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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a3? Core +- Conversion of long to float now raises OverflowError if the long is too + big to represent as a C double. + - The 3-argument builtin pow() no longer allows a third non-None argument if either of the first two arguments is a float, or if both are of integer types and the second argument is negative (in which latter case @@ -95,6 +98,15 @@ Build API +- Note that PyLong_AsDouble can fail! This has always been true, but no + callers checked for it. It's more likely to fail now, because overflow + errors are properly detected now. The proper way to check: + + double x = PyLong_AsDouble(some_long_object); + if (x == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred()) { + /* The conversion failed. */ + } + - The GC API has been changed. Extensions that use the old API will still compile but will not participate in GC. To upgrade an extension module: |