From: Georg Brandl 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. --- 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.