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Kuchling</font></b></p> <p><span class="email">amk@amk.ca</span></p> </center> </div> <p><br /></p><hr class='online-navigation' /> <div class='online-navigation'> <!--Table of Child-Links--> <A NAME="CHILD_LINKS"><!--z--></a> <UL CLASS="ChildLinks"> <LI><A href="contents.html">Contents</a> <LI><A href="node2.html">1 PEP 218: A Standard Set Datatype</a> <LI><A href="section-generators.html">2 PEP 255: Simple Generators</a> <LI><A href="section-encodings.html">3 PEP 263: Source Code Encodings</a> <LI><A href="node5.html">4 PEP 273: Importing Modules from Zip Archives</a> <LI><A href="node6.html">5 PEP 277: Unicode file name support for Windows NT</a> <LI><A href="node7.html">6 PEP 278: Universal Newline Support</a> <LI><A href="section-enumerate.html">7 PEP 279: enumerate()</a> <LI><A href="node9.html">8 PEP 282: The logging Package</a> <LI><A href="section-bool.html">9 PEP 285: A Boolean Type</a> <LI><A href="node11.html">10 PEP 293: Codec Error Handling Callbacks</a> <LI><A href="section-pep301.html">11 PEP 301: Package Index and Metadata for Distutils</a> <LI><A href="section-pep302.html">12 PEP 302: New Import Hooks</a> <LI><A href="node14.html">13 PEP 305: Comma-separated Files</a> <LI><A href="section-pep305.html">14 PEP 307: Pickle Enhancements</a> <LI><A href="section-slices.html">15 Extended Slices</a> <LI><A href="node17.html">16 Other Language Changes</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node17.html#SECTION0001710000000000000000">16.1 String Changes</a> <LI><A href="node17.html#SECTION0001720000000000000000">16.2 Optimizations</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node18.html">17 New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node18.html#SECTION0001810000000000000000">17.1 Date/Time Type</a> <LI><A href="node18.html#SECTION0001820000000000000000">17.2 The optparse Module</a> </ul> <LI><A href="section-pymalloc.html">18 Pymalloc: A Specialized Object Allocator</a> <LI><A href="node20.html">19 Build and C API Changes</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node20.html#SECTION0002010000000000000000">19.1 Port-Specific Changes</a> </ul> <LI><A href="section-other.html">20 Other Changes and Fixes</a> <LI><A href="node22.html">21 Porting to Python 2.3</a> <LI><A href="acks.html">22 Acknowledgements</a> <LI><A href="about.html">About this document ...</a> </ul> <!--End of Table of Child-Links--> </div> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <div class='online-navigation'><hr /> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='../icons/previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="Python Documentation Index" rel="parent" title="Python Documentation Index" href="../index.html"><img src='../icons/up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="Contents" rel="next" title="Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='../icons/next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">What's New in Python 2.3</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='../icons/contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='../icons/blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='../icons/blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="../index.html">Python Documentation Index</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="contents.html">Contents</A> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 1.00.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> See <i><a href="about.html">About this document...</a></i> for information on suggesting changes. </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>
