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r67295 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 05:05:12 +0100 (jeu., 20 nov. 2008) | 1 line
move useful sys.settrace information to the function's documentation from the debugger
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r67301 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 22:25:31 +0100 (jeu., 20 nov. 2008) | 1 line
fix indentation and a sphinx warning
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r67302 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 22:44:23 +0100 (jeu., 20 nov. 2008) | 1 line
oops! didn't mean to disable that test
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r67318 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-21 23:05:48 +0100 (ven., 21 nov. 2008) | 4 lines
#4363: Let uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() run even if the ctypes module is not present.
Will backport to 2.6
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r67330 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 09:34:14 +0100 (sam., 22 nov. 2008) | 2 lines
#4364: fix attribute name on ctypes object.
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r67342 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-22 20:39:38 +0100 (sam., 22 nov. 2008) | 3 lines
yuvconvert.c is a part of the "sv" module, an old IRIX thing
and certainly not useful for any Windows build.
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r67343 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-22 21:01:18 +0100 (sam., 22 nov. 2008) | 5 lines
#3996: On Windows, PyOS_CheckStack is supposed to protect the interpreter from
stack overflow. But doing this, it always crashes when the stack is nearly full.
Reviewed by Martin von Loewis. Will backport to 2.6.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4e797b2..36cfe41 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
+ interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
+ instead of throwing a MemoryError.
+
+- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
+ module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
+
Library
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@@ -48,6 +55,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
+ the ctypes module is not present.
+
- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
- Issue #3799: Fix dbm.dumb to accept strings as well as bytes for keys. String