[Python-checkins] r51849 - python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS

[neal.norwitz]

Author: neal.norwitz
Date: Mon Sep 11 06:03:07 2006
New Revision: 51849

Modified:
   python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS
Log:
Add NEWS entries for ctypes backports.

Modified: python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS	(original)
+++ python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS	Mon Sep 11 06:03:07 2006
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 -------
 
 - Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE
-  by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
+  by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule().
 
 - Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
 
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
+- Fix bugs in ctypes:
+  - anonymous structure fields that have a bit-width specified did not work
+  - cast function did not accept c_char_p or c_wchar_p instances as first arg
+
 - Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version
   of os.urandom().