Robin Becker wrote: > A colleague reports that this python from a recent Ubuntu x86_x64 > > Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14) > > contains a fix of this bug > > http://bugs.python.org/issue15212 > > however, all of my other Python 2.7.3s seem to lack this 'fix'. [...] > Can someone explain how this 'fix' is leaking out onto his machine?
The major Linux distros, including Ubuntu, tend to release their own bug fixes independently to official Python releases. I guess that the fix your colleague is seeing is from Ubuntu. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
