From 47834463d0b6609986b291e3b1a085225118afd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:21:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about bool. --- Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index c852056eeee..c2622f8ec91 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins +- A new built-in type, bool, has been added, as well as built-in + names for its two values, True and False. Comparisons and sundry + other operations that return a truth value have been changed to + return a bool instead. Read PEP 285 for an explanantion of why this + is backward compatible. + - Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions, deallocating a deeply nested structure could cause a segfault in the garbage collector, due to interaction with the "trashcan" code;