[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.146.2.9,1.146.2.10

[Tim Peters]

[Anthony Baxter, on the gc-vs-trashcan bug]
> Given the impact on Zope, I'd say this probably justifies a 2.1.3
> release.

It's quite possible Zope Corp will agree -- this shows several signs of
having been a long-standing bug that's been driving *some* Zope sites nuts
with intermittent crashes.  Of course gc gets the blame then, or, less
often, threads.  It appears to be especially provoked by Zope's habit of
generating special bytecode to insert security checks all over the place;
this exercises the compiler pkg, which in turn provokes the parser module
into creating lots of deeply nested tuples.

> I'm ok to do it, although I don't think it's worth doing the
> back-trawl through the change logs to find other suitable patches.
> I don't recall any other bugs ugly enough to merit inclusion, but I'm
> open to suggestions :)

Yet another who doesn't appreciate the shattering consequences of ungraceful
complex pow() underflow?  Fine.  Be that way <wink>.