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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2013-05-24 12:05:07 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2013-05-24 12:05:07 (GMT)
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Issue #17953: document that sys.modules shouldn't be replaced (thanks
to interp->modules) and that deleting essential items from the dict can cause Python to blow up. Thanks to Terry Reedy for coming up with initial wording and Yogesh Chaudhari for coming up with a patch using that wording in parallel to my own patch.
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Documentation
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+- Issue #17953: Mention that you shouldn't replace sys.modules and deleting key
+ items will cause Python to not be happy.
+
- Issue #17844: Add links to encoders and decoders for bytes-to-bytes codecs.
- Issue #14097: improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial.