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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2009-07-05 10:01:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2009-07-05 10:01:24 (GMT) |
| commit | 463dc4bf26c37c5f90cfe9328087976a0bdc5757 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d8a0bcbd0a219f46f60b8125d9203c4dc4e22fa /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | 5b1abb7bb0553c0f9ed41bf75d1003eb47a86013 (diff) | |
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Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various inconsistencies in struct.pack
integer packing, and reenable some previously broken tests.
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@@ -1167,6 +1167,21 @@ C-API Extension Modules ----------------- +- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies + for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' + represents any of '=', '<', '>'. + + - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. + Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'. + + - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always + result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method + could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' + ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by + 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__, + TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for + 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases. + - Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp. - Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python |