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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2003-07-16 20:11:34 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2003-07-16 20:11:34 (GMT)
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Add mmap bugfix; typo and grammar fixes
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ddf76ff..a98d410 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Extension modules
- SSL no longer crashes the interpreter when the remote side disconnects.
+- On Unix the mmap module can again be used to map device files.
+
- time.strptime now exclusively uses the Python implementation
contained within the _strptime module.
@@ -141,7 +143,7 @@ Core and builtins
- Reverted a 2.3 beta 1 change to iterators for subclasses of list and
tuple. By default, the iterators now access data elements directly
instead of going through __getitem__. If __getitem__ access is
- preferred, then __iter__ can be overriden.
+ preferred, then __iter__ can be overridden.
- Creating an attribute on a module (i.e. a global variable created by
__setattr__) that causes a builtin name to be shadowed now raises a
@@ -290,7 +292,7 @@ Tools/Demos
Build
-----
-- Setting DESTDIR during 'make install' now allows to specify a
+- Setting DESTDIR during 'make install' now allows specifying a
different root directory.
C API
@@ -489,7 +491,7 @@ Extension modules
away from the original float. This has been fixed. See SF bug
#705836.
-- New function time.tzset() provides access to the C library tzet()
+- New function time.tzset() provides access to the C library tzset()
function, if supported. (SF patch #675422.)
- Using createfilehandler, deletefilehandler, createtimerhandler functions