From: Mark Dickinson Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:28:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Move Misc/NEWS entries to the right place. X-Git-Tag: v2.7.1rc1~630 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ea29b04160ff2a6ece3924ac58ca2f17ccfb599;p=python Move Misc/NEWS entries to the right place. --- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 76c292fe73..8856d77a9c 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' + RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was + due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__. + +- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact + power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example, + Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')). + - Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode strings in add_option calls. @@ -510,19 +518,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1? Core and Builtins ----------------- -- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration' - RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was - due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__. - - Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS. - Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are changed. -- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact - power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example, - Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')). - - Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error' on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.