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-This article explains the new features in Python 2.4, released on
-November~30, 2004.
+This article explains the new features in Python 2.4.1, released on
+March~30, 2005.
Python 2.4 is a medium-sized release. It doesn't introduce as many
changes as the radical Python 2.2, but introduces more features than
now return an empty list instead of raising a \exception{TypeError}
exception if called with no arguments.
+\item You can no longer compare the \class{date} and \class{datetime}
+ instances provided by the \module{datetime} module. Two
+ instances of different classes will now always be unequal, and
+ relative comparisons (\code{<}, \code{>}) will raise a \exception{TypeError}.
+
\item \function{dircache.listdir()} now passes exceptions to the caller
instead of returning empty lists.
The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
-article: Koray Can, Hye-Shik Chang, Michael Dyck, Raymond Hettinger,
-Brian Hurt, Hamish Lawson, Fredrik Lundh, Sean Reifschneider.
+article: Koray Can, Hye-Shik Chang, Michael Dyck, Raymond Hettinger,
+Brian Hurt, Hamish Lawson, Fredrik Lundh, Sean Reifschneider,
+Sadruddin Rejeb.
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