[Python-checkins] r80674 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst

[Nick Coghlan]

andrew.kuchling wrote:
> @@ -615,6 +615,10 @@
>    (Contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, after a suggestion by
>    George Sakkis; :issue:`5982`.)
>  
> +* When a restricted set of attributes were set using ``__slots__``,
> +  deleting an unset attribute would not raise :exc:`AttributeError`
> +  as you would expect.  Fixed by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`7604`.)
> +
>  * A new encoding named "cp720", used primarily for Arabic text, is now
>    supported.  (Contributed by Alexander Belchenko and Amaury Forgeot
>    d'Arc; :issue:`1616979`.)

> @@ -1855,10 +1877,9 @@
>    affects new-style classes (derived from :class:`object`) and C extension
>    types.  (:issue:`6101`.)
>  
> -* The :meth:`readline` method of :class:`StringIO` objects now does
> -  nothing when a negative length is requested, as other file-like
> -  objects do.  (:issue:`7348`).
> -
> +* When a restricted set of attributes were set using ``__slots__``,
> +  deleting an unset attribute would not raise :exc:`AttributeError`
> +  as you would expect.  Fixed by Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`7604`.)

I doubt you meant to add this twice.

Cheers,
Nick.

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