- Mac/Relnotes is gone, the release notes are now here.

- The current naming convention for Python on the Macintosh is that MacPython

refers to the unix-based OSX-only version, and MacPython-OS9 refers to the

CFM-based version that runs on both OS9 and OSX.

- All MacPython-OS9 functionality is now available in an OSX unix build,

including the Carbon modules, the IDE, OSA support, etc. A lot of this

will only work correctly in a framework build, though, because you cannot

talk to the window manager unless your application is run from a .app

bundle. There is a command line tool "pythonw" that runs your script

with an interpreter living in such a .app bundle, this interpreter should

be used to run any Python script using the window manager (including

Tkinter or wxPython scripts).

- A new utility PythonLauncher will start a Python interpreter when a .py or

.pyw script is double-clicked in the Finder. By default .py scripts are

run with a normal Python interpreter in a Terminal window and .pyw

files are run with a window-aware pythonw interpreter without a Terminal

window, but all this can be customized.

- MacPython-OS9 is now Carbon-only, so it runs on Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X and

possibly on Mac OS 8.6 with the right CarbonLib installed, but not on earlier

releases.

- Many tools such as BuildApplet.py and gensuitemodule.py now support a command

line interface too.

- All the Carbon classes are now PEP253 compliant, meaning that you can

subclass them from Python. Most of the attributes have gone, you should

now use the accessor function call API, which is also what Apple's

documentation uses. Some attributes such as grafport.visRgn are still

available for convenience.

- New Carbon modules File (implementing the APIs in Files.h and Aliases.h)

and Folder (APIs from Folders.h). The old macfs builtin module is

gone, and replaced by a Python wrapper around the new modules.

- Pathname handling should now be fully consistent: MacPython-OSX always uses

unix pathnames and MacPython-OS9 always uses colon-separated Mac pathnames

(also when running on Mac OS X).

- New Carbon modules Help and AH give access to the Carbon Help Manager.

There are hooks in the IDE to allow accessing the Python documentation

(and Apple's Carbon and Cocoa documentation) through the Help Viewer.

See Mac/OSX/README for converting the Python documentation to a

Help Viewer comaptible form and installing it.

- OSA support has been redesigned and the generated Python classes now

mirror the inheritance defined by the underlying OSA classes.

- MacPython no longer maps both \r and \n to \n on input for any text file.

This feature has been replaced by universal newline support (PEP278).