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@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ improvements are worthwhile, but they're improvements to one specific
language feature or another; none of them are broad modifications to
Python's semantics.
As well as the language and library additions, other improvements and
bugfixes were made throughout the source tree. A search through the
SVN change logs finds there were 334 patches applied and 443 bugs
fixed between Python 2.4 and 2.5. (Both figures are likely to be
underestimates.)
This article doesn't try to be a complete specification of the new
features; instead changes are briefly introduced using helpful
examples. For full details, you should always refer to the
@ -2214,6 +2220,13 @@ in a complex migration procedure that was supervised and flawlessly
carried out by Martin von~L\"owis. The procedure was developed as
\pep{347}.
\item Coverity, a company that markets a source code analysis tool
called Prevent, provided the results of their examination of the Python
source code. The analysis found about 60 bugs that
were quickly fixed. Many of the bugs were refcounting problems, often
occurring in error-handling code. See
\url{http://scan.coverity.com} for the statistics.
\item The largest change to the C API came from \pep{353},
which modifies the interpreter to use a \ctype{Py_ssize_t} type
definition instead of \ctype{int}. See the earlier
@ -2361,28 +2374,6 @@ be searched for.
\end{itemize}
%======================================================================
\section{Other Changes and Fixes \label{section-other}}
As usual, there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes
scattered throughout the source tree. A search through the SVN change
logs finds there were 334 patches applied and 443 bugs fixed between
Python 2.4 and 2.5. Both figures are likely to be underestimates.
Some of the more notable changes are:
\begin{itemize}
\item Coverity, a company that markets a source code analysis tool
called Prevent, provided the results of their examination of the Python
source code. The analysis found about 60 bugs that
were quickly fixed. Many of the bugs were refcounting problems, often
occurring in error-handling code. See
\url{http://scan.coverity.com} for the statistics.
\end{itemize}
%======================================================================
\section{Porting to Python 2.5\label{porting}}