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 ...@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Standard library and extensions
user buffer interface on Unicode strings. Does not hang if group id user buffer interface on Unicode strings. Does not hang if group id
is followed by whitespace. 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. - struct: Check ranges for bytes and shorts.
...@@ -130,11 +130,18 @@ Standard library and extensions ...@@ -130,11 +130,18 @@ Standard library and extensions
- xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard - xml: New version detection code allows PyXML to override standard
XML package if PyXML version is greater than 0.6.1. 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 C API
...@@ -160,7 +167,8 @@ C API ...@@ -160,7 +167,8 @@ C API
encoded version of a Unicode object. encoded version of a Unicode object.
- The standard header <limits.h> is now included by Python.h (if it - 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 Internals
...@@ -189,6 +197,9 @@ Build and platform-specific issues ...@@ -189,6 +197,9 @@ Build and platform-specific issues
- Improved support for HP-UX build -- threads should now be correctly - Improved support for HP-UX build -- threads should now be correctly
configured (on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00). 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? What's new in 2.0 beta 1?
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