From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:44:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention new-style exceptions
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b1~405
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dae266ec61f773fd0c08ee5b832c3c43f206b847;p=python

Mention new-style exceptions
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
index 8c149a97a5..968b95ae85 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
@@ -1201,6 +1201,12 @@ Frame objects are also slightly smaller, which may improve cache locality
 and reduce memory usage a bit.  (Contributed by Neal Norwitz.)
 % Patch 1337051
 
+\item Python's built-in exceptions are now new-style classes, a change
+that speeds up instantiation considerably.  Exception handling in
+Python 2.5 is therefore about 30\% faster than in 2.4.
+(Contributed by Richard Jones and Sean Reifschneider at the 
+NeedForSpeed sprint.)
+
 \item Importing now caches the paths tried, recording whether 
 they exist or not so that the interpreter makes fewer 
 \cfunction{open()} and \cfunction{stat()} calls on startup.