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- It is now possible to import from zipfiles containing additional
- data bytes before the zip compatible archive. Zipfiles containing a
+ data bytes before the zip compatible archive. Zipfiles containing a
comment at the end are still unsupported.
Extension modules
caused an instance of the bound .read() method to be leaked on every
call.
+- Fixed some leaks in the locale module.
+
Library
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+- Lib/encodings/rot_13.py when used as a script, now more properly
+ uses the first Python interpreter on your path.
+
+- Removed caching of TimeRE (and thus LocaleTime) in _strptime.py to
+ fix a locale related bug in the test suite. Although another patch
+ was needed to actually fix the problem, the cache code was not
+ restored.
+
Tools/Demos
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+- Calltips patches in IDLE.
+
Build
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+- For MacOSX, added -mno-fused-madd to BASECFLAGS to fix test_coercion
+ on Panther (OSX 10.3).
+
C API
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- The tempfile module could do insane imports on Windows if PYTHONCASEOK
was set, making temp file creation impossible. Repaired.
+- Add a patch to workaround pthread_sigmask() bugs in Cygwin.
+
Mac
---
+- Various fixes to pimp.
+
+- Scripts runs with pythonw no longer had full window manager access.
+
+- Don't force boot-disk-only install, for reasons unknown it causes
+ more problems than it solves.
+
What's New in Python 2.3 release candidate 1?
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