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authorNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2016-09-10 10:00:02 (GMT)
committerNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2016-09-10 10:00:02 (GMT)
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Issue #27137: align Python & C implementations of functools.partial
The pure Python fallback implementation of functools.partial now matches the behaviour of its accelerated C counterpart for subclassing, pickling and text representation purposes. Patch by Emanuel Barry and Serhiy Storchaka.
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+- Issue #27137: the pure Python fallback implementation of ``functools.partial``
+ now matches the behaviour of its accelerated C counterpart for subclassing,
+ pickling and text representation purposes. Patch by Emanuel Barry and
+ Serhiy Storchaka.
+
- Issue #28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in range
between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.