[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Doc/whatsnew whatsnew24.tex, 1.73, 1.74

Mon Jul 26 21:28:48 CEST 2004

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 bookmarking, windowing, or lookahead iterators.
 
+ \item A number of functions were added to the \module{locale} 
+ module, such as \function{bind_textdomain_codeset()} to specify a
+ particular encoding, and a family of \function{l*gettext()} functions
+ that return messages in the chosen encoding.
+ (Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.)
+ 
 \item The \module{logging} package's \function{basicConfig} function 
 gained some keyword arguments to simplify log configuration. The
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 be used to implement other rotating handlers.
 
+ \item The \module{nntplib} module's \class{NNTP} class gained
+ \method{description()} and \method{descriptions()} methods to retrieve 
+ newsgroup descriptions for a single group or for a range of groups.
+ (Contributed by J\"urgen A. Erhard.)
+ 
 \item The \module{operator} module gained two new functions, 
 \function{attrgetter(\var{attr})} and \function{itemgetter(\var{index})}.
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 \csimplemacro{Py_RETURN_TRUE}, and \csimplemacro{Py_RETURN_FALSE}.
 
+ \item Another new macro, \csimplemacro{Py_CLEAR(\var{obj})}, 
+ decreases the reference count of \var{obj} and sets \var{obj} to the
+ null pointer.
+ 
 \item A new function, \cfunction{PyTuple_Pack(\var{N}, \var{obj1},
 \var{obj2}, ..., \var{objN})}, constructs tuples from a variable