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@@ -1167,6 +1167,21 @@ C-API Extension Modules ----------------- +- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies + for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' + represents any of '=', '<', '>'. + + - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. + Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'. + + - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always + result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method + could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' + ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by + 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__, + TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for + 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases. + - Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp. - Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python |