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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index c48f225..7bd9cbd 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language. will now turn the strings ``+nan`` and ``-nan`` into the corresponding IEEE 754 Not a Number values, and ``+inf`` and ``-inf`` into positive or negative infinity. This works on any platform with - IEEE 754 semantics. (Contributed by XXX.) + IEEE 754 semantics. (Contributed by Christian Heimes.) .. Patch 1635. @@ -1063,20 +1063,21 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include: ``"mant_dig"`` (number of digits in the mantissa), ``"epsilon"`` (smallest difference between 1.0 and the next largest value representable), and several others. + (Contributed by Christian Heimes.) .. Issue 1534 * Python's C API now includes two functions for case-insensitive string comparisions, ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``. - (Contributed by XXX.) + (Contributed by Christian Heimes.) .. Issue 1635 * Some macros were renamed. :cmacro:`Py_Size()` became :cmacro:`Py_SIZE()`, :cmacro:`Py_Type()` became :cmacro:`Py_TYPE()`, and :cmacro:`Py_Refcnt()` became :cmacro:`Py_REFCNT()`. Macros for backward - compatibility are still available. + compatibility are still available for Python 2.6. .. Issue 1629: XXX why was this done? |