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This is Python release 1.5 beta 2 This is Python release 1.5
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The official release date for this version is Friday, December 12, This version is officially released on Wednesday, December 31, 1997.
1997. It doesn't differ very much from 1.5b2 (released on Dec. 12).
What's new in this release? What's new in this release?
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defined by Python now have a "Py" or "_Py" prefix, and the same is defined by Python now have a "Py" or "_Py" prefix, and the same is
true for most macros and typedefs. true for most macros and typedefs.
If you previously downloaded 1.5b1, here are the most relevant changes If you previously downloaded 1.5b2, here are the most relevant changes
since then (of course all known bugs have been fixed, leaks plugged, since then (of course all known bugs have been fixed, leaks plugged,
and some documentation has been added). The full list of changes and quite a bit of documentation has been added -- including doc
since 1.5b1 is presented at the end of the Misc/NEWS file. strings here and there). The full list of changes since 1.5b2 is
presented at the end of the Misc/NEWS file.
- Thanks to all who contributed doc strings for library modules! - Thanks to all who contributed doc strings or other documentation!
- The portability problems caused by indented preprocessor commands - Many small improvements to the quality of the documentation, both
and C++ style comments should be gone now. PostScript, HTML and even Emacs info (library manual only).
- Lots of improvements to python-mode.el again. - New module telnetlib.py.
- Changes in pickle.py and cPickle.c: when unpickling an instance of - New tool versioncheck.
a class that doesn't define the __getinitargs__() method, the
__init__() constructor is no longer called. This makes a much
larger group of classes picklable by default, but may occasionally
change semantics. To force calling __init__() on unpickling, define
a __getinitargs__() method. Other changes too, in particular
cPickle now handles classes defined in packages correctly. The
same change applies to copying instances with copy.py.
- Locale support in the "re" (Perl regular expressions) module. Use - Two bugs with ftp URLs fixed in urllib.py.
the flag re.L (or re.LOCALE) to enable locale-specific matching
rules for \w and \b. The in-line syntax for this flag is (?L).
- The built-in function isinstance(x, y) now also succeeds when y is - Fixed infinite recursion when printing __builtins__.
a type object and type(x) is y.
- repr() and str() of class and instance objects now reflect the - A bunch of small problems fixed in Tkinter.py.
package/module in which the class is defined.
- Module "ni" has been removed. (If you really need it, it's been - Ported zlibmodule.c and bsddbmodule.c to NT.
renamed to "ni1". Let me know if this causes any problems for you.
Package authors are encouraged to write __init__.py files that
support both ni and 1.5 package support, so the same version can be
used with Python 1.4 as well as 1.5.)
- The thread module is now automatically included when threads are - Better NT support in tempfile.py.
configured. (You must remove it from your existing Setup file,
since it is now in its own Setup.thread file.)
- New command line option "-x" to skip the first line of the script; - Fixed 4294967296==0.
handy to make executable scripts on non-Unix platforms.
- In importdl.c, add the RTLD_GLOBAL to the dlopen() flags. I - Latest re and pcre modules (versions of Dec. 22).
haven't checked how this affects things, but it should make symbols
in one shared library available to the next one.
- The Windows configuration adds a new main program, "pythonw", and
registers a new extension, ".pyw" that invokes this. This is a
standard Python interpreter that does not pop up a console window;
handy for pure Tkinter applications. All output to the original
stdout and stderr is lost; reading from the original stdin yields
EOF.
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