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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 9 |
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@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins +- Cycles going through the __class__ link of a new-style instance are + now detected by the garbage collector. + - Classes using __slots__ are now properly garbage collected. [SF bug 519621] @@ -130,6 +133,12 @@ Extension modules Library +- Some fixes in the copy module: when an object is copied through its + __reduce__ method, there was no check for a __setstate__ method on + the result [SF patch 565085]; deepcopy should treat instances of + custom metaclasses the same way it treats instances of type 'type' + [SF patch 560794]. + - Sockets now support timeout mode. After s.settimeout(T), where T is a float expressing seconds, subsequent operations raise an exception if they cannot be completed within T seconds. To disable timeout |