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| author | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2018-08-22 18:21:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-08-22 18:21:05 (GMT) |
| commit | e7d4b2f205c711d056bea73a0093e2e2b200544b (patch) | |
| tree | 3a442a760dd83416b2141757f4bf546b623b6f36 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 28853a249b1d0c890b7e9ca345290bb8c1756446 (diff) | |
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bpo-2122: Make mmap.flush() behave same on all platforms (GH-8692)
Previously, its behavior was platform-dependent and there was no error checking
under Windows.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 1f816a1..d07896b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -265,6 +265,13 @@ Changes in the Python API task name is visible in the ``repr()`` output of :class:`asyncio.Task` and can also be retrieved using the :meth:`~asyncio.Task.get_name` method. +* The :meth:`mmap.flush() <mmap.mmap.flush>` method now returns ``None`` on + success and raises an exception on error under all platforms. Previously, + its behavior was platform-depended: a nonzero value was returned on success; + zero was returned on error under Windows. A zero value was returned on + success; an exception was raised on error under Unix. + (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`2122`.) + CPython bytecode changes ------------------------ |