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@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
Core and builtins
+- A new built-in type, bool, has been added, as well as built-in
+ names for its two values, True and False. Comparisons and sundry
+ other operations that return a truth value have been changed to
+ return a bool instead. Read PEP 285 for an explanantion of why this
+ is backward compatible.
+
- Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions,
deallocating a deeply nested structure could cause a segfault in the
garbage collector, due to interaction with the "trashcan" code;