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read on you go back to the dark ages of Python's history.
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==> Release 1.3 (13 October 1995) <==
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Major change
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============
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Two words: Keyword Arguments. See the first section of Chapter 12 of
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the Tutorial.
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(The rest of this file is textually the same as the remaining sections
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of that chapter.)
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Changes to the WWW and Internet tools
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=====================================
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The "htmllib" module has been rewritten in an incompatible fashion.
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The new version is considerably more complete (HTML 2.0 except forms,
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but including all ISO-8859-1 entity definitions), and easy to use.
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Small changes to "sgmllib" have also been made, to better match the
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tokenization of HTML as recognized by other web tools.
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A new module "formatter" has been added, for use with the new
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"htmllib" module.
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The "urllib"and "httplib" modules have been changed somewhat to allow
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overriding unknown URL types and to support authentication. They now
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use "mimetools.Message" instead of "rfc822.Message" to parse headers.
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The "endrequest()" method has been removed from the HTTP class since
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it breaks the interaction with some servers.
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The "rfc822.Message" class has been changed to allow a flag to be
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passed in that says that the file is unseekable.
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The "ftplib" module has been fixed to be (hopefully) more robust on
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Linux.
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Several new operations that are optionally supported by servers have
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been added to "nntplib": "xover", "xgtitle", "xpath" and "date".
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Other Language Changes
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======================
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The "raise" statement now takes an optional argument which specifies
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the traceback to be used when printing the exception's stack trace.
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This must be a traceback object, such as found in "sys.exc_traceback".
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When omitted or given as "None", the old behavior (to generate a stack
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trace entry for the current stack frame) is used.
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The tokenizer is now more tolerant of alien whitespace. Control-L in
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the leading whitespace of a line resets the column number to zero,
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while Control-R just before the end of the line is ignored.
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Changes to Built-in Operations
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==============================
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For file objects, "f.read(0)" and "f.readline(0)" now return an empty
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string rather than reading an unlimited number of bytes. For the
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latter, omit the argument altogether or pass a negative value.
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A new system variable, "sys.platform", has been added. It specifies
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the current platform, e.g. "sunos5" or "linux1".
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The built-in functions "input()" and "raw_input()" now use the GNU
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readline library when it has been configured (formerly, only
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interactive input to the interpreter itself was read using GNU
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readline). The GNU readline library provides elaborate line editing
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and history. The Python debugger ("pdb") is the first beneficiary of
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this change.
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Two new built-in functions, "globals()" and "locals()", provide access
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to dictionaries containming current global and local variables,
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respectively. (These augment rather than replace "vars()", which
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returns the current local variables when called without an argument,
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and a module's global variables when called with an argument of type
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module.)
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The built-in function "compile()" now takes a third possible value for
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the kind of code to be compiled: specifying "'single'" generates code
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for a single interactive statement, which prints the output of
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expression statements that evaluate to something else than "None".
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Library Changes
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===============
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There are new module "ni" and "ihooks" that support importing modules
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with hierarchical names such as "A.B.C". This is enabled by writing
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"import ni; ni.ni()" at the very top of the main program. These
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modules are amply documented in the Python source.
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The module "rexec" has been rewritten (incompatibly) to define a class
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and to use "ihooks".
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The "string.split()" and "string.splitfields()" functions are now the
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same function (the presence or absence of the second argument
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determines which operation is invoked); similar for "string.join()"
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and "string.joinfields()".
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The "Tkinter" module and its helper "Dialog" have been revamped to use
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keyword arguments. Tk 4.0 is now the standard. A new module
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"FileDialog" has been added which implements standard file selection
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dialogs.
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The optional built-in modules "dbm" and "gdbm" are more coordinated
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--- their "open()" functions now take the same values for their "flag"
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argument, and the "flag" and "mode" argument have default values (to
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open the database for reading only, and to create the database with
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mode "0666" minuse the umask, respectively). The memory leaks have
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finally been fixed.
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A new dbm-like module, "bsddb", has been added, which uses the BSD DB
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package's hash method.
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A portable (though slow) dbm-clone, implemented in Python, has been
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added for systems where none of the above is provided. It is aptly
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dubbed "dumbdbm".
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The module "anydbm" provides a unified interface to "bsddb", "gdbm",
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"dbm", and "dumbdbm", choosing the first one available.
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A new extension module, "binascii", provides a variety of operations
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for conversion of text-encoded binary data.
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There are three new or rewritten companion modules implemented in
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Python that can encode and decode the most common such formats: "uu"
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(uuencode), "base64" and "binhex".
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A module to handle the MIME encoding quoted-printable has also been
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added: "quopri".
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The parser module (which provides an interface to the Python parser's
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abstract syntax trees) has been rewritten (incompatibly) by Fred
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Drake. It now lets you change the parse tree and compile the result!
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The \code{syslog} module has been upgraded and documented.
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Other Changes
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=============
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The dynamic module loader recognizes the fact that different filenames
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point to the same shared library and loads the library only once, so
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you can have a single shared library that defines multiple modules.
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(SunOS / SVR4 style shared libraries only.)
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Jim Fulton's ``abstract object interface'' has been incorporated into
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the run-time API. For more detailes, read the files
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"Include/abstract.h" and "Objects/abstract.c".
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The Macintosh version is much more robust now.
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Numerous things I have forgotten or that are so obscure no-one will
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notice them anyway :-)
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==> Release 1.2 (13 April 1995) <==
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‎Misc/NEWS‎

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==> Release 1.3 (13 October 1995) <==
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==> Release 1.4 (sometime 3Q 1996) <==
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Major change
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XXX This file still has to be updated!
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Two words: Keyword Arguments. See the first section of Chapter 12 of
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the Tutorial.
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Some highlights:
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(The rest of this file is textually the same as the remaining sections
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of that chapter.)
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- "make install" overhaul to install everything and use a version number
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- new builtin modules operator, errno
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Changes to the WWW and Internet tools
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- changes needed by Numeric Python extensions:
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The "htmllib" module has been rewritten in an incompatible fashion.
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The new version is considerably more complete (HTML 2.0 except forms,
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but including all ISO-8859-1 entity definitions), and easy to use.
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Small changes to "sgmllib" have also been made, to better match the
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tokenization of HTML as recognized by other web tools.
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- x[lo:hi:stride]
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- x[a, b, c]
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- x[a, ..., z]
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A new module "formatter" has been added, for use with the new
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"htmllib" module.
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plus "ellipses" and "slice" objects
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The "urllib"and "httplib" modules have been changed somewhat to allow
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overriding unknown URL types and to support authentication. They now
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use "mimetools.Message" instead of "rfc822.Message" to parse headers.
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The "endrequest()" method has been removed from the HTTP class since
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it breaks the interaction with some servers.
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The "rfc822.Message" class has been changed to allow a flag to be
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passed in that says that the file is unseekable.
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The "ftplib" module has been fixed to be (hopefully) more robust on
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Linux.
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Several new operations that are optionally supported by servers have
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been added to "nntplib": "xover", "xgtitle", "xpath" and "date".
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Other Language Changes
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======================
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The "raise" statement now takes an optional argument which specifies
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the traceback to be used when printing the exception's stack trace.
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This must be a traceback object, such as found in "sys.exc_traceback".
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When omitted or given as "None", the old behavior (to generate a stack
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trace entry for the current stack frame) is used.
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The tokenizer is now more tolerant of alien whitespace. Control-L in
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the leading whitespace of a line resets the column number to zero,
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while Control-R just before the end of the line is ignored.
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Changes to Built-in Operations
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==============================
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For file objects, "f.read(0)" and "f.readline(0)" now return an empty
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string rather than reading an unlimited number of bytes. For the
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latter, omit the argument altogether or pass a negative value.
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A new system variable, "sys.platform", has been added. It specifies
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the current platform, e.g. "sunos5" or "linux1".
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The built-in functions "input()" and "raw_input()" now use the GNU
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readline library when it has been configured (formerly, only
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interactive input to the interpreter itself was read using GNU
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readline). The GNU readline library provides elaborate line editing
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and history. The Python debugger ("pdb") is the first beneficiary of
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this change.
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Two new built-in functions, "globals()" and "locals()", provide access
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to dictionaries containming current global and local variables,
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respectively. (These augment rather than replace "vars()", which
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returns the current local variables when called without an argument,
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and a module's global variables when called with an argument of type
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module.)
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The built-in function "compile()" now takes a third possible value for
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the kind of code to be compiled: specifying "'single'" generates code
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for a single interactive statement, which prints the output of
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expression statements that evaluate to something else than "None".
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Library Changes
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===============
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There are new module "ni" and "ihooks" that support importing modules
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with hierarchical names such as "A.B.C". This is enabled by writing
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"import ni; ni.ni()" at the very top of the main program. These
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modules are amply documented in the Python source.
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The module "rexec" has been rewritten (incompatibly) to define a class
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and to use "ihooks".
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The "string.split()" and "string.splitfields()" functions are now the
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same function (the presence or absence of the second argument
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determines which operation is invoked); similar for "string.join()"
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and "string.joinfields()".
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The "Tkinter" module and its helper "Dialog" have been revamped to use
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keyword arguments. Tk 4.0 is now the standard. A new module
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"FileDialog" has been added which implements standard file selection
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dialogs.
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The optional built-in modules "dbm" and "gdbm" are more coordinated
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--- their "open()" functions now take the same values for their "flag"
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argument, and the "flag" and "mode" argument have default values (to
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open the database for reading only, and to create the database with
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mode "0666" minuse the umask, respectively). The memory leaks have
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finally been fixed.
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A new dbm-like module, "bsddb", has been added, which uses the BSD DB
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package's hash method.
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A portable (though slow) dbm-clone, implemented in Python, has been
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added for systems where none of the above is provided. It is aptly
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dubbed "dumbdbm".
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The module "anydbm" provides a unified interface to "bsddb", "gdbm",
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"dbm", and "dumbdbm", choosing the first one available.
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A new extension module, "binascii", provides a variety of operations
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for conversion of text-encoded binary data.
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There are three new or rewritten companion modules implemented in
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Python that can encode and decode the most common such formats: "uu"
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(uuencode), "base64" and "binhex".
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A module to handle the MIME encoding quoted-printable has also been
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added: "quopri".
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The parser module (which provides an interface to the Python parser's
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abstract syntax trees) has been rewritten (incompatibly) by Fred
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Drake. It now lets you change the parse tree and compile the result!
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The \code{syslog} module has been upgraded and documented.
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Other Changes
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=============
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The dynamic module loader recognizes the fact that different filenames
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point to the same shared library and loads the library only once, so
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you can have a single shared library that defines multiple modules.
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(SunOS / SVR4 style shared libraries only.)
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Jim Fulton's ``abstract object interface'' has been incorporated into
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the run-time API. For more detailes, read the files
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"Include/abstract.h" and "Objects/abstract.c".
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The Macintosh version is much more robust now.
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Numerous things I have forgotten or that are so obscure no-one will
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notice them anyway :-)

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