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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2006-05-27 12:30:25 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2006-05-27 12:30:25 (GMT)
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Add news item for new-style exception class branch merge.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 3?
Core and builtins
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+- Builtin exceptions are now full-blown new-style classes instead of
+ instances pretending to be classes, which speeds up exception handling
+ by about 80% in comparison to 2.5a2.
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- Patch #1494554: Update unicodedata.numeric and unicode.isnumeric to
Unicode 4.1.