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authorMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2006-08-16 16:11:01 (GMT)
committerMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2006-08-16 16:11:01 (GMT)
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Add NEWS item mentioning the reverted distutils version number patch.
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@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ Core and builtins
Library
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+- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0. The change to
+ keep it programmatically in sync with the Python version running
+ the code (introduced in 2.5b3) has been reverted. It will continue
+ to be maintained manually as static string literal.
+
- If a the Python part of a ctypes callback function returns None,
and this cannot be converted to the required C type, an exception is
printed with PyErr_WriteUnraisable. Before this change, the C