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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-01-03 16:59:18 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-01-03 16:59:18 (GMT)
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Issue #4580: slicing of memoryviews when itemsize != 1 is wrong.
Also fix len() to return number of items rather than length in bytes. I'm sorry it was not possible for me to work on this without reindenting a bit some stuff around. The indentation in memoryobject.c is a mess, I'll open a separate bug for it.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 0
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4580: Fix slicing of memoryviews when the item size is greater than
+ one byte. Also fixes the meaning of len() so that it returns the number of
+ items, rather than the size in bytes.
+
- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
- Issue #4747: When the terminal does not use utf-8, executing a script with