From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 07:20:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: copy and deepcopy builtin functions atomically. Fixes #746304.
X-Git-Tag: 2.2~67
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e348c6d1a7982bd42fe427d490ddc2b5ed378ff8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

copy and deepcopy builtin functions atomically. Fixes #746304.
Also backport 2.36 (deepcopy classes atomically).
---

diff --git a/Lib/copy.py b/Lib/copy.py
index eae3b6f6a673..9782c6b56593 100644
--- a/Lib/copy.py
+++ b/Lib/copy.py
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ except AttributeError:
 d[types.TypeType] = _copy_atomic
 d[types.XRangeType] = _copy_atomic
 d[types.ClassType] = _copy_atomic
+d[types.BuiltinFunctionType] = _copy_atomic
 
 def _copy_list(x):
     return x[:]
@@ -211,6 +212,8 @@ except AttributeError:
     pass
 d[types.TypeType] = _deepcopy_atomic
 d[types.XRangeType] = _deepcopy_atomic
+d[types.ClassType] = _deepcopy_atomic
+d[types.BuiltinFunctionType] = _deepcopy_atomic
 
 def _deepcopy_list(x, memo):
     y = []
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ec4a61115027..eb746f32f7fe 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+What's New in Python 2.2.4?
+
+- SF #746304: Builtin functions are now copy.[deep]copyable.
+  Classes are now also deepcopyable.
+
 What's New in Python 2.2.3 (final) ?
 Release date: 30-May-2003
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