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@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins +- Ctrl+C handling on Windows has been made more consistent with + other platforms. KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught, + and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the + process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x). Ctrl+C will + interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes + created via the popen family are also interrupted (as generally + happens on for Linux/Unix). [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232] + - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return a string. Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time, but a buffer object would be returned when the repetition count |