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-*- text -*-
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If you edited Misc/NEWS before it was converted to ReST format skimming this
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file should help make the transition a bit easier. For full details about
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Docutils and ReST, go to the Docutils website:
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http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
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To process Misc/NEWS using Docutils, you'll need the latest docutils
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snapshot:
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http://docutils.sf.net/docutils-snapshot.tgz
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Docutils works with Python 2.2 or newer.
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To process NEWS into NEWS.html, first install Docutils, and then run
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this command:
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python .../docutils/tools/rst2html.py NEWS NEWS.html
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Here ".../docutils" is the directory into which the above snapshot was
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extracted. (I hope this recipe will change for the better.)
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David Goodger made a change to the allowable structure of internal
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references which greatly simplified initial conversion of the file.
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The changes required fell into the following categories:
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* The top-level "What's New" section headers changed to:
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What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 1?
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=================================
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*Release date: DD-MMM-2002*
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Note that the release date line is emphasized, with a "*" at each
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end.
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* Subsections are underlined with a single row of hyphens:
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Type/class unification and new-style classes
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--------------------------------------------
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* Places where "balanced" single quotes were used were changed to use
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apostrophes as both the opening and closing quote (`string' -> 'string').
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* In a few places asterisks needed to be escaped which would otherwise have
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been interpreted as beginning blocks of italic or bold text, e.g.:
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- The type of tp_free has been changed from "``void (*)(PyObject *)``"
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to "``void (*)(void *)``".
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Note that only the asterisks preceded by whitespace needed to be escaped.
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* One instance of a word ending with an underscore needed to be quoted
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("PyCmp_" became "``PyCmp_``").
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* One table was converted to ReST form (search Misc/NEWS for "New codecs"
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for this example).
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* A few places where chunks of code or indented text were displayed needed
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to be properly introduced (preceding paragraph terminated by "::" and the
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chunk of code or text indented w.r.t. the paragraph). For example:
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- Note that PyLong_AsDouble can fail! This has always been true,
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but no callers checked for it. It's more likely to fail now,
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because overflow errors are properly detected now. The proper way
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to check::
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double x = PyLong_AsDouble(some_long_object);
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if (x == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
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/* The conversion failed. */
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}
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