Dec. 6, 2002
6:36 a.m.
Feel free to only edit Misc/NEWS; before releases I'll go through it to find things I've missed, so there's no need to update whatsnew23.tex. I don't mind if people edit whatsnew23.tex to add items, but it's certainly not necessary.
Thanks for mentioning that. I was really wondering about what to do.
Someone should add this to the developer guidelines on python.org/dev/ --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)