[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.412,1.413

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv15616

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Surprising fix for SF bug 563060: module can be used as base class.

Change the module constructor (module_init) to have the signature
__init__(name:str, doc=None); this prevents the call from type_new()
to succeed.  While we're at it, prevent repeated calling of
module_init for the same module from leaking the dict, changing the
semantics so that __dict__ is only initialized if NULL.

Also adding a unittest, test_module.py.

This is an incompatibility with 2.2, if anybody was instantiating the
module class before, their argument list was probably empty; so this
can't be backported to 2.2.x.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	31 May 2002 19:58:00 -0000	1.412
--- NEWS	4 Jun 2002 05:58:34 -0000	1.413
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*** 7,10 ****
--- 7,17 ----
  Core and builtins
  
+ - The constructor for the module type now requires a name argument and
+   takes an optional docstring argument.  Previously, this constructor
+   ignored its arguments.  As a consequence, deriving a class from a
+   module (not from the module type) is now illegal; previously this
+   created an unnamed module, just like invoking the module type did.
+   [SF bug 563060]
+ 
  - A new warning PendingDeprecationWarning was added to provide
    direction on features which are in the process of being deprecated.