Add a What's New entry for bpo-35459. (GH-12706)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 4347b3ee4118954ed7d8df326a2682c500faf45d..29d370cc8a284f4849b4d222e22ff619ec048a57 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -686,6 +686,11 @@ Changes in Python behavior
   to use equality tests (``==`` and ``!=``) instead.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`34850`.)
 
+* The CPython interpreter can swallow exceptions in some circumstances.
+  In Python 3.8 this happens in less cases.  In particular, exceptions
+  raised when getting the attribute from the type dictionary are no longer
+  ignored.  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`35459`.)
+
 
 Changes in the Python API
 -------------------------