Misc/NEWS.d/2.6.rst

.. bpo: 3967
.. date: 7179
.. nonce: q7G-yg
.. release date: 01-Oct-2008
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like objects, when
the "start" parameter is a huge value.

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.. bpo: 3965
.. date: 7178
.. nonce: oD6PeM
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid filename or mode,
and the filename is a unicode string.

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.. bpo: 3951
.. date: 7177
.. nonce: WMRS35
.. section: Core and Builtins

Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.

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.. bpo: 3965
.. date: 7176
.. nonce: 67WKTr
.. section: Library

Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a true singleton object.

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.. bpo: 3895
.. date: 7175
.. nonce: 7zAG5K
.. section: Library

It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer was used
with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted into a
float.

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.. bpo: 3950
.. date: 7174
.. nonce: zZXLaL
.. section: Library

Made turtle respect scale factors.

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.. bpo: 3547
.. date: 7173
.. nonce: MEAOsx
.. section: Library

Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer sizes.

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.. bpo: 3879
.. date: 7172
.. nonce: F8u7Is
.. section: Library

A regression in urllib.getproxies_environment was fixed.

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.. bpo: 3863
.. date: 7171
.. nonce: 5nuS5x
.. section: Library

Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread when running on
platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.

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.. bpo: 3989
.. date: 7170
.. nonce: RW3kS6
.. section: Build

Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows installer.

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.. bpo: 3887
.. date: 7169
.. nonce: qYeYwa
.. section: Build

Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.