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- Change header to 2.2a1.
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What's New in Python 2.2a0?
What's New in Python 2.2a1?
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Core
- Generators were added; this is a new way to create an iterator (see
below) using what looks like a simple function containing one of
more 'yield' statements. See PEP 255. Since this adds a new
keyword to the language, this feature must be enabled by including a
future statement: "from __future__ import generators" (see PEP 236).
Generators will become a standard feature in a future release
(probably 2.3). Without this future statement, 'yield' remains an
ordinary identifier, but a warning is issued each time it is used.
(These warnings currently don't conform to the warnings framework of
PEP 230; we intend to fix this in 2.2a2.)
- The UTF-16 codec was modified to be more RFC compliant. It will now
only remove BOM characters at the start of the string and then
only if running in native mode (UTF-16-LE and -BE won't remove a
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_PyTuple_Resize(). If this affects you, you were cheating.
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What's New in Python 2.1 (final)?
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