Credit to Oren for the file-iterator patch.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 57eda69e4bbb873ea6897153db8c22f158005e7b..11e5f0ae987d15e7382e3705aacf72803671f1c8 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Core and builtins
   Calling f.seek() drops the readahead buffer, but other operations
   don't.  It so happens that this gives a nice additional speed boost
   to "for line in file:"; the xreadlines method and corresponding
-  module are now obsolete.
+  module are now obsolete.  Thanks to Oren Tirosh!
 
 - Encoding declarations (PEP 263, phase 1) have been implemented.  A
   comment of the form "# -*- coding: <encodingname> -*-" in the first