From c9ed5dc81c143b70203905fe89ece96d0dcea1e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:30:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] News about compiler and pydoc. --- Misc/NEWS | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 9ea0ac2d09..c22cf24564 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -62,10 +62,16 @@ Library - mimetypes now recognizes more extensions and file types. At the same time, some mappings not sanctioned by IANA were removed. -Tools - - The "compiler" package has been brought up to date to the state of - Python 2.2 bytecode generation. + Python 2.2 bytecode generation. It has also been promoted from a + Tool to a standard library package. (Tools/compiler still exists as + a sample driver.) + +- pydoc and inspect are now aware of new-style classes; + e.g. help(list) at the interactive prompt now shows proper + documentation for all operations on list objects. + +Tools Build -- 2.40.0