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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 2? *Release date: XX-XXX-2003* Core and builtins ------------------ +---------------- - Through a bytecode optimizer bug (and I bet you didn't even know Python *had* a bytecode optimizer :-), "unsigned" hex/oct constants @@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ Core and builtins value, but according to PEP 237 it really needs to be 1 now. This will be backported to Python 2.2.3 a well. (SF #660455) +- int(s, base) sometimes sign-folds hex and oct constants; it only + does this when base is 0 and s.strip() starts with a '0'. When the + sign is actually folded, as in int("0xffffffff", 0) on a 32-bit + machine, which returns -1, a FutureWarning is now issued; in Python + 2.4, this will return 4294967295L, as do int("+0xffffffff", 0) and + int("0xffffffff", 16) right now. (PEP 347) + - super(X, x): x may now be a proxy for an X instance, i.e. issubclass(x.__class__, X) but not issubclass(type(x), X). |