- Fix a crash on Solaris that occurred when calling close() on
an mmap'ed file which was already closed. (SF patch #665913)
-- Fixed serveral serious bugs in the zipimport implementation.
+- Fixed several serious bugs in the zipimport implementation.
- datetime changes:
compatible with those that have been implemented in Jython since
Jython 2.1.
-- PEP 302 has been accepted. Although it was inititally developed to
+- PEP 302 has been accepted. Although it was initially developed to
support zipimport, it offers a new, general import hook mechanism.
Several new variables have been added to the sys module:
sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks, and sys.path_importer_cache; these
- os.path exposes getctime.
- unittest.py now has two additional methods called assertAlmostEqual()
- and failIfAlmostEqual(). They implement an approximate comparision
+ and failIfAlmostEqual(). They implement an approximate comparison
by rounding the difference between the two arguments and comparing
- the result to zero. Approximate comparision is essential for
+ the result to zero. Approximate comparison is essential for
unit tests of floating point results.
- calendar.py now depends on the new datetime module rather than
- doctest.testmod can now be called without argument, which means to
test the current module.
-- When cancelling a server that implemented threading with a keyboard
+- When canceling a server that implemented threading with a keyboard
interrupt, the server would shut down but not terminate (waiting on
client threads). A new member variable, daemon_threads, was added to
the ThreadingMixIn class in SocketServer.py to make it explicit that
the ob_sval member, so as a precaution the API_VERSION has been
incremented. The apparently unused feature of "indirect interned
strings", supported by the ob_sinterned member, is gone. Interned
- strings are now usually mortal; theres a new API,
+ strings are now usually mortal; there is a new API,
PyString_InternImmortal() that creates immortal interned strings.
(The ob_sstate member can only take three values; however, while
making it a char saves a few bytes per string object on average, in
improvement over the previous Berkeley DB 1.85, which had many
bugs.
XXX What are the licensing issues here?
- XXX If a user has a database created with a previous verion of
+ XXX If a user has a database created with a previous version of
XXX Python, what must they do to convert it?
XXX I'm still not sure how to link this thing (see PCbuild/readme.txt).
XXX The version # is likely to change before 2.3a1.
- When Python is built under a Microsoft compiler, sys.version now
includes the compiler version number (_MSC_VER). For example, under
- MSVC 6, sys.version constains the substring "MSC v.1200 ". 1200 is
+ MSVC 6, sys.version contains the substring "MSC v.1200 ". 1200 is
the value of _MSC_VER under MSVC 6.
- Sometimes the uninstall executable (UNWISE.EXE) vanishes. One cause
There are hooks in the IDE to allow accessing the Python documentation
(and Apple's Carbon and Cocoa documentation) through the Help Viewer.
See Mac/OSX/README for converting the Python documentation to a
- Help Viewer comaptible form and installing it.
+ Help Viewer compatible form and installing it.
- OSA support has been redesigned and the generated Python classes now
mirror the inheritance defined by the underlying OSA classes.
Calibration must still be done manually (see the docs for the profile
module).
- Note that Profile.calibrate() must be overriden by subclasses.
+ Note that Profile.calibrate() must be overridden by subclasses.
Improving the accuracy required exploiting detailed knowledge of
profiler internals; the earlier method abstracted away the details
and measured a simplified model instead, but consequently computed
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