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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 3e6190c..bb6034b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1284,12 +1284,12 @@ Other Language Changes Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language. * The :func:`hasattr` function was catching and ignoring all errors, - under the assumption that they meant a :meth:`__getattr__` method has - failing somewhere and the return value of :func:`hasattr` would therefore - be ``False``. This logic shouldn't be applied to - :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` and :exc:`SystemExit`, however; Python 2.6 will - no longer discard such exceptions when :func:`hasattr` encounters them. - (Fixed by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`2196`.) + under the assumption that they meant a :meth:`__getattr__` method + was failing somewhere and the return value of :func:`hasattr` would + therefore be ``False``. This logic shouldn't be applied to + :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` and :exc:`SystemExit`, however; Python 2.6 + will no longer discard such exceptions when :func:`hasattr` + encounters them. (Fixed by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`2196`.) * When calling a function using the ``**`` syntax to provide keyword arguments, you are no longer required to use a Python dictionary; |