[Python-checkins] cpython (3.4): Prevent Sphinx error on whatsnew/changelog

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/23/2014 11:05 AM, zach.ware wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/75419257fec3
> changeset:   90440:75419257fec3
> branch:      3.4
> parent:      90437:5d745d97b7da
> user:        Zachary Ware <zachary.ware at gmail.com>
> date:        Wed Apr 23 10:04:20 2014 -0500
> summary:
>    Prevent Sphinx error on whatsnew/changelog
>
> files:
>    Misc/NEWS |  2 +-
>    1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
> --- a/Misc/NEWS
> +++ b/Misc/NEWS
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
>     at the same time without losing the Popen.returncode value.
>
>   - Issue #21127: Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass
> -  instances (such as numpy.str_).
> +  instances (such as ``numpy.str_``).

Could you explain this? I thought NEWS was a plain text file without 
.rst markup.

>   - Issue #15002: urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper (and
>     _TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle file