for large or negative values.
- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
- implemented treated all integer values except 1 as false.
+ implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
-- textwrap now processes text chucks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
+- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module
- though this can be missing in embedded interpreters
+ it can be missing in embedded interpreters
- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
- encoding alias table
+ encoding alias table.
- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.