Fedora 12 Update: python-2.6.2-4.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0393
2010-01-12 20:05:38
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Name        : python
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 2.6.2
Release     : 4.fc12
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. This package contains most of the standard
Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget
set for Tk and RPM.

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

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Update Information:

Our build of Python's "curses" module has been changed from using libncurses.so
to libncursesw.so, better tracking the upstream configuration of this module.
This should fix a segmentation fault which prevented the Canto feed reader from
working.    Fix Lib/SocketServer.py to avoid trying to use non-existant keyword
args for os.waitpid
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 25 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.6.2-4
- change python-2.6.2-config.patch to remove our downstream change to curses
configuration in Modules/Setup.dist, so that the curses modules are built using
setup.py with the downstream default (linking against libncursesw.so, rather
than libncurses.so), rather than within the Makefile; add a test to %install
to verify the dso files that the curses module is linked against the correct
DSO (bug 539917; changes _cursesmodule.so -> _curses.so)
* Fri Jan  8 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.6.2-3
- fix Lib/SocketServer.py to avoid trying to use non-existant keyword args
for os.waitpid (patch 52, rhbz:552404, Adrian Reber)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #552504 - SocketServer: TypeError: waitpid() takes no keyword arguments
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552504
  [ 2 ] Bug #539917 - Regression: python curses module compiled against ncurses.so instead of ncursesw.so. Missed UTF-8 support
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539917
  [ 3 ] Bug #541386 - canto segmentation fault
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541386
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