This is not part of my patch

[ 635933 ] make some type attrs writable

but should have been!

News about the above.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index b1e9713..c3b8e8f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -896,6 +896,13 @@ In 2.3, you get this:
 <type '_socket.socket'>
 \end{verbatim}
 
+\item One of the noted incompatibilities between old- and new-style
+  classes has been removed: you can now assign to the
+  \member{__name__} and \member{__bases__} attributes of new-style
+  classes.  There are some restrictions on what can be assigned to
+  \member{__bases__} along the lines of those relating to assigning to
+  an instance's \member{__class__} attribute.
+
 \end{itemize}