News about zipimport.

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@@ -78,6 +78,19 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 Core and builtins
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+- Import from zipfiles is now supported.  The name of a zipfile placed
+  on sys.path causes the import statement to look for importable
+  Python modules (with .py, pyc and .pyo extensions) and packages
+  inside the zipfile.  To support this, several new variables have
+  been added to the sys module: sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks, and
+  sys.path_importer_cache; these make extending the import statement
+  much more convenient than overriding the __import__ built-in
+  function.  For a description of these, see PEP 302.  The zipfile
+  import follows the specification (though not the sample
+  implementation) of PEP 273.  The semantics of __path__ are
+  compatible with those that have been implemented in Jython since
+  Jython 2.1.
+
 - A frame object's f_lineno attribute can now be written to from a
   trace function to change which line will execute next.  A command to
   exploit this from pdb has been added.  [SF patch #643835]
@@ -343,6 +356,9 @@ Core and builtins
 Extension modules
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+- A module zipimport exists to support importing code from zip
+  archives.
+
 - The new datetime module supplies classes for manipulating dates and
   times.  The basic design came from the Zope "fishbowl process", and
   favors practical commercial applications over calendar esoterica.  See