Issue #2801: fix bug in float.is_integer where ValueError
could be incorrectly raised.  This is a backport of the
Py3k fix in r62939.  (Should really have been fixed
in the trunk first and svnmerged into py3k.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 58fd955..12522db 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError
+  was sometimes incorrectly raised.
+
 - Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning attribute.
 
 Extension Modules