From: Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:40:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a news entry about the sre/re swap.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~220
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=efbeaef1c1732ddb8d7d6d71847631094958bc89;p=python

Add a news entry about the sre/re swap.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ddbb0ff97c..8506d9106e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ Core and builtins
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
+- Swapped re and sre, so help(re) provides full help.  importing sre
+  is deprecated.  The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
+
 - Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
   SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.