+
+========================================
+==> Release 1.2 BETA 4 (21 Mar 1995) <==
+========================================
+
+Tue Mar 21 13:28:32 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+ * Python/ceval.c (call_object): removed #ifdef'ed out code
+
+Mon Mar 20 17:14:14 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+ * Lib/copy.py (_copy_dispatch): fix typo in hasattr() exprs
+
+Sat Mar 18 00:04:14 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+ * Makefile.in: change -f Makefile.in to -f $(srcdir)/Makefile.in
+
+Fri Mar 17 10:52:07 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+ * Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py: add TkVersion and TclVersion variables;
+ handle crash in callback different (don't drop into debugger); add
+ _getdoubles() and streamline _getints()
+
+ * Doc/lib*.tex: mass update
+
+ * Doc/partparse.py: fix several small things so it doesn't crash
+ so easily
+
+ * Modules/threadmodule.c: change exit_thread so it raises
+ SystemExit -- this allow proper cleanup in t_bootstrap
+
+ * Makefile.in (distclean): add -f Makefile.in (John Interrante)
+
+Thu Mar 16 13:35:25 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+ * Doc/ref*.tex: made palatable to latex2html -- basically rewrote
+ all math using \code{} and \var{} (and pow() and some integer
+ literals), and added braces to some \item[]s containing \tt
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c: fixed up comments describing interface
+
+ * Lib/test/test_signal.py: new module to test signal module
+
+Wed Mar 15 11:07:43 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+ * Modules/signalmodule.c (PySignal_Signal): use PyCallable_Check
+ where suitable; split some lines
+
+ * Lib/posixfile.py (open) defaults mode='r', bufsize=-1
+
+Tue Mar 14 10:42:39 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+ * Lib/copy.py: rename copy.Error to copy.error
+
+ * Lib/cgi.py: correct some typos that broke escape() and print_form()
+
+ * Lib/string.py: add (unsupported) optional base argument to
+ atoi() and atol(); be more careful about very negative start
+ indices in [r]find() and count()
+
+ * Modules/timemodule.c: tiny additions for Windows 3.1
+
+ * Modules/gdbmmodule.c: plugged some memory leaks (Steve Clift)
+
+ * Modules/socketmodule.c (makefile): made mode optional and added
+ optional buffer size, like built-in open()
+
+Mon Mar 13 11:26:20 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+ * Lib/pickle.py: added ability to pickle classes (could be used
+ for exceptions in RPC); made format_version non-hidden variable,
+ added compatible_formats variable, added shorthand functions
+ dump(), load(), dumps() and loads() -- similar to marshal
+
+ * Python/pythonrun.c (fatal): In NT, write msg to debugging device
+
+ * Doc/lib*.tex: small changes by Soren Larsen
+
Thu Mar 9 15:06:02 1995 Guido van Rossum <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
* Lib/pickle.py: added explicit exception for unpicklable object
-(-) always use my getopt.c
+(-) support lists in newgetargs()
-(-) get Extensions/X11/Doc checked in and out
+(-) syntax errors detected during compilation should give line number
+
+(-) dbm.open(): rwmode, filemode should be made optional; same for gdbm
+
+(-) find a bsd hash interface
+
+(-) posix.mkdir(): mode should be made optional
+
+(-) find a more useful order than alphabetical for Doc/libfuncs.tex
+
+======================================================================
+
+(*) use my getopt.c on Linux
+
+(*) get Extensions/X11/Doc checked in and out
(-) investigate PPRC <URL:ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ppcr/>
(*) add buffering parameter to fdopen() and popen()
-(-) "f()=0" generates syntax error msg without line number
-
(-) interface to getdtablesize() in posix
(-) reentrancy with global variables vs. decref in
./Modules/cdmodule.c ./Modules/flmodule.c ./Objects/accessobject.c
./Objects/frameobject.c ./Python/traceback.c
-(-) check reentrancy in list updates?
+(*) fix reentrancy in list updates?
(-) speed up regsub.gsub