[Python-checkins] cpython: whatsnew: __complex__ may not return float, .so may have multiple python modules

[r.david.murray]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7cfbebadb90b
changeset:   89149:7cfbebadb90b
parent:      89147:15a6be05e970
user:        R David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
date:        Tue Feb 11 08:13:10 2014 -0500
summary:
  whatsnew: __complex__ may not return float, .so may have multiple python modules

Also a NEWS wording fixup.

files:
  Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst |  9 +++++++++
  Misc/NEWS            |  6 +++---
  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1443,6 +1443,10 @@
   values for its constants from the C header files, instead of having the
   values hard-coded in the python module as was previously the case.
 
+* Loading multiple python modules from a single OS module (``.so``, ``.dll``)
+  now works correctly (previously it silently returned the first python
+  module in the file).  (Contributed by Václav Šmilauer in :issue:`16421`.)
+
 
 
 Significant Optimizations
@@ -1725,6 +1729,11 @@
   :exc:`ValueError` if given a negative length; previously it returned nonsense
   values (:issue:`14794`).
 
+* The :class:`complex` constructor, unlike the :mod:`cmath` functions, was
+  incorrectly accepting :class:`float` values if an object's ``__complex__``
+  special method returned one.  This now raises a :exc:`TypeError`.
+  (:issue:`16290`.)
+
 
 Changes in the C API
 --------------------
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2262,10 +2262,10 @@
   builtins.
 
 - Issue #16455: On FreeBSD and Solaris, if the locale is C, the
-  ASCII/surrogateescape codec is now used, instead of the locale encoding, to
+  ASCII/surrogateescape codec is now used (instead of the locale encoding) to
   decode the command line arguments. This change fixes inconsistencies with
-  os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() because these operating systems announces an
-  ASCII locale encoding, whereas the ISO-8859-1 encoding is used in practice.
+  os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode(), because these operating systems announce an
+  ASCII locale encoding, but actually use the ISO-8859-1 encoding in practice.
 
 - Issue #16562: Optimize dict equality testing.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 

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