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authorRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2010-05-05 15:13:15 (GMT)
committerRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2010-05-05 15:13:15 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r80784 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-05-05 16:48:37 +0200 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 9 lines The C function used by uuid.uuid4 is broken on OSX 10.6 in that after os.fork() the parent and child generate the same sequence of UUIDs. This patch falls back to the the Python implementation on OSX 10.6 or later. Fixes issue #8621. ........
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Library
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+- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
+ parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
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- Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to
ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed