expose PYTHON_API_VERSION macro as sys.api_version. Closes patch # 601456.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ad87762..37ed63a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -303,6 +303,10 @@
- signal.sigpending, signal.sigprocmask and signal.sigsuspend have
been added where available.
+- The sys module acquired a new attribute, api_version, which evaluates
+ to the value of the PYTHON_API_VERSION macro with which the
+ interpreter was compiled.
+
Library
- New module: sets, defines the class Set that implements a mutable