Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x and 4.6.x.
Added set_completion_display_matches_hook and get_completion_type to readline module.
Added a c_longdouble type to the ctypes module.
abc.py and isinstance/issubclass overloading have been backported. See PEP 3119 for details about Abstract Base Classes.
generator’s throw() doesn’t support string exceptions anymore:
[code lang="python"] Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
def f(): yield 1 ... a = f() a.throw("error") Traceback (most recent call last): File "
", line 1, in File " ", line 1, in f error
Python 2.6a0 (trunk:58159M, Sep 15 2007, 13:43:25) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
def f(): yield 1 ... a = f() a.throw("error") Traceback (most recent call last): File "
", line 1, in TypeError: exceptions must be classes, or instances, not str [/code]
- Merged the decimal-branch. Decimal is now fully updated to the latests Decimal Specification (v1.66) and the latests test cases (v2.56).
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