\section{Introduction}
-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,
+This article explains the new features in Python 2.2.2, released on
+October 14, 2002. Python 2.2.2 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
in \rfc{2342}, SORT, GETACL and SETACL. (Contributed by Anthony
Baxter and Michel Pelletier.)
- % XXX should the 'email' module get a section of its own?
\item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is now
compliant with \rfc{2822}, an update to \rfc{822}. (The module's
name is \emph{not} going to be changed to \samp{rfc2822}.) A new
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 between
-Python 2.1 and 2.2; 2.2.1 applied 139 patches and fixed 143 bugs.
-Both figures are likely to be underestimates.
+Python 2.1 and 2.2; 2.2.1 applied 139 patches and fixed 143 bugs;
+2.2.2 applied 106 patches and fixed 82 bugs. These figures are likely
+to be underestimates.
Some of the more notable changes are: