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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ Standard library - Restored support for HTTP/0.9 servers in httplib. -- XXX The math module was changed to suppress underflow errors and - just return 0. +- The math module was changed to stop raising OverflowError in case of + underflow, and return 0 instead in underflow cases. Whether Python + used to raise OverflowError in case of underflow was platform- + dependent (it did when the platform math library set errno to ERANGE + on underflow). - Fixed a bug in StringIO that occurred when the file position was not at the end of the file and write() was called with enough data to @@ -57,8 +60,11 @@ Standard library -l changed: It now reports a count of objects that are recognized as garbage but not freed by the garbage collector. -- The regression test for the math module was changed to report - exceptional behavior when the test is run in verbose mode. +- The regression test for the math module was changed to test + exceptional behavior when the test is run in verbose mode. Python + cannot yet guarantee consistent exception behavior across platforms, + so the exception part of test_math is run only in verbose mode, and + may fail on your platform. Internals @@ -70,8 +76,8 @@ Build issues - Changed compiler flags, so that gcc is always invoked with -Wall and -Wstrict-prototypes. Users compiling Python with GCC should see exactly one warning, except if they have passed configure the - --with-pydebug flag. The expect warning is for getopt() in - Modules/main.c. + --with-pydebug flag. The expected warning is for getopt() in + Modules/main.c. This will warning will be fixed for Python 2.1. - Fixed configure to add -threads argument during linking on OSF1. |