[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.337.2.4.2.79,1.337.2.4.2.80

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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	NEWS 
Log Message:
A bunch of NEWS file updates


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	21 May 2003 20:43:08 -0000	1.337.2.4.2.79
--- NEWS	22 May 2003 18:55:13 -0000	1.337.2.4.2.80
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*** 40,43 ****
--- 40,45 ----
  - Skip locale test on Mac OS X.
  
+ - Fixed some build problems related to Redhat Linux 9.
+ 
  - Backported the "largefile" requirement for test_largefile on Mac OS X.
  
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*** 45,48 ****
--- 47,52 ----
    more robust.
  
+ - Added new encodings for Ukrainian Cyrillic.
+ 
  - SF #710576: Backport of fix for #663074, to implement per-interpreter
    codecs registries. This adds new members at the end of
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*** 57,62 ****
    fixed.
  
  - Backported SF patch #676342: after using pdb, the readline command
!   completion was botched.
  
  - Fix problem building on OSF1 because the compiler only accepted
--- 61,70 ----
    fixed.
  
+ - SF #645777: list.extend() works with any iterable and is no longer
+   experimental.
+ 
  - Backported SF patch #676342: after using pdb, the readline command
!   completion was botched.  Backport fix for SF bug #741171, pdb
!   crashes when enabling a non-existent breakpoint.
  
  - Fix problem building on OSF1 because the compiler only accepted
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*** 120,123 ****
--- 128,135 ----
    could cause "exception set without error return" failures.
  
+ - Fixed an old bug in asyncore.py which could cause bogus read calls
+   on file descriptors after a signal is handled while blocked in
+   select().
+ 
  - SF #643260: __rpow__ wasn't being called.
  
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--- 183,197 ----
    crashed gettext.GNUTranslations parsing.  Also, export more symbols
    in the gettext module's __all__.
+ 
+ - Other patch and bug fix backports: 734869, 497420, 728322, 730963,
+   723831, 708604, 723136, 549141, 557704, 724751, 716969, 711835,
+   697220, 710498, 706338, 659834, 695250, 672614, 707701, 698517,
+   709428, 708201, 700798, 703471, 676990, 521782, 635570, 633359,
+   610299, 491107, 687655, 684667, 642168, 682514, 675259, 654974,
+   655271, 641111, 642742, 669553, 634866, 664183, 664044, 665570,
+   430610, 427345, 658106, 643227, 649095, 646578, 637941, 639170,
+   635929, 637807, 637810, 424106, 635595, 613605, 635656, 633560,
+   632864, 618146, 632196, 616211, 577000, 546579, 626554, 606463,
+   217195