Commit 64bb380c authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Elaborated the notes on the XML support.

In the limits.h comment, noted that INT_MAX and LONG_MAX are guaranteed
to be defined.

Noted that Reliant UNIX now gets proper API support for extension modules.
parent 6c8e4c3e
......@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Standard library and extensions
user buffer interface on Unicode strings. Does not hang if group id
is followed by whitespace.
- StringIO: size hint in readlines() is now supported as documented.
- StringIO: Size hint in readlines() is now supported as documented.
- struct: Check ranges for bytes and shorts.
......@@ -130,11 +130,18 @@ Standard library and extensions
- xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard
XML package if PyXML version is greater than 0.6.1.
- xml.dom: XXX
- xml.dom: DOM level 1 support for basic XML. Includes xml.dom.minidom
(conventional DOM), and xml.dom.pulldom, which allows building the DOM
tree only for nodes which are sufficiently interesting to a specific
application. Does not provide the HTML-specific extensions. Still
undocumented.
- xml.sax: XXX
- xml.sax: SAX 2 support for Python, including all the handler
interfaces needed to process XML 1.0 compliant XML. Some
documentation is already available.
- XXX pyexpat: XXX
- pyexpat: Renamed to xml.parsers.expat since this is part of the new,
packagized XML support.
C API
......@@ -160,7 +167,8 @@ C API
encoded version of a Unicode object.
- The standard header <limits.h> is now included by Python.h (if it
exists).
exists). INT_MAX and LONG_MAX will always be defined, even if
<limits.h> is not available.
Internals
......@@ -189,6 +197,9 @@ Build and platform-specific issues
- Improved support for HP-UX build -- threads should now be correctly
configured (on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00).
- Python/C API now properly exposed to dynamically-loaded extension
modules on Reliant UNIX.
What's new in 2.0 beta 1?
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