From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:05:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarification of new bisect module functions.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~404
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=742bb6f9fda7043cc1ec0f1937b2dd1d0ecb6ab6;p=python

Clarification of new bisect module functions.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d2dfbec7d1..284b774c19 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ Standard library
   and XXX_left methods differ in what happens when the new element
   compares equal to one or more elements already in the list:  the
   XXX_left methods insert to the left, the XXX_right methods to the
-  right.
+  right.  Code that doesn't care where equal elements end up should
+  continue to use the old, short names ("bisect" and "insort").
 
 
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