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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/ACKS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 11 |
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@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Stig Bakken Greg Ball Luigi Ballabio Jeff Balogh +Matt Bandy Michael J. Barber Chris Barker Nick Barnes @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.2? Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read + non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread. + Patch by Matt Bandy. + - Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime() can now handle dates after 2038. @@ -25,6 +29,13 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime + function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is + false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range + accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system + dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported + by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated. + - Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows on an existing file. |