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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 2?
*Release date: XX-XXX-2003*
Core and builtins
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+-----------------
- Through a bytecode optimizer bug (and I bet you didn't even know
Python *had* a bytecode optimizer :-), "unsigned" hex/oct constants
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ Core and builtins
Extension modules
-----------------
+- The imp module now has ways to acquire and release the "import
+ lock": imp.acquire_lock() and imp.release_lock(). Note: this is a
+ reentrant lock, so releasing the lock only truly releases it when
+ this is the last release_lock() call. You can check with
+ imp.lock_held(). (SF bug #580952 and patch #683257.)
+
- Fix some bugs in the parser module. SF bug #678518.
- Thanks to Scott David Daniels, a subtle bug in how the zlib