- Fix a crash on Solaris that occurred when calling close() on

an mmap'ed file which was already closed. (SF patch #665913)

- datetime changes:

compatible with those that have been implemented in Jython since

Jython 2.1.

support zipimport, it offers a new, general import hook mechanism.

Several new variables have been added to the sys module:

sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks, and sys.path_importer_cache; these

- os.path exposes getctime.

- unittest.py now has two additional methods called assertAlmostEqual()

by rounding the difference between the two arguments and comparing

unit tests of floating point results.

- calendar.py now depends on the new datetime module rather than

- doctest.testmod can now be called without argument, which means to

test the current module.

interrupt, the server would shut down but not terminate (waiting on

client threads). A new member variable, daemon_threads, was added to

the ThreadingMixIn class in SocketServer.py to make it explicit that

the ob_sval member, so as a precaution the API_VERSION has been

incremented. The apparently unused feature of "indirect interned

strings", supported by the ob_sinterned member, is gone. Interned

PyString_InternImmortal() that creates immortal interned strings.

(The ob_sstate member can only take three values; however, while

making it a char saves a few bytes per string object on average, in

improvement over the previous Berkeley DB 1.85, which had many

bugs.

XXX What are the licensing issues here?

XXX Python, what must they do to convert it?

XXX I'm still not sure how to link this thing (see PCbuild/readme.txt).

XXX The version # is likely to change before 2.3a1.

- When Python is built under a Microsoft compiler, sys.version now

includes the compiler version number (_MSC_VER). For example, under

the value of _MSC_VER under MSVC 6.

- Sometimes the uninstall executable (UNWISE.EXE) vanishes. One cause

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

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

mirror the inheritance defined by the underlying OSA classes.

Calibration must still be done manually (see the docs for the profile

module).

Improving the accuracy required exploiting detailed knowledge of

profiler internals; the earlier method abstracted away the details

and measured a simplified model instead, but consequently computed