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r62914 | skip.montanaro | 2008-05-08 20:45:00 -0400 (Thu, 08 May 2008) | 4 lines
Add an example about using NamedTemporaryFile() to replace mktemp(). I'm
unclear whether the verbatim text should have been indented or by how much.
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r62915 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-08 20:50:40 -0400 (Thu, 08 May 2008) | 2 lines
reindent example
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r62927 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:09:25 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2788: add .hgignore file.
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r62928 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:10:43 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2781: fix function name.
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r62929 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:18:27 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add a sentence to basicConfig() that is in the docstring.
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r62930 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:26:54 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add another link to colorsys docs.
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r62931 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:36:07 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add Kodos as a re reference.
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r62932 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:39:58 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add a note about using reload().
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r62933 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-09 07:46:05 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 3 lines
Update planned release date.
Uncomment PEP 370 section.
Add some module items
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r62934 | christian.heimes | 2008-05-09 08:19:09 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 1 line
Add --user option to build_ext
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r62948 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-09 13:54:23 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 3 lines
Issue #2487. math.ldexp(x, n) raised OverflowError when n was large and
negative; fix to return an (appropriately signed) zero instead.
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r62949 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-09 14:21:55 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 1 line
Use the CHM file name that Sphinx assigns.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 75e8be0..31b2678 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
- The ConfigParser module has been renamed to configparser.
+- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
+ large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
+ suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
+ OverflowError.
+
- Issue 2865: webbrowser.open() works again in a KDE environment.
- The multifile module has been removed.