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@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ =================================== -- Most known bugs have been fixed. For example the pow(2,2,3L) bug on -Linux has been fixed. Also the re-entrancy problems with __del__ have -been fixed. +- Virtually all known bugs have been fixed. For example the +pow(2,2,3L) bug on Linux has been fixed. Also the re-entrancy +problems with __del__ have been fixed. - Most known memory leaks have been fixed. @@ -63,6 +63,52 @@ shortly, plus instructions on how to compile with THINK C 6.0.) - Used autoconf 2.0 to generate the configure script. Adapted configure.in to use the new features in autoconf 2.0. +- It should now build on the NeXT without intervention, even on the +3.3 Sparc pre-release. + +- __import__ is now called with 4 arguments: +(modulename, globals, locals, fromlist) + +- Characters passed to isspace() and friends are masked to nonnegative +values + +- Correctly compute pow(-3.0, 3) + +- Fix portability problems with getopt (configure now checks for a +non-GNU getopt) + +- Don't add frozenmain.o to libPython.a + +- Exceptions can now be classes + +- The socket module exports a long list of socket related symbols + +- Lots of Mac specific changes (this area of the source is not +completed!) + +- When a module object is deleted, it clears out its own dictionary +(this fixes a circularity in the references between functions and +their global dictionary) + +- Changed the error handling by [new]getargs() e.g. for "O&" + +- Dynamic loading of modules using shared libraries is supported for +several new platforms + +- Support "O&" in mkvalue() + +- Extension to findmethod(): findmethodinchain() (where a chain is a +linked list of methodlist arrays) + +- Callable() function is now public + + +Known bugs still remaining: +--------------------------- + +- There's still a memory leak in threads; bigger when +thread.exit_thread() is used + --Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl> URL: <http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Guido.van.Rossum.html> |