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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 0
Core and Builtins
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+- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
+ instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
+ Python's overall memory).
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- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the