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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -228,9 +228,13 @@ Core and builtins Extension modules ----------------- -- time module code that deals with time_t timestamps will now raise a - ValueError if more than a second is lost in precision from time_t being less - precise than a double. Closes bug #919012. +- time module code that deals with input POSIX timestamps will now raise + ValueError if more than a second is lost in precision when the + timestamp is cast to the platform C time_t type. There's no chance + that the platform will do anything sensible with the result in such + cases. This includes ctime(), localtime() and gmtime(). Assorted + fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods in the datetime module + were also protected. Closes bugs #919012 and 975996. - fcntl.ioctl now warns if the mutate flag is not specified. @@ -555,6 +559,11 @@ Build C API ----- +- Private function _PyTime_DoubleToTimet added, to convert a Python + timestamp (C double) to platform time_t with some out-of-bounds + checking. Declared in new header file timefuncs.h. It would be + good to expose some other internal timemodule.c functions there. + - New public functions PyEval_EvaluateFrame and PyGen_New to expose generator objects. |