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@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ Core and builtins
Extension modules
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+- Patch 1012740: truncate() on a writeable cStringIO now resets the
+ position to the end of the stream. This is consistent with the original
+ StringIO module and avoids inadvertently resurrecting data that was
+ supposed to have been truncated away.
+
- Added socket.socketpair().
Library
@@ -59,7 +64,7 @@ Library
- A new function tkFont.nametofont was added to return an existing
font. The Font class constructor now has an additional exists argument
which, if True, requests to return/configure an existing font, rather
- than creating a new one.
+ than creating a new one.
- Updated the decimal package's min() and max() methods to match the
latest revision of the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification.