Author: andrew.kuchling Date: Wed Aug 16 16:21:14 2006 New Revision: 51319 Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS Log: Wording/typo fixes Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS ============================================================================== --- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS (original) +++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS Wed Aug 16 16:21:14 2006 @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ ----------------- - Unicode objects will no longer raise an exception when being - compared equal or unequal to a string and causing a - UnicodeDecodeError exception, e.g. as result of a decoding failure. + compared equal or unequal to a string and a UnicodeDecodeError + exception occurs, e.g. as result of a decoding failure. Instead, the equal (==) and unequal (!=) comparison operators will now issue a UnicodeWarning and interpret the two objects as @@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ Library ------- -- The __repr__ method a NULL ctypes.py_object() does no longer raise +- The __repr__ method of a NULL ctypes.py_object() no longer raises an exception. - uuid.UUID now has a bytes_le attribute. This returns the UUID in - little-endian byte order for Windows. In addition, uuid.py had some + little-endian byte order for Windows. In addition, uuid.py gained some workarounds for clocks with low resolution, to stop the code yielding duplicate UUIDs. @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ - logging's atexit hook now runs even if the rest of the module has already been cleaned up. -- Bug #1112549, DoS attack on cgi.FieldStorage. +- Bug #1112549, fix DoS attack on cgi.FieldStorage. - Bug #1531405, format_exception no longer raises an exception if str(exception) raised an exception. @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ - Bug #1534738, win32 debug version of _msi should be _msi_d.pyd. -- Bug #1530448, ctypes buld failure on Solaris 10 was fixed. +- Bug #1530448, ctypes build failure on Solaris 10 was fixed. C API @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Core and builtins ----------------- -- _PyWeakref_GetWeakrefCount() now returns a Py_ssize_t, it previously +- _PyWeakref_GetWeakrefCount() now returns a Py_ssize_t; it previously returned a long (see PEP 353). - Bug #1515471: string.replace() accepts character buffers again. @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ This means that .pyc files generated before 2.5b3 will be regenerated. - Bug #1524317: Compiling Python ``--without-threads`` failed. - The Python core compiles again then, and, in a build without threads, the + The Python core compiles again, and, in a build without threads, the new ``sys._current_frames()`` returns a dictionary with one entry, mapping the faux "thread id" 0 to the current frame. @@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ - Bug #1002398: The documentation for os.path.sameopenfile now correctly refers to file descriptors, not file objects. -- Rename of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done to - make it appear at both names, has been removed. Bug #1511497, +- The renaming of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done + to make it appear at both names, has been removed. Bug #1511497, #1513611, and probably others. - Bug #1441397: The compiler module now recognizes module and function @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ side effects from one test to the next affect outcomes. ``DocTestFinder`` has been changed to sort the list of tests it returns. -- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0, and are now kept +- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0, and is now kept in sync with sys.version_info[:3]. - Bug #978833: Really close underlying socket in _socketobject.close.