From: Nick Coghlan Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 11:50:13 +0000 (+1000) Subject: Add PEP 414 to What's New, consolidate memoryview entries X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a2~276^2~5^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98e20701cb30fbff0e49866d643aa540aff97e1f;p=python Add PEP 414 to What's New, consolidate memoryview entries --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 2fa452fff7..f6703622bb 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ This article explains the new features in Python 3.3, compared to 3.2. +.. pep-3118-update: + PEP 3118: New memoryview implementation and buffer protocol documentation ========================================================================= @@ -85,7 +87,9 @@ Features * Multi-dimensional comparisons are supported for any array type. * All array types are hashable if the exporting object is hashable - and the view is read-only. + and the view is read-only. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in + :issue:`13411`) + * Arbitrary slicing of any 1-D arrays type is supported. For example, it is now possible to reverse a memoryview in O(1) by using a negative step. @@ -327,6 +331,21 @@ suppressed valuable underlying details):: KeyError('x',) +PEP 414: Explicit Unicode literals +====================================== + +:pep:`414` - Explicit Unicode literals + PEP written by Armin Ronacher. + +To ease the transition from Python 2 for Unicode aware Python applications +that make heavy use of Unicode literals, Python 3.3 once again supports the +"``u``" prefix for string literals. This prefix has no semantic significance +in Python 3, it is provided solely to reduce the number of purely mechanical +changes in migrating to Python 3, making it easier for developers to focus on +the more significant semantic changes (such as the stricter default +separation of binary and text data). + + PEP 3155: Qualified name for classes and functions ================================================== @@ -408,10 +427,6 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: (:issue:`12170`) -* Memoryview objects are now hashable when the underlying object is hashable. - - (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`13411`) - New and Improved Modules ========================