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@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 beta 2? Core and builtins ----------------- +- 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 + if the power is even, and any float with a sufficiently large exponent + is (mathematically) an exact even integer. + - The encoding attribute has been added for file objects, and set to the terminal encoding on Unix and Windows. |