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==> Release 1.4 (sometime 3Q 1996) <==
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1995-03-09 14:44:51 +00:00
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1995-10-11 18:03:13 +00:00
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1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
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What's new since 1.4 beta 1?
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1995-10-11 18:03:13 +00:00
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1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
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- Portability bug in the md5.h header solved.
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1995-03-09 14:44:51 +00:00
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1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
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- The PC build procedure now really works, and sets sys.platform to a
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meaningful value (a few things were botched in beta 1). Lib/dos_8x3
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is now a standard part of the distribution (alas).
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1995-03-09 14:44:51 +00:00
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1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
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- Installation has been completely overhauled. Typing "make install"
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now installs everything (not just the binary), inserts the version
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number in the pathnames of almost everything installed, uses the
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install-sh script to install each file, and creates the machine
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dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not supplied by the
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distribution. (XXX There's still a problem with the latter because
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the "regen" script requires that Python is installed. Some manual
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intervention may still be required.)
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1995-10-11 18:03:13 +00:00
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1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
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- New modules: errno, operator.
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1995-03-09 14:44:51 +00:00
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1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
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- Changes for use with Numerical Python: builtin function slice() and
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Ellipses object, and corresponding syntax:
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1995-03-09 14:44:51 +00:00
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1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
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x[lo:hi:stride] == x[slice(lo, hi, stride)]
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x[a, ..., z] == x[(a, Ellipses, z)]
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- New documentation for errno and cgi mdoules.
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- The directory containing the script passed to the interpreter is
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inserted in from of sys.path; "." is no longer a default path
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component.
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- Optional third string argument to string.translate() specifies
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characters to delete. New function string.maketrans() creates a
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translation table for translate() or for regex.compile().
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- Module posix (and hence module os under Unix) now supports putenv().
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Moreover, module os is enhanced so that if putenv() is supported,
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assignments to os.environ entries make the appropriate putenv() call.
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(XXX the putenv() implementation can leak a small amount of memory per
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call.)
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- pdb.py can now be invoked from the command line to debug a script:
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python pdb.py <script> <arg> ...
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- Much improved parseaddr() in rfc822.
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- In cgi.py, you can now pass an alternative value for environ to
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nearly all functions.
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- You can now assign to instance variables whose name begins and ends
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with '__'.
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- New version of Fred Drake's parser module and associates (token,
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symbol, AST).
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1996-08-01 01:06:24 +00:00
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- New PYTHON_API_VERSION value, as well as .pyc file magic number.
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1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
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- The "complex" internal structure type is now called "Py_complex" to
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avoid name conflicts.
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- Numerous small bugs fixed.
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- Slight pickle speedups.
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- Some slight speedups suggested by Sjoerd (more coming in 1.4 final).
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- NeXT portability mods by Bill Bumgarner integrated.
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- Modules regexmodule.c, bsddbmodule.c and xxmodule.c have been
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converted to new naming style.
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What's new since Python release 1.3?
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------------------------------------
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- Added sys.platform and sys.exec_platform for Bill Janssen.
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XXX more...
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