Updated news for 2.3c2.

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Barry Warsaw 2003-07-25 01:09:40 +00:00
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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Core and builtins
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- It is now possible to import from zipfiles containing additional
data bytes before the zip compatible archive. Zipfiles containing a
data bytes before the zip compatible archive. Zipfiles containing a
comment at the end are still unsupported.
Extension modules
@ -28,15 +28,30 @@ Extension modules
caused an instance of the bound .read() method to be leaked on every
call.
- Fixed some leaks in the locale module.
Library
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- Lib/encodings/rot_13.py when used as a script, now more properly
uses the first Python interpreter on your path.
- Removed caching of TimeRE (and thus LocaleTime) in _strptime.py to
fix a locale related bug in the test suite. Although another patch
was needed to actually fix the problem, the cache code was not
restored.
Tools/Demos
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- Calltips patches in IDLE.
Build
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- For MacOSX, added -mno-fused-madd to BASECFLAGS to fix test_coercion
on Panther (OSX 10.3).
C API
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@ -46,9 +61,18 @@ Windows
- The tempfile module could do insane imports on Windows if PYTHONCASEOK
was set, making temp file creation impossible. Repaired.
- Add a patch to workaround pthread_sigmask() bugs in Cygwin.
Mac
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- Various fixes to pimp.
- Scripts runs with pythonw no longer had full window manager access.
- Don't force boot-disk-only install, for reasons unknown it causes
more problems than it solves.
What's New in Python 2.3 release candidate 1?
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