(Merge 3.1) Issue #9756: credit the author, Andreas Stührk (Trundle)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6674c0b..0030bab 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 - Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
   the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
   Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
-  str type).
+  str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
 
 - Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
   APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5.  Patch