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77\title {What's New in Python 2.1}
8- \release {0.07 }
8+ \release {0.99 }
99\author {A.M. Kuchling}
1010\authoraddress {
\email {
[email protected] }}
1111\begin {document }
1212\maketitle\tableofcontents
1313
1414\section {Introduction }
1515
16- {\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until
17- the final version of Python 2.1 is released. Currently it is up to date
18- for Python 2.1 beta 2. Please send any comments, bug reports, or
19- questions, no matter how minor, to
\email {
[email protected] }. }
16+ {\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until the
17+ final version of Python 2.1 is released. Currently it is up to date
18+ for Python 2.1 release candidate~1. Please send any comments, bug
19+ reports, or questions, no matter how minor, to
20+ 2021
21- It's that time again... time for a new Python release, version 2.1.
22+ It's that time again... time for a new Python release, Python 2.1.
2223One recent goal of the Python development team has been to accelerate
2324the pace of new releases, with a new release coming every 6 to 9
2425months. 2.1 is the first release to come out at this faster pace, with
@@ -36,8 +37,7 @@ \section{Introduction}
3637Refer to the Python 2.1 documentation, or to the specific PEP, for
3738more details about any new feature that particularly interests you.
3839
39- Currently 2.1 is available in a beta release, and the final release is
40- planned for April 2001.
40+ The final release of Python 2.1 is planned for April 2001.
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4343\section {PEP 227: Nested Scopes }
@@ -795,14 +795,16 @@ \section{Other Changes and Fixes}
795795\end {verbatim }
796796
797797For a fuller discussion of the line I/O changes, see the python-dev
798- summary for January 1-15, 2001.
798+ summary for January 1-15, 2001 at
799+ \url {http://www.amk.ca/python/dev/2001-01-1.html}.
799800
800801\item A new method, \method {popitem()}, was added to dictionaries to
801802enable destructively iterating through the contents of a dictionary;
802- this can be faster for large dictionaries because XXX.
803+ this can be faster for large dictionaries because there's no need to
804+ construct a list containing all the keys or values.
803805\code {D.popitem()} removes a random \code {(\var {key}, \var {value})}
804- pair from the dictionary and returns it as a 2-tuple. This was
805- implemented mostly by Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum, after a
806+ pair from the dictionary~ \code {D} and returns it as a 2-tuple. This
807+ was implemented mostly by Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum, after a
806808suggestion and preliminary patch by Moshe Zadka.
807809
808810\item Modules can now control which names are imported when \code {from
@@ -844,7 +846,8 @@ \section{Other Changes and Fixes}
844846340K thanks to Fredrik Lundh.
845847
846848\item Some new ports were contributed: MacOS X (by Steven Majewski),
847- Cygwin (by Jason Tishler); RISCOS (by Dietmar Schwertberger).
849+ Cygwin (by Jason Tishler); RISCOS (by Dietmar Schwertberger); Unixware~7
850+ (by Billy G. Allie).
848851
849852\end {itemize }
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