Derived from SF patch #446899 Permit import of .pyw under Windows, from
David Bolen.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d93ab86..a1e9fc0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -32,12 +32,17 @@
against buffer overruns.
- Unicode APIs now use name mangling to assure that mixing interpreters
- and extensions using different Unicode widths is rendered next to
- impossible. Trying to import an incompatible Unicode-aware extension
+ and extensions using different Unicode widths is rendered next to
+ impossible. Trying to import an incompatible Unicode-aware extension
will result in an ImportError. Unicode extensions writers must make
sure to check the Unicode width compatibility in their extensions by
using at least one of the mangled Unicode APIs in the extension.
+Windows
+
+- "import module" now compiles module.pyw if it exists and nothing else
+ relevant is found.
+
What's New in Python 2.2a1?
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