[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.1386,1.1387

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv6122/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Part of SF patch #1313939: Speedup charmap decoding by extending
PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() the accept a unicode string as the mapping
argument which is used as a mapping table.

This code isn't used by any of the codecs yet.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.1386
retrieving revision 1.1387
diff -u -d -r1.1386 -r1.1387
--- NEWS	3 Oct 2005 14:16:44 -0000	1.1386
+++ NEWS	6 Oct 2005 20:29:57 -0000	1.1387
@@ -563,6 +563,11 @@
 
 - Removed PyRange_New().
 
+- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
+  mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
+  greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
+  mappings.
+
 
 Tests
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