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authorArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2003-10-28 12:05:48 (GMT)
committerArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2003-10-28 12:05:48 (GMT)
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Deleting cyclic object comparison.
SF patch 825639 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039445.html
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@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ Core and builtins
- obj.__contains__() now returns True/False instead of 1/0. SF patch
820195.
+- Python no longer tries to be smart about recursive comparisons.
+ When comparing containers with cyclic references to themselves it
+ will now just hit the recursion limit. See SF patch 825639.
+
Extension modules
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