File Release Notes and Changelog
Notes:
This release fixes many bugs, including most installation
related errors. See below for a detailed change log.
Changes:
* Installation now works on "non-admin" installs of Python, and also
on Windows 9x.
* Include taskscheduler and shell demos.
* New win32inet module, which provides an interface to the Microsoft
Internet related "wininet" API.
* Many more security related functions by Roger Upole.
* New module that interfaces to Microsoft Index Server.
* Fix a bug that could cause large COM safe-arrays to crash
* Fix a number of memory leaks in COM
* shell.SHBrowseForFolder() now supports the callback param, ShellExecuteEx
added, and a number of other shell module enhancements.
* win32trace should not lose as much data when huge amounts are being spewed.
* Add support for sorting listview controls with a sort callback.
* A number of new win32gui methods
* win32rc_parser handles icons and bitmaps etc, and also MSVC7 .rc files.
* Objects from the standard 'datetime' module can be used whenever a win32
time object is needed.
* Work better when frozen with py2exe.
* Add win32file.FindFilesIterator(), which creates an iterator based
around FindFirstFile/FindNextFile. Useful for huge directories.
* Fix a number of bugs relating to large integers.
* win32api.GetFullPathName() will use GetFullPathNameW, and return a Unicode
object if passed a Unicode arg.