[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.1006,1.1007

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Bug 975996:  Add _PyTime_DoubleToTimet to C API
New include file timefuncs.h exports private API function
_PyTime_DoubleToTimet() from timemodule.c.  timemodule should export
some other functions too (look for painful bits in datetimemodule.c).

Added insane-argument checking to datetime's assorted fromtimestamp()
and utcfromtimestamp() methods.  Added insane-argument tests of these
to test_datetime, and insane-argument tests for ctime(), localtime()
and gmtime() to test_time.


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! - time module code that deals with time_t timestamps will now raise a
!   ValueError if more than a second is lost in precision from time_t being less
!   precise than a double.  Closes bug #919012.
  
  - fcntl.ioctl now warns if the mutate flag is not specified.
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! - time module code that deals with input POSIX timestamps will now raise
!   ValueError if more than a second is lost in precision when the
!   timestamp is cast to the platform C time_t type.  There's no chance
!   that the platform will do anything sensible with the result in such
!   cases.  This includes ctime(), localtime() and gmtime().  Assorted
!   fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods in the datetime module
!   were also protected.  Closes bugs #919012 and 975996.
  
  - fcntl.ioctl now warns if the mutate flag is not specified.
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+ - Private function _PyTime_DoubleToTimet added, to convert a Python
+   timestamp (C double) to platform time_t with some out-of-bounds
+   checking.  Declared in new header file timefuncs.h.  It would be
+   good to expose some other internal timemodule.c functions there.
+ 
  - New public functions PyEval_EvaluateFrame and PyGen_New to expose
    generator objects.