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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 35 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 26 deletions
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ What's New in Python 3.0a3? Core and Builtins ----------------- -<<<<<<< .working -======= - Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot on a registered virtual subclass. @@ -44,7 +42,6 @@ Core and Builtins - Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear in the same code unit. ->>>>>>> .merge-right.r60845 - Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with the collections.Sequence API. @@ -87,18 +84,11 @@ Core and Builtins gc module; gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE or gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE are now enough to print the corresponding list of objects considered by the garbage collector. -- Issue #1580: New free format floating point representation based on - "Floating-Point Printer Sample Code", by Robert G. Burger. For example - repr(11./5) now returns '2.2' instead of '2.2000000000000002'. - - Issue #1573: Improper use of the keyword-only syntax makes the parser crash. - Issue #1564: The set implementation should special-case PyUnicode instead of PyString. - -<<<<<<< .working -======= - Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions. @@ -152,8 +142,8 @@ Core and Builtins instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py. -- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source - encoding. +- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its + original source encoding. - Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats with %G. @@ -523,7 +513,8 @@ Library - Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions and times. -- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint. +- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a + mountpoint. - Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing @@ -1093,7 +1084,8 @@ Library - idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092). - Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the - first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3 bytes. + first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3 + bytes. - The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members). @@ -1109,27 +1101,18 @@ Library method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner. ->>>>>>> .merge-right.r60891 Extension Modules ----------------- -<<<<<<< .working -<<<<<<< .working - Issue #1762972: Readded the reload() function as imp.reload() -======= -======= + - #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a direct EnvironmentError ->>>>>>> .merge-right.r60878 - Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ - #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows. ->>>>>>> .merge-right.r60845 - -<<<<<<< .working -======= - Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004. - #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr() @@ -1660,7 +1643,6 @@ Core and builtins - Fixed a reference-counting problem in property(). ->>>>>>> .merge-right.r60878 Library ------- @@ -1670,7 +1652,8 @@ Library - Created new UserDict class in collections module. This one inherits from and complies with the MutableMapping ABC. -- Removed UserDict.DictMixin. Replaced all its uses with collections.MutableMapping. +- Removed UserDict.DictMixin. Replaced all its uses with + collections.MutableMapping. - Issue #1703: getpass() should flush after writing prompt. |