RELEASED: Python 2.2.1

[Michael Hudson]

"Terry Reedy" <tejarex at yahoo.com> writes:

> "Michael Hudson" <mwh at python.org> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1018435709.31373.python-list at python.org...
> > We've released a bugfix release of Python, 2.2.1!
> 
> Hooray!  Just as soon as I send off my income tax forms....
> 
> > This release should be fully compatible with Python 2.2.  Everyone
> > using 2.2 is recommended to upgrade to 2.2.1.
> >
> > On the 2.2.1 pages
> >     http://www.python.org/2.2.1/
> 
> > This being a bugfix release, there are no exciting new features --
> we just
> > fixed a lot of bugs.  For a moderately complete list, please see:
> >
> >     http://www.python.org/2.2.1/NEWS.txt
> 
> Ah, but you did introduce one (unexciting?) new feature that users
          ^^^
It was Guido, not me...

> should know about:
> 
> - Added new builtin function bool() and new builtin constants True and
>   False to ease backporting of code developed for Python 2.3.  In 2.2,
>   bool() returns 1 or 0, True == 1, and False == 0.
> 
> This will also make it easier to write code that looks forward to 2.3+
> as long as one does not test type(True), `True`, and str(True) (and
> ditto for False).

...and I'm not overwhelmingly convinced that it's a good idea, so I
didn't shout about it...

Cheers,
M.

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