Handle urllib's renaming for Python 3.0:
* Deprecate urllib.urlopen() in favor of urllib2.urlopen() for 3.0.
* Update docs to mention split/rename of the module and deprecation of
urlopen().
Changes to lib2to3 are in a separate commit. Work is for issue #2885.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 64b9751..686a87f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -29,11 +29,24 @@
would not cause a syntax error. This was regression from 2.4 caused by the
switch to the new compiler.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
+ removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
+
+- Issue #2885 (partial): lib2to3 has been updated to handle the renaming of the
+ urllib module in Python 3.0 to urllib.request, urllib.parse, and
+ urllib.error.
+
+
Build
-----
- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
+
What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
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