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@@ -66,6 +66,16 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins ----------------- +- Thanks to Armin Rigo, the last known way to provoke a system crash + by cleverly arranging for a comparison function to mutate a list + during a list.sort() operation has been fixed. The effect of + attempting to mutate a list, or even to inspect its contents or + length, while a sort is in progress, is not defined by the language. + The C implementation of Python 2.3 attempts to detect mutations, + and raise ValueError if one occurs, but there's no guarantee that + all mutations will be caught, or that any will be caught across + releases or implementations. + - Unicode file name processing for Windows (PEP 277) is implemented. All platforms now have an os.path.supports_unicode_filenames attribute, which is set to True on Windows NT/2000/XP, and False elsewhere. @@ -428,7 +438,7 @@ Library - Added operator.pow(a,b) which is equivalent to a**b. - Added random.sample(population,k) for random sampling without replacement. - Returns a k length list of unique elements chosen from the population. + Returns a k length list of unique elements chosen from the population. - random.randrange(-sys.maxint-1, sys.maxint) no longer raises OverflowError. That is, it now accepts any combination of 'start' |