\begin{itemize}
-% collections.deque now has .remove()
+% XXX collections.deque now has .remove()
% collections.defaultdict
% the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
% args tuple returned by __reduce__().
-% csv module improvements
+% XXX csv module improvements
-% datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
+% XXX datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
% create datetime object using a string and format.
-% fileinput: opening hook used to control how files are opened.
+% XXX fileinput: opening hook used to control how files are opened.
% .input() now has a mode parameter
% now has a fileno() function
% accepts Unicode filenames
+\item The \module{audioop} module now supports the a-LAW encoding,
+and the code for u-LAW encoding has been improved. (Contributed by
+Lars Immisch.)
+
\item In the \module{gc} module, the new \function{get_count()} function
returns a 3-tuple containing the current collection counts for the
three GC generations. This is accounting information for the garbage
%======================================================================
-%\subsection{Port-Specific Changes}
+\subsection{Port-Specific Changes}
+
+\begin{itemize}
-%Platform-specific changes go here.
+\item MacOS X (10.3 and higher): dynamic loading of modules
+now uses the \cfunction{dlopen()} function instead of MacOS-specific
+functions.
+
+\end{itemize}
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