From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:19:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about profile fix.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~1468
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c4b09b4417a41163eb0c0f7df985d6b39ea1f552;p=python

Add note about profile fix.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6e8f9fccf7..1d437d0987 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Library
 - doctest now excludes functions and classes not defined by the module
   being tested, thanks to Tim Hochberg.
 
+- profile now produces correct output in situations where an exception
+  raised in Python is cleared by C code (e.g. hasattr()).  This used
+  to cause wrong output, including spurious claims of recursive
+  functions and attribution of time spent to the wrong function.
+
 - quopri's encode and decode methods take an optional header parameter,
   which indicates whether output is intended for the header 'Q' encoding.