[Python-checkins] Add a What's New entry for bpo-35459. (GH-12706)

[Serhiy Storchaka]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7a0630c530121725136526a88c49589b54da6492
commit: 7a0630c530121725136526a88c49589b54da6492
branch: master
author: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-04-08T14:34:04+03:00
summary:

Add a What's New entry for bpo-35459. (GH-12706)

files:
M Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 4347b3ee4118..29d370cc8a28 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -686,6 +686,11 @@ Changes in Python behavior
   to use equality tests (``==`` and ``!=``) instead.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`34850`.)
 
+* The CPython interpreter can swallow exceptions in some circumstances.
+  In Python 3.8 this happens in less cases.  In particular, exceptions
+  raised when getting the attribute from the type dictionary are no longer
+  ignored.  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`35459`.)
+
 
 Changes in the Python API
 -------------------------