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  {\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until
  the final version of Python 2.1 is released.  Currently it is up to date
! for Python 2.1 alpha 2.  Please send any comments, bug reports, or
  questions, no matter how minor, to \email{am...@bi...}.  }

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  {\large This document is a draft, and is subject to change until
  the final version of Python 2.1 is released.  Currently it is up to date
! for Python 2.1 beta 1.  Please send any comments, bug reports, or
  questions, no matter how minor, to \email{am...@bi...}.  }

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  %======================================================================
! \section{PEP 232: Function Attributes}

! In Python 2.1, functions can now have arbitrary information attached
! to them.  People were often using docstrings to hold information about
! functions and methods, because the \code{__doc__} attribute was the
! only way of attaching any information to a function.  For example, in
! the Zope Web application server, functions are marked as safe for
! public access by having a docstring, and in John Aycock's SPARK
! parsing framework, docstrings hold parts of the BNF grammar to be
! parsed.  This overloading is unfortunate, since docstrings are really
! intended to hold a function's documentation, and it means you can't
! properly document functions intended for private use in Zope.
! 
! Attributes can now be set and retrieved on functions, using the
! regular Python syntax:
! 
! \begin{verbatim}
! def f(): pass
! 
! f.publish = 1
! f.secure = 1
! f.grammar = "A ::= B (C D)*"
! \end{verbatim}
! 
! The dictionary containing attributes can be accessed as
! \member{__dict__}. Unlike the \member{__dict__} attribute of class
! instances, in functions you can actually assign a new dictionary to
! \member{__dict__}, though the new value is restricted to a regular
! Python dictionary; you can't be tricky and set it to a
! \class{UserDict} instance, a DBM file, or any other random mapping
! object.

- \begin{seealso}
- 
- \seepep{232}{Function Attributes}{Written and implemented by Barry
- Warsaw.}
- 
- \end{seealso}
- 
  %======================================================================
  \section{PEP 207: Rich Comparisons}
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  %======================================================================
! \section{PEP 236: \module{__future__} Directives}

! XXX

  %======================================================================
  \section{PEP 207: Rich Comparisons}
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  %======================================================================
+ \section{PEP 235: Case-Insensitive Platforms and \keyword{import}}
+ 
+ XXX
+ 
+ %======================================================================
  \section{PEP 217: Interactive Display Hook}

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  \begin{itemize}

+ \item Ka-Ping Yee contributed two new modules: \module{inspect.py}, a module for
+ getting information about live Python code, and \module{pydoc.py}, a
+ module for interactively converting docstrings to HTML or text.
+ As a bonus, \file{Tools/scripts/pydoc}, which is now automatically
+ installed, uses \module{pydoc.py} to display documentation given a Python module, package, or class name.  For example,
+ \samp{pydoc xml.dom} displays the following:
+ 
+ \begin{verbatim}
+ Python Library Documentation: package xml.dom in xml
+  
+ NAME
+     xml.dom - W3C Document Object Model implementation for Python.
+  
+ FILE
+     /usr/local/lib/python2.1/xml/dom/__init__.pyc
+  
+ DESCRIPTION
+     The Python mapping of the Document Object Model is documented in the
+     Python Library Reference in the section on the xml.dom package.
+  
+     This package contains the following modules:
+       ...
+ \end{verbatim}
+ 
+ \file{pydoc} quickly becomes addictive; try it out!
+ 
  \item The \module{doctest} module provides a testing framework based
  on running embedded examples in docstrings and comparing the results
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  \item The PyXML package has gone through a few releases since Python
  2.0, and Python 2.1 includes an updated version of the \module{xml}
! package.  Some of the noteworthy changes include support for Expat
! 1.2, the ability for Expat parsers to handle files in any encoding
! supported by Python, and various bugfixes for SAX, DOM, and the
! \module{minidom} module.

  \item Various functions in the \module{time} module, such as
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  \item The PyXML package has gone through a few releases since Python
  2.0, and Python 2.1 includes an updated version of the \module{xml}
! package.  Some of the noteworthy changes include support for Expat 1.2
! and later versions, the ability for Expat parsers to handle files in
! any encoding supported by Python, and various bugfixes for SAX, DOM,
! and the \module{minidom} module.

  \item Various functions in the \module{time} module, such as
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  %======================================================================
! \section{Minor Changes and Fixes}

  There were relatively few smaller changes made in Python 2.1 due to
--- 593,597 ----

  %======================================================================
! \section{Other Changes and Fixes}

  There were relatively few smaller changes made in Python 2.1 due to
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  to get large pools of memory, and then fulfills smaller memory
  requests from these pools.  It can be enabled by providing the
! "--with-pymalloc" option to the \filename{configure} script; see
! \filename{Objects/obmalloc.c} for the implementation details.
  Contributed by Vladimir Marangozov.

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  to get large pools of memory, and then fulfills smaller memory
  requests from these pools.  It can be enabled by providing the
! "--with-pymalloc" option to the \file{configure} script; see
! \file{Objects/obmalloc.c} for the implementation details.
  Contributed by Vladimir Marangozov.

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  \end{itemize}

! And there's the usual list of bugfixes, minor memory leaks, docstring
! edits, and other tweaks, too lengthy to be worth itemizing; see the
! CVS logs for the full details if you want them.

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  \end{itemize}

! And there's the usual list of minor bugfixes, minor memory leaks,
! docstring edits, and other tweaks, too lengthy to be worth itemizing;
! see the CVS logs for the full details if you want them.