Commit 4aef2458 authored by Andrew M. Kuchling's avatar Andrew M. Kuchling

[Bug #1079134] Mention change to date comparisons; bump version info and release date to 2.4.1

parent ca69f024
......@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
This article explains the new features in Python 2.4, released on
November~30, 2004.
This article explains the new features in Python 2.4.1, released on
March~30, 2005.
Python 2.4 is a medium-sized release. It doesn't introduce as many
changes as the radical Python 2.2, but introduces more features than
......@@ -1713,6 +1713,11 @@ The \exception{OverflowWarning} warning will disappear in Python 2.5.
now return an empty list instead of raising a \exception{TypeError}
exception if called with no arguments.
\item You can no longer compare the \class{date} and \class{datetime}
instances provided by the \module{datetime} module. Two
instances of different classes will now always be unequal, and
relative comparisons (\code{<}, \code{>}) will raise a \exception{TypeError}.
\item \function{dircache.listdir()} now passes exceptions to the caller
instead of returning empty lists.
......@@ -1745,7 +1750,8 @@ longer set a handler on the \constant{SIGKILL} signal.
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
article: Koray Can, Hye-Shik Chang, Michael Dyck, Raymond Hettinger,
Brian Hurt, Hamish Lawson, Fredrik Lundh, Sean Reifschneider.
article: Koray Can, Hye-Shik Chang, Michael Dyck, Raymond Hettinger,
Brian Hurt, Hamish Lawson, Fredrik Lundh, Sean Reifschneider,
Sadruddin Rejeb.
\end{document}
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