SF bug[ #423781: pprint.isrecursive() broken.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index aeb81c5..b6ee611 100644
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@@ -2,22 +2,23 @@
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Core
+
- Some operating systems now support the concept of a default Unicode
encoding for file system operations. Notably, Windows supports 'mbcs'
as the default. The Macintosh will also adopt this concept in the medium
- term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than
+ term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than
'mbcs'.
- On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for
+ On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for
functions that return filenames (such as os.listdir()) to return Python
string objects pre-encoded using the default file system encoding for
the platform. As this encoding is likely to be different from Python's
default encoding, converting this name to a Unicode object before passing
it back to the Operating System would result in a Unicode error, as Python
- would attempt to use it's default encoding (generally ASCII) rather
- than the default encoding for the file system.
- In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with
- Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as
- you expect, increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context.
+ would attempt to use its default encoding (generally ASCII) rather than
+ the default encoding for the file system.
+ In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with
+ Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as you expect,
+ increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context.
See [????] for more details, including examples.
- Float (and complex) literals in source code were evaluated to full
@@ -82,6 +83,23 @@
to crash if the element comparison routines for the dict keys and/or
values mutated the dicts. Making the code bulletproof slowed it down.
+Library
+
+- Cookie.py now sorts key+value pairs by key in output strings.
+
+- pprint.isrecursive(object) didn't correctly identify recursive objects.
+ Now it does.
+
+Tests
+
+- New test_mutants.py runs dict comparisons where the key and value
+ comparison operators mutute the dicts randomly during comparison. This
+ rapidly causes Python to crash under earlier releases (not for the faint
+ of heart: it can also cause Win9x to freeze or reboot!).
+
+- New test_pprint.py verfies that pprint.isrecursive() and
+ pprint.isreadable() return sensible results.
+
What's New in Python 2.1 (final)?
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