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\title{What's New in Python 2.2}
-\release{1.00}
+\release{1.01}
\author{A.M. Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}}
\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}
-This article explains the new features in Python 2.2, released on
-December 21, 2001.
+This article explains the new features in Python 2.2.1, released on
+April 10, 2002. Python 2.2.1 is a bugfix release of Python 2.2,
+originally released on December 21, 2001.
Python 2.2 can be thought of as the "cleanup release". There are some
features such as generators and iterators that are completely new, but
\begin{itemize}
\item The \module{xmlrpclib} module was contributed to the standard
- library by Fredrik Lundh, provding support for writing XML-RPC
+ library by Fredrik Lundh, providing support for writing XML-RPC
clients. XML-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol built on
top of HTTP and XML. For example, the following snippet retrieves a
list of RSS channels from the O'Reilly Network, and then
The original patch for this feature was contributed by Nick Mathewson.
\item The Python profiler has been extensively reworked and various
- errors in its output have been corrected. (Contributed by Fred
+ errors in its output have been corrected. (Contributed by
Fred~L. Drake, Jr. and Tim Peters.)
\item The \module{socket} module can be compiled to support IPv6;
As usual there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes
scattered throughout the source tree. A search through the CVS change
-logs finds there were 527 patches applied, and 683 bugs fixed; both
-figures are likely to be underestimates. Some of the more notable
-changes are:
+logs finds there were 527 patches applied and 683 bugs fixed between
+Python 2.1 and 2.2; 2.2.1 applied 139 patches and fixed 143 bugs.
+Both figures are likely to be underestimates.
+
+Some of the more notable changes are:
\begin{itemize}