[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.799,1.800

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Add several news items for changes I made since b1.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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retrieving revision 1.800
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*** NEWS	29 Jun 2003 17:12:30 -0000	1.799
--- NEWS	29 Jun 2003 17:25:39 -0000	1.800
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    code relying (whether intentionally or accidentally) on old behavior.
  
+ - SF bug 734869: Fixed a compiler bug that caused a fatal error when
+   compiling a list comprehension that contained another list comprehension
+   embedded in a lambda expression.
+ 
  - SF bug 705231:  builtin pow() no longer lets the platform C pow()
    raise -1.0 to integer powers, because (at least) glibc gets it wrong
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*** 44,47 ****
--- 48,55 ----
    is (mathematically) an exact even integer.
  
+ - SF bug 759227: A new-style class that implements __nonzero__() must
+   return a bool or int (but not an int subclass) from that method.  This
+   matches the restriction on classic classes.
+ 
  - The encoding attribute has been added for file objects, and set to
    the terminal encoding on Unix and Windows.
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--- 69,76 ----
    name lookups).
  
+ - SF bug 735247: The staticmethod and super types participate in
+   garbage collection. Before this change, it was possible for leaks to
+   occur in functions with non-global free variables that used these types.
+ 
  Extension modules
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--- 79,90 ----
    timeouts to be handled separately from other socket errors.
  
+ - SF bug 751276: cPickle has fixed to propagate exceptions raised in
+   user code.  In earlier versions, cPickle caught and ignored any
+   exception when it performed operations that it expected to raise
+   specific exceptions like AttributeError.
+ 
+ - cPickle Pickler and Unpickler objects now participate in garbage
+   collection.
+ 
  - mimetools.choose_boundary() could return duplicate strings at times,
    especially likely on Windows.  The strings returned are now guaranteed
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    for many BSD-derived systems.
  
+ 
  Library
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    framework features (which doctest lacks).
  
- - ZipFile.testzip() now only traps BadZipfile exceptions.  Previously,
-   a bare except caught to much and reported all errors as a problem
-   in the archive.
- 
- - The logging module now has a new function, makeLogRecord() making
-   LogHandler easier to interact with DatagramHandler and SocketHandler.
- 
  - For compatibility with doctests created before 2.3, if an expected
    output block consists solely of "1" and the actual output block
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--- 136,146 ----
    argument.
  
+ - ZipFile.testzip() now only traps BadZipfile exceptions.  Previously,
+   a bare except caught to much and reported all errors as a problem
+   in the archive.
+ 
+ - The logging module now has a new function, makeLogRecord() making
+   LogHandler easier to interact with DatagramHandler and SocketHandler.
+ 
  - The cgitb module has been extended to support plain text display (SF patch
    569574).
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    no more.
  
  - The threading module has new functions settrace() and setprofile()
    that cooperate with the functions of the same name in the sys
    module.  A function registered with the threading module will
!   be used for all threads it creates.
  
  - copy.py: applied SF patch 707900, fixing bug 702858, by Steven
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    no more.
  
+ - Added a new module: trace (documentation missing).  This module used
+   to be distributed in Tools/scripts.  It uses sys.settrace() to trace
+   code execution -- either function calls or individual lines.  It can
+   generate tracing output during execution or a post-mortem report of
+   code coverage.
+ 
  - The threading module has new functions settrace() and setprofile()
    that cooperate with the functions of the same name in the sys
    module.  A function registered with the threading module will
!   be used for all threads it creates.  The new trace module uses this
!   to provide tracing for code running in threads.
  
  - copy.py: applied SF patch 707900, fixing bug 702858, by Steven