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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2010-09-12 04:12:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2010-09-12 04:12:42 (GMT) |
| commit | fa11db0a02f22f8141206102efc21b125989364d (patch) | |
| tree | b5418b9a3f188eeefdd1d9314881d59842ee713e /Misc/NEWS | |
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Issue #9825: Replace OrderedDict.__del__() with weakrefs.
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@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #9825: Using __del__ in the definition of collections.OrderedDict made + it possible for the user to create self-referencing ordered dictionaries + which become permanently uncollectable GC garbage. Reinstated the Py3.1 + approach of using weakref proxies so that reference cycles never get created + in the first place. + - Issue #9579, #9580: Fix os.confstr() for value longer than 255 bytes and encode the value with filesystem encoding and surrogateescape (instead of utf-8 in strict mode). Patch written by David Watson. |