Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
considering it exactly like a '*'.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 29f2b44..27483d4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -443,6 +443,10 @@
   from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
   encoding instead of a unicode string.
 
+- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
+  considering it exactly like a '*'.
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+
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