[Python-checkins] r51278 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS

Mon Aug 14 13:44:35 CEST 2006

Author: marc-andre.lemburg
Date: Mon Aug 14 13:44:34 2006
New Revision: 51278
Modified:
 python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
Log:
Readd NEWS items that were accidentally removed by r51276.
Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================

--- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	Mon Aug 14 13:44:34 2006
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@
 Note that compare operators other than equal and unequal will still
 raise UnicodeDecodeError exceptions as they've always done.
 
+- Fix segfault when doing string formatting on subclasses of long.
+
+- Fix bug related to __len__ functions using values > 2**32 on 64-bit machines
+ with new-style classes.
+
+- Fix bug related to __len__ functions returning negative values with
+ classic classes.
+
+- Patch #1538606, Fix __index__() clipping. There were some problems
+ discovered with the API and how integers that didn't fit into Py_ssize_t
+ were handled. This patch attempts to provide enough alternatives
+ to effectively use __index__.
+
 - Bug #1536021: __hash__ may now return long int; the final hash
 value is obtained by invoking hash on the long int.
 
