Fix for issue 7149: a regression in 2.6.3 that causes an exception when
trying to detect proxy settings on OSX.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2ac0d9f..d694056 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -411,6 +411,8 @@
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+- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code
+
 - Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
 
 - Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.