Fedora 17 Update: python-2.7.3-7.2.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11053
2012-07-24 22:40:22
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Name        : python
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.7.3
Release     : 7.2.fc17
URL         : http://www.python.org/
Summary     : An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
Description :
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes
modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and
dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and
libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk,
Mac and MFC).

Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++.
Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need
a programmable interface.

Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs
package.

This package provides the "python" executable; most of the actual
implementation is within the "python-libs" package.

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Update Information:

Fixes memory leak in hashlib module, also includes patch for Python FTBFS in Rawhide, to keep specfiles in sync.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 17 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> - 2.7.3-7.2
- fix memory leak in module _hashlib (patch 158, rhbz#836285)
- fix db4 include path for libdb4 package (f18 and above) (patch 159)
* Fri Jun 22 2012 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.7.3-7.1
- use rpm macro for power64 (rhbz#834653)
* Fri May  4 2012 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.7.3-7
- renumber autotools patch from 300 to 5000
- specfile cleanups
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #836285 - Memory leak in Python module "_hashlib"
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836285
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