From f626db77dfa27ebf7c3aaa63e26a4b85ee8e056e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Hylton Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:18:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] News items for my recent checkins --- Misc/NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index ac755a2ac7..0fb1392bd6 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter - sgmllib.py now calls handle_decl() for simple declarations. +- It is illegal to assign to the name __debug__, which is set when the + interpreter starts. It is effectively a compile-time constant. + +- A warning will be issued if a global statement for a variable + follows a use or assignment of that variable. + Standard library - unittest.py, a unit testing framework by Steve Purcell (PyUNIT, @@ -67,6 +73,16 @@ Python/C API weakly referencable type in PyObject_INIT(), since most types are not weakly referencable. +- PyFrame_FastToLocals() and PyFrame_LocalsToFast() copy bindings for + free variables and cell variables to and from the frame's f_locals. + +- Variants of several functions defined in pythonrun.h have been added + to support the nested_scopes future statement. The variants all end + in Flags and take an extra argument, a PyCompilerFlags *; examples: + PyRun_AnyFileExFlags(), PyRun_InteractiveLoopFlags(). These + variants may be removed in Python 2.2, when nested scopes are + mandatory. + Distutils - the sdist command now writes a PKG-INFO file, as described in PEP 241, -- 2.50.0