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@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ Core and builtins ----------------- - 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. - Codec error handling callbacks (PEP 293) are implemented. Error handling in unicode.encode or str.decode can now be customized. @@ -193,6 +195,10 @@ Core and builtins reliably) are also interrupted (as generally happens on for Linux/Unix.) [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232] +- sys.getwindowsversion() has been added on Windows. This + returns a tuple with information about the version of Windows + currently running. + - 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 |