From 51dd7d97194eb1be5a43d259e1507b4661c617b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Phillip J. Eby" Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:21:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add notes to NEWS for other work today. --- Misc/NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 6943f81f149..caac381d05c 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Core and builtins sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch #1454844) +- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles + involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with`` + blocks. (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference + cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was + paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.) Extension Modules ----------------- @@ -52,6 +57,11 @@ C API Tests ----- +- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran + it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to + the current Decimal context. + + Documentation -------------