From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:21:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: NEWS entry for r59682.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0a3~255
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bccd63c389d72d22882264b8e9cf6e8e5911106c;p=python

NEWS entry for r59682.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 75165169a7..1dbba8c338 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.0a3?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
+  module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
+  of 'error code 193'.  Also use Unicode strings to deal with non-English
+  locales.
+
 - Issue #1587: Added instancemethod wrapper for PyCFunctions. The Python C API
   has gained a new type *PyInstanceMethod_Type* and the functions
   *PyInstanceMethod_Check(o)*, *PyInstanceMethod_New(func)* and