Bug #1597576: mention that the new base64 api has been introduced in py2.4.

 (backport from rev. 52762)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbase64.tex b/Doc/lib/libbase64.tex
index 0039c8425018a5acdbbebde0bdade33253d93321..d7eccbdb19c0a0c2e1e49394aef58e325820b789 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/lib/libbase64.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libbase64.tex
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ three alphabets.  The legacy interface provides for encoding and
 decoding to and from file-like objects as well as strings, but only
 using the Base64 standard alphabet.
 
-The modern interface provides:
+The modern interface, which was introduced in Python 2.4, provides:
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{b64encode}{s\optional{, altchars}}
 Encode a string use Base64.