Overview

Prerequisites

  • I assume that you know something about Python

Approach

  • I'm mostly going to discuss changes to the core language
  • New features since Python 1.5.2
  • Will not cover changes to C API or low-level internals

Outline

  • Changes to the core language and runtime environment
  • Unicode and internationalization
  • Additions to the standard library
  • Miscellaneous topics

Please ask questions!

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July 26, 2001, beazley@cs.uchicago.edu
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