From de781a49d20ee26c4d05624bb779f0e7b8e98cb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:43:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix slightly misleading statement in the NEWS file.

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

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0989cfe6e8c..c3e1bb42d94 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ Library
   raised an AttributeError.
 
 - Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
-  asking for a specific length.
+  asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
+  using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
 
 - Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
   (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.