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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 2744103..16f9a9e 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -512,9 +512,9 @@ generators: \exception{GeneratorExit} or \exception{StopIteration}; catching the exception and doing anything else is illegal and will trigger a \exception{RuntimeError}. \method{close()} will also be called by - Python's garbage collection when the generator is garbage-collected. + Python's garbage collector when the generator is garbage-collected. - If you need to run cleanup code in case of a \exception{GeneratorExit}, + If you need to run cleanup code when a \exception{GeneratorExit} occurs, I suggest using a \code{try: ... finally:} suite instead of catching \exception{GeneratorExit}. @@ -1143,6 +1143,13 @@ added by Fredrik Lundh and Andrew Dalke at the NeedForSpeed sprint. Character map decoding was improved by Walter D\"orwald.) % Patch 1313939 +\item The \function{long(\var{str}, \var{base})} function is now +faster on long digit strings because fewer intermediate results are +calculated. The peak is for strings of around 800--1000 digits where +the function is 6 times faster. +(Contributed by Alan McIntyre and committed at the NeedForSpeed sprint.) +% Patch 1442927 + \item The \module{struct} module now compiles structure format strings into an internal representation and caches this representation, yielding a 20\% speedup. (Contributed by Bob Ippolito |