news entry for r76000

38f5d8fc · Gregory P. Smith · 235d9423 · 38f5d8fc
Commit 38f5d8fc authored Nov 01, 2009 by Gregory P. Smith
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+- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
+  reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
+  lead to incorrect entry or an IOError.  It also properly flushes it
+  afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
+  OSes such as Solaris.
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 - Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
  sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument.  Also
  fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer