A fiddled version of the rest of Michael Hudson's SF patch
    #449043 supporting __future__ in simulated shells
which implements PEP 264.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fe8eef3..3935f0d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
 
 Core
 
+- Future statements are now effective in simulated interactive shells
+  (like IDLE).  This should "just work" by magic, but read Michael
+  Hudson's "Future statements in simulated shells" PEP 264 for full
+  details:  <http://python.sf.net/peps/pep-0264.html>.
+
 - The type/class unification (PEP 252-253) was integrated into the
   trunk and is not so tentative any more (the exact specification of
   some features is still tentative).  A lot of work has done on fixing