From 563389fdeea9acf424bd1ef1a98714dd1a7b27c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 02:31:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add updates for alpha2
---
Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index 7c9634213f..f20c208427 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ cause a \exception{UnicodeError} to be raised. Applications can test
whether arbitrary Unicode strings are supported as file names by
checking \member{os.path.supports_unicode_filenames}, a Boolean value.
+Under MacOS, \function{os.listdir()} may now return Unicode filenames.
+
\begin{seealso}
\seepep{277}{Unicode file name support for Windows NT}{Written by Neil
@@ -1359,7 +1361,7 @@ use with iterators, inspired by various functions provided by the ML
and Haskell languages. For example,
\code{itertools.ifilter(predicate, iterator)} returns all elements in
the iterator for which the function \function{predicate()} returns
-\constant{True}, and \code{itertools.times(\var{N}, obj)} returns
+\constant{True}, and \code{itertools.repeat(obj, \var{N})} returns
\code{obj} \var{N} times. There are a number of other functions in
the module; see the \ulink{package's reference
documentation}{../lib/module-itertools.html} for details.
@@ -1495,8 +1497,10 @@ a collaborative development process in action.)
\item On Windows, the \module{socket} module now ships with Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) support.
-\item The value of the C \constant{PYTHON_API_VERSION} macro is now exposed
-at the Python level as \code{sys.api_version}.
+\item The value of the C \constant{PYTHON_API_VERSION} macro is now
+exposed at the Python level as \code{sys.api_version}. The current
+exception can be cleared by calling the new \function{sys.exc_clear()}
+function.
\item The new \module{tarfile} module
allows reading from and writing to \program{tar}-format archive files.
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2.50.0