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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2007-10-04 00:20:27 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2007-10-04 00:20:27 (GMT)
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itertools.count() no longer limited to sys.maxint.
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@@ -270,6 +270,9 @@ Core and builtins
Library
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+- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised
+ an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs.
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- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66).