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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins ----------------- +- A frame object's f_lineno attribute can now be written to from a + trace function to change which line will execute next. A command to + exploit this from pdb has been added. [SF patch #643835] + - The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a builtin module to assure that at least the builtin codecs are available to the Python parser for source code decoding according to PEP 263. @@ -118,8 +122,8 @@ Core and builtins - SET_LINENO is gone. co_lnotab is now consulted to determine when to call the trace function. C code that accessed f_lineno should call - PyCode_Addr2Line instead (f_lineno is still there, but not kept up - to date). + PyCode_Addr2Line instead (f_lineno is still there, but only kept up + to date when there is a trace function set). - There's a new warning category, FutureWarning. This is used to warn about a number of situations where the value or sign of an integer @@ -439,6 +443,9 @@ Extension modules Library ------- +- pdb has a new 'j(ump)' command to select the next line to be + executed. + - The distutils created windows installers now can run a postinstallation script. |