13 Other Changes and Fixes
As usual, there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes
scattered throughout the source tree. A search through the CVS change
logs finds there were 421 patches applied and 413 bugs fixed between
Python 2.3 and 2.4. Both figures are likely to be underestimates.
Some of the more notable changes are:
- The timeit module now automatically disables periodic
garbarge collection during the timing loop. This change makes
consecutive timings more comparable.
- The base64 module now has more complete RFC 3548 support
for Base64, Base32, and Base16 encoding and decoding, including
optional case folding and optional alternative alphabets.
(Contributed by Barry Warsaw.)
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