SGML is an ISO standard to define markup standards. Two of its derivatives are HTML and XML (XHTML is an application of XML itself).
The standard library provides a lot of modules to parse HTML and XML. In my benchmark today I decided to consider only the ones oriented to HTML (and SGML since it’s a [...]
New codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE are in place. EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul syllables. BeOS is no longer supported (remember that AtheOS, Win9x and WinME as well will be no longer supported in Python 2.6, see PEP 11 for the details). uuid creation is now threadsafe.
Python 2.6 documentation will be in the reST format. I, personally, am really happy that LaTeX doc is gone.
See for example the documentation of the sys module
I began writing this library months ago because I needed it in a project. At that time there was a bunch of libraries all quite useless for us. One didn’t really work, another didn’t support authentication, another was incomplete so I started this library that, in the end, we didn’t use because Flickr ceased [...]
