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@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 beta 2? Core and builtins ----------------- +- SF bug 742860: WeakKeyDictionary __delitem__ uses iterkeys. This + wasn't as threadsafe as it should be, was very inefficient, and could + raise RuntimeError if another thread mutated the dict during + __delitem__, or if a comparison function mutated it. A new + implementation of WeakKeyDictionary.__delitem__ repairs all that. + - SF bug 705231: builtin pow() no longer lets the platform C pow() raise -1.0 to integer powers, because (at least) glibc gets it wrong in some cases. The result should be -1.0 if the power is odd and 1.0 |