Other Library Enhancements
time module
Many functions now have optional arguments.
print time.asctime() # compare to print time.asctime(time.localtime(time.time()))
UserString module
A subclassable wrapper around string objects
filecmp module
Functions for comparing files and directories
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O'Reilly OSCON 2001, New Features in Python 2, Slide 70
July 26, 2001, beazley@cs.uchicago.edu
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