Commit dcfd825c authored by Andrew M. Kuchling's avatar Andrew M. Kuchling

Add two items

parent 3cda93eb
......@@ -679,6 +679,14 @@ command line or use \function{warnings.filterwarnings()}.
\exception{SyntaxWarning} warning. In a future version of Python,
\code{None} may finally become a keyword.
\item Python runs multithreaded programs by switching between threads
after executing N bytecodes. The default value for N has been
increased from 10 to 100 bytecodes, speeding up single-threaded
applications by reducing the switching overhead. Some multithreaded
applications may suffer slower response time, but that's easily fixed
by setting the limit back to a lower number by calling
\function{sys.setcheckinterval(\var{N})}.
\item One minor but far-reaching change is that the names of extension
types defined by the modules included with Python now contain the
module and a \samp{.} in front of the type name. For example, in
......@@ -961,6 +969,9 @@ patch had undergone a lengthy review. After it was checked in, Guido
van~Rossum rewrote parts of it. This is a good example of the free
software development process in action.
\item The value of the C \cfunction{PYTHON_API_VERSION} macro is now exposed
at the Python level as \constant{sys.api_version}.
\item The new \module{textwrap} module contains functions for wrapping
strings containing paragraphs of text. The \function{wrap(\var{text},
\var{width})} function takes a string and returns a list containing
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