[Python-checkins] r43587 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex (original) (raw)

andrew.kuchling python-checkins at python.org
Mon Apr 3 14:41:38 CEST 2006

Author: andrew.kuchling Date: Mon Apr 3 14:41:37 2006 New Revision: 43587

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex Log: Add sections for new modules; will write tutorial later

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex

--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex (original) +++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex Mon Apr 3 14:41:37 2006 @@ -846,8 +846,6 @@ \begin{itemize} -% ctypes added

% collections.deque now has .remove() % collections.defaultdict

@@ -989,11 +987,6 @@

% patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).

-\item A new package \module{xml.etree} has been added, which contains -a subset of the ElementTree XML library. Available modules are -\module{ElementTree}, \module{ElementPath}, and -\module{ElementInclude}, from ElementTree 1.2.6. (Contributed by -Fredrik Lundh.)

\item The \module{xmlrpclib} module now supports returning \class{datetime} objects for the XML-RPC date type. Supply @@ -1011,7 +1004,33 @@

% XXX new distutils features: upload

-%\subsection{The ElementTree package} +\subsection{The ctypes package} + +The \module{ctypes} package, written by Thomas Heller, has been added +to the standard library. \module{ctypes} lets you call arbitrary functions +in shared libraries or DLLs. + +In subsequent alpha releases of Python 2.5, I'll add a brief +introduction that shows some basic usage of the module. + +% XXX write introduction + + +\subsection{The ElementTree package} + +A subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree library for processing XML has +been added to the standard library as \module{xml.etree}. The +vailable modules are +\module{ElementTree}, \module{ElementPath}, and +\module{ElementInclude} from ElementTree 1.2.6. + +In subsequent alpha releases of Python 2.5, I'll add a brief +introduction that will provide a page-long overview of using +ElementTree. Full documentation for +ElementTree is available at \url{http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm}. + +% XXX write introduction +

\subsection{The hashlib package}

@@ -1061,9 +1080,30 @@ This module was contributed by Gregory P. Smith.

-%\subsection{The sqlite3 package} +\subsection{The sqlite3 package} + +The pysqlite module (\url{http://www.pysqlite.org}), a wrapper for the +SQLite embedded database, has been added to the standard library under +the package name \module{sqlite3}. SQLite is a C library that +provides a SQL-language database that stores data in disk files +without requiring a separate server process. pysqlite was written by +Gerhard H"aring, and provides a SQL interface that complies with the +DB-API 2.0 specification. This means that it should be possible to +write the first version of your applications using SQLite for data +storage and, if switching to a larger database such as PostgreSQL or +Oracle is necessary, the switch should be relatively easy. + +If you're compiling the Python source yourself, note that the source +tree doesn't include the SQLite code itself, only the wrapper module. +You'll need to have the SQLite libraries and headers installed before +compiling Python, and the build process will compile the module when +the necessary headers are available. + +In subsequent alpha releases of Python 2.5, I'll add a brief +introduction that shows some basic usage of the module. + +% XXX write introduction

-% XXX write these sections

% ====================================================================== \section{Build and C API Changes}

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