other platforms. KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught,
and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the
process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x). Ctrl+C will
- interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes
- created via the popen family are also interrupted (as generally
- happens on for Linux/Unix). [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232]
+ interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes
+ created via the popen family (on win2k; we can't make win9x work
+ reliably) are also interrupted (as generally happens on for Linux/Unix.)
+ [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232]
- Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return
a string. Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time,