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r59686 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-04 00:54:04 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Bug #1301: fixed a bad assert in _tkinter.
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r59687 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-04 01:01:15 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
Finish-up the struct module optimizations started at the Iceland NFS sprint.
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r59688 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 01:04:52 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Fixed #1687: plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
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r59689 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 01:37:34 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan'))!=0L.
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r59691 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-04 02:15:50 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Markup fixes; grammar tweaks
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r59692 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-04 02:16:12 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Add items
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r59694 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 02:48:50 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Fixed math.copysign() on Windows
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r59695 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 03:03:25 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Filled in some XXX comments
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diff --git a/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst b/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst
index 9fa49da..a305788 100644
--- a/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@
.. function:: getwch()
- Wide char variant of `func:getch`, returns unicode.
+ Wide char variant of :func:`getch`, returning a Unicode value.
- ..versionadded:: 2.6
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
.. function:: getche()
@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@
.. function:: getwche()
- Wide char variant of `func:getche`, returns unicode.
+ Wide char variant of :func:`getche`, returning a Unicode value.
- ..versionadded:: 2.6
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
.. function:: putch(char)
@@ -126,9 +126,9 @@
.. function:: putwch(unicode_char)
- Wide char variant of `func:putch`, accepts unicode.
+ Wide char variant of :func:`putch`, accepting a Unicode value.
- ..versionadded:: 2.6
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
.. function:: ungetch(char)
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@
.. function:: ungetwch(unicode_char)
- Wide char variant of `func:ungetch`, accepts unicode.
+ Wide char variant of :func:`ungetch`, accepting a Unicode value.
- ..versionadded:: 2.6
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
.. _msvcrt-other:
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 4a8eb76..7bd9cbd 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -552,6 +552,14 @@
.. Patch 1507
+* More floating-point features were also added. The :func:`float` function
+ will now turn the strings ``+nan`` and ``-nan`` into the corresponding
+ IEEE 754 Not a Number values, and ``+inf`` and ``-inf`` into
+ positive or negative infinity. This works on any platform with
+ IEEE 754 semantics. (Contributed by Christian Heimes.)
+
+ .. Patch 1635.
+
* Changes to the :class:`Exception` interface
as dictated by :pep:`352` continue to be made. For 2.6,
the :attr:`message` attribute is being deprecated in favor of the
@@ -1055,14 +1063,35 @@
``"mant_dig"`` (number of digits in the mantissa), ``"epsilon"``
(smallest difference between 1.0 and the next largest value
representable), and several others.
+ (Contributed by Christian Heimes.)
.. Issue 1534
+* Python's C API now includes two functions for case-insensitive string
+ comparisions, ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)``
+ and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
+ (Contributed by Christian Heimes.)
+
+ .. Issue 1635
+
+* Some macros were renamed. :cmacro:`Py_Size()` became :cmacro:`Py_SIZE()`,
+ :cmacro:`Py_Type()` became :cmacro:`Py_TYPE()`, and
+ :cmacro:`Py_Refcnt()` became :cmacro:`Py_REFCNT()`. Macros for backward
+ compatibility are still available for Python 2.6.
+
+ .. Issue 1629: XXX why was this done?
+
.. ======================================================================
-Port-Specific Changes
----------------------
+Port-Specific Changes: Windows
+-----------------------------------
+
+* The :mod:`msvcrt` module now supports
+ both the normal and wide char variants of the console I/O
+ API. The :func:`getwch` function reads a keypress and returns a Unicode
+ value, as does the :func:`getwche` function. The :func:`putwch` function
+ takes a Unicode character and writes it to the console.
Platform-specific changes go here.
@@ -1089,9 +1118,15 @@
Porting to Python 2.6
=====================
-This section lists previously described changes that may require changes to your
+This section lists previously described changes, and a few
+esoteric bugfixes, that may require changes to your
code:
+* The :method:`__init__` method of :class:`collections.deque`
+ now clears any existing contents of the deque
+ before adding elements from the iterable. This change makes the
+ behavior match that of ``list.__init__()``.
+
* The :mod:`socket` module exception :exc:`socket.error` now inherits
from :exc:`IOError`. Previously it wasn't a subclass of
:exc:`StandardError` but now it is, through :exc:`IOError`.