[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.440,1.441

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days.

Index: NEWS
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*** NEWS	12 Jul 2002 14:40:04 -0000	1.440
--- NEWS	16 Jul 2002 01:32:30 -0000	1.441
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*** 7,10 ****
--- 7,18 ----
  Core and builtins
  
+ - Ctrl+C handling on Windows has been made more consistent with
+   other platforms.  KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught,
+   and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the 
+   process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x).  Ctrl+C will
+   interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes 
+   created via the popen family are also interrupted (as generally 
+   happens on for Linux/Unix). [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232]
+ 
  - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return
    a string.  Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time,