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Correct error noticed by Keith Briggs
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@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ something like this:
\method{__getitem__()} is more properly used to define an indexing
operation on an object so that you can write \code{obj[5]} to retrieve
the fifth element. It's a bit misleading when you're using this only
the sixth element. It's a bit misleading when you're using this only
to support \keyword{for} loops. Consider some file-like object that
wants to be looped over; the \var{index} parameter is essentially
meaningless, as the class probably assumes that a series of
@ -510,11 +510,11 @@ Jeremy Hylton.}
\begin{itemize}
\item The \module{xmlrpclib} module was contributed to the standard
library by Fredrik Lundh. It provides support for writing XML-RPC
clients; XML-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol built on
top of HTTP and XML. For example, the following snippet retrieves a
list of RSS channels from the O'Reilly Network, and then retrieves a
list of the recent headlines for one channel:
library by Fredrik Lundh. It provides support for writing XML-RPC
clients; XML-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol built on
top of HTTP and XML. For example, the following snippet retrieves a
list of RSS channels from the O'Reilly Network, and then retrieves a
list of the recent headlines for one channel:
\begin{verbatim}
import xmlrpclib
@ -585,6 +585,11 @@ See \url{http://www.xmlrpc.com/} for more information about XML-RPC.
modules have all been fixed to use \constant{ascii_letters} instead.
(Reported by an unknown person; fixed by Fred L. Drake, Jr.)
\item The \module{mimetypes} module now makes it easier to use
alternative MIME-type databases by the addition of a
\class{MimeTypes} class, which takes a list of filenames to be
parsed. (Contributed by Fred L. Drake, Jr.)
\end{itemize}
@ -701,12 +706,19 @@ changes are:
\item On Windows, Python can now be compiled with Borland C thanks
to a number of patches contributed by Stephen Hansen.
\item Another Windows enhancement: Wise Solutions generously offered
PythonLabs use of their InstallerMaster 8.1 system. Earlier
PythonLabs Windows installers used Wise 5.0a, which was beginning to
show its age. (Packaged up by Tim Peters.)
\item Files ending in \samp{.pyw} can now be imported on Windows.
\samp{.pyw} is a Windows-only thing, used to indicate that a script
needs to be run using PYTHONW.EXE instead of PYTHON.EXE in order to
prevent a DOS console from popping up to display the output. This
patch makes it possible to import such scripts, in case they're also
usable as modules. (Implemented by David Bolen.)
\item On platforms where Python uses the C \cfunction{dlopen()} function
to load extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used
by \cfunction{dlopen()} using the \function{sys.getdlopenflags()} and
@ -720,7 +732,7 @@ changes are:
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions and corrections to various drafts of this article: Fred
Bremmer, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg,
Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Mark Hammond, Marc-Andr\'e
Lemburg, Tim Peters, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
\end{document}