From ce74f8ae96b039da995f7f2833f1526487b4406a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:37:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] News about the new IDLE (is more needed?). News about SF patch 751998. --- Misc/NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 2ca8e9e2eb..d99851d47a 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 beta 2? Core and builtins ----------------- +- SF patch 751998 fixes an unwanted side effect of the previous fix + for SF bug 742860 (the next item). + - SF bug 742860: "WeakKeyDictionary __delitem__ uses iterkeys". This wasn't threadsafe, was very inefficient (expected time O(len(dict)) instead of O(1)), and could raise a spurious RuntimeError if another @@ -70,6 +73,10 @@ Extension modules Library ------- +- A brand new version of IDLE (from the IDLEfork project at + SourceForge) is now included as Lib/idlelib. The old Tools/idle is + no more. + - copy.py: applied SF patch 707900, fixing bug 702858, by Steven Taschuk. Copying a new-style class that had a reference to itself didn't work. (The same thing worked fine for old-style classes.) @@ -100,6 +107,8 @@ Library Tools/Demos ----------- +- Tools/idle is gone; long live Lib/idlelib. + - diff.py is a new script for print file diffs in context, unified, or ndiff formats. Provides an alternate command line interface to difflib.py. -- 2.50.1