From 45bda57c1dae5a352ab776230ed2487706811a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:20:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added missing markup. Replaced British spelling of 'behaviour' with 'behavior'. Noted the new optional argument in math.log(x [,base]). --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index 96f9f5ee5c7..3e0331e620f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ A standard package for writing logs called \module{logging} has been added to Python 2.3. It provides a powerful and flexible way for components to generate logging output which can then be filtered and processed in various ways. A standard configuration file format can -be used to control the logging behaviour of a program. Python comes +be used to control the logging behavior of a program. Python comes with handlers that will write log records to standard error or to a file or socket, send them to the system log, or even e-mail them to a particular address, and of course it's also possible to write your own @@ -833,8 +833,8 @@ creates a dictionary with keys taken from the supplied iterator (Patches contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) -The dict() constructor now also accepts keyword arguments to simplify -creating small dictionaries: +The \function{dict()} constructor now also accepts keyword arguments to +simplify creating small dictionaries: \begin{verbatim} >>> dict(red=1, blue=2, green=3, black=4) @@ -1169,7 +1169,10 @@ sequence type. For example: convert between radians and degrees. Other functions in the \module{math} module such as \function{math.sin()} and \function{math.cos()} have always required -input values measured in radians. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) +input values measured in radians. Also, added an optional \var{base} +argument to \function{math.log()} to make it easier to compute +logarithms for bases other than \code{e} and \code{10}. +(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.) \item Seven new functions, \function{getpgid()}, \function{killpg()}, \function{lchown()}, \function{major()}, \function{makedev()}, @@ -1389,7 +1392,7 @@ Martin von L\"owis.) returns only strings. Instead, if Tcl returns other objects those objects are converted to their Python equivalent, if one exists, or wrapped with a \class{_tkinter.Tcl_Obj} object if no Python equivalent -exists. This behaviour can be controlled through the +exists. This behavior can be controlled through the \method{wantobjects()} method of \class{tkapp} objects. When using \module{_tkinter} through the \module{Tkinter} module (as @@ -1397,7 +1400,7 @@ most Tkinter applications will), this feature is always activated. It should not cause compatibility problems, since Tkinter would always convert string results to Python types where possible. -If any incompatibilities are found, the old behaviour can be restored +If any incompatibilities are found, the old behavior can be restored by setting the \member{wantobjects} variable in the \module{Tkinter} module to false before creating the first \class{tkapp} object.