\item Various bugfixes and performance improvements have been made
to the SRE engine underlying the \module{re} module. For example,
- \function{re.sub()} will now use \function{string.replace()}
- automatically when the pattern and its replacement are both just
- literal strings without regex metacharacters. Another contributed
- patch speeds up certain Unicode character ranges by a factor of
- two. (SRE is maintained by Fredrik Lundh. The BIGCHARSET patch was
- contributed by Martin von L\"owis.)
+ the \function{re.sub()} and \function{re.split()} functions have
+ been rewritten in C. Another contributed patch speeds up certain
+ Unicode character ranges by a factor of two. (SRE is maintained by
+ Fredrik Lundh. The BIGCHARSET patch was contributed by Martin von
+ L\"owis.)
\item The \module{smtplib} module now supports \rfc{2487}, ``Secure
SMTP over TLS'', so it's now possible to encrypt the SMTP traffic
Most of the MacPython toolbox modules, which interface to MacOS APIs
such as windowing, QuickTime, scripting, etc. have been ported to OS~X,
-but they've been left commented out in \filename{setup.py}. People who want
+but they've been left commented out in \file{setup.py}. People who want
to experiment with these modules can uncomment them manually.
% Jack's original comments:
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred
-Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., Carel Fellinger, Mark
-Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Jack Jansen, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Tim Peters, Neil
-Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
+Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr., Carel
+Fellinger, Mark Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Jack Jansen, Marc-Andr\'e
+Lemburg, Fredrik Lundh, Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van
+Rossum.
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