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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000
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Issue 1242657: list(obj) can swallow KeyboardInterrupt.
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@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
+- Issue 1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
+ were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
+ zip(), and bytearray().
+
- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
functions.