From: Guido van Rossum Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:28:12 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Touch up the news for dict() keyword args. X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~3279 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8b1e74b2741675f9164e1159c1d2495ac3644005;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Touch up the news for dict() keyword args. --- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 94caddb5f5b9..71da82daee53 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 1? Type/class unification and new-style classes -------------------------------------------- -- dict() now accepts keyword arguments so that dict(one=1,two=2) - is the equivalent of dict([('one',1),('two',2)]). Accordingly, + +- dict() now accepts keyword arguments so that dict(one=1, two=2) + is the equivalent of {"one": 1, "two": 2}. Accordingly, the existing (but undocumented) 'items' keyword argument has - been eliminated. This means that dict(items=someMapping) now has + been eliminated. This means that dict(items=someMapping) now has a different meaning than before. - int() now returns a long object if the argument is outside the