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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.5? Core and builtins ----------------- +- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc + optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming. + - Patch #1541585: fix buffer overrun when performing repr() on a unicode string in a build with wide unicode (UCS-4) support. @@ -127,7 +130,7 @@ Library - The __repr__ method of a NULL ctypes.py_object() no longer raises an exception. -- uuid.UUID now has a bytes_le attribute. This returns the UUID in +- uuid.UUID now has a bytes_le attribute. This returns the UUID in little-endian byte order for Windows. In addition, uuid.py gained some workarounds for clocks with low resolution, to stop the code yielding duplicate UUIDs. @@ -286,7 +289,7 @@ Library - Bug #1002398: The documentation for os.path.sameopenfile now correctly refers to file descriptors, not file objects. -- The renaming of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done +- The renaming of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done to make it appear at both names, has been removed. Bug #1511497, #1513611, and probably others. |