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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY index 60635fb..7119362 100644 --- a/Misc/HISTORY +++ b/Misc/HISTORY @@ -3096,7 +3096,7 @@ Core and builtins would not be removed while allocating a new weakref object. Since GC could be invoked at that time, however, that assumption was invalid. In a truly obscure case of GC being triggered during - creation for a new weakref object for an referent which already + creation for a new weakref object for a referent which already has a weakref without a callback which is only referenced from cyclic trash, a memory error can occur. This consistently created a segfault in a debug build, but provided less predictable behavior in @@ -7825,7 +7825,7 @@ Standard library - xml.dom.minidom offers a toprettyxml method. A number of DOM conformance issues have been resolved. In particular, Element now - has an hasAttributes method, and the handling of namespaces was + has a hasAttributes method, and the handling of namespaces was improved. - Ka-Ping Yee contributed two new modules: inspect.py, a module for @@ -9315,7 +9315,7 @@ list of all new modules is included below. Probably the most pervasive change is the addition of Unicode support. We've added a new fundamental datatype, the Unicode string, a new -build-in function unicode(), an numerous C APIs to deal with Unicode +built-in function unicode(), a numerous C APIs to deal with Unicode and encodings. See the file Misc/unicode.txt for details, or http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/unicode-proposal.txt. @@ -10800,7 +10800,7 @@ real list objects. - The uu module now deals better with trailing garbage generated by some broke uuencoders. -- The telnet module now has an my_interact() method which uses threads +- The telnet module now has a my_interact() method which uses threads instead of select. The interact() method uses this by default on Windows (where the single-threaded version doesn't work). @@ -11857,7 +11857,7 @@ PyEval_CallMethod(). - New macros to access object members for PyFunction, PyCFunction objects. -- New APIs PyImport_AppendInittab() an PyImport_ExtendInittab() to +- New APIs PyImport_AppendInittab() and PyImport_ExtendInittab() to dynamically add one or many entries to the table of built-in modules. - New macro Py_InitModule3(name, methods, doc) which calls @@ -16267,7 +16267,7 @@ a string it is returned unchanged, otherwise it returns `x`. * repr(x) returns the same as `x`. (Some users found it easier to have this as a function.) -* round(x) returns the floating point number x rounded to an whole +* round(x) returns the floating point number x rounded to a whole number, represented as a floating point number. round(x, n) returns x rounded to n digits. |