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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2004-08-25 02:14:08 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2004-08-25 02:14:08 (GMT)
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Stop producing or using OverflowWarning. PEP 237 thought this would
happen in 2.3, but nobody noticed it still was getting generated (the warning was disabled by default). OverflowWarning and PyExc_OverflowWarning should be removed for 2.5, and left notes all over saying so.
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@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 3?
Core and builtins
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+- OverflowWarning is no longer generated. PEP 237 scheduled this to
+ occur in Python 2.3, but since OverflowWarning was disabled by default,
+ nobody realized it was still being generated. On the chance that user
+ code is still using them, the Python builtin OverflowWarning, and
+ corresponding C API PyExc_OverflowWarning, will exist until Python 2.5.
+
- Py_InitializeEx has been added.
- Fix the order of application of decorators. The proper order is bottom-up;