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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-09-13 14:16:46 (GMT)
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Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash) wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9828: Destroy the GIL in Py_Finalize(), so that it gets properly
+ re-created on a subsequent call to Py_Initialize(). The problem (a crash)
+ wouldn't appear in 3.1 or 2.7 where the GIL's structure is more trivial.
+
- Issue #9210: Configure option --with-wctype-functions was removed. Using the
functions from the libc caused the methods .upper() and lower() to become
locale aware and created subtly wrong results.