added a note in the whatsnew file for sysconfig

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index c45fa00b695fd0514a9dc136e81bb6df586baad1..db8f2013c5e7926ce404640bb3abed1f9a01334f 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -842,6 +842,14 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
 .. ======================================================================
 .. whole new modules get described in subsections here
 
+* XXX A new :mod:`sysconfig` module has been extracted from :mod:`distutils`
+  and put in the standard library.
+
+  The :mod:`sysconfig` module provides access to Python's configuration
+  information like the list of installation paths and the configuration
+  variables relevant for the current platform.
+
+
 Unit Testing Enhancements
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