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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-05-30 12:12:25 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-05-30 12:12:25 (GMT)
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Issue #5211: Complete removal of implicit coercions for the complex
type. Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in r78280, but that commit didn't remove coercion for rich comparisons.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
+ removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
+ alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
+
- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8