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Jython NEWS
+ 14-mar-2001 Jython 2.1 alpha 1
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+ New features.
+ - Improve speed when indexing a string and iterating over a string
+ in a for loop.
+ - Reworked coercing model (pep-0208)
+ - Added {}.popitem().
+ - Improved speed for python files by buffering the RandomAccessFile.
+ - Added function attributes (pep-0232)
+ - Rich comparison (pep-0207)
+ - Updated cPickle to handle CPython compatible unicode strings.
+ - Updated sre to CPython-2.1a1
+ - Added the "new" module
+ - Added a PyServlet class to the util package.
+ - Warning framework (pep-0230).
+ - Added sys.add_classdir and sys.add_extdir.
+ - Added nested scope to the interpreter (pep-0227).
+
+ Bug fixes.
+ - Allow self referencing adapters to be collected when using weak
+ tables.
+ - Added workaround for a reader bug in MRJ22Jitc.01.
+ - Fixes #127340 where serializable parameter received a PyObject
+ instead of the wrapped java object.
+ - Include a LineNumberTable in the compiled class files.
+ - Fixed a java version test bug in the installer.
+
17-Jan-2001 Jython 2.0 final release
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