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@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 beta 1? Core and builtins ----------------- +- Some horridly obscure problems were fixed involving interaction + between garbage collection and old-style classes with "ambitious" + getattr hooks. If an old-style instance didn't have a __del__ method, + but did have a __getattr__ hook, and the instance became reachable + only from an unreachable cycle, and the hook resurrected or deleted + unreachable objects when asked to resolve "__del__", anything up to + a segfault could happen. That's been repaired. + - dict.pop now takes an optional argument specifying a default value to return if the key is not in the dict. If a default is not given and the key is not found, a KeyError will still be raised. @@ -77,7 +85,7 @@ Library return 'not a == b' rather than 'a != b'. This gives the desired result for classes that define __eq__ without defining __ne__. -- sgmllib now supports SGML marked sections, in particular the +- sgmllib now supports SGML marked sections, in particular the MS Office extensions. - The urllib module now offers support for the iterator protocol. @@ -154,10 +162,10 @@ Mac - EasyDialogs dialogs are now movable-modal, and if the application is currently in the background they will ask to be moved to the foreground before displaying. - + - OSA Scripting support has improved a lot, and gensuitemodule.py can now be used by mere mortals. - + - The IDE (in a framework build) now includes introductory documentation in Apple Help Viewer format. |