There wasn't any file locking under Windows unless PyWin32 was
installed. This removes that (undocumented) dependency by using ctypes
instead.
Thanks to Anatoly Techtonik for writing the ctypes port upon which this
is based.
systems, this will ensure fnctl-based file locking is always used, which means
locking of NFS-mounted files should work.
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A description of the new features can be found in the new [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/upload_handing/ upload handling documentation]; the executive summary is that Django will now happily handle uploads of large files without issues.
This changes the representation of uploaded files from dictionaries to bona fide objects; see BackwardsIncompatibleChanges for details.
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