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  Notes Python 2.1.3 Release Notes Release date: 08-April-2002 What's new in Python 2.1.3 (final)? Core Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions, deallocating a deeply nested structure could cause a segfault in the garbage collector, due to interaction with the "trashcan" code; access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable could access a pointer to freed memory. SF #457466: popenx() argument mangling hangs python (win9x only). Under certa...

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  ...multi-threaded applications. What's New in Python 2.3.2c1? Release date: 30-Sep-2003 Build A bug in the autoconf machinery meant that os.fsync was never available. A bug in autoconf meant a bunch of symbols were undefined on HP/UX. Mac The Framework build now identifies itself as 2.3.2. What's New in Python 2.3.1? Release date: 23-Sep-2003 Core and builtins Patch #805613: Fix usage of the PTH library. Fixed a bug in the cache of length-one Unicode strings that could lead to a seg...

• Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

  ...multi-threaded applications which try to be highly responsive, response time will increase by some (perhaps imperceptible) amount. When multiplying very large integers, a version of the so-called Karatsuba algorithm is now used. This is most effective if the inputs have roughly the same size. If they both have about N digits, Karatsuba multiplication has O(N**1.58) runtime (the exponent is log_base_2(3)) instead of the previous O(N**2). Measured results may be better or worse than that, depe...

• PSF Board Resolutions

  PSF Board Resolutions The Python Software Foundation Resolutions of the Board of Directors Vote counts are of the form "4-2-1" (4 in favor — 2 opposed — 1 abstention) RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award the Q2 2026 Community Service Award to Maria Jose Molina Contreras for her work as a leader of the Berlin PyLadies, a constant supporter and participant at Charlas at PyCon US, and as a core organizer of PyLadiesCon for 3 years where her tireless work and leadershi...

• What's New In Python 3.0

  What's New In Python 3.0 (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 3.0 final Release date: 03-Dec-2008 Core and Builtins Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!") instead of throwing a MemoryError. Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed ite...

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