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authorMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2002-12-12 18:01:43 (GMT)
committerMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2002-12-12 18:01:43 (GMT)
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News item for the change to turn _codecs into a builtin module.
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@@ -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)``.