[Python-checkins] r51276 - in python/trunk: Doc/api/concrete.tex Doc/api/exceptions.tex Doc/lib/libexcs.tex Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex Include/pyerrors.h Include/unicodeobject.h Lib/test/exception_hierarchy.txt Misc/NEWS Objects/exceptions.c Objects/object.c Objects/unicodeobject.c

[Nick Coghlan]

marc-andre.lemburg wrote:
> Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
> ==============================================================================
> --- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	(original)
> +++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	Mon Aug 14 12:55:19 2006
> @@ -12,18 +12,18 @@
>  Core and builtins
>  -----------------
>  
> -- Fix segfault when doing string formatting on subclasses of long.
> +- Unicode objects will no longer raise an exception when being
> +  compared equal or unequal to a string and causing a
> +  UnicodeDecodeError exception, e.g. as result of a decoding failure.
> +
> +  Instead, the equal (==) and unequal (!=) comparison operators will
> +  now issue a UnicodeWarning and interpret the two objects as
> +  unequal. The UnicodeWarning can be filtered as desired using
> +  the warning framework, e.g. silenced completely, turned into an
> +  exception, logged, etc.
>  
> -- Fix bug related to __len__ functions using values > 2**32 on 64-bit machines
> -  with new-style classes.
> -  
> -- Fix bug related to __len__ functions returning negative values with
> -  classic classes.
> -  
> -- Patch #1538606, Fix __index__() clipping.  There were some problems
> -  discovered with the API and how integers that didn't fit into Py_ssize_t
> -  were handled.  This patch attempts to provide enough alternatives
> -  to effectively use __index__.
> +  Note that compare operators other than equal and unequal will still
> +  raise UnicodeDecodeError exceptions as they've always done.

This looks like it lost a bunch of NEWS entries.

Cheers,
Nick.

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