What's New In Python 3.1
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:Author: Raymond Hettinger
:Release: |release|
:Date: |today|
* The maintainer will go through Misc/NEWS periodically and add
changes; it's therefore more important to add your changes to
- Misc/NEWS than to this file. (Note: I didn't get to this for 3.0.
- GvR.)
+ Misc/NEWS than to this file.
* This is not a complete list of every single change; completeness
is the purpose of Misc/NEWS. Some changes I consider too small
necessary (especially when a final release is some months away).
* Credit the author of a patch or bugfix. Just the name is
- sufficient; the e-mail address isn't necessary. (Due to time
- constraints I haven't managed to do this for 3.0. GvR.)
+ sufficient; the e-mail address isn't necessary.
* It's helpful to add the bug/patch number as a comment:
(Contributed by P.Y. Developer.)
This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the SVN log
- when researching a change. (Again, I didn't get to this for 3.0.
- GvR.)
+ when researching a change.
This article explains the new features in Python 3.1, compared to 3.0.
-.. Compare with previous release in 2 - 3 sentences here.
-.. add hyperlink when the documentation becomes available online.
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-.. Large, PEP-level features and changes should be described here.
-.. Should there be a new section here for 3k migration?
-.. Or perhaps a more general section describing module changes/deprecation?
-.. sets module deprecated
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PEP 372: Ordered Dictionaries
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PEP written by Armin Ronacher and Raymond Hettinger. Implementation
written by Raymond Hettinger.
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PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
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(Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4707`.)
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New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
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(Contributed by Brett Cannon.)
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Optimizations
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(Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4258`.)
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