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• What's new in Python 2.3

  ...minus sign were handled inconsistently. This has been fixed in accordance with PEP 237. (New in 2.3a2.) Functions now have a __module__ attribute too. (New in 2.3a2.) Passing a float to C functions expecting an integer now issues a DeprecationWarning; in the future this will become a TypeError. (New in 2.3a2.) Package index and metadata for distutils. This is support for the Python catalog, now open for business at cheeseshop.python.org/pypi. (PEP 301) Support for generators is on by defau...

• Notes

  ...minus sign would come out with the wrong sign. ("Unsigned" hex/oct constants are those with a face value in the range sys.maxint+1 through sys.maxint*2+1, inclusive; these have always been interpreted as negative numbers through sign folding.) E.g. 0xffffffff is -1, and -(0xffffffff) is 1, but -0xffffffff would come out as -4294967295. This was the case in Python 2.2 through 2.2.2 and 2.3a1, and in Python 2.4 it will once again have that value, but according to PEP 237 it really needs...

• Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

  ...minus sign would come out with the wrong sign. ("Unsigned" hex/oct constants are those with a face value in the range sys.maxint+1 through sys.maxint*2+1, inclusive; these have always been interpreted as negative numbers through sign folding.) E.g. 0xffffffff is -1, and -(0xffffffff) is 1, but -0xffffffff would come out as -4294967295. This was the case in Python 2.2 through 2.2.2 and 2.3a1, and in Python 2.4 it will once again have that value, but according to PEP 237 it really needs...

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