From ef1122cbd6c3b3d3ff57c0f20e751db80f4d7697 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:17:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] another benefit of this change

---
 Misc/NEWS | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2fc7b4765eb..041c2cfdc6b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ Core and Builtins
   "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
   (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
 
-- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
-  besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
+- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
+  __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
+  propagated.
 
 - Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
   clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.