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@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 1? Core and builtins ----------------- +- At Python shutdown time (Py_Finalize()), 2.3 called cyclic garbage + collection twice, both before and after tearing down modules. The + call after tearing down modules has been disabled, because too much + of Python has been torn down then for __del__ methods and weakref + callbacks to execute sanely. The most common symptom was a sequence + of uninformative messages on stderr when Python shut down, produced + by threads trying to raise exceptions, but unable to report the nature + of their problems because too much of the sys module had already been + destroyed. + - Removed FutureWarnings related to hex/oct literals and conversions and left shifts. (Thanks to Kalle Svensson for SF patch 849227.) This addresses most of the remaining semantic changes promised by |