[Python-checkins] r59865 - python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS

[Guido van Rossum]

Hm. "updated" sounds like new features (e.g. new APIs). Is this the
case? Then it isn't appropriate for 2.5.

On Jan 8, 2008 5:02 PM, mark.dickinson <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> Author: mark.dickinson
> Date: Wed Jan  9 02:02:07 2008
> New Revision: 59865
>
> Modified:
>    python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS
> Log:
> Add Decimal backport to Misc/NEWS
>
>
> Modified: python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS
> ==============================================================================
> --- python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS   (original)
> +++ python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS   Wed Jan  9 02:02:07 2008
> @@ -53,6 +53,11 @@
>  Library
>  -------
>
> +- Issue #1182: many arithmetic bugs in the decimal module have been
> +  fixed, and the decimal module has been updated to comply with the
> +  latest IBM Decimal Arithmetic specification (version 1.66) and
> +  testsuite (version 2.57).  (Backported from Python 2.6a0.)
> +
>  - Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
>
>  - Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
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