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Changes from Moshe: 

- distutils: Windows installers are already working

- string methods: .join() seems to be the concensus, so it should probably
  be docommented

- filecmp.py supersedes cmp, cmpcache and dircmp

- winreg is completely new: _winreg is an adaptation of what used to be in
  win32api, and winreg is a Python implementation which adds OO syntax.
  Perhaps you know that, but the text is misleading.
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@ -233,11 +233,12 @@ setup (name = "PyXML", version = "0.5.4",
The Distutils can also take care of creating source and binary
distributions. The ``sdist'' command, run by ``\code{python setup.py
sdist}', builds a source distribution such as \file{foo-1.0.tar.gz}.
Adding new commands isn't difficult, and a ``bdist_rpm'' command has
already been contributed to create an RPM distribution for the
software. Commands to create Windows installer programs, Debian
packages, and Solaris .pkg files have been discussed and are in
various stages of development.
Adding new commands isn't difficult, ``bdist_rpm'' and
``bdist_wininst'' commands have already been contributed to create an
RPM distribution and a Windows installer for the software,
respectively. Commands to create other distribution formats such as
Debian packages and Solaris \file{.pkg} files are in various stages of
development.
All this is documented in a new manual, \textit{Distributing Python
Modules}, that joins the basic set of Python documentation.
@ -280,12 +281,12 @@ did exist in JPython for quite some time, are \method{startswith()}
and \method{endswith}. \code{s.startswith(t)} is equivalent to \code{s[:len(t)]
== t}, while \code{s.endswith(t)} is equivalent to \code{s[-len(t):] == t}.
%One other method which deserves special mention is \method{join}. The
%\method{join} method of a string receives one parameter, a sequence of
%strings, and is equivalent to the \function{string.join} function from
%the old \module{string} module, with the arguments reversed. In other
%words, \code{s.join(seq)} is equivalent to the old
%\code{string.join(seq, s)}.
One other method which deserves special mention is \method{join}. The
\method{join} method of a string receives one parameter, a sequence of
strings, and is equivalent to the \function{string.join} function from
the old \module{string} module, with the arguments reversed. In other
words, \code{s.join(seq)} is equivalent to the old
\code{string.join(seq, s)}.
% ======================================================================
\section{Porting to 2.0}
@ -658,7 +659,7 @@ the function to be called on exit.
\item{\module{codecs}, \module{encodings}, \module{unicodedata}:} Added as part of the new Unicode support.
\item{\module{filecmp}:} Supersedes the old \module{cmp} and
\item{\module{filecmp}:} Supersedes the old \module{cmp}, \module{cmpcache} and
\module{dircmp} modules, which have now become deprecated.
(Contributed by Gordon MacMillan and Moshe Zadka.)
@ -690,12 +691,12 @@ checks Python source code for ambiguous indentation.
\item{\module{UserString}:} A base class useful for deriving objects that behave like strings.
\item{\module{winreg} and \module{_winreg}:} An interface to the
Windows registry. \module{winreg} has been part of PythonWin since
1995, but now has been added to the core distribution, and enhanced to
support Unicode. \module{_winreg} is a low-level wrapper of the
Windows registry functions, contributed by Bill Tutt and Mark Hammond,
while \module{winreg} is a higher-level, more object-oriented API on top of
\module{_winreg}, designed by Thomas Heller and implemented by Paul Prescod.
Windows registry. \module{_winreg} is an adaptation of functions that
have been part of PythonWin since 1995, but has now been added to the core
distribution, and enhanced to support Unicode. \module{winreg} is an
object-oriented API on top of the \module{_winreg} module.
\module{_winreg} was written by Bill Tutt and Mark Hammond, and \module{winreg}
was designed by Thomas Heller and implemented by Paul Prescod.
\item{\module{zipfile}:} A module for reading and writing ZIP-format
archives. These are archives produced by \program{PKZIP} on
@ -770,4 +771,3 @@ suggestions on drafts of this article: Fredrik Lundh, Skip
Montanaro, Vladimir Marangozov, Guido van Rossum, Neil Schemenauer.
\end{document}