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
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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