Commit e905e957 authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Barry Warsaw: Fixed -+ operator. Added some new sections. Leave some

XXX notes for now.

I could use help here!!!!  Please mail me patches ASAP.  We may have
to put some of this off to 2.0final, but it's best to have it in shape
now...
parent 87106b58
......@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Augmented Assignment
This must have been the most-requested feature of the past years!
Eleven new assignment operators were added:
+= -+ *= /= %= **= <<= >>= &= ^= |=
+= -= *= /= %= **= <<= >>= &= ^= |=
For example,
......@@ -249,6 +249,31 @@ backwards-compatible updates to the standard xml package.
webbrowser - a platform-independent API to launch a web browser.
Changed Modules
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ftplib - ntransfercmd(), transfercmd(), and retrbinary() all now
optionally support the RFC 959 REST command.
socket - new function getfqdn()
XXX: I'm sure there are others
Obsolete Modules
----------------
None. However note that 1.6 made a whole slew of modules obsolete:
stdwin, soundex, cml, cmpcache, dircache, dump, find, grep, packmail,
poly, zmod, strop, util, whatsound.
Changed, New, Obsolete Tools
----------------------------
XXX: are there any? If not, say "None" here.
C-level Changes
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......@@ -269,6 +294,8 @@ memory. See pymem.h.
Trent Mick ensured portability to 64-bit platforms, under both Linux
and Win64, especially for the new Intel Itanium processor.
Numerous new APIs were added, e.g.
Numerous new APIs were added, e.g.
XXX: Fill this out.
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