Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 86af693..a19f796 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 Ross Andrus
 Jason Asbahr
 David Ascher
+Peter Åstrand
 John Aycock
 Donovan Baarda
 Alfonso Baciero
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ce2b09a..2d71067 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@
 
 Library
 
+- getopt.gnu_getopt was added.
+
 - Stop using strings for exceptions.  String objects used for
   exceptions are now classes deriving from Exception.  The objects
   changed were: Tkinter.TclError, bdb.BdbQuit, macpath.norm_error,