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What's New in Jython 2.5

There are many new features in Jython 2.5, the intention of this article is to cover the new additions available with the 2.5 release. The previous release of Jython was 2.2.1, and this release takes a significant step forward adding language constructs and features bringing Jython in-line with more current versions of the CPython implementation.

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What's New in Jython 2.5

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What’s New in Jython 2.

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Author:

Mustapha Elmekki

Original Date: 08/20/2009 Modified Date: 03/03/2011

There are many new features in Jython 2.5, the intention of this article is to cover
the new additions available with the 2.5 release. The previous release of Jython
was 2.2.1, and this release takes a significant step forward adding language
constructs and features bringing Jython in-line with more current versions of the
CPython implementation.

Below is a quick reference for those new features that have been added to
Jython with the 2.5 release. In the coming weeks, new content will be added to
this article that explains each of the new features in greater detail.

New Features ­ Quick Look


yield is always a keyword
int() will now return a long instead of raising OverflowError if a number is
too large
list.insert() changed to be consistent with negative slice indexing
list.index() takes optional start, stop arguments.
Dictionaries gained a pop() method and .fromkeys() class method.
dict() constructor takes keyword arguments.
Many type objects are now callable.
PEP 279: enumerate() built-in added.
PEP 218: A Standard Set Datatype
PEP 273: Importing Modules from Zip Archives
PEP 278: Universal Newline Support
PEP 282: logging package
PEP 285: A Boolean Type
PEP 293: Codec Error Handling Callbacks
PEP 302: New Import Hooks
PEP 307: Pickle Enhancements
PEP 324: subprocess module
optparse module
ExposeAnnotations
Move antlr parser in /trunk/sandbox/ast to trunk
Hookup asm compiler to antlr, solidify and add 2.5 features
PEP 289: Generator expressions
PEP 263: Defining Python Source Code Encodings
PEP 318: Function/method decorators
PEP 308: Conditional expressions
PEP 343: ‘with’ statement
PEP 342: Coroutines via generators
PEP 341: Unified try/except/finally
PEP 352: Exceptions as new-style classes
UpgradeTo25CPythonLib
PEP 292: Simpler String Substitutions
PEP 327: decimal type
Ongoing parser fixes (universal newlines, line numbering, newline
handling, interactive interpreter bugs)
PEP 237: Unifying int/long
PEP 357: Allowing Any Object to be Used for Slicing
PEP 309: Partial Function Application
PEP 305: csv module
PEP 338: Executing modules as scripts
unicodedata module
PEP 328: Multi-line and absolute/relative imports
elementtree module -> jython-elementtree
New Java integration (based on new style classes)
ReplaceJythonc (Not yet complete)
The socket module now includes ipv6 support
The socket module now also includes Internationalized Domain Names
(RFC 3490) support on Java 6
Performance improvements around method invocation. 2.5.2 runs the
richards benchmark 3x faster and the pystone benchmark 20% faster than
2.5.1
The posix/nt module was rewritten in Java and the performance of its often
performance-critical stat function has significantly improved
Improved OSError errno messages on Windows
Slightly improved startup time (ongoing Issue #1380)
Better readline module emulation (required for IPython support)
Python functions can be directly passed to Java methods that take a single
method interface (such as Callable or Runnable)
Add google indexer (by Yin Wang and Steve Yegge)

Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank those developers that made the Jython 2.5.2
release possible. We also thank the community for helping to repair any issues
that are found.

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