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r70866 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:06:57 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line
#4882: document named group behavior a bit better.
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r70867 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:10:35 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line
#1096310: document usage of sys.__std*__ a bit better.
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r70868 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:12:17 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line
#5190: export make_option in __all__.
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r70870 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:26:24 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line
#4411: document mro() and __mro__. (I hope I got it right.)
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r70871 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:30:56 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line
#5618: fix typo.
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r70893 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 22:56:32 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line
#1530012: move TQS section before raw strings.
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r70896 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 23:15:33 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line
#5598: document DocFileSuite *args argument.
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r70902 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 23:43:03 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line
#1675026: add a note about a strange Windows problem, and remove notes about AtheOS.
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r70905 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 00:03:40 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5563: more documentation for bdist_msi.
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r70907 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 00:18:19 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#3427: document correct return type for urlopen().info().
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r70912 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 00:35:46 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5617: add a handy function to print a unicode string to gdbinit.
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r70915 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 00:40:16 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5018: remove confusing paragraph.
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r70927 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 01:01:27 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Dont shout to users.
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r70933 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 02:04:33 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
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r70940 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 06:21:14 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
The SimpleXMLRPCServer's CGI handler now runs like a pony.
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r70944 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 06:32:39 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5631: add upload to list of possible commands, which is presented in --help-commands.
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r70954 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 17:23:43 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Fix test_xmlrpc and make the CGI handler work with no CONTENT_LENGTH.
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r70963 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 19:46:01 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5655: fix docstring oversight.
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r70998 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 23:54:21 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
In Pdb, stop assigning values to __builtin__._ which interferes with the one commonly installed by gettext.
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r71056 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-02 19:43:07 +0200 (Do, 02 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
Actually the displayhook should print the repr.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c108964..f518fa9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@
- Issue 1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
+- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
+ printing out values.
+
+- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
+
+- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
+ instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
+ threads.
+
+- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
+
+- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
+
+- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
+ been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
+ that it was failing to do localization.
+
- Issue 2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
mailbox.MH.get_message().
@@ -508,6 +525,18 @@
- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
+
+- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
+ that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
+ from test support, which does the conversion.
+
+- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
+
+
What's New in Python 2.6 final
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