Some people have mistaken Python bytecode as being stable and unchanging. In
reality it's simply an implementation detail for CPython. This point is now
clearly documented in both the docs for dis and the glossary.
Closes issue #7829. Thanks to Terry Reedy for some initial suggestions on
wording.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 94de171..403c731 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -468,6 +468,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #7829: Clearly document that the dis module is exposing an
+ implementation detail that is not stable between Python VMs or releases.
+
- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
raises an exception.