What's new in Shed Skin 0.9
Sep 13, 2011
- Scalability was again greatly improved.
- Performance of file I/O and complex numbers was greatly improved.
- Three new modules are supported.
- Six new example programs were added.
- There were many other bugfixes and improvements.
New in Shed Skin 0.8 (Jun 22, 2011)
- Support was added for the "struct" and "array" modules.
- Three new examples were added, for a total of 57.
- The C64 example was updated, and is now more than 3,000 lines (sloccount).
- An option was added to display exception tracebacks (shedskin -x).
- Many bugs were fixed.
New in Shed Skin 0.1 (Feb 2, 2009)
- Improved support for 'os' (UNIX).
- The addition of a JPEG decoder (1200 lines) and some other programs to the set of example programs. Extension module fixes.
- Improved compiler flags under OS X.
- An important type inference fix.
- Improved variable overloading.
- Casting improvements.
- Fixes for setslice and delslice corner cases.
- xrange returns an xrange object, not iterator.
- There are several minor bugfixes.
New in Shed Skin 0.0.30 (Dec 3, 2008)
- User-defined class support in extension modules.
- Very fast set implementation (FFAO).
- Complex number support.
- Many string formatting improvements.
- None maps to NULL instead of 0, and prints as 'None'.
- re.match_object.group accepts multiple arguments.
- Casting improvements.
- Inheritance from builtin exceptions other than Exception.
- Hashing None should work now.
- An important type inference fix, and many other bugfixes.
New in Shed Skin 0.0.29 (Sep 21, 2008)
- datetime and ConfigParser support.
- staticmethod and property decorators.
- FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and 64-bit support.
- GCC 4.3 fixes.
- Support for mapping keys ('%(key)x..' % some_dict).
- Improvements to the import mechanism. __init__ is much less of a special case now.
- Many fixes for calling ancestor methods (e.g. Parent.__init__).
- All example programs now compile as extension modules.
- There are many bugfixes.