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- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
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- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
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- Issue #2138: Add factorial() the math module.
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based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
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raised an exception.
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- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
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- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
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- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
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- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface
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- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
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msilib.Record objects.
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- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
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- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
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- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
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- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
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- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
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- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
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- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
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cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
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- The ConfigParser module has been renamed 'configparser'. The old
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name is now deprecated.
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removal in Python 3.0.
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- The SocketServer module has been renamed 'socketserver'. The old
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- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
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- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
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- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
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environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
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an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
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- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
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- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
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which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
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contains several helpers and constants for math.
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- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
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