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 What's New in Python 2.2 final?
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! - Mac/Relnotes is gone, the release notes are now here.

+ - The current naming convention for Python on the Macintosh is that MacPython
+ refers to the unix-based OSX-only version, and MacPython-OS9 refers to the
+ CFM-based version that runs on both OS9 and OSX.
+ 
+ - All MacPython-OS9 functionality is now available in an OSX unix build,
+ including the Carbon modules, the IDE, OSA support, etc. A lot of this
+ will only work correctly in a framework build, though, because you cannot
+ talk to the window manager unless your application is run from a .app
+ bundle. There is a command line tool "pythonw" that runs your script
+ with an interpreter living in such a .app bundle, this interpreter should
+ be used to run any Python script using the window manager (including
+ Tkinter or wxPython scripts).
+ 
+ - A new utility PythonLauncher will start a Python interpreter when a .py or
+ .pyw script is double-clicked in the Finder. By default .py scripts are
+ run with a normal Python interpreter in a Terminal window and .pyw
+ files are run with a window-aware pythonw interpreter without a Terminal
+ window, but all this can be customized.
+ 
+ - MacPython-OS9 is now Carbon-only, so it runs on Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X and
+ possibly on Mac OS 8.6 with the right CarbonLib installed, but not on earlier
+ releases.
+ 
+ - Many tools such as BuildApplet.py and gensuitemodule.py now support a command
+ line interface too.
+ 
+ - All the Carbon classes are now PEP253 compliant, meaning that you can
+ subclass them from Python. Most of the attributes have gone, you should
+ now use the accessor function call API, which is also what Apple's
+ documentation uses. Some attributes such as grafport.visRgn are still
+ available for convenience.
+ 
+ - New Carbon modules File (implementing the APIs in Files.h and Aliases.h)
+ and Folder (APIs from Folders.h). The old macfs builtin module is
+ gone, and replaced by a Python wrapper around the new modules.
+ 
+ - Pathname handling should now be fully consistent: MacPython-OSX always uses
+ unix pathnames and MacPython-OS9 always uses colon-separated Mac pathnames
+ (also when running on Mac OS X).
+ 
+ - New Carbon modules Help and AH give access to the Carbon Help Manager.
+ There are hooks in the IDE to allow accessing the Python documentation
+ (and Apple's Carbon and Cocoa documentation) through the Help Viewer.
+ See Mac/OSX/README for converting the Python documentation to a
+ Help Viewer comaptible form and installing it.
+ 
+ - OSA support has been redesigned and the generated Python classes now
+ mirror the inheritance defined by the underlying OSA classes.
+ 
+ - MacPython no longer maps both \r and \n to \n on input for any text file.
+ This feature has been replaced by universal newline support (PEP278).

 What's New in Python 2.2 final?