compile _bytesio and _stringio into the binary and initalize stdio before site fixing #3279
Reviewer: Alexandre Vassalotti
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f388f11..8cc1af0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3279: Importing site at interpreter was failing silently because the
+ site module uses the open builtin which was not initialized at the time.
+
- Issue #3660: Corrected a reference leak in str.encode() when the encoder
does not return a bytes object.
@@ -125,6 +128,8 @@
update this code in Python 3.0 by hand. Update the 2.6 one and then
do "2to3".
+- The _bytesio and _stringio modules are now compiled into the python binary.
+
Tools/Demos
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