What's New in Python 2.4 From Python PEP previous page next page Up: Python Documentation Index Next: Contents What's New in Python 2.4 A.M. Kuchling Python Software Foundation Email: amk@amk.ca Contents 1 PEP 218: Built-In Set Objects 2 PEP 237: Unifying Long Integers and Integers 3 PEP 289: Generator Expressions 4 PEP 292: Simpler String Substitutions 5 PEP 318: Decorators for Functions and Methods 6 PEP 322: Reverse Iteration 7 PEP 324: New subprocess Module 8 PEP 327: Decimal Data Type 8.1 Why is Decimal needed? 8.2 The Decimal type 8.3 The Context type 9 PEP 328: Multi-line Imports 10 PEP 331: Locale-Independent Float/String Conversions 11 Other Language Changes 11.1 Optimizations 12 New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules 12.1 cookielib 12.2 doctest 13 Build and C API Changes 13.1 Port-Specific Changes 14 Porting to Python 2.4 15 Acknowledgements About this document ... What's New in Python 2.4 Up: Python Documentation Index Next: Contents Release 1.01. See About this document... for information on suggesting changes. previous page start next page
