#9161: Fix regression in acceptance of unicode strings in add_option calls.
The original change in 2.6 was made during rc1 changeover, and did not
get ported to 2.7. The original change may not even have been
intentional, but if so it doesn't seem to have caused any problems.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5419617..c6e7962 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
+ strings in add_option calls.
+
- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.