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@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
Core and builtins
+- The constructor for the module type now requires a name argument and
+ takes an optional docstring argument. Previously, this constructor
+ ignored its arguments. As a consequence, deriving a class from a
+ module (not from the module type) is now illegal; previously this
+ created an unnamed module, just like invoking the module type did.
+ [SF bug 563060]
+
- A new warning PendingDeprecationWarning was added to provide
direction on features which are in the process of being deprecated.
The warning will not be printed by default. To see the pending