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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2012-01-13 17:52:16 (GMT)
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Issue #13645: pyc files now contain the size of the corresponding source
code, to avoid timestamp collisions (especially on filesystems with a low timestamp resolution) when checking for freshness of the bytecode.
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #13645: pyc files now contain the size of the corresponding source
+ code, to avoid timestamp collisions (especially on filesystems with a low
+ timestamp resolution) when checking for freshness of the bytecode.
+
- PEP 380, Issue #11682: Add "yield from <x>" to support easy delegation to
subgenerators (initial patch by Greg Ewing, integration into 3.3 by
Renaud Blanch, Ryan Kelly, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Nick Coghlan)