From 9aa37ab5d276a308f79fcc5e3f80cf384e104d00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:54:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about PEP 357.

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 Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a56d6efeaa..6657f3ad63 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
+  nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct.  The slot is consulted instead
+  of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
+  other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
+
 - Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
 
 - PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects.  Introduced the
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2.49.0