From 20b91358e5fd8042fbcaa4293fa37b7063fa77cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lemburg?= Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:01:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] News item for the change to turn _codecs into a builtin module. --- Misc/NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index d51ddbb4273..bce454b906b 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins ----------------- +- The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a builtin + module to assure that at least the builtin codecs are available + to the Python parser for source code decoding according to PEP 263. + - issubclass now supports a tuple as the second argument, just like isinstance does. ``issubclass(X, (A, B))`` is equivalent to ``issubclass(X, A) or issubclass(X, B)``.