Add news item for new-style exception class branch merge.

2006-05-27 12:30:25 +00:00 · 2006-05-27 12:30:25 +00:00 · b7c8f54c33
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@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 3?
 Core and builtins
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+- Builtin exceptions are now full-blown new-style classes instead of
+  instances pretending to be classes, which speeds up exception handling
+  by about 80% in comparison to 2.5a2.
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 - Patch #1494554: Update unicodedata.numeric and unicode.isnumeric to
  Unicode 4.1.