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authorNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2008-03-17 20:22:43 (GMT)
committerNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2008-03-17 20:22:43 (GMT)
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Issue 2321: reduce memory usage (increase the memory that is returned
to the system) by using pymalloc for the data of unicode objects. Will backport.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
Core and builtins
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+- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
+ memory usage in some circumstances.
+
- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals
are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".
This also affects int(x, 0).