diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 3718fbe1142..8946b75c739 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -952,8 +952,7 @@ _tkinter.createfilehandler(). - The truncate() method for file objects now works on Windows. - Py_Initialize() is no longer called when the DLL is loaded. You -must call it yourself. (And you can't call it twice -- it's a fatal -error to call it when Python is already initialized.) +must call it yourself. - The time module's clock() function now has good precision through the use of the Win32 API QueryPerformanceCounter(). @@ -1101,8 +1100,6 @@ file to buildno1. - Moved Include/assert.h to Parser/assert.h, which seems to be the only place where it's needed. -- Alas, the thread support for _tkinter didn't work. Withdrew it. - - Tweaked the dictionary lookup code again for some more speed (Vladimir Marangozov). @@ -1263,11 +1260,12 @@ using sys.exc_info(). Also, the command argument can now be either a string (passed to the shell) or a list of arguments (passed directly to execv). -- The thread support for _tkinter.c now works. The bad news is that -it requires a modified version of a file in the standard Tcl -distribution, which you must compile with a -I option pointing to the -standard Tcl source tree. For this reason, the thread support is -disabled by default. + +- Alas, the thread support for _tkinter released with 1.5a3 didn't +work. It's been rewritten. The bad news is that it now requires a +modified version of a file in the standard Tcl distribution, which you +must compile with a -I option pointing to the standard Tcl source +tree. For this reason, the thread support is disabled by default. - The errno extension module adds two tables: errorcode maps errno numbers to errno names (e.g. EINTR), and errorcode maps them to @@ -1336,7 +1334,7 @@ default. - The imp module now supports parts of the functionality to implement import of hierarchical module names. It now supports find_module() and load_module() for all types of modules. Docstrings have been -added for those functions in the built-in impo module that are still +added for those functions in the built-in imp module that are still relevant (some old interfaces are obsolete). For a sample implementation of hierarchical module import in Python, see the new library module knee.py. @@ -1358,8 +1356,6 @@ others are PyObject*s). - The 'p' format in the struct extension module alloded to above is new in 1.5a4. -- The xlib extension module has been debugged and improved. - - The types.py module now uses try-except in a few places to make it more likely that it can be imported in restricted mode. Some type names are undefined in that case, e.g. CodeType (inaccessible), @@ -1409,7 +1405,7 @@ Adding support for a new OS is now a bit more work, but I bet that - Tools/faqwiz/: New installation instructions show how to maintain multiple FAQs. Removed bootstrap script from end of faqwiz.py module. -Added instructions to bootstrap script, too. Version bumped to 0.8. +Added instructions to bootstrap script, too. Version bumped to 0.8.1. Added ... feature suggested by Skip Montanaro. Added leading text for Roulette, default to 'Hit Reload ...'. Fix typo in default SRCDIR. @@ -1417,3 +1413,10 @@ default SRCDIR. - Documentation for the relatively new modules "keyword" and "symbol" has been added (to the end of the section on the parser extension module). + +- In module bisect.py, but functions have two optional argument 'lo' +and 'hi' which allow you to specify a subsequence of the array to +operate on. + +- In ftplib.py, changed most methods to return their status (even when +it is always "200 OK") rather than swallowing it.