On 12/10/2011 2:02 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
There's a few differences between 2.6 and 2.7; not usually enough to be concerned about in daily use, but when dealing with weird issues, it helps to have the latest release.
There are 2 issues. First, 2.7.2 has perhaps a couple hundred bug fixes since 2.7.0/2.6.6 were released. So it is possible that this particular problem was fixed, or at least changed. Second (leaving security issues aside), a Py2 bug fix will only be applied to the post-2.7.2 tip and only after the bug has been demonstrated to exist in the post-2.7.2 tip.
About the request for minimal code exhibiting the problem: each bug exposes a hole in the test suite. We try to add a new test case with each bug fix so fixed bugs stay fixed. So code examples not only show that the bug is in the latest version, but also serve as the basis for new tests.
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