From 1455f795e29814faf63a34619785fe6a8525bf1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:09:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update item

---
 Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
index a2dbbb76815..0edd2a949e2 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
@@ -608,8 +608,10 @@ yellow 5
 \end{verbatim}
 
 \item The \function{eval(\var{expr}, \var{globals}, \var{locals})}
-function now accepts any mapping type for the \var{locals} argument.
-Previously this had to be a regular Python dictionary.
+and \function{execfile(\var{filename}, \var{globals}, \var{locals})}
+functions and the \keyword{exec} statement now accept any mapping type
+for the \var{locals} argument.  Previously this had to be a regular
+Python dictionary.  (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
 
 \item The \function{zip()} built-in function and \function{itertools.izip()}
   now return an empty list if called with no arguments.