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Kirill Smelkov
cpython
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662d76ee
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662d76ee
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Jun 25, 2000
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Andrew M. Kuchling
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Fix typos and errors noticed by Skip Montanaro
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\documentclass
{
howto
}
\title
{
What's New in Python 1.6
}
\release
{
0.0
2
}
\release
{
0.0
3
}
\author
{
A.M. Kuchling and Moshe Zadka
}
\authoraddress
{
\email
{
amk1@bigfoot.com
}
,
\email
{
moshez@math.huji.ac.il
}
}
\begin{document}
...
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@@ -55,14 +55,15 @@ escapes can be used for characters up to U+01FF, which is represented
by
\code
{
\e
777
}
.
Unicode strings, just like regular strings, are an immutable sequence
type, so they can be indexed and sliced. They also have an
\method
{
encode(
\optional
{
\var
{
encoding
}}
)
}
method that returns an
8-bit string in the desired encoding. Encodings are named by strings,
such as
\code
{
'ascii'
}
,
\code
{
'utf-8'
}
,
\code
{
'iso-8859-1'
}
, or
whatever. A codec API is defined for implementing and registering new
encodings that are then available throughout a Python program. If an
encoding isn't specified, the default encoding is usually 7-bit ASCII,
though it can be changed for your Python installation by calling the
type. They can be indexed and sliced, but not modified in place.
Unicode strings have an
\method
{
encode(
\optional
{
\var
{
encoding
}}
)
}
method
that returns an 8-bit string in the desired encoding. Encodings are
named by strings, such as
\code
{
'ascii'
}
,
\code
{
'utf-8'
}
,
\code
{
'iso-8859-1'
}
, or whatever. A codec API is defined for
implementing and registering new encodings that are then available
throughout a Python program. If an encoding isn't specified, the
default encoding is usually 7-bit ASCII, though it can be changed for
your Python installation by calling the
\function
{
sys.setdefaultencoding(
\var
{
encoding
}
)
}
function in a
customized version of
\file
{
site.py
}
.
...
...
@@ -352,8 +353,8 @@ digit.
Taking the
\function
{
repr()
}
of a float now uses a different
formatting precision than
\function
{
str()
}
.
\function
{
repr()
}
uses
``
%.17g''
format string for C's \function{sprintf()}, while
\function
{
str()
}
uses
``
%.12g'' as before. The effect is that
\code
{
\%
.17g
}
format string for C's
\function
{
sprintf()
}
, while
\function
{
str()
}
uses
\code
{
\%
.12g
}
as before. The effect is that
\function
{
repr()
}
may occasionally show more decimal places than
\function
{
str()
}
, for numbers
For example, the number 8.1 can't be represented exactly in binary, so
...
...
@@ -437,14 +438,18 @@ processor, mostly by Trent Mick of ActiveState. (Confusingly, \code{sys.platfor
Win64 because it seems that for ease of porting, MS Visual C++ treats code
as 32 bit.
) PythonWin also supports Windows CE; see the Python CE page at
\url
{
http://
www
.python.net/crew/mhammond/ce/
}
for more information.
\url
{
http://
starship
.python.net/crew/mhammond/ce/
}
for more information.
An attempt has been made to alleviate one of Python's warts, the
often-confusing
\exception
{
NameError
}
exception when code refers to a
local variable before the variable has been assigned a value. For
example, the following code raises an exception on the
\keyword
{
print
}
statement in both 1.5.2 and 1.6; in 1.5.2 a
\exception
{
NameError
}
exception is raised, while 1.6 raises
\exception
{
UnboundLocalError
}
.
exception is raised, while 1.6 raises a new
\exception
{
UnboundLocalError
}
exception.
\exception
{
UnboundLocalError
}
is a subclass of
\exception
{
NameError
}
,
so any existing code that expects
\exception
{
NameError
}
to be raised
should still work.
\begin{verbatim}
def f():
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...
@@ -483,7 +488,7 @@ This means you no longer have to remember to write code such as
The
\file
{
Python/importdl.c
}
file, which was a mass of
\#
ifdefs to
support dynamic loading on many different platforms, was cleaned up
a
re
reorganized by Greg Stein.
\file
{
importdl.c
}
is now quite small,
a
nd
reorganized by Greg Stein.
\file
{
importdl.c
}
is now quite small,
and platform-specific code has been moved into a bunch of
\file
{
Python/dynload
_
*.c
}
files.
...
...
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