instead of \ctype{int}.  See the earlier
@@ -2362,28 +2375,6 @@
 
 
 %======================================================================
-\section{Other Changes and Fixes \label{section-other}}
-
-As usual, there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes
-scattered throughout the source tree.  A search through the SVN change
-logs finds there were 334 patches applied and 443 bugs fixed between
-Python 2.4 and 2.5.  Both figures are likely to be underestimates.
-
-Some of the more notable changes are:
-
-\begin{itemize}
-
-\item Coverity, a company that markets a source code analysis tool
-  called Prevent, provided the results of their examination of the Python
-  source code.  The analysis found about 60 bugs that 
-  were quickly fixed.  Many of the bugs were refcounting problems, often
-  occurring in error-handling code.  See
-  \url{http://scan.coverity.com} for the statistics.
-
-\end{itemize}
-
-
-%======================================================================
 \section{Porting to Python 2.5\label{porting}}
 
 This section lists previously described changes that may require