From c0e35158fbe7f9f4920c283e31b29ac04a09faf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hammond Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:32:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days. --- Misc/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 937fe9d7bb..99d2d90955 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins +- Ctrl+C handling on Windows has been made more consistent with + 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] + - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return a string. Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time, but a buffer object would be returned when the repetition count -- 2.50.1