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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2010-09-10 10:47:22 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2010-09-10 10:47:22 (GMT)
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Issue 9816: Random.jumpahead(n) didn't work well for small values of n.
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Library
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+- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
+ different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
+ value.
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- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the