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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
+ on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
+ permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
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- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.