Bug #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
arguments with the system default encoding just like the write()
method does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer.
(backport from rev. 52301)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 443bddd..79ffe86 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@
Extension Modules
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+- Bug #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
+ arguments with the system default encoding just like the write()
+ method does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer.
+
- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.