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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@ Core and builtins to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string exceptions. -- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined, this behavior is the default. +- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default. The name was removed from Include/code.h. -- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added (x if cond else y). +- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y). - Patch 1433928: - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects). @@ -125,12 +125,12 @@ Core and builtins - Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005. -- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correct even with unsigned longs +- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs and long longs. - SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import" - It was possible dlerror() returns a NULL pointer, use a default error - message in this case. + It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so + it will now use a default error message in this case. - Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap @@ -140,13 +140,13 @@ Core and builtins - Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings -- Speed up some Unicode operations. +- Sped up some Unicode operations. - A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access to Python code; an _ast module was added. -- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being for generator expressions. +- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions. The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10)) - SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1. @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Core and builtins - SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError. -- All iterators now have a Boolean value of true. Formerly, some iterators +- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator was empty. @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ Core and builtins - SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how - much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so no + much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ Library - Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty. - Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output - separator and do not output trailing semicola. + separator and do not output trailing semicolon. - Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not @@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ Library - Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom, as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors. -- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module +- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module; it can be missing in embedded interpreters - Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib. @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ Library Bug #1224621. - The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full - roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python sourcecode. In addition, + roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition, the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that terminates by raising StopIteration. |