From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:30:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add news item for new-style exception class branch merge.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b1~407
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b7c8f54c33d578f61ba928023eb306b351910cd9;p=python

Add news item for new-style exception class branch merge.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7982af1d24..8d1063d5e3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 3?
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Builtin exceptions are now full-blown new-style classes instead of
+  instances pretending to be classes, which speeds up exception handling
+  by about 80% in comparison to 2.5a2.
+
 - Patch #1494554: Update unicodedata.numeric and unicode.isnumeric to
   Unicode 4.1.