News about the new IDLE (is more needed?). News about SF patch

751998.
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Guido van Rossum 2003-06-13 20:37:23 +00:00
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@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 beta 2?
Core and builtins
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- SF patch 751998 fixes an unwanted side effect of the previous fix
for SF bug 742860 (the next item).
- SF bug 742860: "WeakKeyDictionary __delitem__ uses iterkeys". This
wasn't threadsafe, was very inefficient (expected time O(len(dict))
instead of O(1)), and could raise a spurious RuntimeError if another
@ -70,6 +73,10 @@ Extension modules
Library
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- A brand new version of IDLE (from the IDLEfork project at
SourceForge) is now included as Lib/idlelib. The old Tools/idle is
no more.
- copy.py: applied SF patch 707900, fixing bug 702858, by Steven
Taschuk. Copying a new-style class that had a reference to itself
didn't work. (The same thing worked fine for old-style classes.)
@ -100,6 +107,8 @@ Library
Tools/Demos
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- Tools/idle is gone; long live Lib/idlelib.
- diff.py is a new script for print file diffs in context, unified, or ndiff
formats. Provides an alternate command line interface to difflib.py.