Misc/NEWS entry for r79843.

8279167a · Mark Dickinson · 3ec9b942 · 8279167a
Commit 8279167a authored Apr 06, 2010 by Mark Dickinson
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
+  on 64-bit machines.  The shift count for either left or right shift is
+  permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
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 - Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.

 - Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.