[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.1289,1.1290

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv16821/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Make subclasses of int, long, complex, float, and unicode perform type
conversion using the proper magic slot (e.g., __int__()).  Also move conversion
code out of PyNumber_*() functions in the C API into the nb_* function.

Applied patch #1109424.  Thanks Walter Doewald.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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retrieving revision 1.1290
diff -u -d -r1.1289 -r1.1290
--- NEWS	25 Apr 2005 07:13:45 -0000	1.1289
+++ NEWS	26 Apr 2005 03:45:26 -0000	1.1290
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
+  proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed.  Previously the
+  magic slot was ignored during conversion.  Semantics now match the way
+  subclasses of str always behaved.  int/long/float, conversion of an instance
+  to the base class has been moved the prroper nb_* magic slot and out of
+  PyNumber_*().
+  Thanks Walter Dörwald.
+
 - Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
   NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
   attribute.  Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent