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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 2?
Core and builtins
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+- Negative positions returned from PEP 293 error callbacks are now
+ treated as being relative to the end of the input string. Positions
+ that are out of bounds raise an IndexError.
+
- sys.path[0] (the directory from which the script is loaded) is now
turned into an absolute pathname, unless it is the empty string.
(SF patch #664376.)