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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-04-15 20:08:47 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-04-15 20:08:47 (GMT)
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Issue #13959: Rename imp to _imp and add Lib/imp.py and begin
rewriting functionality in pure Python. To start, imp.new_module() has been rewritten in pure Python, put into importlib (privately) and then publicly exposed in imp.
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Library
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+- Issue #13959: Add imp.py and rename the built-in module to _imp, allowing for
+ re-implementing parts of the module in pure Python.
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- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.