RELEASED Python 2.3.1

[Anthony Baxter]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release of Python 2.3.1 (final).

Python 2.3.1 is a pure bug fix release of Python 2.3, released in late
July. A number of obscure crash-causing bugs have been fixed, various
memory leaks have been squished, but no new features have been added to
the language or to the library.

For more information on Python 2.3.1, including download links for
various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see:

http://www.python.org/2.3.1

Highlights of this new release include:

- Bugfixes

- The Windows installer now ships with documentation in searchable
htmlhelp format, rather than individual HTML files.

Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.3) are available
from the Python 2.3 page, at

http://www.python.org/2.3/highlights.html

This release was the work of a number of dedicated python-dev folks who
took the time to apply bugfixes back to the 2.3 code. The community owes
them many thanks for this work.

Enjoy the new release,
Anthony

Anthony Baxter
an*****@python. org
Python 2.3.1 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

[Peter Hansen]

Anthony Baxter wrote:

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release of Python 2.3.1 (final).

The highlights mention the existence of a new API PyThreadState_S etAsyncEnc,
which is "deliberate ly accessible only from C", that can interrupt a thread
by sending it an exception.

I can't find an online discussion of this, so I'm asking here. Why was this
made accessible only from C? Is it dangerous? Experimental? Someone feels
it will be used inappropriately if too readily available at the Python level?

Presumably somebody will come up with a little extension module or other
technique for calling this which will let anyone use it at will, so I'm unclear
on why it should be made inaccessible from Python.

-Peter

[Cousin Stanley]

| ...
| The Windows installer now ships with documentation
| in searchable htmlhelp format, rather than individual
| HTML files.
| ...

Is the htmlhelp format optional for Windows ???

Sometimes I like to edit the individual HTML docs ....

--
Cousin Stanley
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona

[John J. Lee]

"Cousin Stanley" <Co***********@ hotmail.com> writes:

| ...
| The Windows installer now ships with documentation
| in searchable htmlhelp format, rather than individual
| HTML files.
| ...

Is the htmlhelp format optional for Windows ???

Sometimes I like to edit the individual HTML docs ....

You can download the HTML docs separately, or decompile the .chm back
to HTML. See recent threads about this.
John

[Thomas Heller]

"Cousin Stanley" <Co***********@ hotmail.com> writes:

| ...
| The Windows installer now ships with documentation
| in searchable htmlhelp format, rather than individual
| HTML files.
| ...

Is the htmlhelp format optional for Windows ???

Sometimes I like to edit the individual HTML docs ....

There's a checkbox which you can uncheck to disable installing the
htmlhelp file. Then you can download the HTML archive and install it
manually.

Thomas

[Shu-Hsien Sheu]

Hi,

Sometimes, it is find of nice using:
print >> my_file_object, my_variabels
than using the standard f.write.
However, it cannot be done with pprint.pprint.
I understand that i can do it by redirecting the sys.stdout, but isn't
it nice if I can do something like pprint.pprint >> my_file_object,
my_dictionary?

BTW, the syntax
print >> my_file_object, my_variables
seems a bit awkward to me.
Isn't it better if we can simply use:
print *whatever_this_ is >> my _file_object
just like the way we do in unix shell?

-shuhsien

[vincent wehren]

"Anthony Baxter" <an*****@interl ink.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:ma******** *************** ***********@pyt hon.org...
| On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
| happy to announce the release of Python 2.3.1 (final).

Than why does the documentation (at least the Windows CHM-one) repeat the
claim:

"Release 2.4a0, documentation updated on 23 September 2003." on each page!

;)

Vincent Wehren

[Raymond Hettinger]

| The Windows installer now ships with documentation
| in searchable htmlhelp format, rather than individual
| HTML files.
| ...

Is the htmlhelp format optional for Windows ???

Sometimes I like to edit the individual HTML docs ....

Yes, you can still download the individual HTML files at:
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/doc/2.3.1/
Raymond Hettinger

[Peter Hansen]

Shu-Hsien Sheu wrote:

Sometimes, it is find of nice using:
print >> my_file_object, my_variabels
than using the standard f.write.
However, it cannot be done with pprint.pprint.

I suspect you are looking for either the second argument to pprint(),
or pprint.pformat( ) instead.

pprint.pprint(m y_variables, my_file_object)

or

print >>my_file_objec t, pprint.pformat( my_variables)

-Peter

[Skip Montanaro]

Shu-Hsien> Sometimes, it is find of nice using: print >> my_file_object,
Shu-Hsien> my_variabels than using the standard f.write. However, it
Shu-Hsien> cannot be done with pprint.pprint.

Actually, yes you can. Pprint.pprint() takes an optional second argument
which specifies the stream to write to. It defaults to sys.stdout.

Skip