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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
+ true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
+ rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
+ particular does not depend on the internal representation of a long.
+
- Issue #6108: unicode(exception) and str(exception) should return the same
message when only __str__ (and not __unicode__) is overridden in the subclass.