[Python-Dev] bug-fixes in cnri-16-start branch (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com
Mon, 07 Aug 2000 19:21:43 -0500

I have a question on the right procedure for fixing a simple bug in the 1.6 release branch.

Bug #111162 appeared because the tests for math.rint() are already contained in the cnri-16-start revision of testmath.py while the "try: ... except AttributeError: ..." construct which was checked in shortly after was not. Now the correct bugfix is already known (and has been applied to the main branch). I have updated the testmath.py file in my working version with "-r cnri-16-start" and made the changes. Now I probably should just commit, close the patch (with an appropriate follow-up) and be happy.

That would work, except that I prefer to remove math.rint altogether, as explained by Tim Peters.

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