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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-02-02 07:51:32 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-02-02 07:51:32 (GMT)
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long(string, base) now takes time linear in len(string) when base is a
power of 2. Enabled the tail end of test_long() in pickletester.py because it no longer takes forever when run from test_pickle.py.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 2?
Core and builtins
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+- long(string, base) takes time linear in len(string) when base is a power
+ of 2 now. It used to take time quadratic in len(string).
+
- filter returns now Unicode results for Unicode arguments.
- raw_input can now return Unicode objects.