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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 8 |
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@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ Core and builtins Extension modules ----------------- +- The platform-independent routines for packing floats in IEEE formats + (struct.pack's <f, >f, <d, and >d codes; pickle and cPickle's protocol 1 + pickling of floats) ignored that rounding can cause a carry to + propagate. The worst consequence was that, in rare cases, <f and >f + could produce strings that, when unpacked again, were a factor of 2 + away from the original float. This has been fixed. See SF bug + #705836. + - New function time.tzset() provides access to the C library tzet() function, if supported. (SF patch #675422.) |