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r67952 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 18:42:40 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4752: actually use custom handler in example.
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r67953 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:20:04 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Patch #4739 by David Laban: add symbols to pydoc help topics,
so that ``help('@')`` works as expected.
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r67955 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:27:53 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Follow-up to r67746 in order to restore backwards-compatibility for
those who (monkey-)patch TextWrapper.wordsep_re with a custom RE.
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r67957 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:49:19 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4754: improve winsound documentation.
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r67958 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:02:59 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4682: 'b' is actually unsigned char.
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r67960 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:04:44 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4695: fix backslashery.
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r67961 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:06:04 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Use :samp: role.
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r67963 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:11:15 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4671: document that pydoc imports modules.
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r67965 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-12-27 21:34:52 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
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r67967 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-27 23:18:58 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 1 line
fix markup
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r67970 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-28 02:52:58 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Fix name mangling of PyUnicode_ClearFreeList.
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r67971 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-28 03:10:35 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Sort UCS-2/UCS-4 name mangling list.
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r67973 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-28 03:58:22 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Document Py_VaBuildValue.
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r67982 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 16:37:31 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line
fix WORD_BIGEDIAN declaration in Universal builds; fixes #4060 and #4728
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r67988 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-12-28 20:40:56 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Issue4064: architecture string for universal builds on OSX
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r67990 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-12-28 20:50:40 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Update the fix for issue4064 to deal correctly with all three variants of
universal builds that are presented by the configure script.
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r67995 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 22:16:07 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line
#4763 PyErr_ExceptionMatches won't blow up with NULL arguments
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r68014 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 18:47:42 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line
#4764 set IOError.filename when trying to open a directory on POSIX platforms
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r68016 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 18:56:58 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line
#4764 in io.open, set IOError.filename when trying to open a directory on POSIX platforms
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r68030 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 22:38:14 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line
fix French
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r68057 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-30 08:01:25 +0100 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Minor documentation change relating to NullHandler.
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r68061 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-30 11:15:49 +0100 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4778: attributes can't be called.
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r68112 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 00:48:39 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line
#4795 inspect.isgeneratorfunction() should return False instead of None
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r68115 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 05:04:41 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line
simplfy code
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r68116 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 12:46:51 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4100: note that element children are not necessarily present on "start" events.
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r68117 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 12:53:55 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4156: make clear that "protocol" is to be replaced with the protocol name.
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r68118 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:00:19 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4185: clarify escape behavior of replacement strings.
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r68120 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:15:31 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 4 lines
#4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4
in struct's L format.
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r68121 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:43:33 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Point to types module in new module deprecation notice.
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r68123 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:52:29 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4784: ... on three counts ...
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r68124 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:53:19 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4782: Fix markup error that hid load() and loads().
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r68125 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 14:02:09 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4776: add data_files and package_dir arguments.
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r68126 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 14:05:13 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Handlers are in the `logging.handlers` module.
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r68127 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 14:14:49 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4767: Use correct submodules for all MIME classes.
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r68128 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-01 15:11:22 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 3 lines
Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator did not get collected.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9bdd262..84f5772 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,9 +12,21 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
+ did not get collected.
+
- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
+- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
+ directory on POSIX systems.
+
+- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
+ systems.
+
+- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
+ bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
+
- Issue #4759: fix a segfault for bytearray.translate(x, None).
- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
@@ -138,9 +150,18 @@
Library
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+- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
+ the function is not a generator.
+
- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
+ - Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
+ works as expected in the interactive environment.
+
+- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
+ Gabriel Genellina.
+
- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
@@ -206,9 +227,16 @@
- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
when protocol 0 is used.
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
+
Build
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+- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
+
- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
@@ -239,6 +267,10 @@
Extension Modules
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+- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
+
+- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
+
- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
OpenBSD.