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• Python 2.0

  ...definitions of PyModule_AddStringConstant and PyModule_AddObject if the Python version is less than 2.0, which provides compatibility with PyXML on Python 1.5.2. If the platform has a bogus definition for LONG_BIT (the number of bits in a long), an error will be reported at compile time. Fix bugs in _PyTuple_Resize() which caused hard-to-interpret garbage collection crashes and possibly other, unreported crashes. Fixed a memory leak in _PyUnicode_Fini(). Build issues ...

• Python Success Stories

  ...definitions or the initializer structure changed. What I really wanted was code that would analyze the shape and members of the initializer, query the class definitions themselves about their members, and then adjust itself to impedance-match the two sets. This kind of thing is called metaclass hacking and is generally considered fearsomely esoteric -- deep black magic. Most object-oriented languages don't support it at all; in those that do (Perl being one), it tends to be a complicated and fra...

• Notes

  ...definition in the nearest enclosing function scope will be used. One consequence of this change is that lambda statements could reference variables in the namespaces where the lambda is defined. In some unusual cases, this change will break code. In all previous version of Python, names were resolved in exactly three namespaces -- the local namespace, the global namespace, and the builtin namespace. According to this old definition, if a function A is defined within a function B, the names bo...

• Notes

  ...pointer. A C type that inherits from a base type that defines tp_as_buffer will now inherit the tp_as_buffer pointer if it doesn't define one. (SF #681367) The PyArg_Parse functions now issue a DeprecationWarning if a float argument is provided when an integer is specified (this affects the 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', and 'l' codes). Future versions of Python will raise a TypeError. Tests Several tests weren't being run from regrtest.py (test_timeout.py, test_tarfile.py, test_netrc.py, test_mu...

• Notes

  ...definition with a platform- specific spelling in that platform's pyconfig.h. You can also override pyport.h's default Py_IS_INFINITY definition now. C API SF patch 1044089: New function PyEval_ThreadsInitialized() returns non-zero if PyEval_InitThreads() has been called. The undocumented and unused extern int _PyThread_Started was removed. The C API calls PyInterpreterState_New() and PyThreadState_New() are two of the very few advertised as being safe to call without holding the GIL. Howe...

• Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

  ...definition with a platform- specific spelling in that platform's pyconfig.h. You can also override pyport.h's default Py_IS_INFINITY definition now. C API SF patch 1044089: New function PyEval_ThreadsInitialized() returns non-zero if PyEval_InitThreads() has been called. The undocumented and unused extern int _PyThread_Started was removed. The C API calls PyInterpreterState_New() and PyThreadState_New() are two of the very few advertised as being safe to call without holding the GIL. Howe...

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