[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.268,1.269

[Guido van Rossum]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv29918

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Add note about profile fix.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.268
retrieving revision 1.269
diff -C2 -d -r1.268 -r1.269
*** NEWS	2001/10/04 06:43:12	1.268
--- NEWS	2001/10/04 10:19:00	1.269
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*** 22,25 ****
--- 22,30 ----
    being tested, thanks to Tim Hochberg.
  
+ - profile now produces correct output in situations where an exception
+   raised in Python is cleared by C code (e.g. hasattr()).  This used
+   to cause wrong output, including spurious claims of recursive
+   functions and attribution of time spent to the wrong function.
+ 
  - quopri's encode and decode methods take an optional header parameter,
    which indicates whether output is intended for the header 'Q' encoding.