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r84984 | mark.dickinson | 2010-09-23 21:11:19 +0100 (Thu, 23 Sep 2010) | 5 lines
Issue #9930: Remove an unnecessary type check in wrap_binaryfunc_r;
this was causing reversed method calls like float.__radd__(3.0, 1) to
return NotImplemented instead of the expected numeric value.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
+ float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the
+ expected 1.5.
+
- Issue #9804: ascii() now always represents unicode surrogate pairs as
a single ``\UXXXXXXXX``, regardless of whether the character is printable
or not. Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate