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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/ACKS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 8 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ Drew Jenkins Flemming Kjær Jensen Jiba Orjan Johansen +Gregory K. Johnson Simon Johnston Evan Jones Richard Jones @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ Library as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either in the filesystem or zip files. +- The mailbox module can now modify and delete messages from + mailboxes, in addition to simply reading them. Thanks to Gregory + K. Johnson for writing the code, and to the 2005 Google Summer of + Code for funding his work. - The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local`` returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup. @@ -202,8 +206,8 @@ Core and builtins especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the - platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The - effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it + platform C library will in turn return that memory to the operating system. + The effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems. Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience. |