/*--start constants--*/
#define PY_MAJOR_VERSION 2
#define PY_MINOR_VERSION 6
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 1
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 2
#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 0
/* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION "2.6.1+"
+#define PY_VERSION "2.6.2c1"
/*--end constants--*/
/* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */
(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
-What's New in Python 2.6.2
-==========================
+What's New in Python 2.6.2 rc 1
+===============================
-*Release date: XX-XXX-200X*
+*Release date: 06-Apr-2009*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
-- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
- result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
+- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As
+ a result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
-- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
- with the threading module.
+- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not
+ created with the threading module.
- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
-- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
- ready received.
+- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data
+ all ready received.
- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
import guess_extension`` was used.
function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
- for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
- it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
+ for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
+ check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
-- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
- in sharedctypes.py.
+- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying
+ issue in sharedctypes.py.
- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.