Note change in fp literal syntax (e.g. "3e-" worked by accident before).

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6cb27f0f8a538890a7731763bad230a1715ee163..bf8d1fff532d882cc6243e1418c8f8a5aacbdd58 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a3?
 
 Core
 
++ An old tokenizer bug allowed floating point literals with an incomplete
+  exponent, such as 1e and 3.1e-.  Such literals now raise SyntaxError.
+
 Library
 
 Tools