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@@ -12,6 +12,39 @@ What's New in Python 3.0a3? Core and Builtins ----------------- +<<<<<<< .working +======= +- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also + prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot + on a registered virtual subclass. + +- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or + imaginary part. + +- Clear all free list during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order + to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the + OS earlier. + +- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of + collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method. + +- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free + list was not freed on interpreter shutdown. + +- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries + each. + +- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions + ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList`` + to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats. + +- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls. + Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t. + +- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear + in the same code unit. + +>>>>>>> .merge-right.r60845 - Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with the collections.Sequence API. @@ -67,7 +100,13 @@ Core and Builtins Extension Modules ----------------- +<<<<<<< .working - Issue #1762972: Readded the reload() function as imp.reload() +======= +- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ + +- #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows. +>>>>>>> .merge-right.r60845 Library |