SF patch #693753: fix for bug 639806: default for dict.pop
(contributed by Michael Stone.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 81df415..0a446df 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@
Core and builtins
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+- dict.pop now takes an optional argument specifying a default
+ value to return if the key is not in the dict. If a default is not
+ given and the key is not found, a KeyError will still be raised.
+ Parallel changes were made to UserDict.UserDict and UserDict.DictMixin.
+ [SF patch #693753] (contributed by Michael Stone.)
+
- sys.getfilesystemencoding() was added to expose
Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding.