Commit d4707e3b authored by Andrew M. Kuchling's avatar Andrew M. Kuchling

Minor additions and rewrites.

Bump version number.
parent 946f7b1b
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% $Id$
\title{What's New in Python 2.2}
\release{0.05}
\release{0.06}
\author{A.M. Kuchling}
\authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}}
\begin{document}
......@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
{\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until the
final version of Python 2.2 is released. Currently it's up to date
for Python 2.2 alpha 1. Please send any comments, bug reports, or
for Python 2.2 alpha 4. Please send any comments, bug reports, or
questions, no matter how minor, to \email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}.
}
......@@ -388,8 +388,6 @@ identically. You can still distinguish them with the
\function{int()} function will now return a long integer if the value
is large enough.
% XXX is there a warning-enabling command-line option for this?
\begin{seealso}
\seepep{237}{Unifying Long Integers and Integers}{Written by
......@@ -397,6 +395,7 @@ Moshe Zadka and Guido van Rossum. Implemented mostly by Guido van Rossum.}
\end{seealso}
%======================================================================
\section{PEP 238: Changing the Division Operator}
......@@ -667,7 +666,12 @@ items = s.meerkat.getItems( {'channel': 4} )
# 'title': 'html2fo 0.3 (Default)'}, ... ]
\end{verbatim}
See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC.
The \module{SimpleXMLRPCServer} module makes it easy to create
straightforward XML-RPC servers. See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for
more information about XML-RPC.
\item The new \module{hmac} module implements implements the HMAC
algorithm described by \rfc{2104}.
\item The \module{socket} module can be compiled to support IPv6;
specify the \longprogramopt{enable-ipv6} option to Python's configure
......@@ -707,10 +711,12 @@ See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC.
in \rfc{2342}, SORT, GETACL and SETACL. (Contributed by Anthony
Baxter and Michel Pelletier.)
\item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is
now compliant with \rfc{2822}, an update to \rfc{822}. The module's
name is \emph{not} going to be changed to \samp{rfc2822}.
(Contributed by Barry Warsaw.)
\item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is now
compliant with \rfc{2822}, an update to \rfc{822}. (The module's
name is \emph{not} going to be changed to \samp{rfc2822}.) A new
package, \module{email}, has also been added for parsing and
generating e-mail messages. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw, and
arising out of his work on Mailman.)
\item New constants \constant{ascii_letters},
\constant{ascii_lowercase}, and \constant{ascii_uppercase} were
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