News item for the change to turn _codecs into a builtin module.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d51ddbb4273a38ecd5c3014ef6c2da2cd1845b9b..bce454b906b80a8ef7da953d408080a4f7389f15 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a builtin
+  module to assure that at least the builtin codecs are available
+  to the Python parser for source code decoding according to PEP 263.
+
 - issubclass now supports a tuple as the second argument, just like
   isinstance does. ``issubclass(X, (A, B))`` is equivalent to
   ``issubclass(X, A) or issubclass(X, B)``.