From d0ba63654189c37a902147f0a6b95979eab7f33f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 21:28:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added notes related to the removal of deprecated features of the xrange type. --- Misc/NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 50708d2b69..2fb6a831e0 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins +- Deprecated features of xrange objects have been removed as + promised. The start, stop, and step attributes and the tolist() + method no longer exist. xrange repetition and slicing have been + removed. + - New builtin function enumerate(x), from PEP 279. Example: enumerate("abc") is an iterator returning (0,"a"), (1,"b"), (2,"c"). The argument can be an arbitrary iterable object. @@ -182,6 +187,10 @@ Build C API +- PyRange_New() now raises ValueError if the fourth argument is not 1. + This is part of the removal of deprecated features of the xrange + object. + - PyNumber_Coerce() and PyNumber_CoerceEx() now also invoke the type's coercion if both arguments have the same type but this type has the CHECKTYPES flag set. This is to better support proxies. -- 2.50.1