More words on patch #837242, since 4 or 5 tests started
failing on one of the 32-bit buildbot boxes because of it, due to tempting but always-wrong Python code. Users probably have code like this too (I know I did ...).
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Core and builtins
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- Patch #837242: id() of any Python object always gives a positive
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number, which might be a long integer. PyLong_FromVoidPtr and
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PyLong_AsVoidPtr have been changed accordingly.
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- Patch #837242: ``id()`` of any Python object always gives a positive
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number now, which might be a long integer. ``PyLong_FromVoidPtr`` and
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``PyLong_AsVoidPtr`` have been changed accordingly. Note that it has
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never been correct to implement a ``hash()`` method that returns the
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``id()`` of an object:
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- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
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def __hash__(self):
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return id(self) # WRONG
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because a hash result must be a (short) Python int but it was always
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possible for ``id()`` to return a Python long. However, because ``id()``
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cuold return negative values before, on a 32-bit box an ``id()`` result
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was always usable as a hash value before this patch. That's no longer
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necessarily so.
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- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
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to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
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sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
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sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
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#1454844)
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- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
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and long longs.
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- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
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It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
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It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
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it will now use a default error message in this case.
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- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
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- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
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a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
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later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
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later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
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module will not be built.
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- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
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